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GREATER PENNSYLVANIA MILITARY VEHICLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Spring Rally and Flea Market - April 24th 2010 - Mark your calendars
This event is held at: Jake's Flea Market. 1380 Route 100, Bally (Barto) Pennsylvania 19504
Plenty of on site parking and nearby hotels. Located 5 miles north of...
I'm having trouble finding the rubber air hose that runs from the cab firewall tubing to the frame tubing on my M211. This for the pressure line that comes off of the junction block on the firewall. When you remove the floor pan, this hose is under the right upper corner.
Local hose /...
As of last weekend I still had not found the float setting so I adjusted the float top parallel with the bowl top. Even the Holley manual for the 885 series just mentions to set the float using the gauge. The picture in the manual shows what looks like the typical cardboard gauge. There is no...
You can check a U-Joint with a screwdriver. Pry against the flanges and bearing caps. If you see movement in the joint, it's bad. If they are really bad you will see movement just by moving the shaft up and down by hand.
Also, when removing the driveshaft it helps if you put the rear of the...
If this gasket expands proportionately I'll have a problem. I need to increase the height, not width. If the width expands it will not fit into the grove around the perimeter of the air horn.
One kit is NOS, one is newer manufacture. I used the newer manufacture kit however, the cork gasket in both kits is identical. If water or diesel fuel will expand it now, will it contract in the future leaving me with a vacuum leak?
I've just rebuilt my M211 carb and have a problem seating the top air horn tight to the throttle body. With the cork gasket in the grove on the air horn, I've got a gap between the gasket and the mating surface on the throttle body. It seams that the air horn is pivoting on the main body to...
The trans can be removed by itself although you need a very heavy trans jack. When I first bought my M211 the trans died. Took the truck to a heavy truck repair shop to get a rebuilt trans installed that I had bought from Memphis Equip. They put the truck on a lift and used a trans jack. Not...
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