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Hmmm. Competition is stout this month. Must learn how to better display youtube videos. It has been some time since a FMTV has won, who knows how long?

What cool rigs to be competing with this month! We are enjoying learning more about each one. We have been replacing items like the worn out cab air suspension and removing the 2:1 wheel reduction hubs to increase the M1078A1's drivability without reducing her capability. Here is a link to...

Good to know–

Found @fuzzytoaster post: The whole thread is interesting and somewhat related to this one–

When we owned a small fleet of CAT equipment we did oil testing. I have been wondering if we should restart with this truck and the comment about the likelihood the previous owner did not maintain the engine well makes me think again, that is worth exploring–

No idea. Our focus was upon the plane created by the inner rear edge of all the pulleys/serpentine belt. As we roughed in the cuts to the original bracket we used the offset as measured between the ears on the original Niehoff and new Leece Neville. Then added custom cut spacers to fill the...

Longer is easier to adapt to existing bracket. You could get Hillman Zinc Heavy duty spacers at Tractor Supply matched to the bolt sizes and cut them to fit what you need to fill the gap(s). You'll likely need them anyway to align the ears and brackets to match the belt path(s)–

When we picked her up she looked good though had been neglected for some time. We started simple on old electrical, cleaning up the PDP, replacing old relays, hunting down bad components. Found the resistors in the bundled diagnostic circuits (J1939/J1708) melted. The remote...

'Bill's' much better half at the wheel, taking in the smile curse—

Interesting (posts 16 & 17). I am wondering about replacing the oil pump in our 3126b. Only because of what I read here, not from observation. And the HEUI oil filtering issue is something I hear mentioned at times. If I didn't spend so much time here I would expect another 300,000 miles out...

Another sh-- eating grin thanks to the M1078A1's aura— A family friend: we met 'Bill' in 1973. My wife and I have had Thanksgiving almost every year since 1976 with him and most of his family. If you could see his eyes you'd still wonder what he is thinking. In the wild, deserving military...

No chicken bones, stones, or tarot required: as noted during the nominations this MV shares ear to ear grins like dogs shed fur—

Added them after your comment. A good suggestion you had for PDF's—

Attached PDF's, too. Download and then zoom at will, (most browsers will allow you to 'right-click' on an image opening a menu with a choice to open in another 'tab' or save as and then zoom at will) This site's image handling is challenging in my opinion–

Sure. You want to see the same sheet with variable tire height: 53", 48", 45", 40"

I can see that. If I redid the chart for the shift points it would illustrate your point better. I will be watching your experience with the lockers when you start that thread. I haven't noticed you or @Keith Knight complaining about traction on adventures, is it a bigger issue than I think?

Here is a spreadsheet (a photo of one) showing the various crawl ratios/mph for 3.90, 3.07, EcoHubs or not. I agree the 3.90's are best with what we currently have and 4.5's with EcoHubs would be cruising 63 at 1,600 rpm in seventh. That would be the sweet spot—

This thread is supposed to be APRE: A Photograph Rich Environment. Enough with all the letters and what they mean. A photo's worth a lot of letters—

I thought @Towbarman was asking about the air over hydraulic cab latch (locking the tilt), not door latches which break all the time?