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Ownership of the Untouchable has again changed hands. Congradulations to Bud Whitehead of Knoxville Tenn. He is the new and very proud owner. I'm sure he will have a lot of fun with it and it will be better utilized in an area with lots of Vets. He has a larger support team available to him...
We took the Untouchable to the USAHCand Museum over the weekend. We wer joined by Satans Lil Angel. the weather was beautiful for the two day event. Rod Keckler and Wayne Dobos and Edd pavlic and I were in attendance along with Dave Coward and Bill Parks who bought his 124 Trans Deuce...
Fixed the brakes on my new M54 five ton. Hooked up a water buffalo and we are all set to go to the MTA show up in Sussex County. We will be there from friday until Sunday.
The M816 went out for exercise the other day. Paul had trouble with the front wheel locking up. We went to recover it but it was impisible to flat tow because of the bad front wheel. We managed to get it off the road and the next day, it was towed into the motor pool.
After removing the...
Got my new M54 a2 today. It is a 1969 a2 Kiaser with dropsides. When I got to the sellers home to pick it up,and finalize the title, the seller had it running already. She has been sitting for a while and w looked it over again. It has the Herculees Multifuel engine in it. There is rust in all...
I stopped by a friend in NJ yesterday. His name is Kieth Boda. He is recently retired from the Guard. He has decided to build "Otto" a 3/4 ton guntruck. He needs some pictures, specifications on proper equipment. as well as unit markings. We have offered to help him with the build here in...
I have a hummvee differential on the bench right now. It needs a new bering on the pinion shaft. I removed the rear cover and cannot figure out how to to proceed. There are no manuals that show how to do much more than removal of the unit or replacing the seals. I took it to a trans/...
I have been working on the ole girl since I bought it from Parker. Wed I happened to check my mail and saw a Red Ball member was selling his 69 M54. It is a dropside and has only a little rust on one of the rocker panels in the right side. We will be picking it up shortly. I went to look it...
Just got my new issue of Supply Line from the MVPA. It also had the 2012 Calender with it.
Opened the calender and looked through all the great vehicles that were featured. The Untouchable is featured for the month of July. For those of you who subscribe to the mag, Check it out. This...
We are at the beginning stage of a new deuce project. We have a 72 "whistler deuce". It has been sitting in the yard for a couple years and Vinnys10 decided that he wants to do a stretch cab and add a dump body to it. At this point we are just getting it running again.
We have already had...
We went up to Ft Drum last weekend and lost the power steering in my five ton M-54, When we got back to the farm, we took it all apart and discovered the shaft between the drive gear and the pump motor had sheared off. The shaft is a good hslf inch thick. There is no other damage except the...
I just posted a reply but I can't find it, so here is the latest news on The Untouchable. My nephew is installing the pyro on it this weekend. The one he ordered came 12V powered. Now the problem is getting it to run on the 24V system. His solution is to run wires off only one battery to a...
Gentlemen, My nephew has just finished rebuilding the engine in my guntruck and we took it out for a spin. The readings on the fuel pressure were in the range of 50 psi and the boost, read at the intake manifold. It was 30-35 psi while running at 2500 rpm and at 60-65 mph. Jatonka says that...
Just wanted to give a shortend AAR for this years Gathering. The Untouchable almost made it under its own power untill we got to Indiantown Gap Pa. We were rolling along when the engine gave a litltle hickup then a loud bang and it lost all power whe the engine quit. We brought it to a safe stop...
Well the bad news is we blew up the injector pump on The Untouchable Guntruck on the way out to Carlisle for the gathering. The good news is that we scored a replaceemnt. The replacement is from a deuce so we will be taking the govenor assy and only using that. I understand that we have to...
What mark do you set the timing on the harmonic balancer on a LDS-465-1A engine.Do you set timing on the single line or do set on the engine number that is stamped in the balancer?Please e-mail me at fordj@frontiernet.net thank you very much.
Just a reminder that the Untouchable guntruck has arrived at the mansion in Tenn. It will R&R there until we are joined by Satans lil Angel which wil be transported down in Aug. Come on down on 5 Aug to see what promises to be most gun trucks assembled out side of Vietnam. This is historical...