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Welcome! I've been wanting to do this for some time now myself, but with an M927 or M928 and something built inside the rails of the stock bed thereof.

First of all, welcome! As others have said, make sure you can get titled, etc and look for maintenance issues. While not to start an insurance/CDL thread, be sure to look into all of the above and beware you will likely get conflicting information. (If you want to know my recent experiences...

Dead thread revival I know, but a great story. When I pick mine up I look forward to a multi-thousand-mile recovery trip to Alaska myself.

Thanks for the comeback! I'll shoot you a PM!

Great thread! I am going to have to pick one of these up.

Fascinating thread! I myself am one day going to have to buy myself an M1070, and threads like this are invaluable to me. Threads like this on the Deuce and a Half and M939 Series 5 tons eventually turned me into what other people call a wealth of knowledge.

I've always wanted to race an M939 series truck on a drag strip. Now I have more impetus to do so once I acquire one.

Been meaning to ask, speaking of Alaska: Who had the M925 parked at MSI Autoparts in Fairbanks all last winter? I actually stopped and talked to the manager of the location thinking it was being junked and cut up, only to learn it had a loving owner. Would love to meet you if you're on...

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Very nice! I myself know where a forlorn M275 is I'd like to save!

I've bid on numerous XLWB models, back when I actually had money to blow, alas never won. Ask 98G, he could tell you some stories about schooling me on bidding on M939s at auction. I learned five tons of info on what to look for from him.

I can't believe I never did relate the end of this story! (I know I told 98G about it elsewhere, but I guess I never posted it here). Went and looked it a couple days after my last post. Get to the place and get to really look at it and this thing is plated with current tags. Buried in the...

So, as I understand it, the early M939s (at least the M923/M925) were built on old M813 frames (M809 series). I assume this held true for the other variants as well. Question- When did this stop? When were new, purpose-built frames used instead?

Jenny...

Seems all of a sudden this thread is exploding! I, too, have the proverbial soft spot in my heart for MVs, especially the M939 series.

Hey Branr1, I'm up in Fairbanks. Feel free to PM me and we can get together sometime, I occasionally find myself flying through Anchorage.

Thanks!

I've been lurking and posting here for years now, and of course planning on getting a Deuce, then an M939 series 5 ton (Definitely getting an M939 of some sort one of these days at all costs!) But I think I finally had the proverbial fire lit under my feet to get an M1070 HET at some point, way...

Yeah, all my in person experience has been on the A0/A1 myself. When I get mine, if I had one that had had this feature disabled I would repair it so it was once again functional, but then again I plan to be the only one driving mine, so I shouldn't need to worry about my entire work crew...

Sometimes the low-range option gets disabled by people. One fatal flaw of the M939 series trucks is that it is HIGHLY likely you will literally split the transfer case in half in low-reverse. I've heard of cases where civillian owners, especially ones like farmers, loggers, landfills, etc...