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Do you have a way of measuring the actual coolant temperature? Besides pulling the radiator cap and looking for steam from the heater core return when it dumps into the radiator. My next thought is heater core condition. You wrote there was flow. But if it is just a single tube, heat won’t get...

A deck over trailer or a trailer with reinforced drive over fenders is pretty much the only thing that will work if you ever need up with a HMMWV as well. I would imagine your 1/2 ton truck is rated at 10K towing only with a weight distribution hitch. All of the military trailers use a pintle...

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That is something many of us have looked for. However, the military didn’t ever really use anything smaller than a semi truck to fully haul vehicles. Yes, there are some trailers that can be made to do the job and I am sure an owner of one of them will write something. The military used tow...

This thread needs an update. Colton has graduated, got married to an amazing woman and they live about 60 miles from me in the College Station area. He also got a job in his major! RED has been living here in semi retirement the past 5.5 years. I use it for trips to town enough that I have...

The Cowdog just keeps getting driven and driven like a regular vehicle. Over 300 miles during thanksgiving and another 300 yesterday for family visiting. 5 adults traveling in comfort at or above open highway speeds. Running 75-80 for hours on end used to get me 16.5-17.5 mpg. I guess the new...

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Those are a great looking set. I really enjoy my pairing of the same basic vehicles.

This is a new one I think. As posted above each battery should have 14.4 volts with the engine running when measured separately or 28.8 volts when measured across. I suggest getting that measurement first. If one of them is not putting out 14.4 volts. Then you can separate it from the truck...

Once you get the card out, use a pencil eraser to clean the contacts on the printed circuit contacts. Just abrasive enough to clean without removing anything important.

I bolted a 1994 4L80E to the stock flex plate on one of my trucks. I remember at the time I was doing this the main thing was diesel torque convert to diesel 6.2 or 6.5 flex plate. You will need to swap out the internal wiring harness on a 1991 4L80E to the 1994 and newer plug for any...

I didn’t mention a small ledge you do have to mess with because the TM was linked already. You will not be removing the water pump from the engine. You will be removing the water pump backing plate that happens to have the water pump attached. Then you have to swap the backing plate over to the...

Super rope sure made that entire process easier. After the M715 as designed unfortunately.

The water pump is minor surgery. The timing chain is major surgery. Unless you have oil leaks from the front of the pan or balancer front seal. I suggest leaving the timing cover in place.

Exactly. Make sure the glow plug system is working, fuel in the tank, fuel coming out of the filter to the IP, pink wire attached and powered, both batteries fully charged and even better hooked to a charging source, don’t crank more than 20 seconds at a time and be patient. I have learned...

Is there a cutout of the cowling in front of the radiator? That bigger “cable” sized hole in the bed reminded me of a radio truck version of the M715. There was a cooler for the system that mounting in front of the radiator requiring the cowling to be cut. There are several pictures on the...

That mad driller really does resemble you Rory.

The light brown wire on the back of the alternator is for the STE/ICE plug under the dash to read RPM. The 3 resistors under the wiper motor are for radio interference with the military radio when using the wipers. You can unplug them and just plug directly into the motor.

The wire was pink back in the ‘80’s.

Without getting into opinions. I don’t believe I have ever seen a picture of a broken 6.2 crank without a bad/destroyed balancer also in frame. The same goes for bad/destoyed balancer pictures without a broken crank shown or mentioned.