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Look up the Alcan 5000 rally, http://www.alcan5000.com/ Registration is a little steep however...$3k. The deuce might do well in it's class as there won't be that much competition in the Historical class.

This all boils down to how much of a hurry you're in. I've taken my deuce over mountain passes 5 times (paved highway). At one point I had to shift down into 3rd, but I still got where I was going.

Oh, thought you were talking about leaving from Woodinville. Take the ferry to Whittier, and drive north 400 miles. On the other hand...there are 2 rallies every year that involve the Alcan (winter and summer) time it right and join one :) I laid one of the old shoes on top of one of the...

Just now came across this thread and being as it's been 2+ years, how do you think the performance of the pre-cleaner has been to the life expectancy of the air filter?

Thought I should provide a counterpoint argument to some of the trepidations brought up in this thread. I'm not a mechanic. Was never in the military, and never even drove anything bigger than a pick up truck. I'm good at reading things and learning how things work. And I've never been...

You could always take the ferry.

The cams swing fine. It looks like if both the holes for the guide pins were just a little deeper that the shoes would fit right. To the eye the shoes look like they're identically the same as the old shoes, but maybe there's a minute difference. It might be a problem I'll tinker with at a...

Have you ever read the stuff about what AAA covers? They don't cover every vehicle and for the price they charge, I wouldn't expect them too. The average car weighs less than 2 tons and the deuce weighs over 6. I think it's a little unrealistic to expect AAA to tow a semi truck, and the deuce...

Someplace closer than Winlock... Update: The #2 axle, passenger side was dropping oil, pulled the hub today (Saturday). It appears the shop I took it to, when they decided to pull the hub apart they didn't have the socket to remove the adjusting nuts so they used a chisel and put a divot in...

They can bring you 5 gal of diesel.;-) I don't rely on AAA, it's just another tool for the tool box. I also carry tools. Life is short, have fun, worry about the problems when you're dead.

When I was first looking for a deuce I toyed with the idea of getting one transported to me. My research showed that if you had all the time in the world and could afford to move it when it was convenient to a given shipper the price was close to a $1/mile. If you want it now, the price was...

Bellingham

The only way that would be true in mine would be if it were Km.

I haven't really had the opportunity to pull the hubs since I got it back. It's starting to warm up here (finally) and I'm hot to build a storage building so I can store stuff I'm currently storing in the back of the deuce (like the spare engine that's taking up a significant amount of the...

According to the literature AAA does not cover a vehicle the size of a deuce. However... I have used AAA twice for my deuce. Both times when the AAA operator asked what kind of vehicle I answered and just didn't go into much detail. I said it was an American General truck, year: 1971. I...

Unfortunately, time is not the problem, opportunity is. Finding a place that is safe to jack the wheels and work on the truck in today's litigious and insurance society is the challenge.

If you put 46" tires on it, 15% bigger than the stock 40" tires, then it will go 15% faster which brings the top speed from ~55 mph to ~62mph. You'll also get slightly better mpg (mine went from 8 to 9). If your plan is to turn this into anything other than what it is, then you can throw all...

I have one of those, they know the truck and I've had them do some work on it. However, as the brakes were smoking/dragging I didn't want to go too far and was hoping a local commercial truck shop could simply adjust the brakes.

I got the distinct impression that they didn't know what they were doing when I first spoke to them during the work. I sent them the TM and a youtube link explaining how to adjust the brakes after my first conversation with them. I suspect that they might have then taken the wheels off, but I...

Recently flipped the hubs in the rear with a friend, though really I was the one helping him as he's a professional car mechanic. While we were at it, we cleaned everything up, put in new grease and checked the brakes, putting in new seals, etc. On one side, the center (#2) axle, oil had...