Recent content by US6x4

...I'm still working on that paint matching touch up job and painted my way all the way to the tailgate. Anyway, here's a great, definitive factory photo from AM General showing the baffles out !

It would be interesting to know if the magazine covered it. I like the way it looks with the baffles in, but now that mine are out I won't have to worry about the fan blades hitting it as the fan belts stretch.

I pulled the baffles out in front of the headlight buckets and then that started a snowball effect of repainting everything to match...

You know, quarkz, if you happened to by 2 paper filter elements, it wouldn't be a big stretch to convince yourself that now you need a halftrack in your collection to use that extra filter on so that it doesn't go to waste...just a thought 😉

Hey, thanks for putting those up on your channel - those are great! I look forward to the next batch. Didn't know i was stealing your thunder but good to know you're a member here. I would love to find some footage of M809s in a transportation training video or Aberdeen proving ground video

It would be really cool if there was a cache type of pinned thread (just like the TM section) on this site where official videos could be archived but not just links that can fail later - I mean the actual downloaded file lives on this site.

Stumbled across this just now. I like these old training videos and the uploader also put one up on multifuel engines.

They can get finicky if the fluid gets low. Might want to check the level...

The Tankograd M809 book features US Army and USMC 5-tons stationed in Europe in the '94-'95 time frame and about half of the trucks show baffles out with the other half showing baffles in. AM General corporate photos show baffles out. I think I'm going to bend my baffles out and paint them to...

Dang, that's a knarly gash! What a mess. I can fit my fingers between the baffles and headlight sheet metal so baffles out would keep sand out better than baffles in. I'm gonna find my David Doyle AM General book and Tankograd 809 book to see what the vintage pictures show. Here's another...

I was staring at a picture I took years ago of @quarkz M813 at a car show since his truck is such a big brute and I noticed the recirc baffles on both sides of the radiator were flexed outward toward the headlights. This struck me as odd since I've never seen baffles on the outside like that...

If the fuel filler neck on the tank is angled then it's an A2. If the filler neck is horizontal then it's an M923/A1

Dang, that's a mess!

In case this helps, this is how my M813 winch cable starts out. It appears that the wire rope exits the spool from the top and then goes under the large roller.

Yep! They would say "not an engineering problem...sounds more like a maintenance problem" And then send the problem on down the line Lol