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Marvin was some cool guy, had his giant shop there in Tacna, and an auto parts store in Yuma.

I know that truck. It was designed to pull the tactical vehicle dynamometer trailer to different testing location on the million square mile Yuma Proving Grounds. t was sold thru DRMO years ago, and Marvin Tipton in Tacna, AZ bought it. When he passed, I don't know where it wound up.

My mom was born in Germany, so I have a bit of Benz blood. I still drive their cars today, tho nothing that modern.

This is the lever assembly you want: eBay 235401329602 or one like it. It is the most robust one out there. Nartron makes a lot of the OEM electrical parts for the HumV, don't see any clones of them for sale.

The only time MPG is a concern, is when I'm taking it on a longer trip, and where to buy fuel at the best deal. Or if I should load up some barrels to cover the trip, like I did in California. Locally, I don't care.

The Mack engines seem to get a little better mileage than the multifuels, from what I've heard. When I was driving to the Big Bear rally in Modesto, Ca, it was a about 750 mi from home, and I used a bit over 100 gallons of Diesel. A friend of mine had a gasser M54, he got a bit over 3MPG. Ouch.

Howzabout "Dark Matter"?

And the solid-state flasher modules are potted in epoxy...

I'd put a 10 amp fuse inline with the overall power feed to the directionals system. Even with the 'real deal' parts, they are very prone to failure from even a bulb burning out and causing a very quick short. Trailer wiring faults can cause a multitude of sins in the system as well.

If I ever did a nanotube black paintjob on a truck, it would be named the "Black Hole".

That is my average, in putting over 25,000 miles on it since it came from the auction back in the early 90's.

There was dried-out Foxtail grass everywhere, and I got most of it soaked on the leeward side of the fence so it wouldn't burn thru before the VFD arrived.

My M54A1 gets 7MPG in hot weather, 7.5 in cold.

I fired up the old girl in a hurry and got her out of the path of this brushfire we had last Friday. It came right up to our fenceline, luckily I had enough time to get some water on that area so it didn't cross. All told, it burned almost a hundred acres of nearby desert, but no structures...

I won't do civvy big truck wheels with radials or lockrings.. One is a bitch, the other is just too sketchy.

Military LTS wheels are the safest lockring wheels made. The part of the ring that goes down into the tire keeps it from coming off as soon as the tire has maybe 10PSI in it. Over 50 years changing these wheels, never even had a close call.

Chances might be your new loom is an older version, and doesn't have provisions for turn signals at all. It is easy to add the necessary wires along the existing pathways, and wrap the whole thing in tape again to cover the added wiring.

I'll never understand why a shop will stall out a 1 inch impact wrench on every nut. They never think how some poor guy will have to change a tire in the field. That, and such extreme torque can waller out the hole taper badly or even split the rim where it is close to the center hole...

You have to run the starter to turn the dist to open & close the points to get spark, and not with a meter. Just a jumper from ground to close to the HV end of the coil.

The motor pool shop at Yuma Proving Grounds always flushed brake systems with denatured alcohol, weather Dot 3 or 5. That catches any moisture as well.