Recent content by Barrman

I would suggest Memphis Equipment. They are normally pretty well stocked with M715 parts. Vintage Powerwagons might still have some as well but I haven’t dealt with them in a long time.

Sue, we are already set to camp off site of the museum. Are you by chance referring to the re enactment people?

Welcome to the wonderful world of trying to figure out for the government what the government messed up and how that mess up was probably compounded by a government contractor. What transmission, front body work and other differences between the M35A2 and A3? It could just be a clerical error.

I didn’t know those leaked. I thought they all just rusted solid. Seriously, you are of course correct. I had it in my head to add it to my list and lost it while writing I guess. Thanks for including what I missed.

The normal leaking points of the injection pump are the seals at each end of the throttle shaft and the bottom injection line that isn’t quite tight enough.

As NDT wrote, the spout is the valley drain. The square 1/4” bit pipe plug is to the oil gallery. Pressurized oil for a turbo or oil temperature sensor. Both look clean in your picture though.

The lights ground through the gauge panel mount screws. Do you have them attached?

With no air in the system how far does your pedal travel before it stops with firm pressure? There should be around 3 inches left above the floorboard with a properly adjusted and bled system. With no airpack assistance it takes a lot of pressure to stop the truck and even more to lock up the...

TM 9-2320-289-34. Pages 2-27, 2-28 and 2-29.

Very happy to read your engine is doing what you envisioned! That is great. To have a sudden loss of both boost systems to me says fluid loss, belts slipping or the pump is the issue. I just looked in the -20 troubleshooting section and it doesn’t help any. The -34 troubleshooting section is...

Aggieland Safari is about a 1/4 mile north of our spot. I don’t want to give away a private address in an open forum...

We have a Rally 4 weeks from tomorrow in the Bryan/College Station area. Here is the thread about it: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/2026-tx-mv-rally.225770/#post-2631977 Where in Texas are you?

Great!

Sorry it didn’t work again. I am going to miss the meeting this week due to a schedule conflict.

I even did a video a year or so ago about testing a system similar to what you are messing with. The wiring set up in it might apply to your set up as well: