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I guess I should be happy to be in positive numbers, no matter how low.

For cryin' out loud, there's a special MILITARY steering wheel puller? I have a drawer full of passenger vehicle steering wheel pullers and none of them look like the mil-spec version. Mine seem to operate on the principle that there are two, threaded holes in a thick, metal collar set around...

Sooooooo clean. **** you. :lol:

Scar, Mine is also a '71, but the manufacturer is shown as "General Products Division" of the Jeep corporation. That was the 9 month period after Kaiser-Jeep became Jeep Corporation and just before everything was sold to AM General. I agree that I should keep an additional PCB on hand, but I'm...

You're doing it wrong. The truck is getting persnickety about engaging the electrical system when I turn on the dash "Battery" switch. It often takes several flips before the voltmeter registers and the starter switch will operate. I can hear the relays in the PCB clicking on, yet the...

Love it! I only have a half acre though, and some of that is taken up with large trees. I'm probably limited to one truck, a small trailer or maybe a HMMWV...as well as the limitations of my wallet! I know I'm going to need help with a repair at some point in the future but I'm going to try to...

What is the small Jack stand in the center for?

Awesome! The bed is certainly unique! FWIW, MIUW 214 was stationed out of Buffalo,NY. They were sort of our "sister unit." I was MIUW 210 out of Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, MD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Inshore_Undersea_Warfare_Unit

Cripes, I have got to keep digging before I post questions. I really didn't think jacking instructions would be in more than one manual.

Great, thanks for the specific locations. - Use oak - No jacking under the pumpkin - Try to limit jobs to one side at a time Home Despot is such crap. I'll hit the 84 Lumber.

Before we get started, I did read the -20 TM and the procedures provided (and illustrated) are for using a mega floor jack, not bottle jacks. Most people here seem to use bottle jacks except for hardcore professional types. I also searched the archives but as usual, my search key words and...

Scrounger burned an entire Saturday (the first DRY weekend in 3 weeks) to drive out of his way to provide me with an orientation on my M813, and school me on a lot of helpful tips and safety. If you want new folks to pick up the hobby and carry on, a bit of mentoring the way Scrounger did, is a...

Scrounger visited and spent the afternoon with me, showing me smarter, easier ways to do things, safety tips and giving the truck a look-over. I learned a lot in a short time and I'm very grateful to him for being generous with his time and knowledge. I think one of his best tips was how to...

Ok, you guys have convinced me not to cheap out on the jack. I'll get the 20t air/hyd. jack. I'm glad to hear that 12t jack stands are adequate. This'll be my first pilgrimage to a Harbor Freight. I'm not setting foot in that place without a written list because I know I'd fill a flat load cart.

Any concerns about getting this stuff from Harbor (China) Freight? Tractor Supply has Torin jacks, which I *think* are made in the US, but are more expensive. Edit: Disregard, Torin jacks are made in China.

Harbor Freight is having a 20% off sale for the next 3 days. I'm looking at a 12 ton air-over-hydraulic jack and 12 ton jack stands, which in theory, could support the entire truck in the air, plus one more ton. Is this adequate or do I really need 20 ton jacks and stands? I will not be...

Haha! That's me! We didn't have any "pipeline construction" trucks in my unit though. Very interesting! MIUW or MESF never constructed any pipelines. I suspect that the truck was simply handed down to them and that they used it for ordinary equipment transport- i.e. tents, cots, ECU's and...

My tags arrived yesterday, so I'm road legal now. I advise drivers to avoid secondary roads in central and southern Maryland. ;)

Yeah, I saw your posts in the archives where you suffered multiple failures. I'm sure that was frustrating. Everyone keeps mentioning "upper" and "lower" but I'm confused. I'm only seeing a single pair of dog bones per side, under the trunnion bearings/leaf pack. 4 total, but the parts manual...

Mine have a lot of over spray on them from when Maintenance painted the dash. That might be what you're seeing.