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That is most likely the controller itself. The contacts inside it can burn out. Easy way to check though. On the controller, remove the amphenol plug. Pin number G, or wire number 460/461 is the power in. Make a short jumper wire with either a fuse in the middle or else through a lightbulb. This...

There would be no modification. One wire is for the running light. This wire would be marked #21. The other wire is for the brake/turn signal. This wire would be marked 22-460 (right side) or 22-461 (left side). The brake switch feed goes through the turn signal switch handle before heading to...

The upper rifle bracket is the item shown next to the passenger seat. The deuces had the FN brackets ( upper clips as shown and lower rubber cups) and usually an SMG bracket for the Canadian Sterling type C1 SMG also in the cab. In the photos shown, you can see most of the smg bracket mounted...

There were no total rebuilds of the deuces that I knew of.....the Cdn army always seemed to have a surplus of these trucks. We had a good number of them in war storage/long term preservation when I worked in Winnipeg in the early 80s. The add on sticker merely meant the speedometer was replaced...

I have found some of the newer generation of switches sufferred in their design. The heat of having nearly 20 amps of current running through them causes the little thermal circuit breaker in the switch to melt the plastic/nylon plate that it is built into, resulting in failure of the lighting...

Most likely the input seal for the transmission has gone. The threaded hole was only plugged if you took the truck fording. You installed the plug before entering the water, and removed it after exiting the water. As a mechanic in the Cdn military, I got a Sunday recovery call to repair a...

My experience with the batteries in the 24volt systems are that they must be of similar size and similar condition. Otherwise, during starting, the weaker battery will discharge quicker, and during charging, the battery in good shape will charge first while the weak battery will resist the...

I recently started my deuce engine that had not been run for 28 years, and had the valve cover off all that time. I had to remove the head to free up valves, and oiled the cylinders at that time. After cleaning out the oil pan and installing fresh oil, I did the drill thing with a screwdriver...

If the front wheels are leaking, it could be that the cylinders are gummed up. When the wheels lock up on the gravel, is there any indication which wheels are locking? If it is in the rear, then it could also be a collapsed flex line. They have been known to let fluid through, but not return...

Is that a perfection coolant heater in the third shot of the M207? Does the truck have the insulated battery boxes with the warming pans in the bottom? What is the inside of the box like?

The manuals cover what each is meant to do. There is no one "go to" manual. For instance, wrt the topic covered in this thread, I would go to the operators manual (which for the Canadian trucks is CDN-OM9-819A). Even better would be to find a copy of the later Canadian Forces Technical order DU...

I just want to relate my experience with the oils used in the M135Cdn. When I joined the service in 1978, we were pretty much changed on the engine oils, going from the single weight oils (30 in summer, 10 in winter) to 10W30. We ran all the transmissions on straight 10W all year round, although...

Your last two links relate more to the WW2 markings and colours. The guide is a bit more for modellers, and unfortunately, the colours are only as good as the settings on your monitor. I have the origianl Government board paint chips for these, and even they are not a good match to original...

Actually we Canadians used an off white/tan/ colour on our cam patterns just before the three colour cam consisting of 2 shades of green and one shade of black came in (pre 1976). The BATUS the camoflauge is a pale yellow and green. Don't head to Manitoba if you are trying to get away from...

Here is a shot of another BATUS deuce, circa 1976. Ever wonder why it is so hard to find a perfect roof on a Cdn deuce? It's cause apparently lawn chairs weren't invented back then.

If you go to Maple Leaf up forum, and do a search for Batus, you will see a thread or two on the British use of the old M135s in Suffield. Not sure if they leased or purchased them from us, but looking at the photos of them in British service, the time period would have been about the mid to...

That looks like one of the British used deuces from BATUS that we were talking about on another forum.

You can try a slidehammer on the stuck valves to bring them back up. Unfortunately, with the springs compressed and the other valves still in place, it may be hard to get anything to grip the caps with a lot of force. Gaskets are available, and pulling the head will let you clean up the valves...

I think I have mentioned this before, but if you go to the larger Canadian cylinders (or back to the smaller ones) you have to change the pins to match. The pins come with the new cylinders, so not sure why someone wouldn't, but it used to happen. The brakes will lock up if you use old pins with...

It never fails to amaze me how far some of these Cdn trucks will migrate over the years. The single arm mirrors would seem to indicate that the truck was an early release. The Canadian military went through a real downsizing in the early 70s under a Liberal government. These trucks are the ones...