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September 22nd, 2010. Gents: The Unimog has been doing fairly well here in Illinois until today when it lost fuel feed (gasoline() after filling up. I will be having Mr. Churchill at Eurosports look her over here in Springfield. The trip to bring the M35A2 & M105A2 ended...

July 20th, 2010. Dateline: Springfield,IL: The Unimog and I made it here on July 5th, 2010, with only a leaking rear main seal to show for it. Someone before me had overfilled the rear axle and the extremely high speed running (50-55MPH) for 8 to 10 hours a day had forced the seals to leak...

replying for saddamsnightmare, as he currently doesn't have access to a computer. He made it safely from Texas to Springfield, Illinois without misshap. He appreciates all the support from the people on this site. Thank you!

:smile:July 5th, 2010. 54Reo: Maybe an hour by conventional car.... Unimogs are lucky to hold 50 MPH on the road! I looked up the seals and fluid levels in the Unimog manual, the repairs will likely have to wait until I get to Springfield, as the portal...

July 4th, 2010 1937 hours Cape Girardeau,Mo. Gents: I left home yesterday about 1200 CDT in Reno, TX and I arrived at Lonoke,Arkansas last night about 1800 hours, making 260 miles @ 50 mph. I stopped at Turner's Military Surplus by Red River Army Depot, Mr. Turner was loading his M38A1...

July 3rd, 2010 0844 hours. The Unimog and I are going to be setting out on one of the above routes here in about an hour. Everything goes well I should be passing St.Louis on the 5th of July if I can get the groundspeed and the Mojo from the truck to make 250-300 miles per day. My cell phone...

Diesel Bob: I may not be on "duty" that early, as my start date is the 7th, but ask at the Visitor Center desk and tell them it's the NEW GS-9 from Texas that you're looking for. I leave tomorrow AM with a 1963 Swiss Cargo Unimog, so we'll get to prove if what the Unimog guys say is...

July 2nd, 2010. Permit me to weigh in on this too. Back when the deuce was designed (as a gasoline engined truck -1948, it was not uncommon for one drive axle road tractors (civillian) to make do with a 115 HP gasoline or diesel engine pulling a 28 foot trailer and doing maybe 45-50 on the...

July 1st, 2010. jime: You'll have to ask for the truck parts-electrical guy, because I called about 4 weeks ago looking for a Series 14 28VDC amber Federal Flasher beacon to make the set up for my truck for the upcoming Illinois road move, and he said he had the...

July 1st, 2010. Gents: Its gonna be balls to the wall for taking the old Unimog to Springfield, IL on July 3,4,5, and possibly 6th, from Reno,Texas. Uncle Sam has been kind enough to give me a posting as a GS0025-09/7 Park Ranger (I) with the National Park Service at Abraham Lincoln Home NHS...

July 1st, 2010. Gents: It makes an M35A3 look positively elegant by comparison. An Adiabatic engine...? I know some drag racers are set up with the cooling passages filled and no radiator, but running something as heavy as a five ton that way for extended periods seems to be chancy...

June 30th, 2010. jime: Don't bother making the legs.....Redhead or not. Adelmann's Truck Parts in Canton, Ohio has the two rear legs, convoy lights and wiring, 1990 issue, for $150.00 for the kit and shipping. Guaranteed they are right from start and they come with the U bolts and all the...

June 29th, 2010::-) EMD567: (Yeah, I owned a GP 9 with one of those), If you can get it, grab the M715 if the price is right, they are a much nicer truck then the M37, and I've driven them both. Cheaper on gas, faster, stronger, and some parts are common to the civillian...

June 29th, 2010. SWBRADLEY: Right now I am waiting for my background check to go through, and if it comes in by Friday (July 2), I have to get her (the truck) and I to Springfield from here. If it doesn't make it, I won't start until the 18th of July. I did get to look at...

June 29th, 2010. 3dubs: The Lamar County vehicle office ladies took my "Paid" GL invoice and the DMV paperwork from the local detective and handed me a plate after paying license and sales tax. There's no need for a title on a vehicle 40 years old, and most are assumed not to...

June 29th, 2010. PRETTY COOL! I was never a fan of the Corvair, as my family had one of the station wagons and it was never able to start below +35*F from new. BUT this truck would have been almost as useful as the GAMA Goat, and would have been the forerunner of the CUCV's.... I wonder way GM...

June 29th, 2010. Drop that one by Rick Larsen, at Rick LArsen's Military Stencils, I'm pretty sure he could come up with the stencil on short order, and maybe the other folks with M35A2C's could benefit from it.....;-) Also Will Wagner on here is a miastro at cutting stencils....

June 29th, 2010. Gents: You've heard the saying: "If it ain't busted, don't fix it?":cookoo: The Murphy's Lawyer contingent showed up here Saturday after Mr. Weemes checked over and changed fluids on my 1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2.... Seems I had to have the cooling system...

June 27th, 2010. Spydad: The inside of my hood is marked in yellow "15W-40" , just below the "Use hood prop and secure hood in raised position" , so I do believe Uncle was being pretty specific on that, and I would recomment Rotella 15W-40 in any case.... Just my .02 worth, but it seems to...

June 26th, 2010. Gents: The Texas title (permanent) came in the mail the day before yesterday, and lists GL as the former owner, but the transfer is complete and the trailer is operable without all that SF-97 ppain and suffering. One thing I noted yesterday in towing the trailer home from...