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1: yes, you got it right, the double-zero such and such is your USA reg number and will be 8 digits .. 2: Your guess of 8000's for mfr s/n on tag is too high in sequence, should be in the 2000's or 3000's ... 3: i will try to remember to get a pic of the clutch arm tomor but i won't have...

In my experience (and of certain examples in my fleet), the early-1950s' M-series trucks did not originally have an alpha-numeric USA registration number.. Instead, they had an 8-digit series of numbers beginning with zeros. IME, the numbers are not the same as the manufacturer serial number on...

I recall the first time I ever saw a SEE and immediately saw it was a "WTF is that?! " A confusing See-Saw moment :p .. (early-1990's , 131st Engr VTARNG , the most-deployed NG engineer unit perhaps in history, starting with developing quarries and building roads in the central highlands...

M62 wrecker was a gasser, and got the A2-rebuild treatment in the 1990's, unfortunately.. The only good part is it also received a new M809-series front axle with true power steering during the MWO... It was turned in Code-A Serviceable from its final Unit and transferred directly to the US...

the wrecker indeed has stories to tell , it has been around since fall of '53 , just a bit longer than i have been .. it hasn't had an easy life with its PO (a mountainous town highway dept) nor with me, but I'd like to think it at least now has an operator that actually has the MOS to properly...

AKA "sh-- eating grin"

My manual is dated Apr78 .. On the first descriptive page it lists the production of M880/890's from 1975 to 1977, all on a 1975-dated gov't contract .. The parts listings indicate 1975, 76, 77 where parts are different between the years , such as grilles, lower valances, radiator supports...

Correct, that white ambulance is not a M886 (nor a M880 with shack on the back) ,, But it sure is a '74 or '75 W200 due to those obvious lockout hubs, and that's likely why it was "always" getting stuck, if not operator inexperience. The full-time system that came afterwards was a far-better...

cannot answer your question specific to the canadian trucks, or whether or not they had any M880's way up north.. However, as for standard tranny M880's I recall a few older 4-speed M880-types in the motor pool that were pre-1977 trucks with the older different style grille .. At the time, the...

okay okay, i feel the pressure .. gonna nominate this 71-year-old beast

maybe he thought it was the A-Team coming to rescue him rofl

Guyfang, it sure sounds like a marriage thing just like you had jested ! :LOL:

that is so true, the stress alone keeps one up all night .. I went thru a week-long learning curve to discover the ermeto's on the M62's were a one-shot OEM deal just for the A/W boom and been NLA a long time.. It took awhile of the "unknown" to find a hydraulics outfit that even remotely knew...

WillWagner, To avoid the inevitable scalp and hair treatment, perhaps you should do the task "Tactical" and wear your steel pot :LOL::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

okay good, now we can all understand that you are on the right track to getting to the bottom of it .. You maybe have thought about disconnecting the existing wire on the valve and manually touching a temporary hot wire to the valve to test it for start up and shut down? (you will have to...

Now THAT's a T&P to surely have !! ps: look out for the one driver (every outfit has at least one) who doesn't know any better to put diesel from the pods into his empty mogas tank when stranded way out on a desolate tank trail many miles from "home". ... He miraculously got a ride back...

Good Lord, please take me away in my sleep before i ever have to do this with my M62 , for surely the task will kill me with much suffering, bloody knuckles, bumps, bruises, pulled muscles, popped joints, and cussing the likes of which will not allow me thru the gates. o_O