Search results

Hey Peashooter, I spotted something in your pictures that looked familiar. Are those Canadian pattern XLS 11:00 X 20 tires on split rims? How do you like them in comparision to your trucks origional setup? Are your IR lights functional? By the way, I like your mod for the jerry can mounts, clean...

How about making life a little bit easier and safer by adding a work platform into the bumper. Up here in Canada, we incorporated a platform into the front bumper assembly for the ease of maintenance and safety into almost all of our MLVW's ( M35 A2's ). The platform is about 2 feet wide and...

Hi there Wild_Willy. Eastern Canada checking in to say Hi. The guys ( and gals, i believe ) on this site are extremely knowledgable. Congrats on buying a deuce and coming down with the green fever. Is your deuce an American M35 or a Canadian MLVW? Cheers!

I remember doing a brake job on one of our MLVW's outside, on ex, during a snow storm and it was -15 in the field. The good 'ol days as a military mechanic, gosh I don't miss doing that!

Hi Boyso, Yep the Willys I almost got was located in the Eastern Townships out around Orford or Bromont. The guy had a small yard full of old jeeps and the Willys was the only WW2 jeep he had. He had lots of early Jeeps, CJ 4's, CJ 5's, ealy CJ 7's, M38's and I think a Postal jeep with right...

Hi Boyso! Fellow Canadian here from Montreal Area. Welcome to the forum. I almost had my hands on a Willys last summer but someone else grabbed it. Oh well, next time...

Good morning everyone. I am not too sure of when the M135 started in the Forces but when I joined up in 1984, my service battalion still was using one as a " flying kitchen " as it was called. I also rode in the back of one when we were first issued our uniforms at the supply depot. I found a...

Hi there Sparragh. Fellow Canadian here. As for the heat in the cab, that is par for the course. When I used to drive a deuce for the army in the summer, I would had both floor vents open, both front windshields open about 3 inches, both door windows down and the back wall window open. Even with...

I have never seen one of those before, worked on them for years in the Canadian Army, but it looks vaguely like a brake booster. Maybe at some time someone got tired of manual brakes and decied to install a vacuum style brake booster to make that M38 have power brakes. Like I said maybe...

I believe I may have your answer about the double tail gate. That trailer could have been assigned as a generator trailer. It would have had a security cage instead of wooden bows. The double gate would have been used to easily access different places on the genset. From the back, you would be...

Hi there! Eastern Canada checking in. Sounds like you have pretty much made up your mind what you want to do with the 934, even though you don't even own it yet! I have not taken the plunge and caught the green steel fever, but hopefully very soon, either a Canadian M35 ( at a good price, most...

Hi again everyone. I dug around at home and found 2 pics of the front bumper extension and step plates. The plates that were installed also had anti-skid tape glued to them. This is an absolute must up here in our winters. Wet slushy snow on a bare steel plate is very slippery wearing combat...

Hi Fellas. I was in the Canadian military for 27 years and I can tell you exactly what they were for. Our MLVW's were originally issued without the bumper extensions. Within 2-3 years, a modification instruction was issued to extend the frame rails and to install step plates on the left, middle...

Eastern side of Canada checking in. Nice ride you've got. I am thinking the same route here of importing a deuce from down south. There are so few Canadian deuces out there and if they come up for sale, they are very expensive.

Looks like you got a great deal for your 3/4 ton. ( That's what we used to call them up here in Canada. ) But wow, you have a killer sized garage to play in! Have a great time restoring this one.

I am going to be up in the Borden/Wasaga beach area for the holidays. Which town was the yard and was there anything else " green " up there?

Hi guys! Thanks for all the tips! I have heard that the " green steel fever " can be contagious and there is no cure. I promise that I will try to be reasonable and start small ( MB, M38, Iltis ) but some of the big stuff I work on for my civy job ( Leopards 1 & 2 , Lav3's and the new Mercedes...

Hi 11Echo. Thanks for the welcome and for the videos. I worked on those MLVW's my entire career and seeing it off roading like that brings back some fond and not so fond memories! Cheers!

Hello everyone! After doing 27 years in the Canadian Forces Reserves as a mechanic, I took my retirement last year. Since then, I have been toying with the idea of restoring a steel soldier. I came close this summer of scoring a 1944 MB jeep, but it went before I could come up with the money. Oh...

I drove one of these " 5 quads " for almost 10 years in the reserves up here in Canada. Still remember the Canadian Forces Registery number ( plate number ) . It was 27895. Mine was configured with an enclosed pod instead of a pickup box and was kitted out as a mobile repair truck. I would live...