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LOL did you forget to turn the shielding gas on? Anyhow that is one way to get your pipes around all the bracketing for the e-brakes.

If I had an M1009 with $1500 to spend on it I would probly see if I could find a deal on a set of 3/4 ton axles. Dana 60/14 bolt ff with 3.73 gears. That will make your M1009 alot beffier with more towing grunt. 3/4 ton axles should bolt right in but 1tons will not. You will also have to replace...

A couple more pics.

I've been working on the trailer some more. Finally done with the body paint. It is silver rust bullet buffed out with 00 steel woll. The bed sides were sanded and rattle canned black along with the tail lights. The tail lights were also painted gloss white on the insides. All thats left to do...

Lock your front hubs and put the truck in 4WD to drive on grass and try not to turn real sharp. That will make it so that the inside rear tire doesn't tear a big rut the whole way around the turn you are making. I learned to do that by making my father pretty ticked off a couple times. lol

I chose my hitch solely on the fact that it was american made. They say Chinese steel is full of lead. That may very well be the problem here.

Man that thing looks great!!! A+ work.

I couldn't agree with you more about new vehicles. I was looking at the wireing diagram for my neighbors 06 chevy pickup and thats outrageous how much electrical stuff that truck has on it. You wouldn't even think that the space shuttle would have that complicated of an electrical system on it...

Just figured i'd add that these trucks are full of electrical gremlins and the fuel filter bases are defective. Also alot of the ones on GL have bent up drive line parts from being moved around with forklifts but if you can get them to run right they are prety good trucks.

You can get those magnetic tow lights at alot of places like lowes, the home depot, auto zone ect. Also you will have to take your GL pappers to your dmv and at least get a piece of papper that is good for a day or two that says you can transport it.

I plumed my air intake to the front a while back by useing an air cleaner assembly and resonator from a 6.5L diesel truck. If you type my cucv ram-air project into the search function on this site it will display that thread. There are lots of pics.

Thanks for all the good feedback everyone and I will indeed keep posting pics as I make progress. Ressoldier that is a good point about this project being more of a build-up than an actual restoration. I tried to change the title to "My M101A2 Build Thread.... Pics" but the site wouldn't let...

They make two stock replacement filters for the 6.2 diesel. One has the foam ring the other does not. The last time I bought an air filter for my truck I got the stock NAPA replacement one without the foam ring. Also I had the guy at NAPA look up the K&N filter. It cost something like $40.00 or...

More pics of the painted frame.

My M101A2 Build Thread.... pics I finally got my M101A2 apart and got the frame into my garage to start really working on it. So far I've cleaned the frame, sanded and sandblasted the rough spots, cleaned it some more, and finally painted it. I chose to use rust bullet silver and black. That...

A long time ago I had a 1977 blazer that had a power steering pump like that. I could turn the steering wheel from stop to stop with one finger sitting still with 33X12" tires and that thing had a pretty small aftermarket steering wheel on top of that. I thought that was what a strong power...

I'd have to agree with MATT1031 about 3.73 gears being as good as it gets. Any lower and you would be wanting an overdrive trans. And about a 14 bolt ff and dana 60 to replace the 10 bolts all I can really say about that is that you can't find a set of axles like that for $250.00 lol. Im in the...

Government Liquidation finally sent me an Arizona title the other day which cost me I think $77.00. Today I went to the DMV out here and they gave me a VA. title and permanent tags. Everything went well but they charged me $120.00 for that. I have almost as much money tied up in tags n title as...

Im running 34X10.50-16 supper swamper LTB's on my M1028. They fit the stock wheels and didn't require a lift or fender trimming. I mounted them at my house myself and didn't bother balancing them. They seem to do fine that way. They are bias ply tires and do sing a little bit at 50 mph but it's...

One thing I noticed about the front dana60 with a limited slip diff on the M1028's is that when you take the diff cover off it doesn't look like any other limited slip diff. It just looks like an open one. You have to look real closely at it to be able to tell. The easiest way to make sure is to...