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I learned several things on this 2500 mile, 13 month saga: TM manuals on a flash drive can be a life saver. Read the TMs about how to operate the vehicle before you arrive at GL. There are five switches on the dash of an M923 that can kill the battery if you don’t turn ALL of them off. If you...

You might have; are you the guy who gave me the tire tool? If yes, thanks. It is about to come in handy. The 109 was for Bushmaster5000 and yes, he still has it, though it has problems. I do have my own, and it is non-turbo and sick. I believe you came in a CUCV which you towed home behind...

That would be preferable to having to reconfigure each time. I will definitely look into it.

Well, I'm home and the truck is too, almost. I think it probably believes that it belongs to Walmart because it has spent the last three nights in one Walmart parking lot or another. I live south-east of Denver and the truck's new home will be north. There is a Walmart halfway in between...

Here's another idea you can steal from the Army: in the 70's in the 244th Engr. Bn we had an old dozer with a pony engine. The pony had both a pull start and a battery start. The trouble was it was harder to start than any diesel I ever worked on. One GI was up on the track shooting ether and...

It'a New Years night; my truck is sitting in a Walmart lot in Hayes Kansas and my wife, the chase car driver, and I are holed up in a Motel 6 waiting for the storm to blow over. It took longer to get the trailer ready for the road than I expected, so we only got to the north end of Ft. Worth...

IT LIVES !! The thing I like about this web site is the good advice. I believe ALL of you are right, at least in context. Speaking as an engineer, doghead is absolutely right, as long as everything is turned off. If you have the time, a day per battery, do it, but on some schedule clean all...

I took off one end of each of the short straps that connects them into 24v pairs. That leaves the neg on 2 bats connected to the neg rail and the pos on the other two connected to the pos rail. Then I took some short cables I built w/alligator clips and connected the open neg posts (or cable) to...

They are 6TMF and they look like they were new when I picked up the truck in Nov., 2012. Yeah, uh huh, I’m in Backwater, TX. The truck was a “Vehicle does not run”. The GL guy jumped it with an M923A2 and it not only cranked, it started right off (weather was 70). Batteries started it fine...

The short story: It has sat for 13 months after a trip from Georgia to Texas. Batteries were dead. I disconnected them and connected them up into a 12v parallel string and put a regular car charger on them. I charged them for 14 hr., but it was like they were half dead and won't turn the engine...

On M37 3/4 trucks the front and rear brake drums are interchangeable. In 1/11th arty, 1969, I had an M37 that had had the LF drum switched with the RR drum, giving me right lug nuts on both front wheels and left lug nuts on both rear wheels. I knew about the LL and RR bit and about broke a lug...

We'll get together sometime, somehow, somewhere. My whole thing is up in the air. My deuce doesn't have the power to haul that box up a mountain. I am going to TX over the holiday to bring home an M923A1.

Thanks, I guess I won't have to patronize Harbor Freight 'cause I have a deuce tool.

Pictures of anything coming BACK from Vietnam is RARE. Even early in the "war", it usually got scrapped or given to the ARVNs. The first picture of of an eight inch self propelled howitzer. The other two are of an M60 tank.

Last call.

I'm going to be roading an M923A1 from TX to CO, but first I have to deal with a blown tire on a duel. So that I know what tools to take, what are the lug nut sizes, front and back? I'm probably going to help the Chinese with their economy by shopping at Harbor Freight.

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You guys have convinced me that a block heater is a good thing. Can you recommend a source? I'm going to TX in late Dec. to retrieve my M923A1 with an NHC-250 and want to cover all bases.

You sound like you know what you’re doing so this is more of a question than a suggestion: doesn’t picking the dump truck instead of the Dodge d350 mean that you will need a CDL license to drive it because of the GVW rating? This is a suggestion: It will be difficult to find any place to put...

Height restriction east of the Missippi is 13' 6". An M109 requires a lowboy because it's already 11', but an M35 should come in OK.