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I'm pretty happy just going 55mph in a big scary old truck on good tires... My truck handles just fine on the level roads at speed with the stock equipment.... It's just the hills that kill the speed and the solution to that is more HP... so I'm content doing 20mph. Besides, how do you know...

One lucky lady!!! Here's what my wife uses.... I got the petite version for home and I carry the M-16 to work... My truck was lucky enough to still have the rifle mounts in tact.

:driver: I have not seen the trucks in a few years... and they were showing their age when they were hauled away from the woods where the last guy owned them... They would definitely need to be re built if I find water in the diffs....

Well, I wouldn't want to insult him either.... He is a Vet in his late 30's and knows a few things about the trucks... That's why he had them towed to his "compound".. I helped him out in locating the 3 rigs, sooo...

I'm just bouncing back and fourth getting a laugh at the comments while punching out the last of my taxes!!!:-D I plan on applying for my CDL this month, and the state only tests a few times a year from what I have been told, so I will see If I can get that accomplished this year... I would...

IF I can buy some axles off of a couple of deuces from a guy down the road who has 3 of them sitting in various states of un-runnability.... I am looking at two projects.... What is a fair price for the axles if I have to take them off? 1. Adding a third axle to my truck to help increase the...

Hey, any thoughts about adding a 3rd axle to the to give it more stopping power? You know, like the tri axle logging trucks. Its up when unloaded and down when loaded... I'd use the trucks air to push the axle down and make it load sharing, then cut the air to let it return... Also, are...

the same thing happened to me a couple of years ago.... drained 13 gallons out of the pan!!! I searched this site for days and figured out what my problem was the hard way. Most common problem was the FDC... My FDC was by passed so no problems there. The second most common problem was the...

I have the transmission pto to run my front winch and a transfer case pto to run my hydraulic pump for my log loader... It is pretty nice to be able to just pic a gear and have the pump run slow or fast depending on the nature of the project... just get a pump rated for your project and have...

I was thinking about trading out the running gear for 5 ton.... but when I search all I find is stuff about bobbing deuces with 5 ton axles and pinion brakes.... Trading everything out "appears" to be strait forward, but then there is the discussion about how the engine will respond to the 5...

Yup, just as I suspected... I should walk away from the deuce and jump into a 5 Ton!!! I hear a lot of talk about the merits of going to super singles...... but I kind of like having 10 wheels under me than 6. The super singles seem to have a huge capacity, but this just shows my...

OK OK OK... I have tried searching and searching and can't exactly find out what I need to know... although I think the ultimate answer will be to just buy a 5 Ton!!! and walk away... Here' the dilemma: - I need to re-bolt the small shackle that binds the leaf springs together (the 1/4...

My air tanks are further back - I have an M36A2 ... so I got plenty of room between the cab and body (which I cut 2 ft off of the front and re welded the head back on to make space for the log loader). I had to move the fuel tank back as well as get rid of the spare tire carrier.... The...

Two way as in up and down? or two different utilities - winch and dump? I would say that it would be dedicated to just the dump and winching is best done with the pto so you can still use the low range transmission to pull your self out. My one ton electric hydraulic powers the dump up and...

Thanks!!! I'm not sure why electric in not an option... I would think it would be the easy way out and possibly the cheapest! I can buy a complete 10 ton set up for a 14-16 foot bed for about $2600.... If I already had all of the hoses, lift and tank - about $400 for the electric hydraulic...

OK, it stopped raining long enough to run under the truck to take a couple of pics to show how I set mine up... It is nice to sit in the cab and pop the transfer case in neutral and then select the transmission gear for hydraulic flow (1st is slow, 3rd is typical, 4th and 5th are just way too...

I have got both the transmission case pto to my front winch and the transfer case pto to run the hydraulic pump for my log loader. I purchased a transfer case pto from Boyce for a great price and it included the one side of the yoke that was important for the tapered shaft that comes out. I...

I have just started experiencing some brake issues when my truck is loaded and am trying to stop (it is also very cold outside.... 25 to -15 F). As I am downshifting and preparing to stop, I step on the brake and it feels normal. I step on the brake again and it gets a little harder (I'm...

A few of the loggers I've worked with turned me on to the idea and showed me how it worked. It's pretty nice to start a cold truck from the comfort of a warm one... Yes, with coffee!!

Now that it's really cold out, I've been looking through the "How to start your truck when it's darn cold out" forums for the past few years and thought... How do the rest of you get yours started??? I know there are plenty of folks out there that have a hard time when the temps fall below...