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Easy, when I insured it, the lady on the other end of the line said that I had the oldest insured trailer in Quebec! Sady, that trailer I ended up selling to make room for another car in the driveway.

Remember, electricty will Always take the path of least resistance. Check every ground in the entire lighting system. My 2 cents.

Hi fellas, Southern Quebec checking in here, Ste-Madeleine to be more precise. I had a M101 trailer 1954 for years. At one point, it was the oldest insured trailer in Quebec. I had modded it by adding a cut down deuce trailer tailgate and that made it a lot more user friendly. I am currently...

What coin are you talking about? EME coin? I have not touched the G-wagon with a wrench but I did work on the Actros a lot when they came back from across the pond and they appeared to be a well built truck. Granted they are complicated ( something like 15 on boead computers linked with a...

I may be wrong but I think you should have said " then install NEW nuts and lockwashers." Cheers!

Hi EME411. I was also a maintainer at 51 Svc Bn just south of Montreal at St. Hubert. I was there for 27 years and took my retirement in 2011. I do not think that we took any pictures of the trucks, but you never know. I will dig around in my boxes of pictures to see if by chance I snapped a...

I remember in my old unit, we converted a few CUCV's to purpose built trucks. One was a vehicle MRT, one was a weapons, MRT, and a third was a general repair truck to use in and around camps. All of them had a security cage installed and we fitted out the insides as we saw fit. Good luck on the...

Welcome from the next province heading east!

The best way to gauge if the odometer is "accurate " is to look at the rubber pad on the brake pedal. If the right side is worn out and the odometer shows say, 25000, you can safely bet the odometer was changed at one point. Same rule applies if the pedal pad is new. Up here in Canada, when an...

I have Tinnitus ( ringing in the ears) for over 6 years now ( military related) and I got it doing a temporary job as a photographer. Our usual unit photographer was not avaliable so I volunteered since I studied photography in school. We were over in France with the French army doing check...

Our 10 ton wreckers are equipped with Wabesto heaters. They have a stainless steet "hot plate" installed under the batteries where heated coolant passes after it has been heated. The coolant then flows through a series of heat exchangers in the hydraulic tank for the wrecker systems and also in...

What about a fuel fired coolant heater? We have them up here in Canada for our big military trucks (Mercedes Benz, Freightliner,and Steyr) and we have them in our Chevrolet 1.25 ton and G Wagons too. If they are regularly serviced ( and sometimes they are not!) they fire right up and heat the...

Hi everyone. It appears I made a mistake by posting a for sale listing where it was not supposed to be. I apologize for that and I hope I did not ruffle anybody's feathers or step on someone's toes. I came back on the site when I got the e-mail about my mistake to delete the post but it appears...

That Caboose or "van" was built only 45 kilometers from my house at the Angus yards in Montreal East. The massive yard is long gone, turned into a condo and shopping complex. One of the shops still exists as part of the shopping complex. You can still see the steel support beams that carried the...

You were VERY lucky that it didn't happen at highway speed. I have seen a deuce almost lose an intermediate wheel because of loose wheel nuts. But that is a first.

When you fishmouthed the frame, did you place a re-enforcement plate on the inside too?

Welcome to the club of the big green army thing ( or in your case, tan,brown and black) from Montreal Canada.

If it wasn't so incredibly expensive for shipping, I would grab something from Europe and ship it here to Canada for myself. There are probably alot of stuff hiding in barns and sheds over there waiting their time to see the light of day again.

I have a question for you and everyone else that has done a crew cab. Do you experience any cab flexing on the area between the front and back doors? With an origional cab, the back wall re-enforced the door striker plate section, resisting any movenent. But now with the addition of another door...

You never know how badly you need a wrecker until you really need one. In the reserves, we have pulled engines with just an A frame set up and chain block. It will get the job done, but you will work a lot harder to do it. But you cannot deny the fact that a wrecker give you just so much more...