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January 22nd, 2010. USAFSS-ColdWarrior: A serious chunk of machinery. Makes a deuce and a half look like a Cooper MINI. I guess I'm lucky in that TXDOT had to register my M35A2 as a pickup truck, as that is how it's title came down from Colorado. The saying is that things are bigger...

January 22nd, 2010. GreenJeepster: I could show you pictures of ConRail diesels that looked like that all over the cabs, hoods, and bodies, except it would be iron oxide dust from being around the steel mills. Most deuces worked in dry areas will have dust deposits like...

January 22nd, 2010. It seems that Haiti has never had much luck, not in 1804 and surely not in 2010. Yet Santo Domingo, on the other half of the island is a going concern....Go figure. The Stuart tank was a cool item to restore, was the engine(s) a Cadillac 750CID unit? As to Haiti being the...

January 22nd, 2010. Plus more money to keep it in tires, fuel, parts and repairs...... If you use it much, you will need tires and parts.... it's the nature of a 40 year old beast.....:shock: Cheers, Kyle F. McGrogan:razz:

January 19th, 2010. Almost makes me wish I'd a bought one of the new ones GM was disposing of back in West Virginia for $29,000 in 2007. Pretty much the complete truck from the factory except no light bar. The Army paid about $92,000 each for use in Iraq and for some reason the deal...

January 18th, 2010. CHGOFIVEO: Sounds like a solution that should work for you. It been done by others creating a cab and a half or double cabin cab. The real pain would seem to be lenthening the soft top side rails or the hard top roof, given that the dimensions are determined by the stock...

January 18th, 2010. Might I suggest for the man that loves NDCC's, try a side slope logging road, pretty thouroughly bedded with soft clay mud, snow and ice, and a loaded deuce. With this combination, you will get new respect for how little side slope traction the NDCC's give. The Swiss Army...

January 18th, 2010. RDGL: The advice above in regards to heating the cab is quite sound if applied with care. To the Steel Soldiers: Does the M818 have a winter front radiator cover like the 742 series trucks? If it does, acquire one by hook or crook and apply it (you can get the tie down...

January 17th, 2010. Gents: Now that I've got your attention. Perhaps a poor choice of words in the allusion, but historically speaking, most of us alive in America today are physically larger then either the Civil War or WWII generations. These trucks were designed...

January 17th, 2010. I guess that the M35's weren't originally designed to have Mongo drive them, it seems like a lot of work to get room behind the wheel. Wouldn't it be easier to shed a few pounds...? Most of us are not 20 year old GI's and I'll bet few modern GI's are the size they...

January 16th, 2010. Coyotegray: No. my originals were more like our ndt's and the newer ones kinda have the blocks closer togather and more square to the axis of the tires. I will say the new ones don't lack for traction in mud, but they ride kinda like "knobby" dirt bike tires on the road...

January 16th, 2010.. Gents: I can testify that the tread grooving pattern that Booger has selected above just about perfectly duplicates the original NDT's (yes, NDT's) that the Swiss Army had applied to my 1963 Swiss Army Cargo Unimog S404.114, and there was and...

January 15th, 2010. Having owned SN2343, a 1961 M422A1 many years ago, you are going to have lots of fun finding the missing parts, they were tough enough to find in 1978. Check with Phil Nelson at Nelson's Surplus Jeeps in Columbiana,OH, as he had some parts as does Sam Winer Motors. I...

January 15th, 2010. If I could qualify for a pilot's license (which, for various reasons...I can't), for me it would be a tossup between a DC-3/C-47 restored as a AC-47 and painted for "puff the magic dragon", or a AD Skyraider done as a "Spad"..... If I hit the powerball (which ain't...

January 14th, 2010.. Might I suggest, just for laughs and giggles, that our OP consider renting say a 20 or 27' U haul or other conventional moving truck with either a dolly or a auto trailer of sufficient length and capacity? That way the M1009 is off the ground and its weight is fully...

January 13th, 2010. Thanks Cranetruck, The CFM on the single cylinder compressor did seem a bit anemic when combined with the service tank CID capacity. I have noticed that a lot of maneuvering at low speed will allow the Air O Matic to outrun the compressor output and set off the low air...

January 13th, 2010. My vote would be for a good USED Unimog U1300L, it has the capacity of a deuce with a four wheel drive unit that's much better then the deuce's six or any converted civillian truck, plus they are designed for about 30 years of life and then rebuild for another 30...

January 11th, 2010. Gents: I am fairly familiar with the deuce, having experience with M135/M211's and the present M35A2, of the three types I prefer the latter. Yes you still have brakes with the air system frozen up, what you don't have are quick reacting brakes and a hard steering truck...

January 11th, 2010. Will Wagner has experience with this one, he puts the girder from side door window sill to side door window sill and brings it up, through the cab, so I'm told. Apparently in any case its a lot easier then some newer trucks and cars.... just big and bulky. Cheers...

January 11th, 2010. No EUC.....Some assembly required? Cheers, Kyle F. McGrogan:-D