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yeah, sometimes chewings were unjust and only created hard feelings and negativity instead of helping develop a Soldier. Especially when Soldier is witnessed doing the right thing but the device fails at the worst time .. Some of those clips weren't the grippiest of things, some were sprung out...

yep! exactly !! ... Now I know the feeling all those people and businesses that invested in tons and tons of WW2 and Korea surplus had felt when the 1980's-90's came.. So much got scrapped due to market and locations. 15 miles away from here was a large dealer with crates upon crates of...

yeah i hear that ! .. For 5 years i have been putting off yanking a 1944 M5H6 that was my friend's grandfather's construction company rig.. Has a Bantam 40ft dragline on its back and has settled to above its axles in clay , sitting since 1985 or so .. Not gonna be fun , even with the M62...

They sure are heavier and heavier-duty ! .. Thus rare to see cranes and shovels on the backs of CCKW's but they were out there.. It was a more-common retrofit on war-surplus M5H6's (and heavier 6x6's) for awhile.. Seabee's / USMC had cranes/shovels on M5H6's during the war, even

I concur with NDT .. WW2 combat wheels and the 1950s-up combat wheels are not the same animal .. For starters, the WW2 20" standard wheels/rims are narrower than the later wheels/rins

as you know the hydramatics have had a reputation almost since they came out , and yes, much of the issues are from operators and mechs/rebuilders who don't grasp the special aspects or quirks of them .. I had a loaner XM211 for a couple years until I was able to sell it for the fella.. Never...

it's good you have a small pond, I am envious.. My having a crapload of old "vintage" equipment is a fulltime job and a lot of stress trying to sell it off piecemeal.. cash poor, asset rich .. but only if the assets are still desireable items , and 95% of "buyers" waste your time or are...

ha !! good one.!. No worries, I can hoist you up there with my M62 !! ;) .. You can pee ON the tank, but not IN it .. Aim shouldn't be an issue. 1: Yes, there is chassis under the tank in the shape of a 1963 Army Guard gasser M49C that got a total driveline replacement in 1990 becoming...

Getting car sick just looking at your picture of the top rack in relation to the front dash and remembering my one and ONLY trip up on top on the right ... a kind of rock and roll that i didn't like one bit, what-so-ever! :sick: .. Please warn me whenever you go posting this stuff...

This work has been on the back burner since 2008 .. Subject matter is a M49C tanker body and i just finished replacing all seals and bearings in the distribution pump .. Hand-made new gaskets with a large roll of FelPro gasket material I've had for a long time and obtained a new chunk of...

every M5H6 i have seen or driven since the early 1970's had regular rims .. there was a construction outfit here that had 3 of them and the quarries had some around .. a couple trucks still survive.. i also don't recall any pics of them with combat rims.. i suppose it could've happened in...

getting under mine to take pics for you in places i've never had to go while doing lube , i spotted some hyd lines on mine that are resting hard on things cutting into the jackets .. yikes .. . time to grab some old tube flap material and zip ties

One of my pet peeves is when military museums, of all places where you would think they have experienced factual sources, posting misinformation about trucks, armor, etc... In this case they say Reo is the builder of their 5T M62 .... wow :rolleyes: They sure have found a unicorn :cautious:

don't sir me ! .. lol ,, I am heading home later today or tomor and will try again.. Am looking back in your posts to see what you wanted.. Next trick is remembering your picture of what you needed .. Maybe i will take a pic of your pic, good idea

I own a 1967 M750 expandable vehicular parts trailer , sits on a chassis much like yours .. The only issue I ever have is water and maintaining the roof seams... There seems to be plywood sandwiched between the inner and outer sheets of the main "fixed" roof section but am not 100% sure.. On...

1: any bad flasher units that i had don't flash at all, but others may have had different experiences with them 2: although you have a new housing (can) , do a continuity check between your ground wire connector tip on the can pigtail and the metal holding the sockets .. I have seen new parts...

All 2-1/2T W/W i have owned or been around many years in the military had the upwards "U" , which better-facilitates the location of the cable during normal spooling... In same experience, all 2-1/2T WO/W have the "U" down. Am not saying there weren't any exceptions, it's just that I had never...

1: Are the inside of the bulb sockets rusty, dirty, or have the typical white-powder corrosion? If not, I would take a meter measurement between a good ground source and each wire end-tip inside each bulb socket to see if you have the full 24V+ there (and also check it at the connectors...

somewhere along the line of 4 owners (3 of them gov't entities), all of the tools , spades, spreaderbar, etc were taken from my truck before it went out to bid .. The only things they didn't rob were the full sets of tire chains

Is that a PS Magazine you're reading, or is it some other type of revealing "TM" ? :LOL: