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    Is this a sign my injector pump is going out?

    Driving my M1009 this weekend and had a new issue come up. Any time I am accelerating and let off the pedal immediately rather then gently letting off of it the engine stalls and dies. This does not happen at speed but when I am in first gear or going under about 35 mph. If I baby the pedal...
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    M37 needs saving in Chouteau, OK....

    Saw this sitting out front of a auto recycling place in Chouteau Oklahoma... Number list of recycle center on main building 918-476-6028
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    Tons of M1009s in the movie Buffalo Soldiers...

    Saw the movie Buffalo Soldiers today. It was made back in 2001. Seems like every scene had M1009s in it with various configurations. The movie was meh...kinda feels like they were trying to make a full metal jacket type movie but for those who served in Germany in the 1980s. IMDb - Buffalo...
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    Any one heading out to Camp Shelby before the 3rd?

    PM me because I wanted to see if you could inspect some items for me.
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    Thinking about redoing an older "restoration" of mine...

    Thinking about redoing a “restoration” of mine. In 2009 I purchased a 1952 M38A1 that has never been restored. After its service in the military it was assigned to the Civil Defense Force and painted orange. It was given to the university of Nebraska forest service department in 1974, at...
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    Shag carpet in M1009...from the goverment!

    I just had to post this....its not a civilian that did this....
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    Well I think my speedo just killed itself....

    Was driving to work this morning and started to hear this screaming noise. Looked down and my speedo was going crazy. I think it even did a few laps... I lubed the cable up about 7 months ago hoping to solve a bounce issue and it has worked fined since then until now. My odometer still...
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    M1009 really hard to put into Drive...

    Last weekend I took the M1009 to work and when I shifted from reverse to drive it took a bit of force to get it to shift into drive. Well I took the M1009 out again today and when I tried to shift it from park into drive it did the same thing. Once I manage to get it into drive it shifts from...
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    Ok which one of you was it with this Bell UH1?

    A friend from facebook snapped these pictures.
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    Spotted Tan HMMWV near Kyle Texas...

    I was driving my M38A1 this morning and was turning around in the Barton middle school parking lot. I saw you turn at the intersection in a Tan HMMWV with NATO invasion stripes... Any of you guys, this road is not exactly a route I would expect to see a military owned HMMWV to be traveling?
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    All the Group 31 batteries I look at have the wrong post...

    The batteries in my M1009 are now completely dead... I need to replace the military ones with a civilian equivalent that works. Using the search function it seems the Group 31s are the ones to go with. My only problem is the battery post on them are different. Are there two different...
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    Any of you guys win those dueces in San Antonio on May 19?

    One of them looked really clean...
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    Where exactly do you guys find the hulls for these things...

    You really don't see these things (the V-100) come up in auctions at all. Are most of these things surplussed range targets?
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    Saudi Arabia for parts?

    I was watching some documentary on the invasion of Kuwait and it looked like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia had a large number of these vehicles. Have any of you thought about going to one of these countries and buying rare spares like transfer cases and wheels?
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    Need help finding a bracket for my hand throttle mod...

    I am trying to find a bracket similar to the one Barrman used on his hand throttle mod. I tried searching for throttle cable brackets, control cable brackets, ect but all I could find were types that were unique to a specific application. Do these things have a specific name?
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    Increase in fuel economy with Banks turbo?

    I am keeping a mileage log with my M1009 and at the moment I am getting the following: 16/17 MPG Mixed Driving (City and Highway) 22 MPG (Highway only) @ 55-60 mph I have a BANKs turbo setup I have not installed yet (waiting till fall). For those who have the 6.2 Liter Banks Sidewinder...
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    IH35..South of Austin...Deuce with rims stacked in bed...

    Any of you guys? About 8:30 am this morning out side of San Marcos a Deuce was heeding North IH35 and the bed was full of spare rims and tires. I was heeding south so I could not see if it had any marking. Whoever it was had probably 10-20 rims with spare tires.
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    Build a WW1 Fighter replica for less then the price of a sedan!

    For the past year or so I have noticed a lot of WW1 planes flying around my local area and thought it was the CAF. Well come to find out it is some locals who bought replica kits and put them together in their garage. You can't even tell they are kits. And they disassemble for travel on a...
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    What did the AH1 Cobras on GSA go for?

    GSA had 4 AH1 Cobras up for auction and last I looked on Thurs. They were around 4k when I last looked. The auction ended yesterday. They would have made an awesome display to trailer around. Any one here get them?
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    Ok who rolled thier Deuce near Uhland Texas?

    Had a buddy of mine in class today mention some one rolled their deuce on its side outside Uhland Texas on one of the slick roads this morning. He said it looked like they tried to go around a corner and slid and the truck went on its side. There was some kind of large wrecker trying to...
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