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March 15th, 2015 jpg: Pity you didn't know your daughter was going to be a wildlife biologist 8 years ago.... Before I went to Texas in 2007, every GM or Chevrolet dealer in W.Va. ended up having to sell several new U.S.Army M1010 Ambulances with all the gear except the lightbar, the mileage...

March 11th, 2015. The Swiss Unimog S404.114's were usually very well maintained, and from personal experience, the breakers are preferable to the fuses for off or on road work. The only issue will be in the long run 10% ethanol in your gas will play he-- with the tank liners, carbs, fuel pumps...

March 11th, 2015. Stonewall Jackson probably could have benefited by reading Sun Tzu, Patton probably did, we, alas, have not of late applied the Master's Theories aright. Wonder what we could do to ISIS with that program? Machiavelli was good, Sun Tzu was better and more realistic, combine the...

March 3rd, 2015 davidkroberts: So why the conversion? Speaking for myself, the only problem I had with the M715 gas six was the carburetor could be a problem now and the, and the water pump always was a problem with the 4 belt pulley- it would eat front pump bearings. If you want a diesel, why...

March 2nd, 2015. Tokarev: The engine should be a 216 or 235 CID gas six, is it one of these two? So what's the problem with your carb float? If its brass and it is pinholed and flooded, it can be dried out and repaired, if its not brass, good luck! March 4th, 2015. Congratulations, the...

February 25th, 2015. May I make one more point in the discussion? I work with a certain railway museum that has the only two surviving 1915/1926 Pittsburgh Railways Low Floor "Jones " cars in existence (from Pittsburgh), one has had about 50% of the frame and lower body rebuilt with new steel...

February 25th, 2015. Yes, I'll bet the crate and the stencils are gonna cost more then the $50.00 Jeep inside it!:)

February 25th, 2015. Gents: Looking for peculiar licensing issues for either Unimog U1300L or S404.114; or M35A2 aand lastly M38/M38A1 for everyday use in Utah (due to possible reposting); and secondly, possibility of picking up U1300L in Europe and shipping home after 18 month posting in...

February 23rd, 2015. And I will bet you that there was little to no use of secondary or containment tanks on the mobile nuclear units! These things in smaller scale were just more Chernobyl's waiting to happen (or they probably did happen and we didn't hear about them). That was one genie we...

February 23rd, 2015. By now you have probably found the front axle drive shafts, if not, any reputable machine chop could make you new ones using salvaged U joints and heavy duty torque tube stock from some other large truck (wrecked or junked). As to the axle shafts in the housings, again, if...

February 23rd, 2015. bigmike: So what happened with the closed cab S404.115 truck and its carburetor? I have a 404.114 that has carb and fuel pump issues, so its not running, but they will be easily fixed by the next owner.... My S404.114 never cared for ethanol in the fuel, and that is all...

February 22nd, 2015. On your builders/dash plate, Army Ordnance supplied the vehicles to the USMC, and likely the parts for them also. Admittedly there were differences between the USMC and standard Army jeeps as noted above, mostly as they were delivered with the bumper end lift rings, and...

February 11th, 2015. Needless to say, I still say for your money, go Unimog, yes they are high, they also can climb over most downed tree trunks and ford streams with little or no modification. Used at $40,000? Still light years ahead of both US and Japanese engineering, super solid and...

February 8th, 2015. I would recommend to you, as if it were my daughter,a clean, well restored Unimog U1300L Diesel Ambulance, it costs about as much as a civilian pick up, but has several advantages over anything usually suggested. 1: Ambulances get little mileage, but are kept serviced. 2...

February 6th, 2015. Doesn't it seem odd that the Germans and Europeans can get work out of Unimogs, and we can't. I will bet you that the SEE beats you digging with a "D"handle shovel out of your pioneer rack, and it will outrun your 580C on long, high speed road marches..... Plus the Unimog...

February 2nd, 2015. :ditto: No use risking a rebuilt engine to save a couple of bucks on bolts, which if they fail, will tear your engine apart!

February 1st, 2015. And I, who remember little from the M38A series, would note the heavy reinforcements to the rear crossmember. Would those have been present as stock pieces on a CJ5, versus as being present on the M38A which would have been expected to pull a trailer cross country? Those...

February 1st, 2015. I know that the brakes are driving you nuts, but NOW may be the time to hook up with a local MVPA or Steel Soldiers who have M135's and get them to double check your repairs. Worse come to worse, look around for a really old large truck mechanic and see if he'll look it over...

February 1st, 2015. Maverick1701: From my experience at working on GM 567 locomotive engines, I do believe that carburetor's are a lot easier to work on then diesel injection systems! And, did you pull and re-ring the pistons after honing the cylinders? I can't imagine running a stuck...

February 1st, 2015 This thread, without pictures of the 6X6 Dodge Command car is about as dead as Punxsutawney Phil turning up tomorrow morning at Wreckerman's down in AL predicting 6 more weeks of winter..... Probably Patton had one, and the Germans definitely did have them, but I think we...