Recent content by Stringer

I believe that this thing spent a good part of its life as a workhorse in a mining damp a few hours north. It is arctic equipped. I will advise of identifying numbers, as was mentioned this could be a sister truck to a fellow enthusiast. Small world eh? I work closely with Medic North up...

I've had the truck for just more than a year. A number of years ago, approx. 15 i first went for a ride in it. A friend and I went north to a remote hunting camp, vis ice road where we were to help a guy offload some drums of fuel. This guy shows up with a deuce, loaded with fuel drums. Love...

Actually, I am only assuming that as well!. How does one confirm?

It is Canadian yes.

Sorry, not sure why profile not showing up. The truck is a 1956. Don't know much as far as it's history goes. Still working on that aspect.

Here are a few pics of my truck. Located in northern Canada.

Well this is embarrassing...... Was telling my father of my dilemma. "You obviously tried a thread chaser to make sure the threads were good?" After I swallowed my pride and chased the threads in the rebuilt part, lo and behold the outlet fitting threads in very easily. Oops. Thanks dad.

I went ahead and ordered a bolt this evening based on the specs of the jobber part (Raybestos MC1251). Should do the trick but will still leave me wondering. The actual removal and replacement was very straight forward, until of course I got to making the final connection of the outlet to the...

Good Day: hoping for for some help on something. And yes I've diligently searched the web and all forum archives...... My M135 had a catastrophic brake failure. All signs pointed to master cylinder blow by. Anyway, I purchased a Raybestos MC1251. The install was going perfectly up until...