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A bed mounted spare sux. You'll only have a flat when it is full of firewood or some such. The door rack is really cool, and I can show you how to make it work easily. Besides, it will deter any road rage idiots from reaching over it. Just open the door and push...

Keep in mind those armor-type IR lights have both hi & lo beam filaments. The housing is ground. There is a special floor dimmer button with twin circuits for service drive and IR drive. Usually fed thru a SPDT toggle switch on the dash, that fed from the BO Drive ckt in the light switch.

Having had numerous 2-stroke Detroits in my life, I had to clean 'em up regularly. I found 1:1 Diesel fuel and Dawn liquid did the job. This makes an emulsion, so keep shaking a bit in a trigger spray bottle or garden sprayer so it doesn't separate. The fuel cuts into the grease, the soap...

Maybe check the fuel filters?

We're always optimistic about load vs. genset output. Starting motors can pull up to 600% of running current. Smaller plants need to be chosen wisely so as not to cause brownouts when things inductive fire up. 10kW wouldn't cut a home out here in Summer/Hell, as the AC will pull that much...

Ditch the ugly angle-irons atop the winch. Cut a piece of 3/16 Alum diamond plate to just fit on top of the winch. Paint, drill, & bolt on. Does the strength needs, and gives you a place to stand when checking yer oil.

Nice Cornbinder. Same year I graduated HS.

Why?

NATO (or national) stock number.

Yep, 5-tons have the "come with me" deal in the bag.

Now there is a KIA I would buy.

An old electric water heater (filled with water, BTW) can make a good load for a smaller genset. Just leave the two H2O connections open for expansion. They usually have two elements, and pull several kW in normal use, so one can rewire them to get different loadings.

Something someone stretched out to get that long flatbed on it. Poor thing really looks sad & worn. Over here it would just be a parts widow.

Also, the USFS or other fire services have this nasty habit of converting tacticals to 12-Volt systems, as appears on your truck.

That is a Hydrovac brake booster. The entire air system may have been removed hence. More pix necessary under the hood to determine just that. Reo made their own Gold Comet 331 engines in the early days, and Continental may have on a later contract. Nice project there, especially with the...

I second the use of lube in them. Keeps 'em going.

I remember the 800-series going through tests at Yuma Proving Ground. Silt, deep sand, clay mud, hot weather, cross open desert. Things not found back east, but one never knew where the trucks would wind up.

I have a '90 F350 Diesel crew cab. I have real army trucks. Now where did I put that magic wand...

A intermittent ground will induce insanity in mechanics.

I asked about the chargers as we have a 480V 200A 3ph service at home.