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I wanted to buy one but the government desk jockeys decided to sell perfectly good trucks as branded "irrepairable" to make sure they would never be register-able again. What a waste. I had my eyes on the engineering version with the LWB and Palfinger crane. Oh well. Sent from my SM-G950W...

You bought a 2 1/2 ton KEURIG machine??:D

Must be an "Alaska Special". What's inside the "can"? Maybe one can connect it to a hot water hose and it works like a small heat exchanger to keep the coolant warm-ish? Even so, how does the hot water circulate? Could it be a coolant quick drain? At the end of the work day, open the big cap...

The locking device looks great. I remember seeing a pic of a steel protection plate that wrapped the bottom and sides of the stock tank. It was intended to protect the tank from rock damage but would probably work to prevent punching a drain hole into it as well. Sent from my SM-G950W using...

Well, the search turned up quite a few threads. Happy reading. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/i-started-widening-my-wheels-today-tonight-this-morning.103289/ https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/workin-on-my-widened-rims.32965/...

Elk1111 may have a point...when I showed up with my Qeen Lola I found myself doing a kitchen reno very shortly thereafter. When I obtained my 8v71 Detroit Kenworth this year I did the bathroom (just finished). There is a pattern here of in kind retribution! Better watch out! Sent from my...

Woo hoo! Congrats! Nothing like jumping into an unknown Deuce and driving it on a long drive that hopefully ends at home! Truck looks good...enjoy wrenching and getting to know your Deuce! Do you know anything about its past? The fuel fired heater is a nice upgrade. Does it work? It probably...

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I fixed the link I posted; old links sometimes do not work, but you can easily translate them into the new format and it will open! Here we go: Post #15 here: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/blown-head-gasket.40801/ Note that the real interest is for the picture of the gasket with the...

Welcome and there ia a ton of info here on this site. In short, the military went through several iterations of head gaskets until they found one, and torque specs, that they felt holds up better than the previous ones. The multifuel engines are all high compression engines and that is hard on...

As the harmonic balancer gets old, the rubber hardens, it no longer absorbs/cushions energy pulses and knowledgeable people suspected (here on the forum) that this contributes to the "mysterious" crank shaft breakage that a few engines have been found to have. I have been thinking about...

The army seems to disagree, at least in the TM9-2815-210-34-2-1 Maintenance of the multifuel engine : "1-11. METRIC SYSTEM. The equipment/system described herein is nonmetric and does not require metric common or special tools. Therefore, metric units are not supplied...

I never saw a conclusive answer. It appears to be a straight NPT thread, called a "Boss" thread, used in hydraulics and oil drain plugs. A 7/8-18 was mentioned FWIW. I used the metric plugs with teflon tape and never had an issue. I know they are not the "right" thread, just "close enough".

It is less about the fuel getting in and making the oil overflow, it is more about the fuel diluting the oil, thinning it to where it gushes out through a seal that would otherwise still have been ok.

The OP said that he lost eight quarts of engine oil over 160 miles (that is a 3-4h drive). That makes it unlikely that it is gear oil from the transmission. The concern about fuel getting into the oil is something to check, though, before dropping the tranny etc. When engine oil becomes...

I have several of these screws....in my defroster ducts!

But if there is no oil seepage and no drips on the ground how do you know where to park your truck when you come back home? And is it not all going to rust without the oil protection? And if you ever go to a car show with it, they'd make you park with the shiny stuff, where owners polish chrome...

FWIW, I expected the worst when doing my torque rods and, as it turned out, Murphy was on vacation. I was a bit surprised by how "easily" they came out (yes, BFH, hitting on the right places (on the side, not the stud) and the wood block/wedge method and I was aching the next day) but other...

I have them and fully agree. They calmed the rear end way down, especially when empty. Sent from my SM-G950W using Tapatalk

I got all excited - but then realized that this is an A3 thread...that pressure compensated pump won't fit a Spicer A2 tranny, I assume.....