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Getting ready to run the truck for our tour business this summer and that means spending a lot of time between 5000 and 8000 feet. It is a 1984 923 so the non-turbo 855. Can anyone give me an idea about what to expect? I assume power loss but what about starting issues? Just looking into...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8qp53AIQrA Yea, I know, don't and never, but those are the same things we say about split rims right and how many of us have done that by hand too? Not down playing the danger but I can be more frank on here than I can on youtube. I am going to go out on a limb...

To the last guy who changed the oil and left the filter canister drain plug about 3/4 of the way around just out of sight near the top... funny, very funny. But I had your number and slit a 4 inch pvc pipe to make a trough. I then loosen the canister expecting the flood gates to open and...

With what we plan to do with our 923 it will get started 10-20 times a day. I hate, HATE the fact that for the first 5-10 seconds or so there is no oil pressure. It makes me cringe every time I start it because you can hear the sound change when the motor starts oiling. I have been looking...

I hated to lose my stack but for what I am doing with the truck it had to be done. I know there are several ways to go about it; this is just how I did it. I like the simplicity of the modification and how it can be done with a minimum of fuss or expensive parts. There are limitations to...

Not saying you should do it but I did and this is how. The difference was amazing. I should have done more. I know in the video I say it is a pint but it is closer to a quart. I think 2 quarts (an actual pint) would have been about right for mine but wow, the bit I did changed things. I...

I did search, and paged through about 4 levels of results before I gave up. Pulled my cleaner cover off tonight to inspect my element on my M923 for the first time (I was told it was new when I bought it). That is a strange design. With all the talk about getting more power from the 855 I...

I moved the exhaust on my 923 from the stack to under the bed and out the rear corner. Didn't have a choice as the state of Montana is requiring it for what I plan to do with the truck. I went with 4" to match what was already there. Did an amazing job making the cab quieter but, and this is...

Just curious if this was a 923 'thing'. Rear axle seals seem fine, nothing is coming out when driving more than 1000 miles in 2 days but left it parked for 3 weeks and I have gear oil running down and dripping off the drum. Drive it around and again nothing seems to be leaking while moving...

Tires, bed and air. I started off trying to diagnose my random slow blowoff whistle at the air dryer. I did manage to find and fix a leak at a tank regulator but I doubt that was the problem. After that it was off to think about how to mount the spare I have been reading up on how to mount...

When your compressor shuts off and auto releases head pressure, all the trucks I am used to (school buses mostly) pop, hiss sharply and stop. On my 923 it pops, hisses sharply then tapers off with a whistle over about 10 seconds. My gut feeling is that the pressure release is sticking, I just...

Again lots of ways to do this, just how I did it. You got to admit the dual plug setup is a unique idea. All that work and I have only used the little plug once. Pulled it behind the wife's Rodeo, it looked ridiculous going down the road with it's a## in the air like that. Never towed it...

I know they were never really designed for heavy use like this but you know you have thought about it. Lots of ways to go about it, this is just how I did it. My method could be done without a welder for a small shop DIY'er, just substitute the C metal I welded in place for some heavy 3" angle...

TRIP IS DONE. HERE IS THE VIDEO LINK. I will bringing my new baby home in a few weeks and given that I am flying out I was hoping to run the bare essentials past all of you to see what I might have forgotten. Most of the recovery lists I have seen deal with what to haul with you to get a GL...

Driving a M923A1 from Denver to North of Missoula MT and would be happy to haul some stuff. (and pay for a little fuel maybe too) I will be arriving in Denver on the morning of the 5th and hope to be on the road North early afternoon. I could come up though Idaho or Wyoming, matters little to...

Well we have been moving forward on my idea to offer historical mining tours from an M923. Just dropped the down payment in the mail to SS member Uamakua for his Colorado housed 1984 A1. Looks like a beautiful truck and I have the piece of mind that comes from it being privately owned and...

I have been searching for some time now and it seems like I should be able to find this but for whatever reason I can't. Not sure if it is my search terms or what. I would like to know the ground pressure PSI for an unloaded 925A1 and a 925A2 for my Forest Service Special use permit. If you...

From reading through back posts it seems tire issues are common on these surplus trucks, I assume from sitting and sun. If I were to buy one should I also purchase a pallet of tires at the same time? I would hate to lose a steering axle tire on my long road trip home. Been there, done that...

Now I want to say I am in the very early 'pipe dream' portion of this idea...I am just bouncing it off a community for some feedback. I am a school teacher (3 months off to do this, 9 months to wrench on the truck) who spends most of my summers in a Montana historical mining community working...