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done that many times ... but sometimes it is the big ugly military truck holding them up , thus I have never had any qualms whatsoever about using the breakdown, errr i mean "slowpoke lane" :LOL: to let others by when it's me.. Even back whenever we were in convoy long ago we would give the...

i worked with a fella who had been on that cruise line from 1971-73 .. One day during lunch i asked about his port-to-port adventures , expecting elaborate embellished stories about the women of singapore, danang, saigon, greece, san fran etc .. He looked disappointed and said they hardly went...

Yep the pockets are there for it as well as on a M49C/M50C , to disguise them as lesser targets to air and ground OPFOR .... In all my 30-some years combined service as a 64C10/20, next the subsequent 88M20/30, and then the years spent with the State Guard filling in for the State's deployed...

It's a regular 2-1/2T M35 cargo truck cover and bows.. Is a very tight fit length-wise and you have to stretch it a bit and there's a bit of inward lean on the rear bow (if in the rearmost pocket) unless you have a Soldier B or C to help pull the cover really tight as you work it back, but it...

was surprisingly warm in the sun today, a perfect day for last-minute winter prep of the M62 .. Has it's ski mask on, fuel topped off, tire chains in a pile on pass side floor, winter mittens, jacket, and hat on the stack ;) .. PS: for those who noticed, yes those are M809-series fender...

I get those same surprises every week in the shop when I check the 5gal pail that purposely has 4 inches of WMO in it this time of year :LOL:

nice !! IHC was the dominant manufacturer from '51 to end of '63 .. Gassers from Mack and Diamond-T are scarce but they are out there.. My IHC M51 is a '63, IHC wrecker is a '53, and in my last BN served, there was about eight IHC gasser M52's and M54's with tags ranging from 1954 to 1963...

sorry to hear. I have sitting here a couple "victims" of the military's 1980's multifuel swap crimes .. One is my 34000#+ wrecker that can't maintain 5th gear (direct) in hi-range unless it has gone over a cliff :LOL: .. I am glad my M51 (gasser) made it out of the system before 1981 , is a...

diesel as in there's a mack 673 under the hood? .. or do you mean multifuel? .. big difference there ;)

lower quadrant headlights: was yours originally a gasser? if so, what builder? .. Been working on a database of gassers made by IHC, Mack, and Diamond-T

yes , diesel is safe for that as well as flushing the xfer case .. You can do the transmission without running it down the road, which I would be concerned with although i reluctantly have done it .. Instead, you can put xfer case in neutral and run the tranny through each gear a number of...

as you found out or read in the forums, we can't use GL4 in these trucks due to the yellow metal in them and the sulphur content of certain gear lubes like GL4. I never needed to add any gear oil to your truck and don't know what the town hwy dept may have put in it beforehand .. I hope it was...

spent afternoon pulling, cleaning, lubricating, and testing the transfer case sprag cylinder and tranny poppet valve on one of the 818's while tranny was down out of the way ... Then in went the new TO bearing, press plate, repacked the grease cups etc, hoisted tranny back in place and got the...

For decades I have been using a short old rusty 1/2" extension that I ground the rounded tip down until it was squared .. It was a very early ratchet tool thus it had near-sharp corners, it was not chamfered like modern tools

I gave him credit for waiting but didn't think 2 days would be enough.. Yet it worked in his case.... Re-harrowing a field long ago I decided to try hitting a soggy spot I avoided the day before... It looked drier, so let's try it .. The narrow-front sank and "wheelbarrowed" the tractor to a...

Be brave!! You don't need a winch (nor a wench).. All you need are some chains, shovels, a couple snatchblocks, 400ft of 2" hemp rope preferably in two lengths, chainsaw, jacks, blocks, planks, small tools (for removing rear fender flaps if need be) , and enough Soldier B's to man them ! If...

I totally concur, as well as the idiocy of continuing to bury something deeper .. But like most reality shows, the idiocy is likely intentional for show, and let's not forget the drama .. Can't stand those shows where people that should know better are either coerced by the producer into doing...

If that is considered old, I think many of us on here need to re-think where we ourselves are on that scale o_O

OOPS !!! :D .. well, at least you caught yourself before someone else did... you are not alone, I have done sillier things like rig a crane boom bass-ackwards

What did I do to my 5-ton? Well, i was very mean to a couple of them.. Disturbed one of the M818's from it's 10-month nap to grab a smaller dozer, and woke one of the dumps from its 2-year nap.. Made them help build 1000ft of road without a complaint, except from some hitch-hiking bees... I...