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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Bed is gonna be a scratch built utility style bed, headache rack and whatnot. It'll be somethin kinda beefy looking. I'm still drawing it up though.
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Drove it yesterday for the first time!! Little squirely on the highway but not too bad really. Brakes work really good and everything held together. After a short drive around some roads to kinda shake it down, me and my buddy promptly buried it in a creek bank. :D
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Yup, sure did. Nah UPS guy actually even brought them to my house instead of droppin them at the farm. Good guy.
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Northeast Corner. Right across the river from Quincy, IL
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Yeah I am. Just piddling with it till I bolt those up. Might be able to get that done tomorrow. Still trying to find some middle and lower front spring plates for it too. That's not proving to be easy. Suppose I will end up making those.
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Wow... that was a bunch of rivets! Anyway, what do you think about this wheelbase? It's 136" and I'm scratch building a bed instead of using a trailer bed.
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    Best Gear shift knob

    I used lost foam to cast that piece. It's horribly simple. Carve from foam, glue on a sprue, bury in dry sand and pour aluminum on it. I do standard cope & drag sand casting too but some things are easier in lost foam. Especially if you aren't going to repeat them. Shrinkage on aluminum is only...
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    What about the lower plates? Easy to find?
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    Best Gear shift knob

    This is a shift-knob that I cast out of aluminum. I made it to fit my hand exactly. I still have to tap it and whatnot but that's what's going in my Deuce.
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    First time bobbed M35a2 thread.

    Alright so I have finally secured heated shop space to bob my truck. (m35a2) I have my wheels and tires set to go on and I have all the equipment and skills necessary to complete the job. What I don't have are parts. I have a couple options I guess. First a friend offered me a set of rear...
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    HEMMT to Deuce adapter plate mounting.

    OK, even if that picture is a welded one, it shows basically what I'm talking about I guess the plate being on the inside rather than the outside.
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    HEMMT to Deuce adapter plate mounting.

    I read a thread earlier about mounting the plates in the HEMMT wheels. The plates could be mounted on either side of the wheel for the fronts. There was some debate about this working correctly but I didn't see much resolution. 99% of the wheels I see are mounted with the plate on the back...
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    silicone the O-rings on HEMMT wheels?

    k, thanks. That's why I asked. ;-)
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    silicone the O-rings on HEMMT wheels?

    I got my wheels now, tires and valve stems. I've been reading about assembling them here and I've seen a couple posts mentioning silicone. Do I need to silicone the o-ring down to one side of the rim and then silicone the other side before assembly or not? Another thing I saw mentioned was...
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    Purple signals?

    This from a dude who likes lovin' grumpy ole guys? :) :)
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