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How difficult was it to convert to left hand drive? Can original parts be reused? Frame mods for steering box?

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Where is the location to check fluid levels. My 1980 J54 will not come out of 4 wheel drive. The shifter will not move, to go in and out of 4 wheel drive to 2 wheel drive. Also the low gear will not move either. I need to locate the area where I can check to see if the fluid is low. Much help is appreciated.

Beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤very beautiful God bless Japan 🇯🇵

I love McHale Navy. I saw the 73 it was on a trailor being pulled by a semi it came through Merced California and stayed a few days at a car lot by the highway. I was in the Navy and know ships and boats this was a mock up that was used for close up shots the boat was about 2/3 scale and it was in full dress. I couldn't believe it. I know it was not the only 73 but I recognize it whenever I watch my favorite tv show McHale's Navy.

Great boats. Too bad they were hampered by there Packard engines and crappy torpedoes. If only British Merlin engines were available.

They would be faster with a LS in them ! 😂😅😂😅😅😂

PT boats WERE NOT made of "plywood". PT hulls were constructed of "COLD MOLDED" layers of solid, al be it, thin African mahogany. A technique still in use today. The only real difference, today we have far superior adhesives!!

I dunno, if I were around during WWII, I'd have volunteered to be a PT-Boat driver or crewman! They were just so badass! And that's not because of McHale's Navy! I always loved fast boat, growing up in the Caribbean! I sailed a lot with my Uncle Esmond, who was a Lanc. pilot for the RAF over Germany! He taught me a lot, how to grow into a man! I grew up in T'dad and Tobago. FYI

When I was a kid in Key West, the Navy was selling off PT boats surplus. As I recall, they had 3 engines and 2 props. All 3 engines drove a common transmission. The people buying them would either remove the center engine or the two outboard engines to save weight and fuel. One engine would run both props.

Opening scene is from "They were expendable". Absolutely great movie..

Why didn't they use diesel engines? Seems safer than a boat full of avgas!

My favourite engines!

One of my overall favorite movies.

Why the negative tone of this discombobulated video? What was the purpose of this video?

Magaitinana! The Packard should have been given its due respect!

Great video. Thanks for creating. An old Motor Torpedo Boat crewman I used to know told me the fuel consumption of these engines. It was something like 50 Imperial gallons per hour, per engine at high speeds.

My great uncle was stationed on the Cruiser USS Phoenix in the Los Negros war. I have the origonal paperwork form Mac Author that boarded the ship that day. Its 3 pages and talks about the war. I seperated the pages from the staple that was rusted and put the pages on acid free paper in acid free clear covers. I think its very historic papers.

All very informative screw the haters

Don’t understand why they didn’t use diesel engines back then the gas ones we had so many hours until they needed to be maintained

Anything Packard is C00L , always has been and always will be . . . T/C/E

Those U Boat captains and crews were fearless warriors for sure and deadly opponents .

I'm pondering if anyone built a Harleyesque, V twin out of the Mk1 engines indicidual cylinders. Would look and sound great.

I always expect to see Ernest Borgnine at the helm

Excellent content 👌

After watching this, I can see why you only have four comments after two years on the TH-cam’s. I couldn’t even make it past halfway.

THANKS for this Video!!!

Of the men assigned; 5 officers were extracted; 7 men evaded capture and fought with guerrillas; 38 survived the war as POWs; 18 were either killed in action after the invasion or died in the POW camps.

Where's PT73, Where's McHale

My Dad was a Navy airman, stationed on a tiny island, near Bougainville. Their island was supplied via PT boats. He thought “McHale’s Navy” was practically newsreel footage. He talked about the drunken, grass skirt wearing PT crews.

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"not old enough to drink but old enough to fight and die in an OBSCENE war..." I'm a 20-year U.S. military veteran (Army, Marine Corps) and I'm here to tell you just how right you are. Or we'll ask the pair of M@s0ns - Roosevelt & Churchill - who precipitated the sacrifice of antiquated battleships at Pearl to make the Pacific war possible. (Good thing those four carriers were out on maneuvers at the time!!!)

