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Trying to add photos: First photo: Honey Badger at Ft McCoy and Catman doing recovery in September of 2010 for me. Second photo: Mid July at Jeff & Wendy's, Honey Badger with their TMC-09 convoy M35a2. Third photo: Jeff in center giving class on procedures to change headlamp to friend Don...

OK - little delay here from last update. Good news is we made it home on Friday evening, 8-12. According to the Odometer on the Honey Badger, we drove 2499.7 miles from Dayton, OH, to home, just east of Portland, OR. We spent Thursday night in Ontario, OR, on the Oregon/Idaho border, just 3...

Greetings! Re; burned truck in WY - I neglicted to say that the rig was upright just off the shoulder, so I have some conficence that the operators were able to get away (better chance than if it was layed over!!). Re; pictures - I somehow neglicted to pack the cord that hooks to the camera and...

Greetings: Addundum to Tuesday - Trucking west of Rawlins, WY, we came upon a sign that said 'wreck ahead'. As we came closer, we smelled smoke from a range fire. Then we saw a half a dozen BLM Type 6 engines (1 ton trucks with slip in tanks and pump) mopping up 4-5 acxres of burnt...

Today's report of an interesting day (now 1530 miles from Dayton, OH in 3 days in the M35a3): After a good nights sleep, and out of the motel at 0610, pulling pre-op motor stables, we pulled out of the parking lot at 0630. Pulling into the traffic lane, the truck lugged down, with no power -...

Day 2 of the trip (could not get internet connection last nite) ColdWarrior: To answer your question - am just reporting what the gages say; the speedometer says 42 at 2400. I checked the odometer against mile markers and it is off about 2%. I did cross several of those "your speed" signs...

Purchased my M35A3 w/w, sight unseen (I know-biggest gamble ever for a non-gambler) from Ft McCoy last summer (2010). Part 1 of the recovery was a frantic phone call to Convoy Friends Wendy & Jeff, pleading for help. Great people, they drove her (already named the Honey Badger by my son...

When Wendy and Jeff picked up Gunnar and my M35A3 at Ft McCoy and drove it 260 miles to their house, they noted a pull to the right on the steering. After much discussion, Jeff replaced the air hose to the drag link unit, but that did not totally resolve the problem. When Gunnar, Don and I made...

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Outstanding...!!!!! (oh ya - from an old hard a$$ OPS & SOF2 point of view - missing some PPE!)

The 230 engines were built up into the 1980's and were used for everything including cars, trucks, boats, snow machines, gen sets. Casting marks were about the only differences. Your friend may check the oil pump setting. The oil pump drives the distributor and if the oil pump is even one...

The U. S. Forest Service has used DC-3 aircraft, since retiring the Ford tri-motor, for Smokejumping since the 1940's. Two "Dougs" are still in service (along with two other types of jump ships - Otters and Shepras), although they have been converted to turbine engines (and had the fuslage...

A good clear transferrable title makes them more valueable.

The Forest Service (US Department of Agriculture) bought Dodge Crew Cab (6-packs) trucks by the thousands in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Both 2 and 4 wheel drive, with and without wenches, long and short beds. Used them as crew rigs. There were even a few International 6 packs, but I dont...

Couple comments: When I was a kid, my dad had a 1949 Dodge PU with the 230. The heater in that truck never got above "warm" air out of it. He frequently in the winter wired a piece of cardboard over part of the radiator to get the water temp to run higher. When I bought my Dodge Command Car, I...

Greetings - and thanks for the assistance! M35A3 W/W A: 500385 B: ----- (vehicle not at hand to check) C: 2320013833850 D: Ft McCoy, Sparta, WI E: 88C-R over 425 QM and Q304 Also, Inside glove box: NKOGV4 tx, Mark

Find an Amish community saw mill. They usually will have a supply of cut white oak. And it will really will be white oak. Buy it thick enough to plane when dry...

Our friend, CWO Sonny from Florida, drove a 1961 Dodge M37B1 towing an OD green 1965 Airstream trailer named General Halftrack from Florida to DC, then on the TMC'09 Convoy to San Francisco, and back home to Florida. He repowered the M37 with a 4BT Cummins from a 1982 patato chip truck, with...

Visually, the springs on my WC56, WC53 and my in-restoration WC51 all look the same. A quick look at the ORD 9, TM 9-808, 1 May 1945 shows: CC-1090570 - Spring, front, assembly (WC-64 KD Ambulance) CC-1088006 - Spring, front, assembly (except Ambulances) CC-927754 -Spring, rear, assembly (12...

The one I bought from John about 5 years ago or so-may be more-was what he said was one of his last NOS. It has the markings (raised letters) CC 925324 The on on my Command Car is (no CC) 925639 - I'm about 90% sure that's right, trying to see it in the dark and around the frame (and through...