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MArch 8th, 2008. SHOW ME YOU WAR FACE!!! I doubt if anyone takes an FMTV seriously, but baby, when you got a M35 or 5 ton (or even better, an HEMTT) bearing down on your A-S at a checkpoint, and you're in a toyota something or other...... the pucker factor's gigantic!!!! Car Bombers...

March 7th, 2008. New MV Guy, man, I wish my truck's plate looked that good, you didn't happen to restore the engine, by the way? And yes, most honorable GimpyRobb, I am quite certain many of you gentlemen have low mileage motors. Mine's at 22,840, when I got it in October from Jay Bennett...

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Deuce engines March 7th, 2008. When you really think about it, gentlemen, with small exceptions as noted by the esteemed Mr. Doyle above, Continental did the design work, and with few exceptions, the design was largely frozen by, what, 1965 or 1966? The engine is...

March 5th, 2008. Is the present three lever switch routed from the battery through a terminal or fuse block direct (I don't have any of my manuals handy at present), or is it fed through the master "Off-ON' switch up by the engine kill handle?? I note that the master "OFF-ON" takes out all...

RE: winter cover March 5th, 2008. :drool: It may have been covered, but using search for "Mounting Winter Front" in the Deuce section brought p nothing, but I'll be happy to drool over Rockman's M35A2 front end photos above- nice truck. My grill guard seems to have holes drilled in the...

MArch 5th, 2008. When Installing all the clips to hold the winter front on the brush guard of the M35A2, what are the location and manner of installing all the clips to retain the cover? I have the winter front cover with new plexiglass for the headlight covers, but no clips and no...

RE: Yellow Headlights March 6th, 2008. The 8th Transportation Group in Vietnam ran a lot of convoys, so their trucks were generally OD with a yellow top on the hod at the front from side to side- their gun trucks were painted black with the yellow snout (See"Eve of Destruction" at Fort...

RE: 6tl March 5th, 2008. NO SQUAWKS YET WITH MY EAST PENN-DEKA 6TL Military - Ordnance Batteries, $150.00 ea, cheaper if they had shipped with the Acid in (Wet), but HAzmat is a pain, so I had em sent dry. They kick the truck like it's meant to be kicked. Regards, Kyle...

March 5th, 2006. I guess you probably figured out what you have is "ODITIS", it's fairly easily to pass it around, has caused many, many marriages to hit the rocks, your teenage dauther will never want to be seen with you again in public, you can't have an affair (you're not really...

March 5th, 2008. Dave McConnell up in Michigan has that very nice reproduction of the 8th Transportation GP M35A2 with the .50 mounted, someone ought to get his attention as he might want a set, and I'll think it over, as my truck is in it's Desert Storm paint, and I doubt they used...

MArch 5th, 2008. Thanks Gentlemen, for the input on the TACOM switch. I E-MAiled Kenny for the installation and operation instructions, if anyone's gonna know about them, he'll be it. I'll ground the switch before I hook up the rear connector, but I think Armyman30's right, the deuce...

:driver: MArch 4th, 2008. Does anyone have a copy of the installation and operation instructions for the TACOM Blackout light switches that replaced the old three levers on the rebuilt M35's?? I am particularly interested in avoiding the static discharge issues that affect the...

March 4th, 2008. Does anybody in the M35 brotherhood have a copy of the installation and operation instructions for the TACOM switches used in the upgraded M35A2's? I am particularly interested in avoid the static discharge on installion that seems to wipe out the electronics. Any...

March 1st, 2008. Man, I looked in the Dictionary for the definition of "Money-Pit", and it said see DMA251's HEMTT restoration. Now I know what a man with disposable income looks like, to restore an Oshkosh HEMTT takes huge KAUHUNAS and obviously he needs that HEMTT to carry them around, no...

March 1st, 2008. MADDAWG308: EVEN WE WEST VIRGINIAN' S HIDING OUT IN TEXAS (to raise the local IQ and aggravate the courthouse clerks) KNOW TO VOTE FOR A WINNER IN 2008, SO WHICH PARTY's IT GONNA BE (The Green party, as in OD)? I'll even get all my dead relatives to vote for you...

RE: Huey March 1st, 2008. Geez Gentlemen: With all that money you OD collectors got stashed in your mattresses, buy both of them, Give the one you don't want to me, I'll put it on EBAY with a hefty reserve, and use the cash to buy a very nice AC-47, then my name will change from...

February 29th, 2008. KUDOS, KUDOS, KUDOS!!! I was going to send my friend Guido from Youngstown to collect, and he is never known to take no for an answer.. Cheers, Kyle F. McGrogan 1963 Swiss Mercedes Benz Unimog S404.114 1971 Kaiser Jeep M35A2 Wo/W "Saddam's Nightmare"...

RE: M35A2 Hand Throttle Lower Linkage February 29th, 2009. Thanks Gentlemen: My maintenance and parts manuals arrived yesterday from the gentleman down in Coconut Creek,FL (Gotta love those 10,20's, 34P's et al from 2006 (BRAND NEW!!!-Woo Hoo!!!!)), the part numbers are...

M35A2 Hand Throttle Lower Linkage February 28th, 2008. NO HOLLOW NUT- Throttle Cable did not come with one, Any Idea as to where I can dig one up, or does Saturn Surplus list one??? I guess it would be a hollow compression type set up, from what you are saying? Thanks again...

February 28th, 2008. Thanks, Will, the photos helped some, as my truck has the hard top still in place, and I notice the spring clips on the headers, but I wasn't sure if there was something else they attached to. I found thesockets behind the doorposts for the bow bases, their top...