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Very well done. Thanks

MacArthur left with his wife and daughter's nanny

they burned them at the end of the war. W O W

My father and his best friend from childhood were born in Alaska. Don was there at the major battle he said the Japanese were up on the mountain firing down at the Americans. He said the Japs had smokeless powder but the Americans didn't they couldn't see very well because of the smoke it was funny the way he told it. He ended up being crippled for life during the battle. The weather killed more on both sides than did in battle.

My uncle was on PT's off of Long Island NY hunting the harbor entry.

I served in *SUBPAC* in the 80s. Our division officer used to look at us and shake his head, _"You guys make McHale's Navy look like crack troops."_ We took that a compliment because in spite of everything else, they were combat effective. And we were *very* good at our jobs.

It’s strange that some of the pt boats struck underwater pilings. Because during the civil war. The union army built floating saw rafts to cut the cypress stumps in the swamp above Vicksburg. I think the navy should have looked back into their history and they would have found the solution.

Ernest Borgnine was an actual Swabbie joining the Navy in 1935, after high school. He served aboard the destroyer/minesweeper USS Lamberton and was discharged in Oct '41. In January '42, he reenlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He patrolled the Atlantic on an antisubmarine ship, the USS Sylph. In September '45, he was once again honorably discharged from the Navy. He served a total of almost 10 years in the Navy and obtained the grade of gunner's mate first class. His awards include the Good Conduct Medal, American Defense Service Medal with "A" Device, American Campaign Medal with bronze star, and the WW II Victory Medal. (Chopped and edited from Wikipedia...) As somoene pointed out he and many of the other cast members of McHales Navy were Vets...salute to all the Greatest Generation!!!

Meanwhile the Elco PT boats were there from the start and had helped win the battle of the Solomon Islands among many others. As much a fan as I was of McHale's Navy growing up, PT 109 would've been my answer if asked what PT boat comes to mind. Dick Keresey wrote a great first hand account of what it was like serving on a mosquito boat called PT105. Highly recommend it.

Ernest Borgnine had a full career in the Navy and retired just as WWII began. He rejoined and served all through the war - never on a PT boat, and not an officer, but a truly honorable veteran.

A B-17 USAAF Crew flew from Australia to pick up Gen. MacArthur and evacuate him landed in the Philippines after a long and dangerous flight. MacArthur ever the Prima Donna refused as the pilot’s rank wasn’t at least a full Col. and refused. MacArthur waited 10 hours after Pearl Harbor and did nothing more concerned about what the Philippine President would think rather than bomb the Japanese on Formosa (Taiwan) which the Japanese forces delayed by bad weather could have severely damaged. Instead the opposite. The General was a great planner and organizer but an obstinate asshole who illegally accepted a great deal of money from the Government of the Philippines, which his subordinates following regulations refused. The amount was discovered until after his death., $ 1/2. Million USD 1942 dollars. President Truman committed political suicide to recall and fire the general in Korea when as President and Commander in Chief he did so over the General’s insubordination.

I believe if you asked any pacific veteran the bad blood with the Japanese and the US Navy started on December 7 1941 at Pearl Habor.

Was not Wake Island a possession of the United States while Alaska a territory

Just learned they used a 24v system then and they’ve used it throughout the years even still today on their vehicles. All nato countries also use 24v systems. Honestly a pain because you can’t jump start one of those trucks with a truck on 12v system

Thanks for the content. Nice work.

A message from the UK. My father served in the Royal Navy during WW2 and in particular LCAs (landing craft assault). He did commando raids, was at Dieppe as well as Operations Torch and Husky. He said that the LCAs with Packard engines were not as reliable as those fitted with Rolls Royce. It may have been national bias or experience; both packards in his LCA failed at Dieppe at a crucial moment!