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DirecTV has been showing local channel coverage of Hurricane Sandy on channel #349. It alternates between NYC, NJ, Conn, and Penn local network channel feeds. This morning I saw footage of a couple of military FMTV/LMTV's rescuing ppl in one of the NJ towns that flooded, a real nice M35A3...

Thanks for the answers, I didn't think they were deuce seats, but we're still going to try to use them. To those who have PM'd me asking me to get them some seats, the program we are in with the DRMO / Texas Facilites Commission requires us to keep any item we buy there for 6 months to a year...

Our mechanic was at the DRMO / Texas Facilities yard in San Antonio and picked up a few of these air ride seats that he was told might be for a Deuce, when I saw them I told him I didn't think they were for a deuce, A3 or otherwise. The width and bolt holes look real close, the seats also have a...

FYI: DRMO / Texas Facilities commssion in Fort Worth has seventy-two 395/85 R20 on 5-ton rims for $65 each. Skycop, Sorry you had bad luck with Gensco, we've never had a problem with them, but we get different tire types from them

We put 12.5R20 tires on the rear duals on one of our deuces. Continental 12.5R20's dualed out on the rear axles with the factory rims and put the Michelin X 12.5R20's on the front on Boyce one piece rims. Had no problems at all putting the Continental tires on the deuce rims...

Sorry, the converters are not motorola brand, they are made by ICT, we get them from the local motorola land mobile dealer, my mistake. Here is the web site ICT - DC-DC Power Converters 30A ICT2412-30A

In the Fire Service this has been written about, debated and talked about since fire departments started running deuces. How to get 12V from a deuce for radios, sirens, & emergency lights? Many fire departments around here still just hook up to the 1st battery for 12v. I've seen a battery blow...

We have a 24v battery charger our mechanic got from NAPA.....

Our Mechanic swapped out our electrical guages for mechanical ones he got at NAPA, fit in the dash, and works a whole lot better. I don't know about your increased power issue, when we bypassed the FDC on our original motors, the power was the same. How do you know your FDC was not leaking...

Sorry you went through all of that, I've found through experience that you actually need to call Alabama, Wharton, Houston, etc to see what each yard has. Check you PM for the cell phone number of the guy at the Alabama Yard, kinda hard to get ahold of him though...

Skycop, Did you check the Alabma Gensco Wharehouse? when we got our 12.5's a few weeks ago, they told me they had brand new 14.5's for $250, $50 more since the last time I asked them about 14.5's.

I've tried.... Texas Forest Service yard in Lufkin doesn't have any A3 tires, just the 9.00 x 20's when they have them. I've asked them to look for A3 tires, but no luck yet. They do have A3's available. The DRMO yards we get stuff from hasn't had any A3 tires either, lots of brand new 15.5...

Just wanted to let the Texas members know, who are authorized to get stuff through the Texas Federal Surplus Program, that the San Antonio yard has four M35A3's that they have listed as parts trucks. One has a bad tranny, one has a bad starter, the other two were described as having electrical...

Just an update, The W/W deuce shown above was used during the Weekend on some fire responses, the drivers say it rides way smoother, less vibration, better performance off-road, and that the braking is way better, haven't figured out why the braking is improved with the 12.5's.... :?: I know...

When we went from 9.00 x 20 to 12.5 x 20 tires recently on our M35A2 W/W, the tire guy at Gensco Tires in Houston sold us some kind of heavy duty 10 x 20 tubes, he specifically said not to re-use the 9.00 x 20 tubes on the larger tires... Just repeating what we were told. I figured the 12.5's...

True, the C5 shouldn't be a problem with the top on... I'm an Air Force Brat, grew up on air force bases in Louisiana, New Mexico, Alaska, Oklahoma & Texas. My father worked on the C141A & B, C5A, and E3. Somewhere I have a picture he had of an M35 or M35A1 ( no exhaust out the fender ) being...

First off I post this with respect to the recent loss.... I've always been concerned about rollovers in our fire deuces as sometimes we go through ditches, inclines, etc. As the pictures show, even the "factory" hardtop is not that sturdy, these trucks were designed to be able to fold the...

How horrible, may he R.I.P., thoughts go out to his family.....

Very True, DRMO yards here in Texas do not have any A2's at any of the locations, last year at this time they had quite a few. Lot's of A3's now, including A3 "parts" trucks, and 900 series 5-tons.......

You are right, I posted the wrong picture. I do/did have a pic of a white long bed M36 doing fire service work in my collection of pictures, but have changed computers since Aug 2010 and can't find it now :-|