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Why the Deuce Doesn't Have These I'll Never Know!

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rwbrown72

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This is a funny thread.... I thought I would drag it up after another guy posted a link. Have fun with it. The guy writing it can't possibly have ever owned a deuce.... Or read any manuals... Still pretty funny!:cookoo:
 

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I was thinkin I might just want to stick a detroit locker in the forward rear axle for those times I'm in rear wheel drive and there's just enough mud that my m35A3 breaks the tires on one side loose and I'm traversing on a side hill and and I sit and spin. I don't want a locker in both rear axles because with one locker there is enought give in the system for higher traction situations and for less traction situations I'll lock in the front axle.



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mcmullag

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read 25 pages, what duh ya get, another day older.....

Good job holding your tempers guys. This is a great site.
Wanted to point out something I found weird. On page 14, our honored agitator states, " The fact is that only reason you dislike my posts is that I have temerity to disagree with groups' decision that the M35A2 is the ultimate off road machine in its class" .......What?! I never saw anything to that effect. Folks kept telling the dude there are trade offs and what this vehicle was probably designed for.... carrying cargo or personnel on dirt roads in convoys.
Check out the YouTube videos about the red ball express. They were happy moving supplies along on rural roads at 30 mph to keep the fighting men and machines going.
A big part of deuce ownership is owning a piece of history, vets love to see this thing in person. Another fun part is it's basic-ness, like a steam locomtive kinda thing.
Like EMR was talking about on page 23.... I also am kinda amazed by the folks that want to get more speed out of the deuce. They just don't get it.
Ya just can't help some people.
I am going to go light up the barbecue pit by rubbing two sticks together for awhile. That is the best way to do it. :)
 

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I think bio-diesel hippie makes some points. A central-mounted winch with rollers going both front and back does sound logical. And ARB lockers all around sounds good as well. I'll pass on the transit-central-&-south-america-alone thing though. Let Exxon or BP hype bio-diesel. I'll take cooked dinosaur fluids, thank you.
 

trukhead

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Hmm, It still hurts!

I had a mog (for a short time)with a factory mounted central winch that fed out the front, tougher n **** that winch was though i never used it. A german guy made a cd on how to drive mogs and I had the orange one that was in that movie. that machine had central and diff lockers as well. why screw around makin a truck when you can just get one that works. That mog would drift like a sports car and move like the wind. But woa to you if you get that thing buried. More super fly stuff you got on the truck, the harder its gonna get buried and then u'r f&*%^$D!!!

I just got in from a nice relaxing cruise with the M35A3 around the patch and a short medium rpm jaunt up the road. I would say the modification I would make to the M35 is acid dip every component and lighten it up so I could carry more cargo such as hiking boots and Mre's for the long hike. keep the soft top so you can bail out of quick sand. oh and have one of those james bond batman cross bows with a cable and a power winch so you can anchor in a tree and swing out before every thing disappears into the quick sand.

I am drawn to this thread with the same fascination that I have with A$$ boyles that need poppin. I want to ignore them but they just keep popping up when i'm havin a nice time, just about completely forgotin about them and here they invade my thoughts again!

I think a bone stock M35 multifuel or the newer 3116 cat would have a good chance of making it. It's not the truck, it's the operator, if you go in stupid places, you are going to have stupid consequences.

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Ya' know, what baffles me about this is that this thread began with an implied question "what deuce doesn't have these, I'll never know" - well, maybe the poster doesn't know - but I do, and several other people do, and this information has been published on this forum in the past, as well as in print. It is, as someone pointed out in this thread, simple economics.

However, in reality the question implied was a rhetorical one - that is, it appears the original poster, and some others, instead want to make a case that they are smarter/better automotive designers than were employed by Reo.

I am not saying that the G-742 are the ultimate off-road machine - they are not - nor were they built to be. These trucks in fact were a "interim" general purpose cargo truck design that managed to soldier on for 50 years.

Now, the Reo-design competed against a wholly different design put forward by Studebaker, as well as the GMC design (G-749) - and a Ford design that didn't leave the drawing board.

What all these designs had in common was that they tried to give the customer what was being ordered. That customer was the US Army - not the Russian Army, not the German Army, not some guy who wants a rock-crawler, not some guy who wants a mud buggy.

The guys designing trucks for the supplier's to the Russian Army, British Army, German Army were undoubtedly just as smart and talented as the fellows working for Reo. The guys in the design bureau's for Soviet Army, or the German Army, or TACOM are all also probably equally skilled.....but each had their own priorities in design, be it cargo capacity, weight, fording ability, cost, mobility - thus the specifications given to the truck manufacturer's varied.

Best wishes,
David Doyle
 

trukhead

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Thank you for this demonstration of a post that is drenched in focused , clear ,well thought out to the purpose-point of the discussion.

I saw a small picture and your post helped me see the bigger picture.

I am taking this as an example to illuminate me of more disciplined and focused thought as life brings those new contemplations and my need to address them.



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