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Yep, slobber tube is gone. Just a length of hose that hangs down below the frame to get that excess oil to the ground rather than all over your frame.

I'm running Selectros on my M715 and its been immersed in mud and water over the front hubs with no problems. Are your cap o-rings torn? Its really easy to do that when installing the cap/selector knob. Also, are they sealed well where they mount to the hub?

Judging from the oil pressure reading you have at idle (30PSI) I'd say its a safe bet there isn't a connecting rod or main bearing issue, otherwise that oil pressure would drop to nothing at idle. If anything mechanical, I'd say maybe a wrist pin, because they can knock and not affect the...

The biggest advantage is a little less rolling resistance. I haven't done them on my deuce, but when I did them on my M715, it was like driving without the emergency brake applied. It freed the truck up a lot, just from not backdriving the axles, differential and front driveshaft into the...

Good info! I am not toally certain on this, but I seem to recall reading somewhere along the way, that HP numbers today, are rated differently that they were say 30-40 years ago. Any insight on that?

Yup. Everyone thinks they have a gajillion HP, but so few actually know. When they see the real dyno numbers one of two things ususally happens: they either slink off quietly, or figure the dyno must be wrong.

Hobie, since I don't know you I don't assume you know nothing, but there are two sides of the fence, and the side I am on could result in my losing everything I own if I make a choice to listen to a customer over my years of experience. People can and do sue one another over some pretty...

200 seems reasonable to me for sure for a slightly modded deuce engine. Any more I'd think would take a fair amount of work beyond just turning up the fuel.

I'm sure and not trying to give anyone a hard time, but it smacks of the old high school stuff......no facts, just arbitrary numbers......

I wasn't referring to the stock numbers. Seems everyone pretty much agrees on them. I was talking about the "I turned it up to 500HP" thing. Where did those numbers come from?

Let me give you a little example of one customer I had sometime back: He showed up here a poverty-stricken college student riding a 70's model Honda 750. It had onion-skin tires when he came here and he was risking his life just to arrive at my location. After about an hour of perusing my tire...

One question I have for everyone involved here: Has anyone found a dyno that can handle a tandem equipped truck and actually ran a deuce on it to see what it is truly doing, or are all of the numbers being spouted here just speculation? I can guess all day at the HP output of an engine, but...

As a shop owner (motorcycle) and a tech for 20+ years (automotive) I have to say I agree with most of these shops. First, I won't mount a tire I didn't sell because I don't know the source and how old it is, or what damage may have occurred, visible or not. Not a risk I am willing to assume...

Mr Doyle, As always, thank you for your sensible and honest input. It is much appreciated and I feel very accurate, in regards to the subject at hand. That said, I think another example of diesels being used within their capacity can be witnessed on any mountainous stretch of interstate...

I could see that sort of "skeleton" inside of an outer casing much like the runflats. That would prevent the loading of the internals with mud or debris.

Thanks for the suggestions! I was planning on pulling a small amount from the barrel and then playing around with several filter ideas, and seeing how quickly/slowly it will separate.

Has anyone found a way or tried to seperate out water from WMO? I have one 55 gal drum with some emulisified WMO and rainwater that I will have to have hauled as HAZMAT if I can't use it some way. It isn't badly emulisified like a milkshake from being inside an engine, but from the mixing of...

I had an old Honda CB750 and the ignition switch died on the side of the road. I got home on $1.10. The square plug of the ignition switch had four contacts in a square pattern, and using a dime, I jumpered the contacts so it would run, then wrapped a dollar bill around it for insulation to...

It is a standard pattern for a TH400 trans.

That was a BSA M20. They were used by the British Army and US Army. That one doesn't have the US markings, but many did. They were primarily used by the Army Air Corps in England during WWII, and were supplied by the Brits to the Americans staioned there. Many saw service in North Africa as...