Recent content by msgjd

AKA "sh-- eating grin"

My manual is dated Apr78 .. On the first descriptive page it lists the production of M880/890's from 1975 to 1977, all on a 1975-dated gov't contract .. The parts listings indicate 1975, 76, 77 where parts are different between the years , such as grilles, lower valances, radiator supports...

Correct, that white ambulance is not a M886 (nor a M880 with shack on the back) ,, But it sure is a '74 or '75 W200 due to those obvious lockout hubs, and that's likely why it was "always" getting stuck, if not operator inexperience. The full-time system that came afterwards was a far-better...

cannot answer your question specific to the canadian trucks, or whether or not they had any M880's way up north.. However, as for standard tranny M880's I recall a few older 4-speed M880-types in the motor pool that were pre-1977 trucks with the older different style grille .. At the time, the...

okay okay, i feel the pressure .. gonna nominate this 71-year-old beast

maybe he thought it was the A-Team coming to rescue him rofl

Guyfang, it sure sounds like a marriage thing just like you had jested ! :LOL:

that is so true, the stress alone keeps one up all night .. I went thru a week-long learning curve to discover the ermeto's on the M62's were a one-shot OEM deal just for the A/W boom and been NLA a long time.. It took awhile of the "unknown" to find a hydraulics outfit that even remotely knew...

WillWagner, To avoid the inevitable scalp and hair treatment, perhaps you should do the task "Tactical" and wear your steel pot :LOL::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

okay good, now we can all understand that you are on the right track to getting to the bottom of it .. You maybe have thought about disconnecting the existing wire on the valve and manually touching a temporary hot wire to the valve to test it for start up and shut down? (you will have to...

Now THAT's a T&P to surely have !! ps: look out for the one driver (every outfit has at least one) who doesn't know any better to put diesel from the pods into his empty mogas tank when stranded way out on a desolate tank trail many miles from "home". ... He miraculously got a ride back...

Good Lord, please take me away in my sleep before i ever have to do this with my M62 , for surely the task will kill me with much suffering, bloody knuckles, bumps, bruises, pulled muscles, popped joints, and cussing the likes of which will not allow me thru the gates. o_O

that is for sure!! My M51 will roll 62mph and pull hills better than any multifuel 5T I have .. In the army, same thing , we called them road-runners or brush-burners depending whether they were on blacktop or narrow tank trails .. The M52 gasser tractors rolled pretty good empty but...

nice to see it has the original cargo bed for gassers (driver side stowage box)... the last unit i was in had two late-50s IHC gasser m54s set up as T&P units , hauling diesel for the BN's m48s and m60s .. what make is yours?

i'm unaware of any aftermarket ones... I have sold several used OEM in the last 10 years and have only one or two left .. I am 100% sure any D/W100-300 radiator support from 1975-1979 will bolt right into your truck however all of them except '77 & '78 will have a round cutout down below the...