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The radiator cowling was cut/welded (back to close to stock configuration) by a previous owner to stick a civilian radiator in, I'll have to look at it again to see if there is something resembling what you describe there. My other M715s share some of the same bed holes, like the large ones in...

Gee, thanks Tim!! rofl Some of the holes are stock military, and the six in the side wall near the right front look like they could have been for an antenna mount, they are cleanly drilled and evenly spaced, the hole below definitely looks like it was there for the cables to go through. The...

Well, for various reasons, including travel and doing some immediately required work on yet another project truck (yes, I know :rolleyes:), I wasn't able to get back to the M715 bed until a couple of days ago, when we had a warm sunny day (mid 70s). What had surprised me before was digging...

Thanks, Tim. Turns out that a lot of what I thought was flaky rust was actually just dirt and crud crusted over the top and rust coloured. Doh! Cheers

Well, Larry the Sandblaster is away and won't be available for a couple of weeks. :unsure: I was looking at the bed today and decided to have a go at the rusty area with a screwdriver to knock some of the loose stuff off and see how bad it actually is. Turns out that with the crusty crud...

So... after a long and exceptionally dry summer, I get to the point where I'm ready to have the inside of the bed sandblasted and get on with painting the truck and along comes the rain. :unsure: Don't get me wrong, I'm always happy to see rain, since it makes plants grow, and when plants...

And another minor job completed on Friday, another "to do" picture marked done - When I first got the truck, the mirrors were canted inwards and that highly offended my sense of aesthetics and balance in the world. I have seen these "west coast" type mirrors on in-service M715 series vehicles...

Towing with the M1009 reminds me of moving the V100 with one of mine. We were headed to an event, and I didn't realize that the V100 had thrown the alternator belt on the way, so when I stopped to fill up, she didn't want to start again. I couldn't bring myself to jump start her, even with...

Hmmm.. I'll have to experiment with that. I don't want to be tearing up my tires either. If she's not going to behave, flat towing may have to be for emergency only. Cheers

I do like the way your M35 shackle mount looks, and functions. It was one of the things I looked at, but the way the bumper on this M715 is, they just wouldn't fit properly. For my other M715s, I do have the proper "behind the bumper" shackles I picked up many years ago. The one with the fire...

I wanted to add tow-bar points to the front of the M715, either for breakdowns or when I want to take more vehicles to an event than I have drivers for. Having tried out various stock bolt-on parts from M35, M813, and other MVs, I found that none of them would fit properly on the M715 bumper...

I added a comparison picture to the post where I talked about the 24v versus omnivolt clearance lights. For those who are long past that post, I'll add it again here. The pictures also demonstrates well why you can't trust digital pictures to judge colour accurately. Is that truck OD green...

It was because of the lousy way it was mounted, with five bolts smaller than the six holes. If you pushed the truck back by hand using the grill guard, it would move. When it had no engine, it got pushed a lot! The bumper was also mounted so far back that it was hung up in the bodywork, which...

One thing I should have mentioned earlier in the front bumper remount post- In an early post I had noted that the winch well in the bumper held water when it rained. Turned out this was because the bumper itself was tilted back a bit. Once we pulled the bumper off and remounted it 3/4"...

I measured, I was off the official MWO location by 1/2", so a tad further forward. I can live with that, and as my dad used to say "No one would notice that from a trotting horse". :D Cheers

Slow progress lately on the M715, as I've been away quite a bit in the last couple of weeks. I did make a run to the "big city" of Marble Falls because they have a Harbor Freight store. They were offering the $379 12,000 lb electric winch I was interested in for $120 off if you were a club...

Post #48 has been edited and a couple of pictures added to clarify the joyful goings-on involved. Cheers

If I had a video camera going while I worked on things, it would have a serious parental warning for children and those tender of emotion. Or the sound track would consist mostly of loud beeps. ;) Cheers

Great video, thanks. :beer: And looks like a lovely M725. I'll have to measure mine to see how close I got to the proper location. ;-) (Edit - I measured, I put it just under 1/2" further forward than the book says to). That first grinding squeal when your hole saw tears into the fender is...

Thanks! More pictures?? I've attached 120 so far... :p Actually, I have been trying NOT to overload the posts with too many pictures, I will gladly add more. If there is anything specific you'd like to see, I probably already took pictures of it, or I can do so, and I'd be glad to post...