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Well, started the day by deciding to replace the radiator hoses on the deuce, since the hoses from the water manifolds were hard and leaking. Drain the coolant, the draincock screwed in, but no coolant..hmm. Tighten it up, find out the draincock has dirt packed in it. No biggie, used a scribe to clean it out. Try it again, nothing. poke gently at it again, WOOSH a giant stream of coolant comes out...all over me, and 3 feet out from the truck, completely missing the 1/3 of a 55 gallon barrel of a drain pan! The draincock faces straight out the front, well, i'll fix that, when I go back together, i'll put a 90* fitting in it. Pull the hoses off, all of them hard as a rock. Go to take the water manifolds off, figured the capscrews would be difficult, so I tapped on them and gave them a generous dousing of penetrant. Used the tighten a tad then loosen trick, all came out but 1 of them, at # 4 cylinder. Broke it off 1/4 inch above the head. Spent 2 and a half hours driving around looking for a 5/16 X 2 1/4 inch bolt, got 'em at work, but nobody around here has them!. Guess they’re made of unobtainium. And looking for a stud remover, again, I have a set of sweet German made close quarter stud removers at work…don’t do me any good there! Well, decide to just wait ‘till tomorrow and get the broken bolt out and I’ll get new capscrews too. Procede to put the hoses on, boy, the pipe and hoses for the oil cooler return are a bi-ach! Had to remove the bolts for the upper radiator support to tilt the radiator forward to slide the upper hose on. Button that all up, and move to the bottom hose. The clamp was installed with the screw for the clamp next to the block, facing toward the rear of the engine??!! How does that happen? Took an hour to get it out. Got the hose, the NAPA one is a flat 90* elbow, the one that came out has a 45 then turns straight up and is kind of dog legged to the left to clear the alt. and bracket. I’ll take it to NAPA tomorrow and see if they can match up another hose and post the number. I figure i’m done for the day, wait, the draincock! Went to the garage and dug around in the fitting box, found it! A nice ¼ pipe 90* brass street elbow. Go back out to the truck. Put a wrench on the draincock, didn’t even push on it, the whole soldered in nutsert falls out! Great, now I gotta pull the radiator. Oh well, now the inside of the radiator will be clean. Good news is the inside of the coolant passages and all the aluminum parts look perfect with no corrosion. Ahhh,, the joys of owning and maintaining a military vehicle.