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I am not looking to drive 88mph, but just to be able to keep up with traffic in my area, especially when going uphill, let's say at 80mph max. I don't care about 99.999 % of the cars that pass me, but in some cases of those anti-man cars like prius, I do feel something, which sometimes makes me...

Oh yeah, you are totally right, I actually use the breaks example when I talk about large organizations scaling up, everyone focuses on the growth (i.e. more power) and forget that more power requires even more control (i.e. breaks). Very good point! I am just thinking out loud exploring all...

Power = Torque x RPM and my truck doesn't seem limited by RPM as the RPMs slow down when going uphill with the gas pedal maxed out, so I am thinking that increasing the fuel will increase the torque, therefore the power at the similar RPMs. It's like increasing Amps in the electrical world at...

I Hahaha, but I am so close already at 81mph lol

Ok, I understand that speed could be a problem in any situation, not sure if the "oil leaks" refer to my engine, I don't have any oil leaks I can see so far. I only brought up the engine margin vs. the maximum load thinking that you mentioned the rods breaking due to overstressing the engine...

Yes, of course the 12.1k does include the payload, and my point is that I am running empty, at 7200lbs (if that, I will actually weigh the truck) with just passengers, so I still have over 4,000lbs of unused margin that the engine was designed to handle. I will check again the rpms vs mph, and...

Yes, the tires were made in 2020, 100% new.

Understood, and at what speed would you feel OK in one of these trucks? 75mph? It does that with no effort, In my thinking, (which could be wrong as I am not a mechanical engineer, so I just extrapolate from power engineering) my truck was designed (including the connecting rods, at least on...

Here are the pictures, it looks like there were no screws or other parts installed in those nutserts. (the rubber elbow lost the paint on its edges when I replaced the air canister): BTW, I was able to finally drive it with the GPS on the freeway and it went up to about 81mph. I would like...

Yes, there are several nutserts around the stack and I was wondering what they were, I will double check when I get home, now that I know what to look for. and will report back.

It turns out that the issue was with the actual rubber elbow, which initially I pushed it all the way to the air canister edge, but that's not correct and it breaks the 90 degree angle with the stack, therefore a gap needs to be left, big enough to form a 90 degree with the stack, see picture...

Thanks! I will take and post the new can pictures when I get back.

Yes, those are the old pictures of the can that came originally installed on the truck, which I posted before to show the missing boot holder, As I said above about the clamp (I knew you were going to focus on that) that’s not the issue, which I removed and can be easily installed correctly. The...

There was no seal when I took out the original air cleaner can, it was flush, metal on metal: The two support brackets are not bent yet one interferes with the rubber boot holder even on the original one (if it wasn’t removed) by maybe 1/4” (that steel collar should not be like that, out of...

Just a quick update, all parts arrived and I was up until 3AM on Thursday trying to install everything and as usual there is always some surprises…in this case the air cleaner rubber boot that was missing on my original one and the reason I wanted to replace it with a new one (like Action...

I am not a mechanical engineer and I just transpose from electrical engineering, where Power = Volts x Amps (and there could also be a time component if the two are time/ phase displaced, but to keep it simpler we can eliminate that). That translated to the mechanical engineering would be Power...

Air resistance/ drag increases as you go faster by the square cube law, where if you double your speed the air resistance quadruples, therefore it takes a lot more power to go faster…or go more aerodynamic like Action pointed out with that beauty :)

I did think about it, but for some reason something doesn’t feel right about modifying it that much, I would rather be passed by a Prius than change the engine, I love the way it sounds now that it runs well and how it feels, and it’s history.

Lol, but it still doesn’t beat the Pontiac Aztek

Changing the tires from 37” to 42” would increase the speed from 70mph to about 79.5mph, or about 13%. Given the amount of lifting and modifications required to fit the larger tire, it represents a relatively marginal improvement. We need more lol BtW, almost every HMMWV parts site has the...