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Has the 8.3, could never catch me.
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Forgot to mention what the MC said about the truck as it passed the largest section of the crowd near the giant pumpkin. The truck was the number two vehicle in line, out of over 100 vehicles, following only the police departments escorting and the color guard. I had a shipping sticker on the door when I got the truck saying what unit the truck was used by and it showed it was being shipped to Louisianna from Kuwait. Then google helped show what it did in Kuwait. Here's the quote, "1990 M929A2 Dump truck last served in Camp Buehring Kuwait with the Louisiana National Guard's 844th Engineer Company. It helped in the Liberation and Defense of Kuwait Cease-fire. Attached to it is a 2008 M1082 cargo trailer of which it's tours, if any, are unknown."Entered mine in the local Barnesville Pumpkin Festival parade. It was the only MV, but the spectaters were none the less excited. All of the children loved the truck as well as most adults. They had approximately 3000 spectators, which is a big crowd for these parts. My mom rode shotgun in her teal cowgirl attire. Pictures were at lineup. We got there early so parking the setup in the line wouldn't be so rough.
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Why the move; trying to mow the area or something?I moved my entire motor pool this past week, I put the M915A1 and M936A2 to work like they should be.
Had some cupping starting on the front tires. Worn out tie rod ends.
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You can take a pair of channel locks and grab the bottom of the tire rod and the lip on the knuckle and see if you have any play up and down. Also just twisting the tie rod bar. Some movement is normal but nothing stupid. Trust me you will feel the stupid unnatural movement. you may have some delay in steering at 40+mph. Like a slight movement and it does not turn. It may let the tires wobble a little more than usual as well.Simp, was there any movement in the wheel or noticeable wiggle when the tie rod crapped out? I am getting a bit of marking on the steer tires, but think it's because I turned too tight. Any indication that would tell us the tie rods are going without popping them out?
Nice work, SD!... And a project I'm working on to have LED gauge backlighting using the original bulb sockets. Looks like the rest of the stuff won't be here until Monday though.
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Thank you. This has been about 6 months in the making, with trying to find something that is "plug-n-play", with no modification to the wiring or bulb sockets. It actually looks like they will be here today so I should have them in tonight. If everything goes as planned I'll do a writeup in a separate thread that answers all the questions. I don't want to jump the gun if this happens to fail miserably.Nice work, SD!
Focusing in on the backlighting...
I've actually been trying to do something similar by making my own LED bulbs, but I really don't have the 'electrical experience'
to push through the project without concerns that I might ruin things. Are the bulbs in the last photo something you constructed,
or are they a purchased item? Wondering...
I fully understand... especially the idea of... miserable fails!!!! LOL!! Seriously though... I've been 'messing around' with small,... If everything goes as planned I'll do a writeup in a separate thread that answers all the questions. I don't want to jump the gun if this happens to fail miserably.
I'm going to take an educated guess.. M127 trailer.Picked up some free parts today I'm not sure what military trailer they come off of . I know the wheel cylinders brake shoes and drums will fit the M52a2 and M131A5C tanker trailer . The man said he tried to take them to the land fill they refused because the tires where on rims he went to the scrap yard and was refused because the rims had tires on them . I winch it on and headed home .
Here's the link to the LED Gauge Panel Backlighting Upgrade write-up Swamp Donkey is working on:... a project I'm working on to have LED gauge backlighting using the original bulb sockets. ...
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