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    2- way radios

    I take my 923A2 on road trips from time to time, out of my small town. Question: what radios do you travel with? CB? GMRS? In a pickup truck, I have experience with 10 miles on GMRS and 5 ish with CB. With a shitty 2 meter antenna. I'm pretty sure I could go 15 or 20 miles on a good. Gmrs.radio
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    Cold WX operation A2 Truck Fuel Question

    Don't flame me with the usual "did you search" because I did. Context: Previous SO is a bus driver and her organization consistently had buses freeze up while in operation last winter. As in, a bus full of kids stalls out and quits on the road. Think -40F. It was 11 degrees here in Middle...
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    Slave Connector Battery Charger

    So I built a small battery charger that I connected to the slave connector of my M923, It cost me less than $100, and most of that was the big ass slave connector. It trickles 5 amps to the battery bank. Nothing major but it seems to keep the truck up. We in Montana went a solid month below...
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    M923A2 Cold Start

    So played and posted a "diesel cold start" with my A2 the other day and it truly didn't want to go at 2 below. Did with either shots. Question: do we have a small generator that makes power for 12V dc for the batteries, 120V for the block heater, and hot water to warm up water jackets?
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    So I Had to Use the Emergency Engine Stop Control Today...

    This was a new one for me today. Pulled my 923A2 into the commissary parking lot today, and when I turned off the ignition switch, the truck continued to run. Never flinched. Hmm I say. Interesting. Put the ignition back into run position and drove to our abandoned flightline, thinking if...
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    New M923A2 Owner: What Tools in the Travel Kit?

    So I have an A2 which behaves properly except CTIS below zero degrees F. I know how to get around it. Am thinking of taking my A2 on a trip to the east coast, some 2500 south and east. Lots of chatter about what people should carry with them as far as tools and possible spares. O-rings to...
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    M923A2 Recovery from Great Falls, Montana. My first MV

    So I've been scanning the forum a lot lately and have read extensively the what-to-watch-for and recovery threads. I'm amazed with the stories from the guys who bought vehicles 1000 miles away and bought them (won, I guess) from GL virtually sight unseen. This is not one of them. I recovered...
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    NOOB Question: Which truck to buy? Hi hours low miles or high miles low hours?

    So I'm a noob and have a M923A2 question: Which one to buy: Both trucks look and sound great. Truck 1 has 25,000 miles and 200 hours on the clock. Truck 2 has 16,000 miles and 850 hours on the clock. All apparent other things being equal, whats the best truck for a NOOB to buy? Neither the...
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