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If you are painting something that will be parked in a museum, it won't make a whole lot of difference, but if it will be in the weather, painting rust means you wasted the time to paint the truck. Like the old ad said "Rust Never Sleeps!"

There are usually two pairs of U bolts on the rear of the cab to mount the other two legs to a ring mount - if not the U bolts, then you should be able to find the holes. Ring mounts run into money real fast - you need to track down the ring, the three legs, the trolley (that holds your MG), the...

3M makes some closed-cell neoprene foam tape with some heavy duty adhesive. It's available from Grainger. Make sure that whatever you use is closed cell - open cell will instlate OK, but water will run through it.

You have two options - gravity feed, or a pump. If you're going to be using your rig in the winter, maybe an interior water tank set up for gravity feed might be a simple answer - the tank could be built into a cabinet to keep it out of the way. Otherwise, look at a marine tank that could be...

I always have a battery cutout switch on my vehicles - I figured that out after I took my M37 to a show and had to keep chasing people out of the cab - the usual excuse was "I's a taxpayer - I paid for this truck!". They could never seem to figure out that the US Govt sells trucks. A battery...

It looks a lot better cropped - that was when he was crunching a Caddy, wasn't it?

When I rebuilt my 135's brakes, I took an old motor pool sergeant's advice, and I filled the systemw ith alcohol and blew it out 4-5 times. I let the compressor blow for about 5 minutes. When I filled it with silicone brake fluid, the brakes were perfect. He'd told me that DOT 3 and silicone...

Dan, you should do some photo edit on your avatar and crop out the sides so people can recognize that you're standing next to the "Gunny"

Remember that epoxy primer either needs a color coat within a few days, or a second coat of epoxy primer when you are ready to spray the color. If you don't, the color coat won't bond to the primer. That happened to a friend's Jeep - the end result was OD paint that could be pulled off with...

These days, I'd assume that the answer is NO, regardless of what anyone says. If you're visiting a base museum, they would probably be OK with anything in the museum, but any non-museum areas would probably be verboten. The bases don't hold open houses like they used to before 9/11, and bases...

Congratulations! First, you saved the cost of buying the stuff from a surplus dealer, but the shipping cost for 12 ft long troop seats would have been more than the cost of the troop seats! It always seems to run about a dollar a pound for shipping anything that doesn't weigh a whole lot for...

Any 1/4 turn valve will need a hose nipple, but since 100% shutoff isn't critical, I used the NAPA valves. You can also find them at an IH dealer - one near me has a self-help showroom where you can walk the aisles and see what they have---mirror heads & arms, cab lights, switches, etc, and that...

If they're getting rebuilt, government contractors are going to be bidding on them at the auctions so they can rebuild them for sale to the US or to a NATO customer - that happened to me on a surplis sale last year - the price was perfect until the last hour, then it tripled in a few minutes and...

My plates were always on the vehicle, but then again, my newest was a 1952 GMC. It was kinds hard to look like it was a current vehicle when it was about 2 generations older than current.

There are fuel-fired heaters, and hot water heaters. The fuel-fired heaters would be about right for the north slope of Alaska, plus they cost plenty. The hot water heaters are installed under the hood and do a decent job down to about 10 degrees or so, especially if you have a hard top on the...

I agree! Take the time to be sure that the adjusters work perfectly and lube them with anti-seize. Be sure to blow any dust from the drums before you adjust the brakes, or the dust can cause the brakes to grab. If it pulls one way or the other, blow out any dust before adjusting. The cylinders...

More protection for the radiator, plus it levels out the front bumper so if you're standing on it to work on the engine, there isn't a sudden drop off.

There are many of the hot water heater kits that were used on darn near any military vehicle floating around. The adapters changed from vehicle to vehicle, but the basis heater stayed the same. Get a core from one of these, and adapt it. You can probably find the basis heater module at MV flea...

The last time I checked, one of these fans pulls about 4 amps at 28 VDC (charging voltage for the truck). The power supply should be about 10 amps output. Do a web search for truck heater blowers or school bus heaters - it would be about the same thing. If you want 24 volt accessories - lights...

Good luck on your '135. As I recall, the brakes on the CDN GMCs used a 1 3/8" wheel cylinder, while the US GMCs used a 1 1/4 wheel cylinder. Unless your old wheel cylinders and the new cylinders are both the same size, they shouldn't be used as interchangable spares. I remember trying to get a...