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Post 459 illustrates the problems of using deuces to haul water in likely unbaffled tanks. Most tanks if they have baffles at all or for front to back. Make a sharp turn, the load shifts to the outside and over you go. If the capacity of the tank is 800 gallons, that weighs about 6600 pounds...

I believe the trailer illustrated has a 12/24v lighting system. The brake connections are the same as commercial. The difference is the 3" king pin.

Pic in post 3 shows a M 916 which would suggest a 3" pin.

2 cycle Detroit diesels can be bought with either left or right hand rotation and existing engines can be changed from left to right hand rotation. Changes to the oil pump and some other internal parts are needed to do it. But 1 engine, to my knowledge cannot be reversed. Some marine engines, I...

Military M35s as noted on post 5 have all been sold out by now. Buying a vehicle from a post military owner should bring with it a title with a VIN number that hopefully appears on the vehicle someplace. Post military owners are more likely than the military itself, to make various alterations...

For those with M35s and M54s don't forget to install the fording plug before fording and take it out after.

Reference to post 155: 15" wheels on m 172s are unique to that trailer. They are also Budd style stud piloted wheels. The lug nuts for the inside wheel are unlike the ones on equipment with 20" wheels in that they have shallow lug nuts and a spacer is provided between the inner and outer wheel...

Reference post 166: when in service I used to run a lot of missions with a M818 out of convoy so I didn't have a truck full of tools, parts, and 2 mechanics with me at all times I carried 2ea bottle jacks, a 3/4" breaker bar and sockets, an extra 11:00X20 tube, a tire hammer and lock ring tools...

Reference post 12: a 809 series truck with a winch, heater and hard cab might come to the low end of your range. Especially if it is not too rusty and everything works.

The paint is equally crappy regardless of color in my opinion. Insurance ? If can successfully escape the commercial vehicle trap price RV or historic vehicle insurance. If the vehicle is tan it has undoubtedly been repainted, probably with a floor mop, because in 1970-71 the vehicles were built...

You will not need a CDL if you get a farm use, RV, or historic vehicle plate. If the unenlightened clerks at PENDOT stick you with a commercial license then you will deal with a host of other fees and nasty compliances. PA has undouble adopted the applicable federal standard by reference and...

Don't make a move without the pubs: operators, organizational maintenance manuals and a lubrication order. Also a grease gun and a tire gauge. M35s are very durable and also easily defeated by poor maintenance and driver abuse.

Pic of batteries in a 915A1 upon receipt before anything was taken apart. Other than being dead and requiring a jump they worked. Put 4ea new 6TLs in it following layout in pic and truck started, ran and charged.

You can get almost any part for this from the dealers on this site or on line from Memphis Equipment or Zinzer in Ohio and others.

Parts ? reference post 20: whadda ya want ? When buying tires and tubes try to get ones that are less than 5 years old. Most tire shops will not mount tires that are over 10 years old so you would have to do that yourself. The Army bought the tires and put them in a depot warehouse for 10 years...

Anything can be done with enough time and money. The Army had a kit to convert M 809 series 5 tons to straight air brakes as used on the 923s, i.e. wedge brakes. But this kit will not fit a 2 1/2 ton truck. The applicator valve was a commercial item but it would be a challenge to find shoes...

Reference post 15: get a M821 22.5t trailer and smooth out the ride.

Reference post #2: 5t is RATED over 26000# so without an exempt plate like farm use, RV, historic vehicle you need a CDL and a trailer rated to pull a 14,000# machine will require a class A CDL regardless if it is a fifth wheel or pintle trailer. Read the reading. The Feds regulate commerce and...

M 51 gas dump trucks still exist but they are not designed to run on unleaded gas and parts for a 1000 cu. in. Continental engines probably are not stocked at Auto Zone. Get farm plates because the feds define anything RATED, not registered, over 26,000# to be "commercial." which exposes you to...

5 tons also have power steering. M35 deuces do not. M818s fit into evolution between the invention of the wheel, but before the ox cart.