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Check all the grounds. Make sure you have internal/external star washers on all the light bucket bolts. Check the ground on the turn signal module and the grounding on the turn signal arm. Every place there is suppose to be a ground check it! I've been known to sand down to bare metal attach...

Any chance your truck was cut in half? Right where the body tag was on the A2 was a favorite spot for cutting them per the older demil instructions.

Nice job on the truck. Looks great!

Looking good!

Did you win a complete harness front and rear or just one half? The front harness will be set up for the 60 amp Alternator and will have the extra wires for the parking lights and the blackout marker lights on the fenders. So you have to make a few changes there to get the blackout light wires...

Truck is looking good. I see what you mean about the tires. Do you have plans to replace them?

Now to my eyes (and yes I know my monitor is different than everyone else) but to me those trucks on the rail car look like the 34086 and not 34079 forest green which is what Bob H. Avatar looks to be painted. I do not claim to be an expert, but I have a good eye for color and I've been in this...

The Rapco list is a good reference and goes with what I was saying. Forest Green like 34079 is different than 24087. You might want to give some thought to the color 34086 which might be the factory color that Dodge M880 series trucks where painted. "34086 Lusterless Olive Drab – Current Issue...

The stock GI paint color has changed over the years. In wwII there were two shades of OD, then the color changed at the end of WWII till the early 50s. Then changed again until the mid 70s when MERDC 4 color camo was introduced and then changed again in the early 80s when the NATO 3 color camo...

I would always run my M151 on the hi octane gas 93 or better if I could find it so the Avgas would be the same thing. If I put the old 87 octane in I would have the problems you are talking about.

Someone did some body work on the passenger side front fender. Definitely an A1 body. I wouldn't give to much credence into the title saying it's a 62 instead of a 67. Many M151s when they got a title got what ever year the person titling it said it was. I know of at least 2 dozen M151s out...

Isn't doing all this work on a flat head kind of like putting lipstick on a pig? Even with the added HP in the motor you still have the 5.83 gear ratio at the axles. Short of changing axles and a V8 or diesel motor I believe that trying to make a race horse out of a plow mule is throwing good...

Turn signals are missing. Wire mods as noted above. No top bows installed does owner have them? Like was said before crawl under and take a close look to see if it's cut or not. Most cuts happened either in the middle of the gas tank area or just in front or behind the gas tank.

Nice color. I use to do my M151 in that color. Get 24087 and flatten it out. Seen many a active duty MV painted like that through the 70s and 80s.

Pictures?

You would have to install another switch box in line to the compress so that when you are on pig tail you cut the power going back to the generator. Kinda of like wiring your house to run off or generator or power line. You have to disconnect one from the other.

Not hating...wish I had one myself. It's just funny....you feel like a little kid sitting in the truck. But it's all good!

I know this is an old thread....but since someone brought it up I thought I'd put my $0.02 worth in. The XM705 was a Chevy design and was well weird. I actually sat in on and I'm not a small man at 6 foot tall and 250 lbs. When I sat in the truck the proportions were all wrong and I felt like...

Well, I learned something new. 30+ years in the hobby and I either had forgotten about this truck or never learned it. Maybe a little of both. :) You have a rare truck there!

If you could get some info off of that data plate that might help solve the mystery. I'm thinking it's was an M43 ambulance that some cut down to make into that. @gunboy1656 That's a Kaiser M725 ambulance that has been modified.