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It is now home and I did not get any pictures of it coming home since we picked it up Friday night about 2100 and drove it through the night with my son and his girlfriend trailing in the chase vehicle. It drove very well at 55 MPH and aside from the same toxic fumes that Tactical Truck...

PTO with Shaft and controls from TNJ Murrays in Delaware I headed up to Murrays after talking to the 2nd generation owner at Aberdeen and he told me there were gasser 5 tons that were getting ready for the cutting torch so I should head up soon. The 200 mile round trip was worth it because I...

Needle Gun efforts Took about three hours of needle gunning on the truck and then painted the cleaned area with Rusty Metal Primer since I am out of Rustbullet. I took mudflaps down to attach them but the rear of the tires stick out about three inches beyond the rear of the frame so I am...

Wheel Cylinder change I had a leaking rear wheel Cylinder and Jeff was very kind to provide one for me so here are the pictures of the changing. I spent about four hours there today and three of them were with the needle gun hitting rust and flaking CARC then painting with rusty metal paint...

I will have to see what kind of milage I get when I get this on the road it starts well and runs nicely and that indicates proper fuel air ratio. I am hoping to keep it just above 45 on the way home and will let you all know what it gets. I changed out the rear brake cylnider last night and...

I will be headed down to the museum tomorrow with my needle gun and some primer if the rain stays away to get at some of the gangly rust but the truck is so solid being 50 years old the steel is only rusted through in very few places that will be easy to weld in new stock. I may take it out on...

RE: Got Truck running and a 5 ton 20K winch on the truck I have the bumper will be putting it on for you tomorrow evening. Sorry that it did not get done right away I had to finish up it was late.

RE: Got Truck running and a 5 ton 20K winch on the truck My Duece has a winch and the tractor would feel stiffed if I brought it home without one I really like the look of the tractor with a winch too I'm very grateful to Jeff for selling it to me.

Got Truck running and a 5 ton 20K winch on the truck I purchaced the winch from Tactical Truck and made the switch from his truck to mine with the aid of the forklift and Mark from Virginia Museum of Military Vehicles where the trucks are siting. Contrary to what a recent post on winch removal...

RE: New Pictures of work in progress The tank that I am working on is shorter by about 10 inches and both tanks were really badly gunked up and rusted so Jeff let me use the newer deuce tank and that seemed like a logial place to put it with the need to still move a trailer

New Pictures of work in progress Here are some more photos of the tank bracing and the fuel pump as well as the engine rebuild tag from 1976 at Letterkenny Army Depot. The truck was rebuilt at Red River Army Depot in 1971 with 10,000+ miles any guess as to how many got put on it before the...

I am running a new tank on it to get it home and currently rebuilding the first of two saddle tanks. I will be using right stuff gasket material. I am also planning on putting a Facet electronic fuel pump on it since diapham pumps always seem to disagree with me. I put an electric pump on the...

Here are some more pictures from the day I worked on the truck. The more I work on it the better I feel about it not being an M 818 or an A1 or A2. The Red River Army Depot Rebuild is from 1971 and I am trying to find out if it included the engine.

Jeff you are the man, I am making headway on the M 52 in hopes of driving it home soon after the title comes in. I just saw a ton of M818's in Haver de Grace that just came out of full depot rebuild I wonder how long till they show up. I am glad to know the history of the truck especially...

Thanks Kenny any ideas on source of the wheel cylinder repair parts? or the NAPA number for them?

I forgot to ask the Site abot this, the axles on the M 52 are not Rockwell they have a tag that says they are DTA small D big T small A, Model 240 HX2# 6.44 ratio Can anyone tell me if these are Rockwell knock off's or a totally different animal since I have to fix a brake cylinder on one...

Ken That truck looks to have a lot less rust than mine but back in the 50's and 60's sheet metal was so thick that welding it is not a problem and I was surprised to find so many areas that still had the original OD green intact, ( photos to follow soon) I hope to have my garage ready to do a...

This is off of the web but the thing did happen the government came and took the aircraft for training pilots. My Grandfather never flew again although my Dad did get his pilots licence and had a Cessna 172 to fly around after he retired. The system was not actually applied to all airplanes...

I am hoping to make this truck my first real total restoration as my duece is almost exactly as I got it four years ago except for the bells and whistles I put on it. Since this one is kinda kin being a 50's baby I am taking it to heart. The funny thing about our farm is that when I got to go...

It is NAPA Never Seize. I worked as a truck mechanic on the New York Thru-way while I was in Bible College and all of us put never sieze on the lugs it saves the threads and they still torque right as you hear that charactistic creak and the lug grinds into the wheel. I have had lugs that...