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I *may* have access to 300 - 400 gallons of machining coolant from a CNC machine shop. I used to work there and they used Castrol oil based coolants in certain machines. Anyone ever do anything with this type oil? I've seen different things about cutting the the 'other than diesel oil' with...

I wouldn't be me if I didn't have a pair of winches on my truck so now that the big 20,000lb Garwood on the rear has been put in some hard use and proven itself it was time to head to the front and see what could be done there. The biggest hurdle with the Mog PTO's is that for all their bells...

Well, here’s what’s been soaking up a lot of time for the past year or so, my 1977 Unimog 406. Originally it started life in the German Army with a bulldozer blade on the nose and backhoe on the rear. I feel pretty lucky that the truck has the heavy duty frame which wasn’t the most common...

Yes folks, I'm selling my giant M715 Velvet. This was the truck that was a two event winner at Top Truck Challenge '05. Tow Test and Mud Pit. This truck is drive-train solid, like rock solid. body is in okay condition but does have a few scrapes and a crease on one door. Bed floor is...

Flame on boys... I have a thought on an outer beadlock, for one of my projects, and for mega-ease and simplicity sake i was tossing around the idea of simply machining a center plate the diameter of the outer retaining groove on a stock duece wheel then butting a stock lockring behind it...

So lookie at these wheels I found- 5 ton bolt pattern...crap forgot the size of the center hole. Designed for CTIS. Trying to locate outer rings or back up plan have several A-CAD designs already done. Weight 50#. Hutchinson told me they're prototype wheels for the military and were a bit...

Many people have done the single lockout and double spline axleshaft in the middle rear (front tandem) on the trucks leaving the rear-rear as the drive. The big 1500 series U-joints go from the T-case to the front tandem, then the jackshaft between the two uses 1410's. When the front tandem is...

Wow, when I put this thing on I didn't think I'd use it ALL the time. I've gotten a bunch of heavy stuff cleaned up, some other items moved, things unable to be lifted to work on...LIFTED and worked on, etc. Love my crane! Some of you remember my Off Road M715, Velvet, that I took to TTC...

After reading through a bunch of posts lately and knowing that loading up the trucks and going off road (to get somewhere not just wheeling) can overstress the rubber end links and pop them. So I ask, why not large Heim ends on a custom thickwall tube? I can surmise that the rubber helps...

If you've not heard of this, don't feel bad. If, however, hydro-boost rings a bell then you're on the same page. :) Can't sleep so thought I'd post (will post pic some point today) about a project I've been working on. I pretty much expect some 'flaming' about this but I think I'm well...

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Okay, but what else could happen. Lot's of people overload their truck and there are a plethora of reasons from 'because it can take it,' to 'I only had to go a little ways,' ...etc. Now we've all heard Ace (the dreaded tomato guy :) ) and others thoughts on over driving what the demands of...

Thoughts on this?? Five or Six pictures from the last ones are a couple of the blocks used to space the rear suspension down. Things that make you go, 'Hmmmmm.' ...

This is the deuce winch on my M715...so I put it here cause its a deuce- So all of a sudden my winch is bogging down my 427BBC and there's a really loud singing sound from the winch. I feel around and the front cover is warm and the rest is not. I finish what I need it for and pull the log up...

I got wood- ...and my truck had to pull it out of some real ugly terrain then a 1/4 mile up to the farm. The log is 16' x 26-30" (slightly oval) nice hunk of White Oak. At one point I had to run up the creek then climb a small bank and she sunk to the rear axle. My 715's 10K deuce winch...

After seeing the cold natured diesel post about the CUCV one gent owns, I wanted to ask what generally are the temps being seen with the deuce and a half trucks. Like what are standard low effort operating temps, loaded or hill climbing temps, etc. My 1160 CAT with a stock recored and banded...

This has been requested several times, made fun of several times, and I've wondered too...so here it is. The weight of my M35-977A2C :) I have weights for just the front, just the tandems, then the whole truck. Empty. Ha- :shock: ...well I was sitting in it so technically empty it's...

Is anyone going to Rausch Creek interested in any M35 front spring take offs? They're complete with hangers and chunk of frame so the only one to take them off is you...not some guy to ruin the hangers with a torch. I have several sets at $150 per set- They will go on ebay for more next...

First part of new project. Big engine: Detroit Diesel 8V71 w/single turbo, 360-370hp, and real friggin' heavy. I've decided I need a truck for heavy hauling, pulling and just a meaty burly truck. The 5-ton chassis got the nod...though I've not acquired any other part of the truck yet...

I'm posting this in the '5-ton and up' forum because these parts were originally on an M977 HEMTT. My problem is this: at some point the rack of valves that operates the M977's Grove crane must have been dropped and three of the four lower 'caps' that the hydraulic valves handles rotate in...