Recent content by Torque

so So on with the story... After 7-8 years running this thing I had no problems with the tranny or turbo but finally broke the crankshaft between the front main and front rod journal. Pulled the engine out, flipped it over and pulled the 2 piece crank out. Ordered a used crank and put it...

Thought I would tell about my old truck. Needed a truck to haul corn with in the early 80's and wanted an army truck so found an x fire department M135. Put a bed and hoist on and built sides for it. Used it that way for several years and then decided it needed more springs and tires so bought...

I have bought 3 halftracks in the last month (wanted one for 30 years then got carried away) and two of them look just like yours, dash cut, fuel tank bracket on the right and the same crappy orange paint. Is your frame shortened? mine were M3's and had the rear of the frame cut off to about M2...