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Ok guys, so I usually lurk around more than post so first, I would like to thank the whole Steel Soldiers community for all the info I have gathered from this forum. I figured I would give back by sharing my lift experience for anyone else who wanted more on possible options. I know that when I...

I painted the M1008 today. Well, most of the M1008. I thought I could stretch a gallon, and I almost did, but I will need another quart for the middle of the roof and the headlight buckets, grille, and mirrors. I used a BASF industrial paint. It's an alkyd enamel that you mix 4:1 with a...

Well, here's the story. I bought my M1008 a week or two ago and noticed from the very start that it was hard to start but ran like a bat out of **** after the initial hard start. During initial inspection I noticed 2 glow plug connectors had worked themselves off glow plugs, one on each bank. I...

Hey SS members, I'm a MV newbie from Virginia Beach, VA. Just bought myself an 85 M1008A1 with 28,000 miles. Mechanically it seems exceptionally clean, just suffered the same fate as most other M1008's, an overzealous forklift operator at loadout. I have the caved door and bent driveshaft. Just...