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If you owned a Sea Stallion, you would be the hit of the hit parade @kendelrio !
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.I'm offshore so I haven't been able to do ANYTHING!!!![]()
Did you see that someone paid $27,9k for a 923 at the Barret-Jackson auction recently? The truck you're painting is in similar good condition. Maybe you should take advantage of some wealthy person's stupidity and put that truck on the auction block!Gave this one a facelift over the past few days: steam clean, grind, OSPHO treatment, rinse, paint Behr 383 Green. I'll finish the brown and black after it cures sometime next week as we have bad weather this coming week.
Kendelrio, IF you get a CH-53 to haul your truck, make sure you pull the circuit breaker for the sling hooks after loading! If you don't, the electrical gremlin that runs around those birds might just go down there and pop your hooks open and drop your load unintentionally. You do NOT want to be part of a crew that, say for instance, dropped an M35 from a CH-53D over Camp Pendleton many many moons ago (and no, I do NOT want to explain how I know this.If you had a CH-53 or something you could take your truck with you...
I would be driving back to Utah so that is perfect! Can you send me a few more pics of the M923A2 when you have time? SIMP feels I should be buying one of the 5 tons with the removable hump in the floor of the cab to make a Big cam 400 swap with a manual trans a bit of an easier ordeal. I could care less of needing to hack and then fab a floor kit that fits whats left but he seems very knowledgeable and I think I should be paying attention and giving his advice great consideration. I did find a pic of someone who apparently had done what I was considering a couple of weeks ago who had swapped the drive train of an MTVR onto a M923?? or the cab of a M923 onto an MTVR since it looks like it has an MTVR bed on it too... Not sure. But if I am not going to go hog wild on modding a rig that M923A2 you have there is looking like my favorite choice and would be set to be a good rig for many years. BTW Thanks for the quick reply. I already showed my wife your pic and she said it is a long drive. LOL If I was able to buy either rig and choosing to ship the 814 what price to buy and what price do you see me paying for the shipping way up to UT? Thanks again. I am off to bed and am going to have a long work day tomorrow so will not see what you have back until 10 or so my time. Peace out!
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I did see it and that was stupid of who ever bought it but that's just my opinion. If they want to pay that for this truck then fine by me.Did you see that someone paid $27,9k for a 923 at the Barret-Jackson auction recently? The truck you're painting is in similar good condition. Maybe you should take advantage of some wealthy person's stupidity and put that truck on the auction block!![]()
.I replaced my front tires (were 14.00R20, in background), now they're all the same size 295/85R20!
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It started off as a M936, now it's a farm truck.
Nice looking "Tipper"!
.Today Bailey and I removed the drivers side hub to check the torque on the spindle nuts. I figured it's easier to do it when the wheels are 140 lbs than it is when they're 525 lbs.
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I also did some spring cleaning pics type stuff and checked most of the fluids. It's almost ready to drive again!
Can you tell me where you picked up the holder/ yellow hoist plate? I'm not getting any younger and i could see that saving future back pain.Today Bailey and I removed the drivers side hub to check the torque on the spindle nuts. I figured it's easier to do it when the wheels are 140 lbs than it is when they're 525 lbs. These were much closer to spec than the passenger side was; only took about an 1/8 of a turn to click off 150 ft-lb
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I also did some spring cleaning pics type stuff and checked most of the fluids. It's almost ready to drive again!