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Short notice, but there's a Vietnam Veteran Car Show in Bellingham on Sunday (the 23rd). I had my deuce at another classic car show this past Sat, in Lynden, when I was handed a flyer for this coming show. It's not an MV event, and after e-mailing the coordinator it looks like mine is the only...

I can't answer your question, but just wondering, easily raises it how, like with a lift strut?

My 1100 mile trip when I first bought my deuce I got ~8 mpg. Almost all freeway speeds around 55, sometimes as high as 58. I've read other threads about people getting as high as 12 mpg, though 9-10 seems more common. I've been running straight diesel. My trip did include driving over the...

Search ebay for "mrap adapter plates" This is where I got mine, identical to the ones mentioned elsewhere here, as far as I could tell. I bought the bolts from Tri-State Fasteners.

You can do it on a budget, if you have access to army surplus tires. My set up came in around $2k and I think if I did it again I could do it for less. To be on topic, I read on Friday about a classic car show in a neighboring town on Saturday, called to see if they'd be ok with my classic and...

I'm gonna start this by saying I'm fine with the original seat, though there was too much cushion in the back. So, I have no intention of changing it out. I recently did reupholster the driver's side seat, the canvas was ripped and decided to take the pieces to a pro. I had removed the frame...

I don't know if it'll fit the deuce, but doing a little bit of research here, I found 2 threads where people said they took the bed to the crusher and the weight came in south of 1600 lbs. Another thread about the M1078 had their bed at 2360 lbs. Even if there were some issues about what...

I have cable valves on my truck, they're a budget solution. $18/pair at Big Mike's.

My center offset rims don't rub. I have a couple of spare ones if you're interested, we're close by (I'm in B'ham) if you want to consider it.

GCR (a big truck tire chain) charged me $500 to repair/swap three 395's and dismount 2 others so I could dispose of them. They were gonna charge me another $100 for disposal, but I got a better deal myself from the local dump ($20/each). The wheel type are the green ones in the pic and another...

An idea popped into my head last night and I thought I'd run some of it by people here. I know there are keyed power switched out there, but I want to go a step further and customize it a bit more. Is the power switch as simple as completing a circuit? What I'm thinking of doing is using a...

In addition to solar, had you considered wind as well? Not instead of, but as accompanying.

My best advice is more seat time. Only owned the truck a short time, but I've put about 1200 miles on it in 2 months. Getting comfortable with it helps. I see this when I let friends drive it and I can see how awkward they feel. The steering was daunting when I first started, but I've...

This doesn't seem too high to me. Mine idles at 850.

I didn't see this mentioned, so just want to ask, is your in tank pump doing ok?

They are 50/50 or zero offset. I'm still mulling over flipping the hubs in the rear - my biggest concern is putting stress on the bearings. Planning on overhauling the hubs later this summer, may do it then. Half the wheels have lock rings, half just bolt together in the middle, they don't...

Bit of an update to my post yesterday. Took the deuce to an off road area about 40 miles away. It's mostly for dirt bikes and atv's. There are gates everywhere and they say if you can go around the gate you can drive there, though I don't think they had my truck in mind so I didn't think I...

I lowered the ground around my deuce today (Sat). My work has fleet vehicles and our own shop/mechanic. The mechanic has taken a liking to the deuce and helped once he got off work. Took the 2 of us 5 hours, including clean up. I bought a 3/4" impact wrench for the job, had to rent a...

If you decide to go the super single route keep in mind the added costs of changing the wheels (rims to some people) or going with adapters. There are articles and videos on youtube about people putting a 395 on a stock deuce wheel but it's not something I'd feel comfortable doing. If you go...

Mine doesn't really feel like it's cruising until I've been driving for 20 min. At the point the top speed seems to creep up a little to about 57 on a flat grade. I'm planning on changing my wheels/tires mostly out of reasons for looks. There are good reasons to switch and good reasons to...