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Originally Posted by Stuart Fedak
Rob,
Based on the pictures, what do you see, and what do you recommend?
Stuart
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I would recommend selling the Iltis and buying a M38 or an M38A1.
Kidding aside, and as others much older than me (maybe wiser, maybe not) have already said, it will be the head that will have warped, not the block. As to the military re torquing head gaskets on a military vehicle, other than on head or gasket replacement, it just wasn't done. There were not enough man hours for that level of maintenance. If you followed the manuals, we were supposed to disassemble the starters annually on the MLVW and lube the bushings. On the M38A1s we were supposed to remove the rear axles and repack the wheel bearings annually. It was easy for some guy in Ottawa to write these time tables onto a lube chart or special instruction, but it just was not going to happen. When I left the service, we were short the equivalent of a brigades worth of veh techs....the hours had to be salvaged from somewhere.