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Have you driven it enough to make sure the radiator will handle the engine cooling? It is hard to see if it is a deuce radiator in a bigger shell. You have to remember your engine and tranny weight is between the two axles and probably split evenly. You should have the truck weighed and each...

You are probably right on the fuel stop preoiler system. I have heard of people plumbing in a hydraulic accumulator with a valve. When running before shut down they open valve and store oil under operating pressure. On restart, they opened valve and had pressured oil in system before engine...

I ran a VW diesel for 200,000 miles and learned this trick. Install a block or hose heater and power it through a appliance timer big enough to handle wattage. I plugged car in when I parked, heater came on at 3:00am and by 8:00am start up time quicker start light come on time, prewarmed engine...

Thanks for the info. I am going to do the recovery of two trailers tomorrow,820 miles with a preview of a M109 truck for trade en route.

Question Can you avoid dry start on turbo by pulling fuel stop, crank engine till oil pressure shown on gauge, shove fuel stop in and grab it and grow? Mark

Reply on the porch idea.....I saw a setup which hinged up toward the box. The add on porch looked to be 4 foot wide and was suspended by tailgate like chains on the ends. They had some fold up porch fence posts and used rope for fencing. If you extend truck frame permanently are you not burring...

Good looking Winabago35 ,You were brave to rattle can a Deuce.I bet you are local tiddley winks champion/ thumb wrestler king of the neighborhood. My friend painted a whole 1930's car with a trombone type fly sprayer ,pumping, pumping away for hours. I have "Sandy the 5 ton" in sand tan and I...

Thanks for the info. I have a 15kw 4 cylinder diesel gen set mounted on a M105 size trailer with dual 8x20 ndt tires. I sent in my info from sale to GL to get a SF97 and they returned my fee and stated that no title could be obtained for the trailer. I have a M105 style trailer which...

I rescued two cheapie former gen set trailers from New Castle GL sale. They had no tags so I have no M number to go by. QUESTION What is the similar cargo trailer number if these do not have a separate number? QUESTION Has any one obtained a SF97 for a gen set trailer? I had a gen set trailer...

I have seen in the past truck tire web sites which had good pictures of weird tire wear, try tire wear trouble shooting ,truck tire wear as searches. Mark

Another thing to look at is the condition of connections, wiring and insulation, frayed,brittle or burnt is a sigh of abuse/age. Mark

After Firefox's look in the filter element you might run a piece of mechanics wire down a steel line and pull it out and see what comes out on the wire. You might try a electric pump pulling fuel out into a bucket to try to remove loose rust in lines. If lines are rusty, the permanent fix is...

I would volunteer for a Popular Mechanics long term test drive......... Makes my M925 homely looking.

Make sure you have clean fuel filters..... a B model Mack of mine woke up when she was running without an inch and a half of coffee grounds up the side of the filter.She went from no smoke to a light brown on acceleration. Mark

Found M109A3 diagram with measurements for all dreamers of modifications possible in a 144x90x72.5 inch space?

One camping item I will not go without is a Coleman 2 burner stove and the Coleman Folding Oven which is a folding box about 14 x14x3 inches high and unfolds to about 14 inch square two shelf oven that fits over one burner. You can bake biscuits , corn bread and other goodies with the gadget...

Truck garages used to have a tinted glass "ruler" that had various shades of brown to black and was used to set pump output screw from the diesel trucks exhaust color. B Model Mack operator/ mechanic reported that trucks can stand about a foot of fire out the stack on a hard pull but turning up...

Blasting thin body metal can be destroyed by heat of air sand blasting. Friend was trying to straighten 1930's Chevy truck door skins who looked like a wash board from aggressive sand blasting. Be careful. Mark

My cousin was in the Army 1960's on Korea and had the care of a M109 Deuce and a M105 trailer. He went to the motor pool and requested a quart of oil. The motor pool Sarg chewed his ass and said "how can you need oil for a parked truck?" I cousin grinned and reported....... "Cause I have wiped a...

Oil field winch trucks use heavy duty headache racks behind the cab for some ideas. Long ago in Popular Mechanics(?) I saw a picture of a pipe roll bar on a M35 deuce as a Army experiment to keep from killing GIs with roll overs. Semi trucks use headaches to store chains, binders and other...