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Ok, I need someone to clarify the way the front axle engagement is supposed to work in my 1954 5 ton bridge truck. does it only work in 1st and reverse? or should it work in ANY gear? I am not sure it is working properly at all, i may be imagining it, but it seemed to only work in first when i...

Well, after watching the video of the deuce doing donuts in the snow the other day, i just had to do it myself in my bridge truck. I have the 16x20 tires on it singled out so i wasn't sure that it would even spin the tires in the snow. it snowed about 4-6 inches of real powdery snow last night...

Here is the first of MANY mods this bridge truck will go through. It will get the 53's, 4 door cab and a 12 foot bed in the next few weeks. I have the xzl's on now, bed will come next week, and the 4 door cab the next week. The bridge truck had the 14.00x20 on it, it is now narrow nuff in the...

m139 series truck with a 5 speed, the one with the 4th and 5th gears revered. I drianed the oil ouit today and it was a reddish color, almost like atf, but almost as thick as 80-90 gear lube. what was the stuff and what do i replace it with? I put 80-90 in it for now, hoe thats right.....let me...

How much oil do the diffs on the 5-ton take to fill? I want to drain and refill all the diffs, the trans and the transfer case. Does anyone know how much each takes by any chance?

What are anyones thoughts about using waste oil in a 6-71 detroit? I have several hundred gallons of the stuff that I can use. I was goping to filter some, and cut it 50/50 with diesel. Not sure that the motor not being a multi fuel and also being a 2 stroke how it would work. What do ya'll think?

Well, I did it, i got a new elmo truck. as you guys know, I sold the old elmo truck,,,it was called elmo cause it was painted blue, red and yellow, looked like somehting from sesame street. The NEW elmo truck is called elmo cause its Extra Long Monsterous and Oversized. Its a 5 ton bridge truck...

A friend of mine gave me some pictures of a ferret in service. The caption on the back says "reforger 1991 british kasern paderborn" You can clearly see the reg # on the mk2/3. He says he may have other pics and will look for them.

Maybe some of you dont know, but the ONLY WWI museum and memorial is right here in Kansas City. Every Memorial day weekend our local MVPA group (Kansas City Hell on Wheels) has a display and showing right on the memorial grounds. There is camping allowed as several of us stay over nite. There...

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well, sunday morning was yet another first for me and certainly has to be another first in the nistory books. On saturday at the t-bones baseball game the national guard armory had a Bradley on display. It WASNT hauled in on a trailer! It was driven in from the 18th street armory. I asked when...

Well, there has always got to be a first for everything hasent there? I tool the ferret out to the Good Guys hot rod show here in Kansas City this weekend. It was held at the Kansas Speedway. For those that dont know, that is only a few miles from my house actually. The first first this weeknd...

well, sunday morning was yet another first for me and certainly has to be another first in the nistory books. On saturday at the t-bones baseball game the national guard armory had a Bradley on display. It WASNT hauled in on a trailer! It was driven in from the 18th street armory. I asked when...

I went on a weekend vacation to Branson, MO this weekend. I saw a few mil-vehicles here and there. I snapped pics of all that I saw. Yeah, it drove my girl friend nuts, I would drive down the road and stop, back up because I saw somehting that struck my eye. Well, this thing certainly did! I...

Well, I am having to sell Elmo the duece. You can view him on ebay. He has gotta go pretty quick. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280103617885

Well, It got warm enough to go out and work on Elmo this weekend. I decided I was going to at least make sure the breakes were working on him. The master cylinder as almost completely dry. I filled it full of fluid and started looking for leaks. I was told when I bought him that the previous...

I was looking at thison ebay. Find it intresting that this M113 was NEVER owned by the military? Is this possible? Would the mfg sell one to privte hands? I didnt think that was possible at all. Is this just a story or is it even possible...

I ahve a question about this "REB" kit for the auto trannies. Are thee any internal mods done to the trans? I ahve a chance to buy a reman trans. It was rebuilt supposedly by memphis quite some time ago and ahs sat on a shlef as a spare. I dont know anyhting else about it. It ahs no converter...

Well, I went out and started it up again today, still smokes, but then again there WAS oil dripping from the muffler, I did shut it down, wait for it to cool, flushed water down the exhuast pipe and punched a hole in the back of the muffler. that took a lot out of it. It now just steams like...

Well, I went outside to work on my sesame street elmo truck today. It has an electric fuel pump added to he left inner fender. I already had the carb off to clean it out. I tested the elect pumps pressure,,,,20 psi!! A bit too much for the carb to handle I know. So I added a regulator to it for...