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Thanks guys! It's a big step for sure. Not many people had a former military and fire truck as the first vehicle they ever owned.

Roger that! I won't get around to fixing it this summer, he will at this rate as I am leaving next week, but I'm just still trying to wrap my hard head around what is going on inside there; its principle of operation.

I figured so...the NDTs were a later "retrofit"...

Interesting! I didn't know that...

Well, since the news has officially gotten out there, I will make the official announcement. I took the plunge and am acquiring an M928A1 that needs a motor. It may just be a head gasket but I'm assuming the best I'll get out of it is core charge or a scrap cash out until I get to go meet the...

We made another discovery, which perplexes me a little more. We had to use the truck today, of course only at low speeds on private property only, NOT on public roads) and we noted the intensity of the leak varies it seems. In other words, this time it built to as much as 90PSI and wasn't...

I'm sorry, but I laughed in a sympathetic way. I initially wanted a 5 ton strictly as a mud truck, even bone stock. If I could afford to do so, I'd admittedly be burying mine to the hood often (Purists might hate me here). I guess just make sure everything is prepared for deep fording!

Roger that! It's just helpful to have this info nevertheless for if I find myself in that situation, or passing info on to others who find themselves in such a situation. It's just relatable since that's what my manual driving lessons happened in.

Hard to believe it, but this later led to a job offer. I kid you not.

The truck isn't my own, but the stupidity seems to be there nevertheless. Mind you, I was having "one of those kind of days" to begin with... Start trying to trace M813 dump conversion air leak. Decide it's coming from under trans doghouse. Consult TMs night before. Go out there with...

I am bookmarking this! As someone who has literally been learning to drive stick in M809 series 5 tons.

She's looking good! I'm overjoyed to have also just joined the M927/M928 club myself.

Special thanks are in order to these two outstanding individuals. Thanks 98G for providing initial assessment on a vehicle (M939 series) through texted photos from a sale post, and Lindsey97 for going to put eyes on it and sending something like 37 more detailed photos thereof. Genuinely...

I tried the spray lube and working it back and forth, is it worth doing this more, i.e sit out there for an hour, first?

Interesting. Maybe just go out there for an hour and shift and shift and shift and shift and it might go away on its own? Would actually driving it (at slow speed, on private property) around a bunch make any difference as opposed to firing her up and shifting a couple dozen times?

These trucks don't enjoy sitting well at all. They love to just RUN. It's also a well-documented fact that they run better when in close proximity to military installations or once they know they're in good hands. I know a well-documented case of an M925A2 that was rescued from certain death...

Started the process of acquiring one, if that counts?

I've read so many posts like this other than even my own here. He is actually helping me with a couple other things as we speak. Great, top-notch guy.

Working on a truck for someone else, although I did just actually sort of score my own: Loud air leak in an M813. Only happens in neutral and forward, not reverse. Upon pulling the trans doghouse in the cab, there is what appears to be a female threaded plug fitting with nothing there. I...

That moment when you get a sitting MV running cannot be paralleled.