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January 30th, 2008. Hey mbarber84; love those Air Force trucks, but the realistic fact is that between the rain and snow you're gonna get in Pittsburgh, you're either gouing to lose your J pipe or your muffler due to rain/snow getting in with the curved end pipe. just forget to cover your...

January 30th, 2009. Any driveshaft or better machine shop can repair your shaft. I had a 1989 Ford F250 that failed in the universal joint bearings and beat the shaft ends up good, so we cut them off and put 1-1/2 ton dumptruck joints on her for much less then buying new. Last I saw the...

January 25th, 2009. :razz: IF you are a redneck...... it really means you were a Coal Miner in West Virginia involved in the 1921 BAttle of Blair Mountain.... attempting to get your rights to fair pay as a working man. I always amazes me that few people knew that the Miner's army wore red...

January 23rd, 2009.:-D Congratulations on the truck.... if it weren't for the need for a CDL on one of these, I'd think hard about getting one myself. Yours is so nice it's enough to make one drool. By comparison, My 1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 with 25,000 miles on it is really worn out...

Jan 17th, 2009. Put me in for a DVD or tape of LTC Frankenhausers Funeral. Kyle F. McGrogan!

January 14th, 2009. Dear Wolf: No, the figures quoted were for my S.404.114 which had just come out of the shop with a rebuilt carb, fuel pump, cleaned fuel tanks, new boots on the driveshafts, new exhaust pipe from the double header pipe back, pertronix ignitert ignition and civillian...

January 14th, 2009. Gentlemen:;-):doh: HOW MANY members Swiss S.404.114's are in need of new canvas cab paulins and or cargo bed tarpaulins???? My 1963's cab roof is shot, and the side curtains are pretty far along, I am thinking of having Beachwood Canvas run me up a set of 18OZ OD cab and...

Jan. 14th, 2008. Try Nationwide Mutual out of Canton, OH. They insure my deuce and Unimog, know what they are, and the only limitation is no commercial hauling. In Texas they are both rated as pickup trucks, and for each of them individually I pay less then for my wife's 2006 Jeep Wrangler...

January 14th, 2008. Sam Winer Motors in Akron has a coupla a new "J" pipes and a couple of new mufflers for the M35A2 Normally Aspirated...when these are gone, he says they're gone----it Was $40.00 for the pipe and ditto for the muffler.... Cheers, Kyle F...

Saturn Surplus, Memphis Equipment, Boyce, Will Wagner's junk yard raids..... Cheers, Kyle F. McGrogan:razz:

January 10th, 2009. U1300L Unimog, Anyone? Failing that, maybe the new MB ZATROS will suit our friends need for traction? Deep enough pockets will get you just about whatever you need... Besides, after our young navigator has handled the streets of Pittsburgh in the winter at CMU, he'll be a...

January 9th, 2009. Oh Ye of little faith! The man bought a piece of junk from GL....... If it needs only the oil cooler replaced to make it run, then quit yer "itchin! If you bid more then bottom line scrap on the truck, then you took yourself to the cleaners...

January 4th, 2008. Ditto, Grasshopper: When I was your age I wanted a railroad caboose, passenger car or diesel locomotive, by working hard and a lot of luck, I've owned all of them at one time or another ( and almost a 107' long ocean going diesel tugboat!). Now I...

December 26th, 2008. Gents: To keep snow and rain out of the mushroom, and hence the air filter, pull the Army field Modification of fitting a 4" exhaust elbow (I think the diameter's right, but measure if in doubt) fitted to the air cleaner intake and turned upwards, with the mushroom...

:-PDecember 26th, 2008. Boys, We're getting mighty scientific here..... My observation of my deuce is as follows: If it's much below 10*F above, she's likely going to need the flame heater. How do I know if it's working? When I crank the truck and hit the heater switch, she fires almost...

December 22, 2008. Dear DRJCONLEY: Take a look at the -20 and -30 manuals for the M35A2 to see the systems set up. The Army was, for 1948, eminently logical on the deuce's brake system, inasuch as they needed power assistance to make them work, they needed to be able to move the truck...

December 21st, 2008..... Mike, The mule in that condition has almost the same problem as the USMC M422A1 Mighty Mite.... No weight, hence no bite.....! I'll bet you just about froze you --- off, no cab and no cab heat... you're one tough dude. Four wheel steering.... how cool is that...

DECEMBER 20TH, 2008. a GUY AND A DEUCE....crushing a corvair shell, and messing up his other truck....PRICELESS!!! :-D Cost to the gene pool... immeasurable.....:twisted: At $60.00 a pop to repair the flats on the duals... better him then me.:wink: Needless to say, it seems...

December 20th, 2008. Someone send a copy of this to TACOM, as the M35 is fully capable of conversion and they survived some serious mine hits in Vietnam and were able to be rebuilt..... Of course, Iraqi IED's must be much larger then what the Jordanians expect to hit..... The...

December 11th, 2008. The military had a reason for the 6/12V systems in WW2, and the 24VDC systems after that..... It's what the NATO trucks use, for its size it's a simpler, more powerful system, and for the diesels, it gives you some reserve for cold starts without ether. On the...