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Haha no problem! I'm happy you put all those numbers up somewhere! I was surprised to see so much older stuff like the Korean War equipment. I looked up my dad's 1953 Dodge M37 last night and sure enough it's there! But a couple observations: -The truck shows up in the no-winch (winchless?)...

Hahaha one time when we drove it to a local car show, we did park it at the local grocery store while we went inside to get snacks and drinks. They sure stand out in the parking lot :LOL:

Oh! So this is where all the VIN stuff ended up! Wish I saw this thread earlier :p @firefinder, can you please post the Excel sheets you put together? They will upload to the website as a zip file just fine, if you didn't know that.

Nice halftrack! I need to convince my dad to drive his around more...

I'm sorry to hear about this happening in MD. I'm going to keep an eye out for any MVPA bulletin that involves signing a petition or another means of support. Didn't they send something out like that for another state a few months ago?

I'm not too familiar with M-series LED replacement lamps. Would they really need a resistor? I'd think that a resistor would be built-in to the lamp as being one less part to screw around with. It's one thing when working on a vehicle with CANBus, but for something as simple as an A3? I'm...

I got it out a second time yesterday to move some more big stuff and the tach still works right! I hope it stays that way🤞

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I actually woke my M35A3 up from its winter slumber today to move some more big stuff from my old home. The roads were dry and looked pretty salt-free due to precipitation and melting over the past week, plus I figured on rinsing the underside of the truck with my garden hose when I was done...

While oil seems to work fine for my M35A3's transmission, I still plan on switching to Dexron III ATF in the springtime. The main reason I've heard that using motor oil in the transmission is problematic is because it eats at the inner seals. The seals were designed to work with ATF, not motor...

Can you recommend any? I'm only familiar with the classic 12 V Battery Tender.

Where I live, the trucks sit all winter without starting until the spring. We don't use them mainly because of the road salt, and mine needs a going-over for next year. Having seen this done for years on jeeps and 3/4 tons, I don't think there's much harm in letting them sit for a few months...

I would love to have a multifuel in my life at some point! I'd love to have an M35A2 as a truck show companion for my A3 and as a place to dump WMO in!

I love the red nose you put on its grill! I've thought about using mine for summer charity events, like a fill the truck campaign or something...

I didn't do any fab work at all. The batteries more or less sit there. I could probably figure out a way to strap them down without modifying the battery box, but I don't drive the truck hard enough to the point the batteries would be bouncing around anyway.

I run a pair of group 34 batteries in my deuce. I don't think you really need more than 600 CCA per battery because the starter doesn't pull that many amps, unless it's old and tired I suppose.

I'll have to get this checked out now. Although my jerk may be different from the other guy's jerk. Probably best for me to get it checked out at the local Allison shop and have them do the ATF conversion as well!

You could use M35A2 bearings on an M35A3, but you wouldn't be able to use the CTIS then. That's what makes the A3 bearings special. I'm not concerned about spare parts being hard to find as the A3 still has a ton of parts in common with the A2. I'm only concerned about cost of said parts...

The MLVW predates the M35A3 by about 10 years, and seemed to address the same improvements the DoD wanted. I think the only thing it doesn't have that the M35A3 has is CTIS.

I considered a MLVW myself and came to the same conclusion. Bombardier seemed to cheap out on the steel used in the trucks. I think they even had a recall regarding the rear axle suspension assemblies corroding to pieces!