From: Dave Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Tue Aug 06 2002 - 12:50:31 PDT
Lol That's pretty good keep them coming.
By the way compound low reverse does a great job if "you should" need
reverse.
But lets hear about changing a gas tank in a Ferret and all the other easy
cheap Maintained as well.
The only exotic vehicle that's close to a M37 will be the early gas unimogs
and they can get costly to repair but are pretty simple to work on although
slightly ungainly in everyday driving. You can use the M37 as a daily driver
and Many owners do they are very comfortable and easy to drive and maintain.
Do you drive your Ferret daily Ryan?
Dave
vought@msn.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan M Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Pinz vs. Valp thread... It's War!
At 11:38 AM -0700 8/6/02, Dave Ball wrote:
>Dodge M37 wins hands down cheap and easy to maintain and corners in soft
>dirt like a brick with a horse pulling it. You can buy a pretty good runner
>for what those "exotics" oil pumps cost which was $1200 on the site link
>Rich gave.
>By the way the M37 also has the best ride on and off road and parts are at
>the local Napa...oil pump $43...
>Nothing fancy just good ole American engineering at its Apex.
Hmm. I'd like to match my Ferret (or the Dingo) against an M37 any
day. The fact that the ferret has a totally flat underside with the
independent suspension on all 4 sides bolted to the hull improves the
ability to ignore stumps and rocks that like to crack and damage
undercarriage bits and housings.
The really nice thing about the ferret is that you can go backwards
with nearly the same gear ratios that you use in forwards. Try
reverse second (1-5) gear in an M37.
--
Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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