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January 10th, 2016. Looks like the bed fell off, though!:-(

January 9th, 2016. For the fellow in Texas, you may just need your flame heater unit more then you ever imagined...Based on my experience in Paris, TX, it will make the below 20*F starts go a lot easier! If your truck has a flame heater, maintain it! The ether is the worst thing a large diesel...

January 8th, 2016. You will appreciate the fast axles more if you drive a conventional cargo Unimog, as they approach glacially slow on road marches of any length, but if you do need the 8 lower gears instead of the usual 4, you do realize that in most Unimogs L1L1(bottom lowest gear in the...

January 4th, 2016. You may want to rethink the clearance lights if your M1009 does not have them now, for if you install them and the truck is subject to a safety inspection by your DMV or State Police....If they are on the truck and they don't work for any reason, your truck will not pass its...

January 1st, 2016 Adding gasoline to a 6.5 GMC diesel in a CUCV is not a wise thing to do, as the engine was not designed for it. Even in the multifuels the use of gasoline was not generally encouraged, and then not above 25% of the fuel load. My experience was that it would clean the...

January 1st, 2016. Now I know why my M35A2 had a NA MF Diesel, no turbo issues....... My experience with turbo'd locomotives is you blow the turbo, the locomotive is just about dead until the turbo is replaced, so I suspect your friend is going to make a lot of turbo dealers very, very happy...

December 31st, 2015. It was quite easy for her to "miss this thing", when you drive with cranial-anal impingement, life is always a subway! I've had them do it with desert sand colored deuces and forest green unimogs in areas that looked nothing like either a desert or a forest, it just the...

December 28th,2015. Gents: Note to the post above...I had to have new kingpins machined and designed new longer hub bolts to solve a very apparent weakness in the original front hub center bolt design, as they always failed by breaking through the cotter pin holes and having the hub nut back...

December 25th, 2015, God rest the gentleman above and my He take care of the man's family. BUT this is another chance to consider adding yellow, black and red reflective "Convoy Ahead" signs to your tailgates when travelling on the interstates or other high speed roadways, and my deuce had its...

December 24th, 2015. It has been my observation that blower motors (or any electric motor for that fact) are often designed for an intended use /application. If the motor is intended to be mounted vertically, the output shaft will run on ball bearings or roller bearings orientated to take that...

December 21st, 2015. Fascinating! Regrettably they chose to cut it, but to move it in one piece would have been prohibitively expensive. Likely it will deteriorate further without special preservation work and stabilization of the steel, it will sooner or later return to the state of iron oxide.

December 18th, 2015. Not picky? The ethanol up here has eaten carburetor rubber seals, corroded the float needle, eaten the valve stem seals,eaten the electric fuel pumps that replaced the mechanical MB fuel pumps that were eaten up by the stuff.... If you ask the MB Engineers they will tell...

December 18th, 2015. gents: This is a creation of our Lincoln Home Eastern national bookstore manager, who was figuring out something for Christmas concerning my old Unimog S404.114 Swiss... It's set to "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"! I take no credit for it, but I figure that your would...

December 15th, 2015. So gents, what did that 26,000 LBS GVW weight tag run for your deuces per year? In Texas my deuce ran $207.00 with no mileage or use restrictions. That's when the wife's Jeep Wrangler ran about $99.00 or 105.00 per year.

December 14th, 2015. Sir: Do what you will, but too many of these old warriors have been bastardized by people who neither really respect the truck, or care anything about its history. You bought an M715, whatever gave you the idea that it could exceed 55? The military designed these trucks...

December 13th, 2015. The gentleman up above was pointing out that in certain instances these vehicles can behave significantly different from a conventional bodied FWD truck in a cross wind. I have had similar issues with S10's with caps and Ford F250's with caps getting touchy on windy...

December 13th, 2015 Jeepdan: Congratulations on your M715 restoration. One of my favorite 2nd or 3rd generation military trucks and a much better runner then the later M880's and CUCV's. Many people badmouth this truck design, but beyond water pump bearing issues and carb issues, they were a...

December 11th, 2015. Considering how bad the average deuce cab leaks, I'd take the quarpel anyday. But if you want, buy the correct hevy cover canvas from WeeBee Webbing or Beechwood Canvas, and have your local truck top maker sew you up some new ones and set the old ones aside as spares. You...

December 11th, 2015.:twisted: Gents: I love to hear the whining about the safety devices on your trucks, primitive as they are, but if they don't work and you do get pulled over, your truck can be impounded in most states until you pay the fines and get it fixed..... IF you were doing your...

December 11th, 2015.:razz: Its been older then most of its pilots for about 30 years, give or take...Imagine that! Likely Major Kong today would be a millennial and not wearing a Stetson as he takes the ride down to Russia! https://youtu.be/vPwW7RaPO_g https://youtu.be/snTaSJk0n_Y