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I would love to have a empty unit like that, plus the vinyl / canvas of course. I figure they make nice and sturdy expansible mobile campers on field trips. Cheers, Mark

Drain the filters and the airtanks to remove excess water before freezing temps arrive. What about jacking it up to get the weight off the tires? Flat spots on the tire can be quite unnerving. If it sits exposed in the sun I also would cover the tires with a tarp or other cover to prevent...

If there is enough substance left, you could carefully remove the rust and weld a bolt r something else onto the heads! Mark

Right on, I say! You immediately start to spread the OD disease :-D Sweet looking truck! Cheers, Mark

Mike, thanks! I wanted to have authentic markings on the truck and had some emails with vtdeucedriver aka Jeff, who showed me pictures of his trucks. I immediately liked them because of the 8th groups destinctive trademark, the yellow tipped hoods (apparently painted that way so company...

That place is heaven!

Mike, I have a deuce which is configured to represent a vehicle of that era, see http://www.steelsoldiers.com/members/roger-wilco-66-albums.html . I also collected a big load of pictures from that era: Classic_Deuce/classics A member here, vtdeucedriver, helped me a lot with questions I had...

Well, I replaced the cotter pin contraption with a 7mm Bolt and nut now. There is still way too much play in the linkage, my guess is that the pin has an OD of at least 5/16". Could someone with such a pin lying around confirm this (Clinto)? BTW, sourcing non-metrical hardware locally here...

The french army had a neat battery adaptor for the prc 6. It used 8 D-cell batteries and had a solid-state inverter on it that generated the proper voltages. Unforetunatly, they are as rare as hen's lips. I once tried to reverse-engineer one, but unfortunatly the electronic unit is encapsulated...

Cool information. I should get one, too. Can you actually release the co2? Then you could fill the bottle with flour or talcum powder etc and have a neat smoke bomb (men don't grow up....) :-D Cheers, Mark

rofl, now that really is a good one :-D

Great pictures, Rut, thanks for sharing! Keep them coming! Do these heads generally need a resurfacing prior to re-installation or is this unnecessary because of the split design (=less warping)? Mark

TD, please keep us posted, I also have to do a front axle job and am in need of those seals. Regards, Mark

OK, sorry, I should have done some research in the first place. Please see the pictures below. It is not a bolt but a "grooved and headed pin" :roll:, and there is no nut to it. The forked rod has probably a thread on one side. I'm not sure about the item #6 and #7 on the list, the ball bearing...

hehe, my flight instructor used to say: Q: How do you acquire a small fortune? A: You take your large fortune and buy an airplane (helo...). A Huey would be great though. Shake, rattle and roll!

Gentlemen, as some may have read in my posting http://www.steelsoldiers.com/military-vehicle-road-trips/38879-field-trip-france.html , the bolt and nut which connects the clutch linkage on my deuce went AWOL and are now lying somewhere alongside the street between the cities of Karlsruhe and...

Numbers, that's a stone's throw from where we live. If you happen to visit the place, let me know. The wine-festivals are legendary there, and the Maginot-line is also not far from that area.

BC, yes, this is a beautiful landscape, and this is mostly private farming land. Some casemates are still terrain militaire and were used after the war, but today they are abandoned and no one bothers. The only big fortress still in use by the french army in the Hagenau sector is the Ouvrage de...

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Hey, last weekend we had our annual field trip with the deuce to the Alsace region of France, where we explored some new casemates and bunkers at the Maginot-line. It was quite adventurous, lots of off-road routes, and new impressions. First highlight was that right in the beginning we...