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Check each electrical connection after cranking the engine for about 5 seconds. Start at the batteries and then starter solenoid, solenoid to starter motor, and all grounds. If a connection is very hot (much more than the others), that is the one to investigate first. There may be more than one...

Since we don't know what the work the mechanic is quoting, we can't tell you if that's a good price. Sounds like a lot for fixing one wheel. If he's doing all six, its not so bad. It would be a good idea for you to educate yourself by reading the TMs. Unless you find a mechanic that knows...

the vendor i talked with wants to show them there is a strong interest because they told me we would need to commit to buying a 100 for them to even consider it and they would cost around 1400.00 each so we are trying to get around that 140,000 is a lot of money out of pocket for something we...

What 74M35A2 said. The market research responsibility is on the company that wants to bring the product to market. It sounds like the intermediate here does not want to commit to buying x number of units from the fabricator/manufacturer because they don't know the demand. If you can get the...

I should be able to make it. I'm not sure which MV though.

I will be there. M915 probably.

Sounds like the guy ran Quaker State oil. My dad did in his car and when I rebuilt the engine, I had to scrape the caked oil/mud off the INSIDE of the block with a puddy knife before I could get it hot tanked.

Remove the nylon screw from the alternator with the Transpo regulator. I'm pretty sure that regulator is adjustable.

The hydraulic pump runs off the transmission PTO on the M929.

Some are going to jump up and down but if and when I do a complete job from wheel cylinders to master I switch to dot 3. Dot 5 is way over priced. I can change out the dot 3 five times a year if I wanted to for the price of dot 5 once. I did this also. The wheel cylinders in my M35A2 were all...

I use a needle fitting on the grease gun.

By the time you figure all of your expenses, it's going to cost about $1 a mile to operate a M939 series 5 ton. You will get 6~7 mpg if you're lucky. Wear items will eat you up and if you have pay someone to work on it you will need a large limit on your credit card. If you have enough $ and...

I had similar rust issues under the floor mat of my M1028A2. I just removed the mat and as much rust as I could by scraping, needle scaling and wire brushing. Then I used Ospho to treat the rust. After washing off the powder residue from the Ospho, I used red oxide primer over that. I have...

I have done this in the past. It's not hard.

Once you finish with all the details and finalize the part numbers, post a new complete part list with any other info you need to put at the beginning of the thread and ask a mod to update your original part list post or put this info in the first post. That way the important info is in one...

None of the MVs mentioned so far are as comfortable or as efficient as a newer one ton dually pickup. That said, I enjoy driving my MVs. But, I would have been hating life yesterday if I was driving my M35A2 up and down the 10% grade of Teton Pass towing my 28ft RV instead of my '99 F350...

Don't wimp out on us now Scott! There is not one person who has turned a wrench that hasn't had something go in the toilet or grenade for no obvious reason. You just need to step back, take a break and evaluate the problem. A second set of eyes looking at a problem is also a good thing as...

It's going to be somewhere between what the big surplus equipment dealers are asking and what you see from the classifieds here. The prices from GL/GP are usually a lot lower because you are rolling the dice as to if the truck has major problems or even runs. If it doesn't, too bad. If you...

Looks good Ray. Make sure the gap around the drawers is smaller than the smallest thing you put in them so items can't launch over the side or back and be hard to retrieve. Or in my case, my wife puts something small enough to hop on the edge of the drawer and get stuck when you pull the drawer...

Thin the WVO with diesel. 50% will be fine. If you are in a warm climate use less diesel.