88'Cubka

Can really find any info on them, and would like to find out a few things. :)

Thanks guys.
David
:cheers:

Mikes80L48

My dad says he might be able to answer some questions, what do you wanna know about them?

FEDX

Theres a place here in Memphis near downtown that has a lot of them for sale,they rebuild them and carry the parts.I'm not sure if they have any 40s models but they would be the best source of real life info on them.I'm not near a phone book right now or I'd post the number,but e mail me and remind if you are interested and Ill send it then.

88'Cubka

Really need to know how to get parts because my friends and I just bought a 43 GMC Flatbed one for like 350 bux, split 4ways. We may need some part's for it if we can't fix/modernize some of it. Can't find any resources on the net about them, so any info would help a bunch.

David
:cheers:

e3pres

A good friend of mine has a 1946 ****** CJ-2A, so he has lots of Jeep info, but no 2.5 ton stuff. Sorry...

White 79

Yes, they are big and ugly and I busted my knee in 1970 jumping off one getting while shot at by a bunch of gooks.....

88'Cubka

Well that sucks.........

Budman68

I use to give them away to fire departments when I worked at the forestry. Most of the are 6 wheel drive, straight six, and very simple to work on. GMC, Rio's, and IH made alot of them. I'm sure there are part houses and surplus parts everywhere. Knowing the goverment, we still have parts sitting in warehouses.

Smokehouse69

Buddy's right, there are probably hundreds of complete engines scattered all over the United States in National Guard and Army Reserve wharehouses. About 30 years ago I was serving some time in the National Guard with a transportation unit. We were driving fairly modern multifuel duece and a halfs, and 5 ton trucks. One day I was looking for something in a big quonset hut that we had for storage, I found 10 complete truck engines in crates. The funny thing about it was that they all had manufacture dates in 1943 and 1944. As far as I know we didn't have a single truck in the battalion that used that engine.
A year or so later we were converted to armor, all the stuff was shipped off someplace. We were driving M48 tanks instead of 2-1/2 trucks. The M48 were antiques but I was really surprised they didn't send a bunch of Sherman tank parts to us.

Budman68

Smokehouse, I use to get air tight crates with 350's that had makings from korea and vietnam. These motors were cool with braided spark plug lines and all. We would also get small trailers of just wrenches or sockets. I even received gas power drills one time.

FEDX

I couldnt remember the name,so I did a google search,it's Memphis Equipment.The web site is http://www.memphisequipment.com,and there were a few military vehicle forums that turned up in the search that had good things to say about them.Hope this helps :cheers: