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Since my 404.1 is no where near stock, I decided to go with easier to find electrical components. Finding a 24 volt headlight at your local parts house can be hard on you and your wallet. Lurking under and behind the air compressor and power steering pump is the 24 volt generator. Cleaned out...

Got some stuff I'm going to be posting in the classifieds. Among the items are two push button light switches; one marked "Good?" and the other unmarked. I'd like to test these before putting them up but have no 24 VDC system vehicles. Any way to check them out with a VOM alone? I do have a...

While working under the hood of my 404, I happened to move the fan which along with its hub and pulley seems to turn freely by itself, separate from the rest of the pulleys and the crankshaft. It turns in either direction with the same amount of resistance and I don't hear any noises like the...

I like the 411s but am just too big to fit; so I figured I'd just turn my 404 into one. I shortened the frame from the back which entailed shortening the drive shaft and torque tube, moving the spring perches forward and just cutting off the excess frame rails. Here's the truck after shortening...

I've got two push button headlight switches and want to test them but have nothing with 24 volt M-series wiring system I can plug them into. Is there any way to test these (VOM?) to make sure I don't just have 2 push button headlight switch paperweights?

Found this picture in my files again and wanted to share. I bought a pair of tow bar adapters a few years back and found these cracks when I cleaned out the pin bores. This area is often overlooked especially if the holes are full of grease. The holes on the other end of the adapters were also...

How about "WWI & II 5-ton and Smaller"? Over the years, I've managed to collect a bunch of military vehicle-related pictures. Mostly WW1 and some WW2 trucks, motorcycles and armor. How about a convoy of Mack Bulldogs, each with a baby tank in its bed, a Harley Davidson motorcycle w/ side car...

Jones is back from an extended leave. While terrorizing the countryside, I ran across an interesting manual and wanted to share. It's a Chrysler Corporation "WHEELS" PROGRAM parts manual for the M880 series family. this isn't a military TM-- it's a Chrysler parts catalog for their military...

Is there any real CARC still out there and available? I need a quart of CARC black. Happy to take a gallon if I can find it. CARC substitute won't do because I need CARC's dead flat, non-photoreactive properties. Our CARC painted comm shelters and manned trailers all got "SAME HEAT REFLECTIVE...

Hello all, again. Back from an extended vacation after I found a new home for the baby HEMTT. Just picked up an ex-Navy gas turbine air compressor. This one's powered by a GTC85-72. I'm up against the same problems; Disconnected wires, no wiring diagram. Anybody got any suggestions? I've pretty...

Well... I'm still alive and kicking although I am starting to show my mileage. A variety of factors have brought me to the point where I feel it's time for me and the baby HEMTT to part company. To that end I'm looking for council on finding it a new home. If the interest is there I'll post it...

Our local police department got a suplus HMMWV and did a little modification to it. I like the personalized upholstery detail on the seatbacks. I'm thinkin' our K-9 officers are tougher than I thought-- or that they're up against tougher suspects than I realized. The equipment guys are...

OK, OK... two wires; one red, one black-- how hard can wiring one be, right? Solar chargers; from the battery maintainers like Solargizers to the full-blown solar battery charger panels have two wires, one for the pos and one for the neg battery terminals. My question is: Is there a reason to...

Ran across this picture and wanted to share. Not sure any of these still exist but once upon a time there were a whole bunch of them at McClellan AFB here in Sacramento. They were stationed here because McClellan was the home for both the XC-99s and the B-36s in the early '50s.

Thanks to Stalwart's generousity I now have new shocks for the baby HEMTT. Problem is with placement. The shock pins are on the lower spring pads so that's a no-brainer but where do the tops need to go? I'm going to have to make the top mounts and am wondering how far in the shock's travel...

Someone is always asking about interior lights for their deuce or five-ton. What to use, where to mount them, etc. Here's a light bracket assy. I made for the baby HEMTT and wanted to share the concept/design. The baby HEMTT's interior light is stuck way up high in the center of the cab's back...

I picked these up a while back and would like to find more. Anybody recognize them or know the application? MFR is 6T922 (Moody Precision Supply) NSN looks like it's 12342403 but a search just shows "Item cancelled without replacement".

I put NATO slave cable receptacles under each walkway and decided to put a third back by the tailgate so I can slave without having to go through a lot of gyrations to get close enough to the other vehicle. The rain has me inside today so I've been cutting stencils and decided make one to...

Baby HEMTT update. I'm assembling the steering on the baby HEMTT and have come up on a little detail I can't get o good answer for. Adjusting the drag link ends is controlled by tightening or loosening "adjusting plugs" that push the ball seats together and down against a coil spring. This...

I'm pretty sure these are trailer cables but unsure as to the different numbers and lengths. One is about a foot or so longer than the other. Both are NOS but dirty from shelf storage. Metal tag on one is marked: 19207 67247-CX. Mfr is 6S406 (BARCAR Mfg. Inc.) Other cable is tagged: 19207...