M35A2 looking for new home in the south!

[saddamsnightmare]

March 1st, 2011.

Gents:

Due to my job relocating me to Illinois last summer, my M35A2 "Saddam's Nightmare" is looking for a new home with a MV collector, preferably in Texas or the southland. Please see the classifieds for her advertisement. The laws up here are not all that favorable to M35 ownership as regards plate fees and inspections, and they use rock salt in prodigious quantities in the winter, and although she has been rustproofed by Uncle, she would not survive well up here. I am waiting to see how the Unimog takes it, so far she has eaten three MB fuel pumps in 3 months, so the ethanol must be a hellish additive to the gasoline, and it is next to impossible to find regular unleaded without it in the fuel system. The Unimog has had a retrofit of a 24VDC Carter electric fuel pump and pressure regulator, and she is running, but I don't trust her as completely as I did in Texas.
I am willing to swap a similar conditioned M series (M38/38A/ or a M1009/M1028 for her, to save the deuce from facing this climate. At present the truck is in Clarksville,TX and needs a very good home. With the impending shut down of the Federal government which may happen this week, I will not be able to move her anytime soon, and sitting does not become an M35.

Other then that, things have been quiet on the home front, and the Unimog missed almost all of the big snows and attendent rock salt. If I ever get lucky enough to relocate back south, I would love to find my old truck and get her back in the future, but for now a homeless deuce is not a good thing.....

 

[Hawkes]

Is your M35A2 still looking for a new home?

 

[91W350]

1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 Wo/W + 1968 Johnson Corp M105A2 in Paris,TX - Steel Soldiers::Military Vehicles Supersite

 

[AGE|kshaufl]

3 Things:

1st. Sorry to hear you can't keep the truck she is a beauty.

2nd. Have you tried to run a little gas oil mix in the Unimog? I hear that this helps keep the parts lubricated where the methanol dries them out. I think that there is a thread somewhere about this. I know that Lucas makes the additive for the fuel system. Some people call it "Snake Oil" but this might be a great fit / test for it. Tell us how you make out.

3rd. Welcome to the Great White North.

 

[saddamsnightmare]

March 1st, 2011.

Hawkes:

Yes, I've got her running like a watch, but the movement fees, taxes and inspection requirements up here are ludicrious, and with the possibility of a shut down looming..... she just isn't gonna get up here any time soon. Mr. Weemes has always taken good care of her, frequently fixing small things and not charging for them, and they always improve the truck. About the only thing she needs now other then a good home would be a cab heater kit, and a new parking brake cable as the old one had its sheath tear loose in the cab........
Among deuces, Saddam's Nightmare was a runner and ran daily for me in Reno and Paris.
Up here the plates are over $500.00 per year and two inspections.... The Unimog is gonna get registered next week and I'll bet that they will have a fit over the odd serial number. The ethanal has been eating up all the original rubber in the fuel system and is starting to eat the tank linings too....! Apparently it will eat the injection rails on newer (three year old vehicles) and I see Toyota had a huge recall to address those issues of late. It seems to be very bad stuff, I almost wonder if a multifuel can survive much of it (10-15% ethanol in gasoline)? Well, maybe I'll get lucky and she can stay in the south as the truck is stored in Clarksville,TX at Mr. Weeme's garage for now.

I gotta run,

Thanks again,


Everything else has been done on her