bubba_got_you

What I always tell people is “If you want to get there fast, buy a car. If you want to get there no matter what, buy a 5ton”

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SON OF A B/TCH TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'Son of a bltch' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill

If it walks out of the refrigerator, just let it go…

[Westech] 19:40: you try smacking it with a hammer?[Westech] 19:44: I tell ya it works!

Iceman3005

Thanks for all the posts so far! Sorry the analogy wasn't meant to compare speed per say but power too weight ratio. I did see some useful posts about increasing power on the mod/hotrod section. No not looking for a truck to blow someones doors off, just have some respectable power...........a little more never hurts.......well sometimes! Yes I do have a cdl or I couldn't drive my tractor-tanker.

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TWO=1984 M1008 CUCV daily drivers stock
1989 K-5 blazer (not a CUCV)

BKubu

ICE, I did not know that you had a CDL. Since you have big truck experience, I am leaning more toward recommending a 5 ton now. What do you hope to do with the truck? Pull trailers down the interstate? Carry the girl's soccer team to practice? Haul firewood to a remote cabin? Install a fancy lawn ornament that will piss off your neighbors? A little more info would be helpful to make a recommendation.

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Bruce

ODdave

ICE, looking at the green you list, how fast where you expecting the deuce to be? To be honest, you might wanna drive a few of each (2.5 &5 ton) as i have 3- 2.5's and all three run considerably different. You may have to consider "fine tuning" you r truck to your needs

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1968 m35a2 w/w whistler beadlock wheels & 395's
1972 m35a2 w/w & Atlas knuckle boom < Crane truck
1968 m35a2 to be bobbed w/1600's
1957 m46 "ugly"
1959 M37 aka- Frank (frankenstin)
1987 cucv1028 w/'97 INTERCOOLED 5.9 cummins & nv4500 3.73, 6in lift, 37in hmmwv wheels & tires
1984 cucv 1009 4in lift & 33's < Dads
1984 cucv1008, undesided on what to do with.
M105 trailer
M105 w/cover
MEP-016
MEP-017A on an unknowen military trailer
HALE P250
GP Medium Tent
Unknowen generator 1cyl wisconson 2.5kw

EMD567

I just spent a day in a 818 pulling a trl with 32,000lbs of concrete ties. THe 818 did okay, as long as you were in 5th gear, and you had to keep her turned up- just about ran her wide open all day long.
Of course, I was still hearing the 818 a day later.

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John Parker, in Aiken SC

M814 WO/W " Long Easy"
2006 Pontiac GTO Dead on Arrival
1996 3/4 ton Chevy extended cab, long bed PU
I THOUGHT I HAD MADE A MISTAKE, BUT I WAS WRONG

Iceman3005

I heat with wood. my friends duece, he also heats with wood and takes it offroad, pretty amazing what they can go through e.g. mud, fallen trees, etc. There have been a couple of places he went through that I wouldn't be able too without a lift and bigger tires for my cucv.
my cucv only do 55 tops, fun to drive, so speed isn't much of a factor, as long as I could go 55. Ya I would drive it for fun too. I like the lawn ornament Idea, and maybe a chick magnet.

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1989 K-5 blazer (not a CUCV)

Iceman3005

I also haul things for my friends from time too time, one of them asked me to haul a d5 dozer, I just laughed because the pintle hook on the cucv can't barely pull a 3000 pound trailer before it would rip bumper of, so pullin heavy loaded trailer would be nice to.

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TWO=1984 M1008 CUCV daily drivers stock
1989 K-5 blazer (not a CUCV)