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Going to start the rebuild on the engine today. First things first is troubleshooting the compression. Since the old girl hasn't ran in almost a year and a half this should be interesting

As a matter of fact having a permit to carry does help when the law asks questions. Proof that you are allowed to carry concealed means you can legally own. Sad fact: if you have in your medical record any mention of post traumatic stress you lose your right to own guns in many states...

Always best to have a concealed carry permit or the blessing of local law

l looked for photos of this truck as a radio truck with no luck, any other reason for the 100 amp service?

Might be the way to go to restore this truck. Any body have photos of a M43 as a radio truck?

Midwest Military has the parts and if you talk to John he can rebuild it for you. Got 3 pumps from hin and all work great.

Well Gus starts like a champ and the 100 amp generator sounds serious enough, going to break out the load tester on it and see if it works. I have included a photo from the auction and will more later today

Has anybody ever seen a 100 amp generator in a m43 ambulance? Added to the herd this past week with a 1963 m43 that has a 100 amp service and correct rectifier mounted in front of the radiator? Pictures to follow

With the spare engine it looks like pulling the header is the next step. The block has to be stripped for the machine shop to do the valves the right way it's always amazing how fast a simple swap can go into a full overhaul

Put some oil stabilizer in and it seems to be running fine. Just in case took the dust cover off the spare engine I had and started to do the pre checks on it. Alas the compression was in the 30s on this one so fresh oil in each of the cylinders and compression goes up to 70-90 range. Still...

New fuel pump in and changed the oil, had to use the 28 volt MEP to get her going but she ran yesterday. Going to fire her up this morning and see.

Pulled the fuel pump and oil today and put the new pump in. Looking at some 5w oil to see if that helps in this endeavor. If that doesn't work the spare engine is going to be pulled out of mothballs I just hope that one has good compression

The worst part is the compression checks came out as a flat 70psi for all the cylinders. Even with hot shot I could not get her to turn over. I have a spare fuel pump so that will not be a problem. Going to do the wet test tonight to see if I can get the PSI up. Still if I overbore by...

Will still turn over and she did not seize up. Bought the manual for the overhaul and we have a good machine shop here. On the plus side I will be able to redo the wiring now and have a reason to put the winch on

Well folks sad news Fuel pump failed in the worst way and now I have an engine to rebuild and would like to know the short list of the parts Ill need. Also someone offered me a M37 Short block engine and need to know the details on that one. Any help would be greatly accepted