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I finally opened up the MKt field kitchen trailer and lowered the gangways and raised the roof. I have a power convertor and power cords for MBU s , no pans no burners and no waspers. The kitchen has been used as yellow clay mud was on the gangways and a couple drawers of spices and small hand...

I would surf the truck pulling web sites for some ideas. What little I can share is that you need to match engine rpm to the top torque band to get the most out of the engine. Whether you can shift during the pull is one big question. Too hot a hole shot and you could possibly toast the clutch...

I have a thumb drive bought and will make contact soon. I will open up the trailer soon and take pictures of the goodies inside. Mark

You may be like me, cut some weeds and find a car ............my wife was backing up to park and found where I had placed a Red B Model Mack with her front fender. No harm to the Mack but the Lumina fender was toast. Hey see what you find and give me a shout. Mark

I would add a note of caution to be careful and filter oil well. While reading in a "Fifty years of Caturpuller " book the dealer had problems with a farmer's Cat going through injector pumps till the factory mechanics figured out that the tight farmer was using straight crank case oil for...

Good luck with the life sized Tonka Toys!! Watch where you park them as women can't see big trucks and have been known to back into something that was not there before. (wife swapped chevy lumina paint on B model Mack front bumper) Car shows and hay rides makes friends fast with kids old and...

Thanks for the info on the MKT trailers uses and history. I had a neighbor who was a retired Air Force baker who told the tale of being in the field as a green cook and asking the Mess officer "Hey what does it mean when the oven burner dial is in the red?" The Mess officer never answered and...

Nice truck and pretty mountains to explore. Here in West Virginia we have smaller hills but a lot more trees and bushes. We have mountain Spruce Knob, about 4800 feet up with flag trees (branches grow only with the wind direction so a one sided tree) . Lots of timber and oil field roads to...

I am going to open up the SOS/ hash wagon in a day or two and have a new digital camera to take pictures of what is still there. I looked over the TMs to see what is missing and got a Army recipe book dated 1944. First funny thing noticed was stuff measured in qt and 1.5 qt dippers and a GI...

What are you using non det. oil in? I would not try today to run a modern engine with antique oil. To change over you have to be careful not to suddenly flush sludge into the oil pan of a oil pump supplied engine and block off the oil screen or pass grit onto the crank bearings. I have cleaned...

I took a long shot and got a almost bare MKT Field Kitchen trailer and have bought some field ovens and MBU burners to try to outfit it. I have the big pot rack and the griddle but none of the pots and pans. Somewhere in America my pots and pans are sitting are sitting on a GL Pallet or some...

I have a M925 "Sandy" with regular spring seat and being big boned and king sized the distance from the steering wheel to the seat back is less than from my front to back. Question: Does the Hummvee high back seat give you more room behind the steering wheel ? How hard is it to mount the seat...

Answer to the "killer oil" question: When government had gas guzzler buy back on old clunkers, regular oil was drained and special lock up oil(killer oil ) was installed and engine restarted till traumatic engine failure occurred. Local dealer had office bets on how many minutes the clunkers...

Friend of mine had carb with green tint in bowl , carb cleaner ect would not touch it. Mechanic said welcome to unleaded-alcohol gas blend and soaked carb parts in water and Dawn Dish soap. Green pond scum gone. May be good for small parts cleaning. Mark

I will have to review the 1600 items. I used to have a disk of one Million recipes for the computer but one guys idea of good could knock a buzzard off a gut wagon for someone else. I attended an International Chili Society chilli cook off for two different days in Charleston, West Virginia for...

I have to buy 2 batteries for my 15 kw unit. What histories or luck have you had with Walmart brand, Interstate, or Optima brand batteries? I have so so luck with Walmart and Interstate stuff and have never tried Optima. Mark

Caging Bolts?? Have fun trying to get caging bolts from a local parts store,NAPA, Advanced Auto etc. Caging what???is what you get. Who has civilian parts numbers and sources for the caging bolts? Mark

Do you get gold stars on some web site chart by blasting someone who has a question when you assume the the TMs are user friendly, easy to follow, and the only right way to solve a certain issue or question? As an attorney, I have seen formal writing as an art form and in my opinion the Tms are...

Thanks for the info, I thought that from the TMs that there may be room to scoot that shin knocker out of the way or get a baseball catchers leg guards off Ebay!!!! Mark

Web Pages for large scale bbq ovens,smokers One idea for large group cooking would be a MKT trailer as serving line with a bbq oven, smoker or portable cooker on a trailer like WWI mess cookers Some real good sites for designs, example cookers and photos are : The Texas BBQ Forum The...