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My M35A2 was sold though GL and came with a canvas troop cover and only one end curtain. It didn't have an end curtain at the back by the tailgate. Tjmilitary was kind enough to sell me a set of NOS end curtains for my truck. I can mount one curtain using the original rope from the one old...
Last of the non-nuclear aircraft carriers. :salute:
If we had to sell an aircraft carrier to a foreign power, I'd much prefer it to be one without a nuclear reactor than one with.
If it really is an M35A2 it will be turbo charged. If the truck is something else, like an M109A3 (looks like a deuce but has a job shack on the back) then it may not be turbo charged.
Do you have a photo of the engine by any chance? Preferably from the passenger side?
LDS turbo came first on the 427 cubic inch multifuel engines. (That's the turbo my truck has)
"C" Whistler Turbo was popular in the 60's to sometime in the 70's
"D" Non-whistler Turbo from the 70's on out.
Not sure of the exact year they changed, but it really doesn't matter because the odds of...
Totally random. The military likes to swap parts with whatever is at hand at the time of maintenance. My LDT-D engine has the old skool LDS turbo on it and the truck was built in 1978.
OD_Coyote showed me a great way to disable the truck. I'm going to use a quick disconnect on the battery and padlock the battery box closed. Someone could still push start it but at least it would stop kids from accidentally starting the truck.
One of these would make a great battery disconnect:
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