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In a DOT inspection, it is essential that the the warning buzzer & light (if it has a light), comes on at not less then 60 PSI, when there is a drop in pressure. MtnSnow has it exactly right. Taking a CDL test in your truck (in a truck that has to pass a test too), hopefully will be different...

Not bad - you have to learn how to use the T-case to split the gears on the grades, so there isn't the wide space between 3rd & 4th.

The M35 didn't have side boards when I got it, but I had an very old set that fit the M211s but the wood was long since gone. I cut down the stakes & used 2x12s for the sides. The head board & tail gate are oak, using the same hardware. I don't have a good picture of the latch, where I store...

Some of us are not particularly computer literate. I often feel incompetent trying to do a search, and soon become frustrated - so I give up because a ton of irrelevant stuff turns up! How about, "How to do a Search", instructions, up on the tool bar, where we can find it better. Sometimes...

That would be a long Parade.

I often wonder how so many good Vises are beat up. That spot is weak, on many vises. Usually there is a bracket that is held in place with a couple of screws, that sometimes get sheared off, but I'm more familiar with Parker & Wilton. Will the lead screw come out? At least the jaw inserts...

That's a lot of high quality work! The area there around your Pintle is getting very busy. It often does with the addition of even a receiver hitch. I pull an M989 ammo trailer with my M35A2 & found that it works but the addition of 2" of extension gives a little more room. The trailer is...

wow... Better skip this one! I read it backwards!

That's the most likely. I have had that happen a couple of times, but on other engines. After I replaced the cooler, I used a whole box of Cascade Dishwasher soap in the radiator, and ran it up to temperature for a couple of hours, to clean the system.

Disc brakes freeze too, but just not as bad. Automatic slack adjusters aggravate the problem, as there is less space between the drum and the shoes, and sometimes they would freeze, even though they were not set. Here they don't have to just set over night, but maybe while your at lunch, or...

If you start doing those changes, the work will be endless, and it will be very expensive. Nothing is easy or straight forward on the GMC -- I know very well. You will be money ahead, if you just park or sell it, and get a multifuel. Parts are cheap, lots known about them, and far easier to...

The Arctic Winterization Kit that is made for theses trucks, with fuel fired heaters, etc, comes with an alcohol snifter. You should be able to find one, for not much.

All things equal, two vehicles, one with, one without, Lockers are great. They will allow you to pull hills with minimum traction, where others slide off backwards. My old road tractor (avatar) had them in both rears. Even with an inter axle differential, when in parking lots/tight corners...

You can modify the T-case to be Hi & Low range, by changing the big idler gear in there, to not rotate/idle (by removing the bearing, but that complicates the use of the winch, because there will be no neutral. If you do that, then you have to manually shift the T-case to forward, or reverse...

Now that the truck is rolling, you can still add alchohol (sp), to the compressor line - it will have some residual effects. A snifter works just as well as an air drier, and is much less complicated to install. It will keep the water a liquid, so that the tanks can be drained. There is an...

fuel line The DOT tubing is bullet proof, and its ubiquitous, @ truck stores & NAPA. Having Bubba use substitute hardware store stuff with non rated hose/vibration & hot engine temperatures/leaking fuel line -- well that's the makings of another Hollywood sidebar of burning a truck to the...

That's some press. Clean like that, It probably won't work now.

Toe in measurement I couldn't find my bearing plates, but they are described as above - I moved to a new shop, and some of the hardware has yet to present itself in a logical manner . I did find the measuring device, that I made up to measure the toe with, and its set up enables one to check...

You can't check "toe in", without vehicle weight on the tires. The front end shops have a bearing plate under the tire, so that it can rotate tires, left or right/ in or out, when setting toe. Only with weight do you get an accurate reading, including wear. I made up two plates with a large...

Listen to Doghead. Those crimped on fittings just have a hose barb under the crimp part. Just take a hack saw or a grinder, and cut through the crimp a couple times, and peal it off, then put a new hose on, with a clamp.