Recent content by Hal_VT

-22 Here @ 7;00AM Spending quality time with my wood stoves today.

Well I'm several months late on this reply, but: Yesterday (JAN 30, 2023) I loaded up the old girl with too many pounds of sand and spread it on several driveways. The poor thing is getting pretty moth-eaten, and the frame is sagging, she's addicted to ether for the first start every day, and is...

Finally got my act together last winter and made the conversion, what a difference. Used the info from your YouTube video, and it went easily and worked instantly after installation. Just now looking at my old posts and realized I never reported back.

There are several HEI (GM) distributor conversions for the Dodge 318 engine for sale from various places. Has anyone used one in an M880? That is a huge distributor cap, compared to the stock one, and I am wondering whether it would fit without modifying the firewall. I am sick of fighting...

Those rams don't lock on center, but whereever they are when the hydraulics fail, so if you blow a line you will continue to steer in the direction you were going when it happened.

I rolled a fair sized goober down the back of my hand, INSIDE A CAST. Just stood there and waited to see if the padding in there was going to catch fire or not. Couldn't see dipping it in a bucket of water for no reason. No smoke, a little pain, and one more source of EXTREME ITCHING when the...

My sister's husband drove a milk tanker for a while, trading off with his brother, four days off, four days on. His brother stopped at a railroad crossing one day, the partial load of milk sloshed forward and shoved him right into the side of a train. Nobody was hurt, and the truck wasn't badly...

One of my neighbors was asking if I knew anything about a genset he has. I have not seen it, but he copied the some information from the data plates. If I understand him correctly it has a single cylinder Deutz, air-cooled diesel engine. From the housing plate: MO 5KWCTMGSA SEL 5-900174...

That was just about the first thing I did to my M882 after I got it. It's a night and aday difference, before and after. The fact that my manual box was just about bone dry didn't improve its perfomance either. What you need is a donor vehicle. Any civilian W-100 through W-300 with factory...

A long time ago I had a 56 Dodge half ton with the 230 engine (similar to, but not the same as the M37). I had the head off to replace the head gasket, and discovered that it had had some problems with a wrist pin, which had obviously been replaced before I bought it. There was a gouge in the...

Back in the 1980's I cut a bunch of logs and got a local trucker to take them to a small mill to be sawed to build my house. The trucker was a French Canadian immigrant, whose English was adequate, but brief, and to the point. I rode with him to the mill, and as we went under a railroad...

A friend of mine who served in Italy during WW II told of seeing trucks with duals on the front axle. In muddy going a man would stand on the running board and reach through the window to help the driver steer. Sounds like a real exciting job.

Goodbrewing, I am in Rochester. Could you PM or email me, halh@sover.net and I could give you a mailing address.

Did anyone come up with a key code yet? I need either the code or a key, my key disappeared after my nephew's wedding in September, and I am going to need the truck pretty soon to plow snow.