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Speaking of grease, it's amazing how many zerk fittings are on that truck. I've already lost count, and I've only been paying attention to the ones topside on the wrecker body so far. I've been cleaning up the fittings and replacing them where necessary as I go, and installing plastic dust...

I've been using a commercial towing company for my recoveries from Barstow. I just don't have the time to head out there myself because of work and other responsibilities. :( I think I could consider installing a rear pilot winch with less than 600 feet of cable, accepting the compromise that I...

The treadle valve is the valve body that the brake pedal is part of, under the driver's side of the dashboard. I don't know where the various check valves are, though. I haven't dug that deeply into my M939-series brake systems yet.

I had coolant coming out the overflow pipe when my HMMWV developed blown head gaskets and cracked heads a number of years ago. The symptom was weird; it seemed like it was making more water as it went. It turned out that the smaller tubes that run from the surge tank to high points in the...

Yeah, I already learned the hard way that clicking "Today's posts" and then saving the URL in the title bar would give me a link that expires. You need to save the URL from the button before clicking it, like the one I posted above. Anyway, I'm liking the "Today's Posts" page, especially with...

I think that the pilot winch should also have a nice roller fairlead, in case the main rear winch cable needs to be pulled out at some angle other than directly behind the truck.

Getting an air brake ticket is highly advisable, but it still won't answer all of the OP's questions. When I took my CDL training and passed my test, the training included the dash-mounted air brake controls used in common civilian semi tractors, and didn't cover anything like the combination...

If you would like to always go to the "Today's Posts" page first, then just save a link to it in your favorites/bookmarks and then use that to visit the site: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/search.php?do=getdaily&contenttype=vBForum_Post

I considered the boom as a backup camera mounting point, but quickly changed my mind when I considered cabling it without benefit of the slip rings. Now, if it was a wireless camera, then I could power it from the warning light circuit (which passes through the slip ring assembly), but it's a...

There should be a shutoff valve on each of the two rear glad hands. If the one on the passenger side (the emergency connection) is open, then that will keep the truck from building pressure. I think that having the one on the driver's side (the service connection) open will only bleed pressure...

I was having trouble adjusting to the loss of the old front page, which I found was one of the really compelling features that made me hang out at Steel Soldiers. So, I found myself ignoring the forum for a few weeks while other stuff grabbed my attention. Well, I popped back in today to ask...

I have an industrial grade backup camera system that I bought for my M923. Now I'm thinking of using it on the wrecker instead, and locating it where it'll be able to see the pintle if I can find a good spot where it won't get wrecked by the winch cable or whatever. If there's not a good spot...

Interesting idea, Ron! Heck, we had two men pulling it from only 10-15 feet away, and I still needed to help give the rope a tug every now and then. We were just flexing the rope over the level-wind and pulling it through the disengaged tensioner, and not even dragging a lot of rope weight. Do...

I like your new avatar, Gimpy.

Yesterday I gave my M936A1 its first real workout. There were a couple times when I was worried I might get stuck in loose soil and piled up compost, but then the truck went right through the stuff like it wasn't there. Felt like it could drive up a telephone pole and pull the cojones off a...

So, did you tell him that you're taking the truck to Canada, and then you'll invade the US and take us all over after Obama bans everything? rofl

Yesterday, my M936A1 wrecker got its first real workout. Another collector is buying my incomplete M1022 shelter mobilizer dolly carcasses to harvest parts for some interesting projects that he has in the works. They're sitting in an inconvenient spot in my yard, and they're not complete enough...

We could attach pics in PMs before. I don't know if we still can, but I did notice that a picture in a PM that I viewed just before the upgrade no longer showed up just after the upgrade.

Oh, one more thing: When I set up my Wordpress blog, I also found that many (most?) of the skins were fixed-width, or had a maximum width that would be rendered. This is very, very annoying on a larger screen, where enlarging the window just covers more screen without enlarging the content...

Is there a way to list more threads in the "Latest Threads Activity" box? If so, this would go a long way towards duplicating the functionality of the previous version's front page. Also, there's a large amount of wasted screen space under the left column, anyway, which might as well be filled...