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I'd say somewhat minor risk, but if you do mess up you're out a hub casing. If you don't have the gear or experience, then you're much better off taking it (either the assembly or the entire truck) to a machine shop/welding shop and have them do it. With it on the truck you're talking overhead...

Welding something else on sounds like the most logical next step to me. Either a bolt or maybe an allen wrench into the hole. Make sure you have a new plug on hand to go in when the old one comes out.

How exactly do you know it's a chinese block? Just curious as I hadn't heard of Melton using foreign blocks, as I'm pretty sure there aren't any approved vendors for the blocks or engine components over there, and that would be a breach of contract to do so.

the majority of us think a keyed ignition is a bad idea, because as stated most of the kits sold for our trucks use cheap chinesium components for the kit, and they eventually fail. When they fail they take out things like the control box, which can be a $1000 to replace. Some people have...

I remember back in about 2006 or 2007 a contractor company came to our motorpool and sprayed undercoating on every vehicle we had. Took them a couple of weeks. The polished and shiny areas not sure about. Can't see why anything would go there that would rub through the paint, unless the guys...

Having it checked every other week seems excessive, but it really depends on what the standby generator is classified as. Generators in medical backup systems have a lot of specific requirements on how often they get checked, tested under load, etc. The ones I do for an Alzheimer's center and a...

I was told by a friend that sometimes those can pop open and ruin your day. He suggested wrapping it with a ratchet strap to make sure it stays closed.

Looks like the A2 winch plate with the extensions. Though looking at the airlift brackets sticking out of the hood, I'm inclined to believe there are a lot of modifications to this rig

Only one ground rod in the system. The ground wires can also carry current, and there can be issues if there is an imbalance in the system due to multiple ground rods. It used to be code to ground standby generators at the generator, but current code is that the grounding goes through the...

For a reset, the company doing the rebuild has a set budget per vehicle, and they go through it and check all components to see if they are in spec or not. If they haven't used up the budget, they like to do things like replace the engine/transmission or other major components with rebuilt...

The Marines had more trucks than they could use, and weren't breaking them fast enough to need all the spares they had. Then they started getting ECV/REV trucks, and weren't breaking them fast enough to dip into the stockpile of older trucks. So yes, many of these trucks really don't have any...

"days at a time" isn't really enough for the batteries to drain down. Unless you have something in it like the remote start/ auto start unit, then that comment wasn't really aimed at you. My 802A sits for months at a time and has no issues starting up again. One nice thing about having the...

For comparison's sake, in the civilian side of things, most home standby type generators use only a trickle charger, and not an alternator to keep the batteries charged. Difference being a home standby is hooked to grid power all the time to keep the battery charged, where a military unit is...

Aren't those the newest series with the shaft drive fans and whatnot? Post 300,000 serial numbers?

You could do 2" receivers front and rear. To do a rear one you'd need the one from BlackDog (which you should use anyway if you want a hitch back there as the pinball ones are garbage) and for the front Federal Military Parts sells one These aren't going to be as strong as built in winches...

One of the guys here ran the short radiator on his GMV after switching from 6.2/3 speed to 6.5T/4 speed and didn't have any issues. If you aren't pushing it hard then you're unlikely to have any real issues. They extra cooling was needed on trucks weighing 14k lbs driving through sand in 120...

I used a cheap cup holder that bolted to the doghouse. Just peeled back the insulation underneath a little, and used a couple large washers to spread out the force. Cell phone holder only requires a couple tiny holes be drilled to mount it Haven't yet figured out a good way to mount the RAK-15...

no worries. I was lucky and found it with a quick search of the model number. Often times nothing comes up with just the model number, or lots of unrelated things, but this time was good.

Napa wants $63.33 for the standard version, $79.29 for the HD, and $145 for the RPM performance version. At $20 it's not a bad idea to keep a spare belt in the truck. I had an idler bearing fail recently. On a Saturday morning. Local parts store had bearings for the idler pulley,because that...

Then Gates K081102 or K0881102HD is what you want. The Sanden compressor for the Red Dot system sits further out than the dummy pulley does. Different mounting bracket for the Sanden/Red Dot than the GM OEM style compressor