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BeardedWarrior, what area of AK are you working out of?

Video or it didn't happen! I'd like to get an M1070 myself, literally for reasons like this!

I cannot tell you how many times John/98G has helped me. Yesterday his texting pointers and items to check resulted in me making smoke and noise on an M813A1 dump conversion (not mine, a friend's I volunteered to work on) that had been sitting. Not only that, he even texted me later in the...

That's my thoughts as well. I want some 5 ton axles for another idea I have but I'd have kind of a hard time chopping a 5 ton. Just to prove a point myself I got scrap yard quotes for a 923 (not that I'd ever do it obviously) and at $1300 I'm keeping one whole for sure.

That's pretty darn cool you know the guy who drove it over there. I've gotten to talk to someone (Via Facebook) who worked on building M939A2s.

Literally, the guy who drove THAT actual truck? Wow...the small world stories in the SS world never end.

One thing I would have to say I appreciate about the way SS is set up is the redundancy of the Facebook group for situations like the above; updates on when the site would be back online were posted there and updated as they transpired. It also provides another way of reaching out to members...

Interesting. I feel like I envision some situations where the G177s wouldn't be tall enough to overcome whatever obstacle? (Rock, stump, disabled Prius)? Granted, I realize that's a completely independent or at least quasi-independent variable...

Anyone have any photos of such a setup?

I still learn new things about these trucks every day. So it's from the same makers as the ever-popular Tyvek, found in everthing from structural vapor barriers to mailing envelopes to HazMat suits? I NEVER knew that...

In this scenario you're describing, would that limit off-road performance? It really never ceases to amaze me how far these trucks will flex off-road.

Those who learn operate a vehicle with three pedals are a rapidly fading group. The trucks coming out today with power everything and automated engine / trans. combos are the future. Until the "new" future. When the sun drops a big E.M.P. on us and all the electronic "toys" go dead, my old...

Interesting. I've only ever seen spare parts etc on these in normal red rustproofing primer...this was something else?

In a way, I'm maybe thinking I shouldn't mess with it, as the original engineers knew what they were doing in terms of calculating frame flex, distribution of tension/stress/weight/etc and I don't...

Thanks for the additional info! I can see how 20+ years later someone would misremember that as cyanide, etc...

I honestly thought it was kinda funny even when it happened. I generally respond to stressful or taxing situations with laughter and this was no exception. In this case, it wasn't a date but I did have umpteen people watching the spectacle. After I instinctively just killed the engine after...

So in other words, this would not work on a wrecker variant, at least without substantial re-engineering of other things as well?

While I'm new to actually crawling around on M939s in person, what are the odds that the "warning" switch was for something else the truck had in the field?

Interesting thread! I'm curious, has anyone tried this on an M936 wrecker, and if so, what all is involved in lifting the bed on one of those?

Re: the hazards of CARC paint, I also heard a story from someone who worked at BMY in the early '90s building M939A2s: Apparently, another byproduct of CARC fumes is cyanide... Nasty stuff...Makes lead-based paint look tame or so I'm told.