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Even the Army is not stupid enough to rebuilt 808s into 939s. What they did was order enough 939s for the high priority deployable units. Then push their 809s and any not issued from depot down on lower priority and reserve components which would then allow them to surplus off their M54A1 and 2s...

Also if any of this type work ever went on it would have been a long time ago, like early 1980s and any DOD civilian or military personnel involved have been retired for a very long time.

I seriously doubt any significant rebuilding of M 809 series trucks into M 939s occurred. Maybe one someplace to test the concept. Too many parts are different between the two to make it economic or easy to convert trucks already in the field from 809s tom 939s. I saw M809 trucks converted to...

It has not escaped notice that a lot of "fuzzy" information gets out on this site based on what someone thinks someone else thought about the subject at hand.@ Doyle's comment in post 18 is plausible: a "one off" unit could be built to test something, but there is no hard info on this as to when...

Hope we can hear from Doyle on what he has on rebuilding M39s into 809 series. Pictures, Production numbers ? I imagine production would be limited. On the face of it it appears to be an inefficient way to do business but that wouldn't bother the Army . A prototype to test the concept ? The...

I have seen M 54s and M35s upgraded to A1 and A 2 status. I have seen M35A2s made into A 3s. I have seen the steering gear from wrecked 809 series trucks transplanted to M62s. But I have never seen a M39 series truck like an M 54 turned into an 809 because as mentioned in post 10, the frame and...

M809s have 5 speed manual transmissions and air over hydraulic brakes. Can you shift gears ? I understand 80% of the current US population can not do this. 900s have straight airbrakes and automatic transmissions. All of these trucks max out at 50mph (on stock tires) and do not get attractive...