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Your post is very clever but, no mea culpa. I think it was very clear that I was only pulling the truck forward out of it's parking space, rather than going out on the road. Things are rather cramped around my place and working on it requires a short move from gravel to concrete. Your post...

Jerry Reed said it best. When you're hot…you're HOT! Today I went out and straightened out the damage the GL forklift operator inflicted on the M109. As I had already hammered out the mudflap, that was ready to go. But the issue of the taillight brackets was another story. I laid out a...

Friday I spent getting the M109 it's antique mil-veh registration. Well, almost. Filing a Texas SR-2 requires mailing the darned thing to Austin with a self-addressed, stamped envelope in the hope they'll get right on it and send the copy back. Until then, the registrar won't do squat...

Oh, you bet! The truck was always a good runner and things were 100% when I went to Afghanistan. I tasked the wife with doing occasional run-ups but that went in the toilet when the fuel pump took a dump three years into a four year overseas contract. I didn't have the energy to do anything...

A lot of WWII military vehicles became "something else" for a time and for many, that's the only reason why they survived to be around today. That said, the cutting of a frame is somewhat final (how many halftracks were stretched in order to become well-drillers!)

I replaced a dead battery, and a dead fuel pump, cleaned out the fuel tank and started the truck for the first time in about 3 years. (I've been overseas) It started right up!