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I watched her roll down the street with her new owner at the wheel...and I have to admit... a tear came to my eye.
You guys will like Unclemike....he seems like a great fella.
Everybody that inquired and showed interest...thank you so much.
Jimbo
I took my duece to town today to pick up a load of steel for a trailer i'm building.
After leaving the steelyard I shifted out of 1st high and hit 2nd and the tranny locked there. I couldnt get it out of 2nd for love nor money. I putted home that way on the side of the road....maybe 2-5 miles...
I need a little advice .
I'm guessing the switch on the narrow/front end of the duece airpak is the stoplite switch.
I have had a steady drip from my master cylinder <I thought> and DOT 5 is getting pretty expensive.
Anyway.....I changed my oil today and since I was a greasy mess I checked...
Backing the duece out of the garage this morning....I ran over my wifes lawnmower. damn I didnt see it.....hardly even felt it but crushed the shit out of it.
400 dollars later she now has a new Honda mower.
I sure coulda used that money.
Jimbo
I was mowing the backyard today and out of my rear garage was a huge explosion. No sh*t...it scared me for just a minute. It sounded like a 105 blast simulator.
I ran over to the garage... the ten foot rollup was up and looked in.....no fire, lots of dust. I couldnt for the life of me figure...
I have been looking for some GI green material to recover my seats.
I just happened to ask a buddy of mine who is a surplus dealer if he had seen any. He mentioned that nam era shelter halves were the same material and they were extremely plentiful and better yet.....cheap.
I picked one up...
Like most of you, my duece had cracked and broken windshield seals.
It was getting too bad to drive in the rain so I ordered a set from Teds Trucks.
I was dreading doing this but as it turned out the job wasnt too bad at all.
I had a bad drivers glass I had to replace anyway so it was a twofold...
I had had my duece fo a little over a year....all this time my wife has been wondering "why". Yesterday I showed her and all is well in my world.
We recently moved to rural Utah after I retired. I bought an acre with no landscaping. Its almost spring here so I decided it was time to amend the...
I have been reading what you guys that live in the cold country write about the Duece and snow. This morning I found out.
My Garage is 50 yards behind my house......I needed to move my Duece out so I could do some welding for my nephew.
Between the garage and the street is 50 yards of 2...
Driving thru Cedar City today I saw something that caused me to stop, back up, drive down the street and turn around and do it again.
It was an M35a2 with a cut in half wrecker truck made into a trailer, pintle hook and all.
The wrecker was cut just behind the cab and a six inch pipe tow hitch...
It warmed up enough today to do some work on Bubba. I dont know if its a common problem but my hood rattled terribly. Made the truck even more noisy than normal.My hinges were really worn and loose.
I bought a set of hood hinges and installed them....man what a difference in sound. Well worth...
I dont know how to do a link but it should be easy to find.Ebay
Its whats advertised as an M35a2.....but it aint.....it looks to be a long wheelbase M36......with a late model glass frontend......and the cab has been cutdown and modified to look like a WWII CCKW. It says it has a 50 gallon fuel...
I just recently moved from Las Vegas to South Central Utah.
In Vegas I had half a dozen requests to use my truck for the Veterans day parade. This week I called VFW and American Legion here and asked could they use the duece for their parade. Oh.....we dont do too much here for Veterans...
Hey guys....a question. If I was to go to the diesel parts guys and ask for tubing to replace the tubing from my injector pump to the injectors, what would I ask for specifically and what size ?
Thanks in advance
Drove the 200 miles Saturday morning. My truck ran like a dream, not even a shudder. The best part about the whole trip up I-15, which can be quite hilly, was that I never once had to downshift.....never even got close to downshift range.... DAMN I LOVE THIS TRUCK.
One problem though....i'm now...
I have been trying to win a set of cable pull air tank drains for months ,on Epay. They always wind up going way past 40 dollars.
Yesterday I went to the Kenworth truck dealer here in Vegas. The parts guy sold me a complete set of two, with cables, for less than 20 bucks.
Ebay is nuts.
jimbo
I just scored one of the new electronic lite switches....new in the box.
All it cost me was a pair of 900x20s and a camo soft top.
Now im gonna go install it. Report back in a bit.
When I bought my truck it had the camo softtop. I was really wanting a hardtop.
As I posted here a while back, I found a nice hardtop in Utah. I stripped it today prepped and painted it.....its now on my truck and it really improved the looks.
It was a lot more work to install than I was...