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1: Flywheel depends on what it looks like, of course.. It might already be a fairly-new flywheel with fairly-new clutch etc, and thus you might be the victim (as I have been) of a T/O bearing failure .. NOS mil-surplus bearings tend to be dried out, the grease leaks out sitting in the box on a...

1: Creating a "Soldier B" to bar over the engine is the most helpful thing.. Many of us have little to no access to one when we need it :p 2: I find a 90-degree compact screwdriver works best for the cover plate when the multifuel is in a deuce.. There's a bit more room to work when it's in a...

it's not a hard job, but it is hard to get at, hard to see the registering mark, hard without a "Soldier B," and certainly a time suck .. Have had to re-button 3 so far ... One was my own fault and two were bought "dead" that way .. If it ever happens to you, there are very helpful posts and...

you might want to try U-Ship , but most all of the initial replies to your listing will be from brokers who promise but don't come through .. Beware .. Try to only deal with actual truckers themselves, they are busy and may take a few days to respond to your listing.. Due diligence .. A friend...

welcome to the fun .. 1: On all standard-tranny M-series 5-tons, you should always hear a brief "phsst" when shifting into reverse, and same again when you pull back into neutral .. Those are the only two movements that activate the poppet valve you will see on the tranny cover.. 2: As others...

welcome to the fun ! I sure like the touch of the M151 directionals on that willys. .. i have a '55 M38A1 and have been debating whether to add early M151 directionals.. Now I know what it will look like, thanks to you (y)

welcome to the fun .. be careful with your "engine stop" lever .. always pull it out E A S Y , try not to yank it hard nor beyond what it takes to kill the engine.. You can lose the fuel button in the HH that way , and those are a PITA to put back in place

i have a DD371 and a 471 that slobbered more than normal and they also blew oil out the dipsticks .. Were wet-stacking somewhat too .. Both of them had done nothing but easy work (cranes) before I bought the machines .. But before resorting to rebuilding them, I put dragshovel (backhoe)...

yep, there's that too.. thanks for reminding me

please keep in mind they sure can be turned up, but the multifuels will actually lose power and be nothing but a smoke show if set beyond a certain point .. That setpoint depends on the individual condition of the engine and whichever turbo it currently has .. Seen some 5T A2's leave the...

1: Welcome aboard, and well-written I must add ... I was a farmboy (dairy) in the Army at 17, age is just an attitude.. 2: As you have seen, you will find a lot of help on here , but sorry I cannot help you with chevy stuff .. 3: Personally never cared for the chevies, they had issues when they...

i hope you don't intend to haul OTR loads with a 5T multifuel on 1600's and expect to get over 35mph (except downhill) .. As others have said, even if it's a toy it's gonna take more than that multifuel can give to roll tires that tall and maintain its rated road speed.. If you do any off-road...

a tag build date of Oct76 through Sep77 (as well as the style of radiator support and grille), denotes your truck as a 1977 year model .. enjoy your new ride !

nice !! IHC was the dominant manufacturer from '51 to end of '63 .. Gassers from Mack and Diamond-T are scarce but they are out there.. My IHC M51 is a '63, IHC wrecker is a '53, and in my last BN served, there was about eight IHC gasser M52's and M54's with tags ranging from 1954 to 1963...

of the 12-or-so 5T trucks we had in the last armor BN I was in, only 3 had heaters, only 1 of the heater trucks had a hardtop, and none had winterization kit shifter boots.. o_O .. We were regularly in the field in winter months and slated for deployment to W.Germany, kept in ready reserve...

If this is gonna be a hi-speed road truck you really should replace the doggies.. .. There are dogbones just like these on certain old commercial trucks too, but all of those I have seen, they have a prefab removable retaining strip that holds a replaceable bushing .. Too bad the military did...

Me too, at about 56mph, the truck was right in front of me .. We were zipping along and all of a a sudden the back of the truck swerved hard to the left over the line, recovered, and then the rear wheels locked up hard skidding to a stop, the truck almost sideways towards the ditch in a cloud of...

sorry to hear. I have sitting here a couple "victims" of the military's 1980's multifuel swap crimes .. One is my 34000#+ wrecker that can't maintain 5th gear (direct) in hi-range unless it has gone over a cliff :LOL: .. I am glad my M51 (gasser) made it out of the system before 1981 , is a...

yeah, a bus heater would be excellent, or a decent box heater mounted underneath the pass seat, such as the rear-seat heaters one would find in some higher-end cars like chrysler's and lincoln's in the 70s-80s, the ones that were mounted up high under the rear deck in the trunk, their own...

diesel as in there's a mack 673 under the hood? .. or do you mean multifuel? .. big difference there ;)