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The under-the-floor brake reservoirs are a total pain to get to, open and close, and the risk of knocking crud into it when open is high. You can buy a vented car reservoir (I used one from an Infiniti, I think) and mount it somewhere convenient and run a line down to the fitting on top of the...

I measured the lettering on the actual Marine vehicles, that's where the 2" tall with 1/4" stroke (line width) came from. Overall width on "full" characters (M, O etc) is 1 3/8". I don't recall off the top of my head the spacing between letters, which is why I didn't quote it, I'll have to dig...

Larsen does not do modern USMC stencils. Few M37 stencils are relevent to Humvees. Cheers

I have not found any of the commercial MV stencil makers to produce accurate 'modern' USMC sets (by 'modern' I mean markings for roughly the last 30 years). However a local print shop can probably produce what you need. I don't know if you have original markings on your vehicle to reproduce...

I trust John's memory and knowledge way more than mine! :) Cheers

How does that song go? "He's not wrong, he's just different..." :) That is one of the early prototypes, #2 if I recall correctly (I'll have to check my notes). Lots of differences from later machines and production vehicles, but that's what prototypes are for - make one, let folks try it and...

Yes. There are two connections, one is Emergency that connects to the red hose on the trailer, one is Service that connects to the blue hose on the trailer. Emergency is usually the one on the right rear, service left rear. Do test them, I have seen trucks (and trailers) plumbed opposite. The...

Semper Fi, brother! Looking forward to seeing this one done. A couple of my trucks have 'US Army' stenciled on the dash, I added my own above it that says "Liberated from the". :) Cheers

Short answer - yes, but not easily. Several on here have done it over the years, and I think Barrman's M1007 build details how he did it on a Suburban. Cheers

Well, if you go by the manual, a single point of the hood star should point 'forward', as in toward the front of the vehicle rather than at the windshield like yours. That said, the proper-per-the-manual way always just looked wrong to me, and if you go by photographs, a lot of soldiers thought...

Courtesy of CUCVFan, here is what came in the dually modification kit. Fenders and all other GM dually parts, the fiberglass parts and other metal panels, and marker lights Data plates Front hubs and seals Dana 70HD axle New driveshaft New proportioning valve Rear swaybar kit (new perches...

Likewise, I'd still like to see some documentation on the number converted, as I have also heard 500. Regardless of which is correct, they were relatively few in number. You may already know this, but all the CUCV duallys for the military were converted from existing single rear wheeled...

Foxtrot said - Il n'est pas un CCKW, GMC M135. I will have to respectfully disagree! :) In this photo, look at the various points on the truck with the red lines going to them, and compare those areas to the CCKW and M135 pictures next to it. Specifically the hood opening line, the cooling...

Lots of interesting stuff in those photographs. Looks like a CCKW-based communications truck at the left end of that row of M34s? Cheers

That makes sense. :) Cheers

So....if that happened in Ohio, how/why did the truck end up in Texas? It is currently being stored behind a friend's business and I recently bought one of the 'porch' platform pieces off it from the current owner. Cheers

DaneGer, You are correct, they do not have to be plugged into a radio or anything else. As mentioned above, most are powered by a 9v battery. They are hands free for intercom use, no buttons to push, the microphones attached to the headsets are voice activated. Used in a vehicle, you will...

Amazing how much difference a little powerwashing makes. :) Cheers

Might as well put the details of the box on here too. The trailer was absolutely filthy when I picked it up, so it is pretty manky looking in the pictures. The guy I bought it from told me the whole trailer was aluminium. It turned out to be all steel except the wheel wells and the box! The...

I'd be interested to see how a Unimog cargo truck (rather than the much heavier radio truck) on tires the size of the ones on the DAF would have done. Or just the taller/wider tires on the radio truck. The DAFs may not be the most visually appealing vehicles (I like them, but then I like...