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February 10th, 2010. Depends on the mood of the truck and the outside temperature.....! My M35A2 does seem a little happier on the shifts when you give it a small blip on the throttle between gears, but I don't have to truely double clutch. The Unimog S404.114 can be a very different animal...

:-)February 10th, 2010. The Recorder: How many miles was the trip home? How'd your trucks and yourselves hold up? Nice videos. Musta been a turbo deuce as the stack was much too clean for a normally aspirated....... They can beat the living tar outta you for noise and ride, but...

February 10th, 2010. Ferro: I put in for some summer work with the NPS in Alaska, and I was thinking of taking either my M35A2 or Unimog S404.114 for the trip. Right now the M35A2 needs cab heater, starter solenoid/starter issues addressed and 11 new tires.... And if I can...

February 10th, 2010. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I do believe that a 400 HZ output generator could be used to drive a high resistance load, as in the form of heating elements. If I am correct, an MEP023A or equivalent unit delivers about 13 HP or 10KW worth of heat equivalent output. One...

February 10th, 2010. Berg Tire in Fayetteville,NC (check their web site at Berg Tire). Allan Ritchie's the man to contact there. They might run around $100 or so for 95-100% remaining tread life tires, shipping should be less then the $25.00 I paid on motor freight each to get them here to...

February 9th, 2010. Nice M170! Back in 1977 I bid $1300 for a non running, complete Army M170, and somebody with deeper pockets bid $1500! At that time, one was considered less then sane to bid more then a few hundred dollars on any normal M38A...... The guys that bought them sure have done...

February 9th, 2010. Mark Twain so aptly said:"Throw a rock over a high fence into a yard full of dogs, and generally, the dog that barks is the dog that's hit". I can't fault him for his wisdom. IT does seem that there are far too many busybodies who must mind everyone else's business, and...

February 9th, 2010. I'm just weighing in with the comment"Steel Soldiers and other HMV Owners, notice what playing politics does for your property rights?" Neither bill above should be acceptable in any way to HMV or MV owners, as they amount to an illegal taking without due process or...

February 7th, 2010. SWBradley1: They got a very nice trolley museum in Washington, Pa., along with a Krispy Kreme Doughnuts..... You'll need to spend time recovering at the first when the tank slips off the trailer and crunches the rental, and you'll need the second place to buy off the...

February 7th, 2010. Alfred10: If your pockets are deep enough, you might be able to locate one of the HMMWV's that the USMC traded out several years back for repairs on their helo fleet..... Other then that, the chance is nil you'll ever see something more modern be released. Clark...

February 7th, 2010. Wonder what they would do with one of the coal burning steam trucks the Brits used around WWII and earlier....? The only oil was used for lubrication. It rather sucks that the Multifuels can burn WMO, Diesel and Gasoline in combinations.... I suspect I might just...

February 7th, 2010. Didn't I see this one on "The Last Remake of Beau Geste"?:p The French Foreign Legion would be formidable with or without that contraption, otherwise I guess it would do pretty go at picking up chicks in PAris: "Say Mademoiselle, would you like to see what makes my Vespa...

February 7th, 2010. If Carnac is saying 18 months...... I suspect that is going to be the likely end use date for the CUCV in Uncle's service, and my bet is that any in Iraq will not be sent home for disposition. Just a guess, but the CUCV is getting like the M880's were in the...

February 7th, 2010. Kudos to the comments above regarding Victor and his presence here. It's not too often we get inputs from gents with experience on the other side of the curtain, so to speak. I have experience with the Unimog S, and beyond that darn throw out bearing and the non tilting...

February 6th, 2010. Seems like it would be a lot easier to have a new tailpipe end made cut off flush and fitted with the flapper cap..... It saves your muffler (on NA M35A2's), keeps the exhaust from spitting soot all over the cab, truck and cargo cover (from which it doesn't come off), and...

February 6th, 2010. How well will a Conex or equivalent box fit the bed of a standard M35A2? I may be getting assigned a temporary job with the National Park Service this summer in either Alaska or Cape Hatteras, and instead of going broke on rental property (Uncle doesn't pay that well....)...

February 6th, 2010. The Steel Soldiers members in the Washington, DC areas will have a chance to get some good publicity for us..... W.Va.'s Governor has declared a state of emergency, and the heavy FWD and 6X6's would be usefull in hauling medical and emergency responders to the...

February 6th, 2010. Tascabe: :shock: WOW!!!:drool: Cheers, Kyle F. McGrogan:driver:

February 6th, 2010. Between you, I and the rock, I think that the M35A2's with multifuel engines get too bad a rap. The trucks were designed to be simple, repairable, and if driven with some respect for the vehicle, indestructible. Probably the two weak points in the design is the dry...

February 5th, 2010. Gentlemen: I have tended to find that the Russians overbuild everything, knowing it is gonna be worked on by some peasant who can barely fix a farm tractor. Their locomotives, airplanes and trucks tend to be thought out for maintenance purposes.... The MIG-25...