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Jeff, I will be at McCoy Wednesday morning (tomorrow) to pick up a trailer and look over what is comeing up. Do you want to meet up for lunch? I am pretty flexible as to when I arrive. I will send you my cell phone number in a private message.
As for maintanence, my trucks are licensed with...
Prgress us snail speed
I was gonna say tank speed but tanks are pretty fast now days.
I haven't done anything in some time. I was anxious to get the nicer looking one going by the 4th of July but when that didn't happen I had to turn my attention to other more pressing things. I need to get...
Capt Marion, you were right it could be done. There is a little hose between the shut off valve on the fuel supply line and the inlet to the fuel pump. I thought both fitings were fixed fitings and would end up twisting the hose to get it off but the end at the shut off valve was actually a...
I bought a pickup once with a lot of painted on signage on it. Everyone told me I would have to repaint the whole truck, no way to get it off. Well, a little buffing compound, a few rags, and a lot of hand applied elbow grease on the lettering and avoiding the body paint did the trick. I...
Dozer, ya whatever. I still won't use ethanol mix in any boat, old motor vehicle, or small engine. It just spoils faster even with Stabil in it. I jhate that the state mandates it's use, let a free economy control what fuel people want to use.
Capt Marion, I got this thing running tonight...
Dozer, you got that right. It is getting harder and harder in Minnesota to find gas without any ethanol in it too. Only one station that I know of here and it only comes in a premium grade which is way more octane than any of the motors that I use it in. Up until about 8 years ago there was a...
Well, I hooked a fuel tank direct to the carb. Squeeze pump on the line. As long as I sprayed some carb cleaner it would run. But as soon as I quit the carb cleaner it would clunk out. No fuel geting thru the carb. Might only be a stuck float but I ordered a carb kit.
Roller, that could be part of it but I was able to hook a clear plastic tube to the fuel line at the carb connection and literally suck fuel thru the line and pump. It took some sucking to do it. Do I dare shoot some air thru the pump and line from where the line connects to the carb...
I bought a couple of M37 last Saturday. Pics and story are at the link below if you need to see them. These vehicles are in excellent shape but have been stored indoors for at least 20 years. I knew the previous owner and an confident that these ran when put into storage.
I oiled the...
Progress report on the camo truck:
pulled plugs and sprayed sta-bil oil in the cylinders
Progress Report on the Green truck:
pulled plugs and sprayed sta-bil oil in the cylinders
next day with no plugs in, sprayed more sta-bil in and cranked it a little without plugs in
changed the oil, old...
Did a bunch of searches for plugs equivalent to the Autolite AER72S. Best price was 6.89 for the Autolite 2245 at O'Rileys. Plus Autolite has another 50 cent rebate per plug right now.
Great, watch your back with anything not local or even if it is local. I was in FL in January and bought a skid steer, trailer, and attachments. I got good legit deals but there sure were a lot of scams posted for skid steers. Mostly in FL and TX. My brother in law and I had some fun...
And here are pics of the '52. Lots of dust on this one. I think some of that is sand from sand blasting around it. Some of the inside is still primer so I don't think he was quite finished with this paint job. Maybe he ran out of spray cans of paint.
For all you that want more pics, here you go. Notice under the fenders. This thing was not on the road since being painted. He even painted the underside.
This is the third M37 sold at that auction. A heck of a nice local guy got it too. Retired Navy. His first military vehicle. This is in just a little worse shape than my better one. Tires had chord showing, no spare, and top included but folded up inside. I like the color of this one...
I did a nation wide search on Craigslist and saw these posted in other parts of the country. Usually a sure sign that the deal was a scam. If they replied they would have wanted you to send money via an ebay link that they give you. Then they will ship the truck(s) to you for your approval...
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