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Well shucks, that won’t do any good. Back to the drawing board.

https://www.keymilitary.com/article/braving-vietnams-roads Some shots of trucks on convoys.

I need to dig around in my dungeon, I mean basement, for all the books I’ve got on the subject. The one book I don’t have is the Marine Corps manual on converting vehicles into improvised gun trucks.

This picture was taken at this year’s (2022) Cheyenne Wyoming’s annual Christmas parade. We raised $150 and collected 4 donation boxes full of toys.

Beautiful truck! The hardest part of building a Marine Corps gun truck you already have, the ring mount. The gun box sat a couple feet aft of the cargo bed forward bulkhead. There was an antenna and a weapons mount sticking up out of the bed. I need to find my books to jog the old brain housing...

There’s at least one picture, maybe two, in the book that shows the Marine gun truck. As I recall, all Marine Corps gun trucks were called “war wagons”. If they also had more personalized names, I don’t recall seeing any. My gun truck “War Wagon” is modeled on the 359th TC gun truck by the same...

The Navy inadvertently left a 20mm machine gun unguarded. It ended up on an Army gun truck. There’s pictures of quad .50’s on 2.5 and 5 ton trucks. The quads were leftovers from World War 2 and the Korean War. If I could find the parts and pieces, I’d build a quad .50 truck. Imagine driving that...

Yes, according to James Lyles books, the Marine Corps had war wagons, as they called them. If you can find copies of his books, you should find lots of general gun truck information. The Army, Air Force and Marine Corps all had gun trucks. The Navy had battleships.

Yes they do. It wasn’t there back in ‘86. One of these days I’ll stop by there and visit. Now that everything is no longer shut down, hopefully we’ll get to see it next summer.

That’s cool! I was stationed at Hill AFB back in 1986. I was in a different squadron, however.

Nice setup! Thanks for the pics! Question, your door has the 388th Fighter Wing out of Hill AFB. Any particular reason for this?

Following this thread. I’ve got one transmission that inop and another maybe inop. I’ve been reluctant to attack the repair because I’m clueless about automatic transmission repair.

Best I can say is give it a try. I pulled my tank once. Given my druthers, I’ll never do that heinous chore again. As I recall the skid plate was a pretty tight fit. Try taking some measurements of both tanks and compare.

I replaced the stock (box) fuel filter with a spin on. All my fuel problems went away. After sitting for two years, I had to move it. It took a few seconds longer to get started but all my fuel problems went away.

Thank you!

I’m going to install a soft top on my 1952 M-37. It’s not going to be a GI top. The PO installed a bunch of snaps all over the place. I’m going to get me a heavy duty cloth tarp, cut it to size and utilize the snaps. One thing I can’t find any clear picture of is the two straps that go from the...

Outstanding! There’s going to be some very happy kids this Christmas!

If you go back to the TM section on this website, you’ll note the section on 5 ton trucks. Look through the various books till you find the parts book for the 818 series trucks. The books you’re looking for are the ones that end with the letter P. For the majority of the everyday parts the book...

I have some HMMWV parts. I couldn’t tell you what they are because they’re stacked in plastic bins in the bottomless hole in my barn. Fortunately, I actually itemized everything. Even put numbers on the bins so I can find things. I’m not trying to break the bank. When I try to sell parts, I’ll...

There’s several on line places to get all kind of parts. I personally have used Eastern Surplus. eBay is a possibility, I’ve used them as well. I’ve found that typing in the part name, part number and/or stock number, I can find just about anything I need .