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Some time ago, during a conversation, special tools was briefly brought up. I have a eclectic collection of tools, tool sets, tool kits, PMEL, etc. I would like to show one of my tool kits. It was an EBay purchase of a DRMO’ed tool kit. I think it’s important to have some documentation (DRMO...
While digging thru my stacks of stuff, I came across a mechanical jack. I’ve been moving it from one spot to another never really looking at it. I moved it today, yet again, and I felt etching in the metal. I had to dig out a steel parts cleaning brush to clear the old paint, dirt, oil and...
If you can find James Lyles books, there’s a very informative list of all 555 +/- guntrucks built during the Vietnam War. In some cases there are crews names, truck pictures (everything from the wood armor all they way through to the APC gun trucks). I have copies of all three books in case...
Thank you. I’m not a audio/visual type person. If I were, I’d try and set up a video for people to watch when I show the trucks, unfortunately that’s a bit outside my skill set.
It’s been a while since I got anything done on truck. Some things have progressed. I got a set of frame rails for the 5th wheel. Going to end up drilling some holes to make it fit. Also pick up a new head for the spare tire hoist. I had one that came with the 900 series parts I got but the...
Hmmm, I’ve done quite a bit of work on War Wagon. I’ve tried to incorporate a lot of detail that I’ve found in many sources. War Wagon, as I built her, has single layer armor, three .50 ‘s (replica), Vic 1, and much more. I’ve actually been working on her for about 10 years. Changing armor as I...
War Wagon is the name of my 1970 M35A2. When I bought it, I named it War Wagon, just because. I can’t recall when I decided to go out and do a full sized replica/tribute. Whenever that was, since then I’ve slowly built the truck to look like a later version of what I thought War Wagon would look...
I’ll post it on the truck. I’ve been playing around with an ideas. There’s a sign shop in town that can do up some real nice info boards. I want to get a good background not only of War Wagon, which is only a small story, but of gun trucks as a whole. With 550+ gun trucks, I kinda had to make it...
Thank you for your post! If I could, I’d like to copy it and put it in a scrap book I’ve been working on. Once all this brouhaha finally calms down, I can get War Wagon to the parades and open house at the AF base. It’s the fine details that help tell the gun trucks story. I’m trying my best to...
I had the problem you described many years ago. I had a 1967 Toyota Land Cruiser. It idled fine, filters were all good. I finally chased the problem to a blown head gasket. The gap on the head gasket only became problematic when I was pulling a load or climbing a hill. Changed out the head...
There is one in Dubois. They have a quad .50 gun truck. It’s not built to any specific truck, but it sure looks nice! A friend took these pictures which were taken inside the soon to open museum. It was scheduled to open around Memorial Day weekend. Not sure how the current brouhaha is going to...