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Well finally got the new injector put and a very big thanks to Will Wagner for all his help. Here's a video of a short fun down the high way to see what kinda power difference there was after she was finally able to fire on all six cylinders. She can cruise 60 mph all day long.

Thanks to carnac here's some info on it. Nomenclature: Model: TRUCK TRACTOR 5-TON NSN: M818 Serial Number: 2320000508984 Registration Number: C12413379 5A06871 Year of Mfg: 1971 Sep 2005 info: It appears it was at one point with B Company 158th Aviation Regiment out of Camp Marby Tx Its...

Not yet but soon just have to finish paying off a few last bill before I'm ready to recover the m129a2c, aka the super camper.

Took the girls out for a small ride around the block last night. Took the oldest (Anny) and with ear muffs on, I took her up and around the block so she could get a full feel for the truck. nothing but smiles the hole way. When we got back I asked her what she thought and she said, "I'll love...

Auggie, I have a call in to will to see if a trick i usally do to clean the ip on my 6.2s will work with the 250 cummins, where I fill the the fuel filter up with diesel kleen and then start it and let the engine idle it threw the system. I usually works great in the 6.2s, and I have a buddy...

Ur close auggie. I had John up at the mil. museum take a ride with me in it and after a 3 mile trip or ride in it he says it has a plugged up injector, and the reason y its so hard to hear it at idle is because they or it is only slightly plugged up it is feeding enough fuel to make it idle but...

Well all the injectors and valves are set SPOT ON (grrrrrrrr) let it sit and run for two hours while we worked on it last night and the engines main problem I think it that it just needs to run and run and run some more. Still no power on the top end but it ideas on its own now with out the...

The shops actaully a buddy of mines, but I did do the lighting work in the shop.:) Yep and one better I'm going to put a video up, or two. Thinking walk around plus ride along. Augie can you give me a cal later on tonight? 317 522 6608 thanks.

Well finally got her home and up and running but still have a few problems to sort out. I'm lacking power on the top end and she won't go over 45 mph. So I'm thinking I need to do a valve and injector adjustment check...

An up date truck gets delivered saturday to the museum and if everything goes well I will have her up and running buy the end of the day, and if everything goes well maybe even super singled. MAYBE.

Oh don't worry. I will have to flush all the fuel lines they are all full of the red gew. I hate algae.

Well got the batteries to hold a charge and charge back up, so we are making progress already.

More pics too.

More pics.

Here's a few pictures I took Saturday morning. We end up doing a little drifting with the two trucks hook to gather on the way in to Tim's house for the night. Tim kept it out of the grass and everything just happen to hit a patch of black ice as we came around a corner from a dead stop, too...

Well Christmas was fun, the kids and my wife, more the wife then the kids, any how they got me a spare tire for the 818 all me and k5jeremy had to do was mount it on the fmtv rim I picked up. Here's a couple pictures of it with the kids. One down six more to rim in the spring when we go back up...

M820 or m35a2 will be the tow home truck just in case its needed, and yes we are planning on bring that massive tow bar with us to tow the support truck home, and all our tools, gen, air compressor, supplies, and so on.

Here's the tow bar they go on.

Got my tow bar feet to day, for my tow bar. I'm not sure if there big enough to handle the weight of my 818 rofl (just joking).

Have made some progress got the tanks all cleaned out and painted and bought anther rear storage box.