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The manual for my truck says to engage front wheel drive before putting truck into gear. I imagine that may be the same for the M35A2 since they both use the same transfer case. It doesn't specifically say that in the manual, but it's implied when mentioned in the section about operating in...

That's pretty dumb. I'm sorry to see you went through that. I guess West doesn't like having customers, hm?

When you installed your bearing nuts and torqued them, did you rotate the hub in the same direction as the nuts go on? I remember missing that the first time I did bearings on my truck and went back and reinstalled the nuts on that wheel. It's at least in the M35A3 instructions anyway. I...

That's called "engineered obsolescence". Is it up to the vehicle manufacturer to source components, or is it usually the government who specifies it? Imagine the flasher guy getting their foot in the door and making bank all these years later on flashers with a useful life measured in less...

Napoleonic warfare in field trench coats? What are they doing- OHHHH MY! :ROFLMAO: @marchplumber thanks for the thread link. It makes me want to try to design a reproduction flasher case I can 3D print to fit modern off-the-shelf components, but looks close enough to the original.

Sounds like you have a project ahead of you! I see good deals across the country when I look for MVs every so often. The thing that I find I really can't afford is shipping, even if I can get a deuce for a thousand bucks :p

Wouldn't a starter issue result in a burned-out starter? Their duty cycle when cranking the motor is only around 10 or 15 seconds plus a cooldown period. I'd think if it were the starter being stuck in the ON position it would be burned out and you wouldn't be able to start the truck.

That's weird! Whatever grease gun I bought from Tractor Supply plugged right into the zerks on my truck without a problem to do its thing. I don't know the size of the gun's fitting other than it snaps on straight and pops off when I bend its nozzle at an angle and pull. The part number for...

You could've picked me up from school. Why, you can even pick me up from the office! I'm not too old for that sorta thing :ROFLMAO: Though my wife might be wondering why I got a ride home in an army truck if I didn't go to work with mine...

I guess that means it's time to find a bridge truck to take to school!

Once in awhile my dad would pick me up from school with his WW2 jeep. It was a cool way to get home :cool: Betcha made those soccer moms all jealous with that truck. You could put the whole team in the back :ROFLMAO:

And it's done! Congratulations on completing it. It looks great :cool:

Did the deuce tractors have a double frame too?

I don't get why they didn't put gladhands on the front of a deuce like they did on the 5-tons. It seems like a no-brainer thing to me if it's doable by a shadetree mechanic 🤷‍♂️

Mine came like that from the factory, so it was some poor AM General assembler's pain and suffering who made it work for me :ROFLMAO: (Though the windshield was probably on a bench for the install, so it was probably easier to do that than this job!). Mine has metal covers over all the moving...