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    M1078A1 "Pandora" Build | 2024-??? | ***Picture Heavy***

    No idea. Our focus was upon the plane created by the inner rear edge of all the pulleys/serpentine belt. As we roughed in the cuts to the original bracket we used the offset as measured between the ears on the original Niehoff and new Leece Neville. Then added custom cut spacers to fill the...
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    M1078A1 "Pandora" Build | 2024-??? | ***Picture Heavy***

    Longer is easier to adapt to existing bracket. You could get Hillman Zinc Heavy duty spacers at Tractor Supply matched to the bolt sizes and cut them to fit what you need to fill the gap(s). You'll likely need them anyway to align the ears and brackets to match the belt path(s)–
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    Steel Soldiers MV of the month 2024 - May VOTE HERE!

    When we picked her up she looked good though had been neglected for some time. We started simple on old electrical, cleaning up the PDP, replacing old relays, hunting down bad components. Found the resistors in the bundled diagnostic circuits (J1939/J1708) melted. The remote...
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    Steel Soldiers MV of the month 2024 - May VOTE HERE!

    'Bill's' much better half at the wheel, taking in the smile curse—
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    Standard Test Equipment port (A0's and?... why/why not utilize this more than we are doing now.

    Interesting (posts 16 & 17). I am wondering about replacing the oil pump in our 3126b. Only because of what I read here, not from observation. And the HEUI oil filtering issue is something I hear mentioned at times. If I didn't spend so much time here I would expect another 300,000 miles out...
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    Steel Soldiers MV of the month 2024 - May VOTE HERE!

    Another sh-- eating grin thanks to the M1078A1's aura— A family friend: we met 'Bill' in 1973. My wife and I have had Thanksgiving almost every year since 1976 with him and most of his family. If you could see his eyes you'd still wonder what he is thinking. In the wild, deserving military...
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    Steel Soldiers MV of the month 2024 - May VOTE HERE!

    No chicken bones, stones, or tarot required: as noted during the nominations this MV shares ear to ear grins like dogs shed fur—
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    ECO Hubs Who needs 3:07 gears?

    Added them after your comment. A good suggestion you had for PDF's—
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    ECO Hubs Who needs 3:07 gears?

    Attached PDF's, too. Download and then zoom at will, (most browsers will allow you to 'right-click' on an image opening a menu with a choice to open in another 'tab' or save as and then zoom at will) This site's image handling is challenging in my opinion–
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    ECO Hubs Who needs 3:07 gears?

    Sure. You want to see the same sheet with variable tire height: 53", 48", 45", 40"
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    ECO Hubs Who needs 3:07 gears?

    I can see that. If I redid the chart for the shift points it would illustrate your point better. I will be watching your experience with the lockers when you start that thread. I haven't noticed you or @Keith Knight complaining about traction on adventures, is it a bigger issue than I think?
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    ECO Hubs Who needs 3:07 gears?

    Here is a spreadsheet (a photo of one) showing the various crawl ratios/mph for 3.90, 3.07, EcoHubs or not. I agree the 3.90's are best with what we currently have and 4.5's with EcoHubs would be cruising 63 at 1,600 rpm in seventh. That would be the sweet spot—
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    M1078A1 "Pandora" Build | 2024-??? | ***Picture Heavy***

    This thread is supposed to be APRE: A Photograph Rich Environment. Enough with all the letters and what they mean. A photo's worth a lot of letters—
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    Cab Latch Rebuild Kit

    I thought @Towbarman was asking about the air over hydraulic cab latch (locking the tilt), not door latches which break all the time?
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    Road Trip - UT/AZ Again

    That is great. Thanks for sharing the video and photos. We'll run into each other one day–
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    brackets for two alternators -- suggestions

    In looking at in the wild units (though none from the CUCV's) it requires: 1— custom static bracket for both alternators, as @GeneralDisorder alludes to; 2— belt(s) running from each alternator to a tension pulley between the alternators. With the layout of the front of a 3116 it appears that...
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    brackets for two alternators -- suggestions

    Do you have an example to share of this in the wild? What about sell one alternator and add an intelligent battery combiner, like we use in yachts to prioritize charging the starter batteries and keep the cabin batteries up second?
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    Road Trip - UT/AZ Again

    Beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing. I think we just missed each other. I was at Grand Canyon NP, Whimore Wash 1May - 3May; a night in the Arizona Strip south of Kanab; BLM land between Escalante Grand Staircase NM, The Gulch and Capitol Reef NP, Waterpocket Fold 4May - 7May. Back in...
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    M1078A1 "Pandora" Build | 2024-??? | ***Picture Heavy***

    As I recall I was struggling to get the dimensions for that Leece-Neville pad mount unit and found very few examples of a CAT 3126b using a pad mount so stuck with the J180 version. My biggest concern was aligning the alternator's pulley with the serpentine belt route. Likely a better question...
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    Does the PPD do more than reverse polarity protect ? Modern replacement for PPD ?

    Others are best at the math, though we have decided to mount a rooftop 24v AC unit on the cab which adds a 'new' 70a at max. [@GeneralDisorder and I have had several conversations upon this and I understand his points well. If we find a complete RedDot Gen2 kitted unit I'd likely purchase it...
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