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May 13th, 2015. Verrrrry Interesting! Not only is it unusual, it has all the beauty of a HMMWV, with parts being 10X harder to find! You truly do like taking on the tough cases! Good Luck!:driver:

May 11th, 2015. Except for the base stamping on the fender, it looks rather like the original mirror mount system the USMC used on the M422A1's, which were supplied by Army Ordnance Corps.....

May 11th, 2015. I was very fond of that mighty mite, as it was the longer M422-A1 series, and was a ship commanders truck. When I sold it had a WWII Signal corps truck radio in a stand behind the seat. I also think I may have the smaller pintle hook for that particular truck in my parts...

May 11th, 2015. Dear Sir: What have you found out on the Mite SN #2043? I sold it in the 1980's to a gentleman in Philadelphia, hood numbered USMC 306475 ( I think) and it had a WWII Signal Corps truck radio, two piece, in a stand behind the drivers seat. The truck had been a ship...

May 9th, 2015. When you consider how close to razor blades that truck was when papabear picked it up...IT is an amazing restoration of an arguably very rare WWII truck (rare even then). Its so relatively ugly, it grows on you..... GM should offer him some really good PR for using it in one of...

May 4th, 2015. While I know it hurts you gentlemen to have to demill these main mounts, you will have to do it BATF's way or you won't be bringing it in. Perhaps you could suggest to BATF Technical to plug the back of the barrel with a fireclay plug, and then blow the barrel forward of that...

May 4th, 2015. Littoral Defense ship. The crews are so relatively small compared to an older destroyer, you have to ask yourself, can these be overrun by Somalian pirates? Maybe it would be time to equip these vessels with the old reliable M1860 Cutlass, which was issued on Navy ships through...

May 4th, 2015. I'm not sure how many Americans I would trust with MRAPs and Armor right now given some of the goings on here in the US of late, but as long as the A-10 is in inventory and flyable, not much of this junk will live long enough to be a serious problem to us in a combat...

May 4th, 2015. Just send a couple of squadrons of A-10's over with US pilots to Saudi Arabia or even Israel, the M1 A1 issue will be over in a day or two thereafter!

May 3rd, 2015. Considering the way technology evolves, we would do better to keep the A-10 production line running, as even our tanks don't have a long life expectancy in current combat conditions, ISIS or no ISIS, Russia or no Russia. Heavy armor as we know it now will probably be completely...

April 25th, 2015. It seems to me for you to have a "Farm" title on a vehicle in Texas, you DO have to have more then 10 acres under farming. In West Virginia you could have a 1 acre farm, it depended on the value of the products produced annually. 150 mile range from home on a farm plate? In...

April 25th, 2015. Plain old NAPA 4" exhaust elbow, and two clamps. It gets your intake off the fender, and keeps the filter element from sucking in snow and rain (which cuts the efficiency down considerably).:-D

April 25th, 2015. Besides needing the CDL, even the youngest 5 ton is getting near 50 years of age, and if you wonder why Uncle's letting them go, too many age related issues are creeping up on the series. If anything, a five ton is worse in maintenance then a deuce, because everything is much...

April 24th, 2015. Either way, its a heck of a lot tougher to figure the data plates out on those than on my Unimog where they are either German or French!:D

April 10th, 2015. You have to hand it to greenjeepster for brand loyalty, he likes to stir up the pot with the same comment on Land Rovers, all the time! However, if they are that good, how come only a few militaries in the world use them....? Especially since they were a low buck copy of the...

April 5th, 2015. The Unimog S404's use bolts to bring the brake drums off the hubs, but the machining tolerances are so tight that without the bolts your mechanic is generally screwed. Most military trucks are designed to take tremendous abuse, but they are also designed for timely preventative...

April 4th, 2015. We have to remember that these trucks were conservatively designed to run in almost any climate, with any load, at reasonable speeds, so the radiators are probably a little large, figuring better too cold then too hot. When I put a new brass radiator on my truck in Texas, I...

March 27th, 2015. Good luck with your HET on the trip north. You can only pray that fuel prices drop, otherwise you may want to send it by ferry up the Inland Passage....:-o

March 27th, 2015. Almost none of the CUCV diesels were designed for road speeds much above 45-50, as Army convoy doctrine rarely required any extended running above that speed, and if it throws a rod, well that will pretty much trash your investment in the truck's engine. When a deuce...

March 25th, 2015. If my memory is right, the Big Sky Country will be a little smaller without Mr. Johnson and his deuce, but our prayers go out to his family in their time of sorrow. You would think that the Lord had enough deuce drivers already, but I guess he needed another one. Requisiat in...