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My M880 is now a terrific 10mpg Iowa farm truck. Its simple and easy to work on. Most chronic problems that I have encountered are shared by other 40 year old pickups, except these on mine are inexpensive to fix if you have the time, experience, tools, and patience. Fuel tank, vents and...

If the tank has more than 5 gallons in it, you have a farm tractor and loader or overhead structure and a comealong, lift the bed off. If the tank has less than 5 gallons, drop the tank. Either way, empty and clean the tank completely. I was able to drop my tank, drain it, and then use a piece...

As a CDL holder with 8 years of over the road 13sp & 10sp experience, two years of 10T, 5T, & 2 1/2t and four years of 4x2sp straight grain trucks; I believe you should shift however you have to to make a smooth complete shift, being as easy on equipment as you can be. You may have to walk...

Dirt, Congratulations on your work on this truck and a patiently constructed series of posts that have generated so many comments. I served a little less than a year with the 225th HEMCO at FtSill,OK. The 225th had two 10T tractors with Draggin Wagon trailers that I was assigned as a backup...

We studied and learned to adjust the T & E mechanism on a trailer mounted quad 50 in Armament School at APG in 1967. It had a small gas engine powering adjustable sheaves and v-belts, the sheaves on either side of a differential being controlled manually by the T&E control. If you adjusted...

Bulldawg, I relayed your well founded skepticism to one of my best friends who was a sp4 EOD technician RVN 1968-69. His opinion is that a 1/2" T1 steel plate welded into a 5T cargo bed pocket would probably be sufficient to reliably react the blast of a Claymore at least once, possibly several...

No, he didn't mention any FF casualties. He did say it beat up the sides and that it was hard to keep the T1 plates welded on. I didn't think to ask him how thick the T1 plates were.

In early 1968, a Warrant Officer assigned to Ft. Sill told me that he had served in 1967-68 in a Transportation Co. that ran convoys on Hiway 1. Due to ambushes, his unit put quad 50's in 5T's for convoy escort , front and rear. He didn't mention (or I have forgotten) gun trucks being named at...