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  1. Retiredwarhorses

    Injector Problem?

    yea, it’s such a crappy engine it’s still being produced today…42yrs later.
  2. Retiredwarhorses

    WTH: White Wall tires on Taliban HMMWV?

    Many countries do this for military parades, quite common. The U.S. military has had guidance for many moons about spraying diesel fuel to the paint jobs to make the trucks appear wet and clean. Alot of that came about when the military had actual military parades, something we frankly don’t see...
  3. Retiredwarhorses

    Fluids for HMMWV

    The brand makes absolutely no difference
  4. Retiredwarhorses

    REV overheating - normal?

    You have a viscous fan clutch, they are always on, lock up varies based on the heat that flows across the unit.
  5. Retiredwarhorses

    Constant 12V for Transmission Temperature Gauge

    you don’t want anything that is contant power…just keyed, unless the draw is so small as to not drain the battery. You can just pull directly from the rear battery…but that could and can degrade the rear battery. Not sure why you need this temp gauge, but its You’re truck. The TOT is readable on...
  6. Retiredwarhorses

    Constant 12V for Transmission Temperature Gauge

    thats great, except your truck is 24v….you can wire a relay to be activacted upon turning The 24v ignition with 12v on the other side, or if you have 4 speed truck you can tap off the 12v feed to the TCM at the transmission relay.
  7. Retiredwarhorses

    Does anyone know where to find a diagnostic tool for the 4L80E? I

    A “good” transmission shop should be able connect up the TCM with the snap-on Diag tool and take the place of the TCM, my shop does/did for an issue I had…the TCM in the box is nothing special and with the schematic, a good tech can make up a quick harness to interface the tool to the plug, it...
  8. Retiredwarhorses

    400amp Generator Pulleys

    The clutch pulley was designed to take the stress off the generator shaft and all if its mounting components when The truck is Turned Off, also to allow the gen shaft to freewheel when the rpm’s spikes And the gen shaft times to catch up to the other spinning fixed components. not uncommon to...
  9. Retiredwarhorses

    New Style Turret Hatch bolt question

    Just buy the bolts in stainless steel, I try and use SS socket cap bolts on all the turrets I install and sell. also, apply a sealant on the bolt before you insert the bolts, that’s how the factory does it.
  10. Retiredwarhorses

    Has anyone Removed the rear ac on a M1114 and used only the front ac?

    You Need a drier and condenser.
  11. Retiredwarhorses

    M1152 A/C blowing hot

    50/315 is not correct…look at an ambient OAT to see what the LOW/HIGH should be.
  12. Retiredwarhorses

    It's alive!!!

    I don’t believe the filter can be installed correctly without the separator…..the separator is all plastic.
  13. Retiredwarhorses

    "Rod Hall" GMV Suspension

    I wish folks would research what a shock does as opposed to a spring….i promise you, on a Hmmwv you wouldn’t notice a difference if you just ran 0070’s, 71’s, 72’s or any other shock, it’s the springs that make the difference in ride quality.
  14. Retiredwarhorses

    Loss of power over 35 mph and black out of exhaust on acceleration

    Here is a working Catalytic converter
  15. Retiredwarhorses

    Loss of power over 35 mph and black out of exhaust on acceleration

    Black smoke is excess burnt fuel, white smoke is excess unburnt fuel. black smoke is generally a bad turbo or clogged Catalytic converter….a once a week affair in the shop. here was last week
  16. Retiredwarhorses

    Am I tachometer ready...? (Like Plug&Play)

    Turbo trucks use the cannon plug version of tach, the signal comes from the generator, the 5 wire tach gets its signal from the tach drive that has a signal generator for the ste/ice, that signal generator may now come from the STE/ICE frequency converter Used on turbo trucks.
  17. Retiredwarhorses

    transmission control module replacement

    And what model truck do you have?
  18. Retiredwarhorses

    transmission control module replacement

    every TPS I install is just bolted on and set midway…generally in the same spot as the one I took off. ive had the them just plugged in and laying on top of the pump and the truck shifts fine…
  19. Retiredwarhorses

    transmission control module replacement

    till you get the transmission shifting accordingly, the TCC is on the bottom of the list…these issues work themselves out many times when you fix major issues, TCC doesn’t happen till you are at about 40-45mph and off the accelerator, that’s a separate test, and 99% of the time the brake switch...
  20. Retiredwarhorses

    transmission control module replacement

    But of course you can drive without a TPS, but you will get funky issues, at my shop, we fix issues, we don’t bypass them… last time I had this type of issue, the TPS was wired wrong near the fuel filter where it plugs in the harness, an hour with a schematic and a meter? I had it fixed as 2 of...
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