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Water hose, dish soap, green scritch pads for prep. Powered wire brush for any rusty spots.

A couple of years ago my buddy went to recover a stuck truck for an acquaintance. F150. He yanked on it in low range reverse and broke the output shaft on his deuce's transmission. His deuce went home on towbars and has sat ever since. This weekend we got the opportunity to swap out the broken...

Could be anything from a burned up generator and a locked up engine... to a fully functional set that needs absolutely nothing. My best guess says check fluids and mount batteries and see what happens.

Emphatically this. Just go spend $50 on magnetic tow lights. Quick, easy, effective. No piddling with lights while GP is standing there tapping their feet in a hurry for you to go. And hacking on the trailer's lighting reduces trailer value by more than the $50 you'll spend on lights.

TX explicitly allows for registration and on road use of milsurp HMMWVs, explicitly including the ones with the offroad stamp. Many states are willing to title and register them. KS is hit or miss. Edit to add link to TX's law. And to suggest it as a model...

Nonsense. Your best bet of using it on the road is to live in a state that allows registration or change your state's laws to look more like TX or ID.

A wire brush powered by an angle grinder if I can reach it with that. Sandblaster for those hard to reach places.

The parking brake is a futile gesture at anything over a walking speed. After you have dumped most of the forward momentum via other means, the parking brake will get you that last little bit from 5mph to stopped. Prevention is the solution. As David said above - diligent maintenance will...

Full airbrakes with springbrakes is the safest system on the road. Single circuit air over hydraulic is probably the least safe. You're post comes across like you're worried about the air side. That's not where the worry is. The worry is on the hydraulic side. There really is no good...

I've seen knockoffs made from PVC instead of the cast aluminum. Sounded more or less the same and still 130-150dB. Cost about 1/4.

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Running any diesel engine lightly loaded results in unburned fuel in the exhaust, causing an accumulation of a gooey wet substance. This reduces the ability for the engine to make the rated power and also causes accelerated wear. The treatment once it has happened is gradual loading of the...

If I'm going to the expense of having something completely sandblasted, I'm probably going to have it shot with a zinc type primer and CARC immediately afterwards.

My first thought also, but that wouldn't stop when the compressor is disconnected.

Edward's Canvas in Paul's Valley OK does excellent canvas work. The stock cargo covers are extremely hot in the summer.

Don't you have train horns?

Not exclusively. The campground on Mt Lemmon objected to my M925 because "it's too big" . They relented when I demonstrated that I could get it into a standard parking space.

I get (and give) the wave in my hmmwv, and also in my 5tons for that matter. I'd say maybe this is a regional thing, but my experiences include AZ to GA. So maybe the jeep exclusion thing is specific to TX. We (the MV enthusiasts) and the jeep crowd have a lot more in common with each other...

A sample size of one doesn't mean much. They may have said no to the guy in front of you and the guy behind you. My experience has been that DMVs are anything but consistent. (Personal experience, multiple states, multiple vehicles. I've even gotten different information from the same clerk on...

MTVR specific questions should probably be directed towards elijah95 as he recently drove one from California to Georgia. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/mtvr-recovery-from-yermo-cali-to-georgia.189877/page-4#post-2244095 As to transmission differences between the 5speed manual in the...