Recent content by G744

Your truck is cursed. Find a mechanic that groks exorcisms.:devilish: Or jump it from a good set of batteries.

When one thinks about the environment of a tactical MV wheel bearing, remember they seldom see even 500 RPM. Definitely not a high speed operation. When you take into account the massive size of the rollers/race vs the loads upon them, a good long-fiber grease properly packed is more than...

Those breakers were fairly standard across the tactical usages. 15A for #14 wire, 20A for #12 circuits. They can be found is both Douglas & Packard connection formats from most MV parts houses.

I've seen several ball coupling failures in my short lifetime. All were expensive, glad they weren't mine. Never have I seen a pintle/lunette fail.

Only a fool converts the lunette to a ball coupler.

I've seen the one in the battery box used for the radio power outlet in the bed front wall. If I remember rightly, the two on the cowl bracket were for the horn and the dash-mounted outlet used with the corded trouble light found on the early models. Lighting circuits were protected by the...

The older 'door' (proper name for the cover) with the oval shaped lenses really were optical lenses that magnified the illumination to look much larger at any distance. If you have that style with functional turn signals, activate them and stand back a bit. You'll be surprised how bright and...

Make sure to NOT use the larger, 21cp bulb in the closest socket, it will melt a hole in the lens... They are OK in the deeper sockets, for the turn/stop circuit.

Yep, an autotrans when lots of cars didn't have one. The G749 series was beautifully engineered, yet simple with a 5-litre six that pulled it just fine.

Gama, after Robert Gamaunt, the inventor of the articulated U-joint that makes the thing work.

If you can find the Gama Goat light lenses, they will fit on the original Guide housings as they are round. The were made in clear, yellow, and red. Red being the most popular.

So nice to see this, and not another super-modified truck. I know, I know, it's your truck, do what you like. It's just that there are fewer nice examples of the superior engineering and workmanship these trucks exhibit. Not to say I haven't seen some great conversions, mainly powerplant related.

My '53 M37 had/has 201011834 hood/bumper and 80258522 VIN. The '67 M54A1 has something I don't remember for hood #'s, have to go look. Was ex-1A1AD 5HQ unit marking in Desert Storm.

Frame VIN and hood/bumper numbers just never did match. If another org or unit got trucks, they could easily change the latter to suit, i.e. USA to USMC. The VIN and dash dataplate should always match, unless a bit of skulduggery occurred when trying to 'graft' a title on the truck after...

That is typical with SS tires. Very little time between hissing and total failure at any speed. The nice thing is every time it happened to me, the truck handled it without too much puckering of the seat cover...