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If it's for emergency backup, then you will probably be just fine for a very long time. Fuel quality back in the day was nowhere near as precisely controlled as it is now, so a lot of older engines will run on stuff modern engines will crap out from. The only thing to really be careful of is...

I haven't converted one, or seen one of these, but I have worked on other generators that have been converted to run on propane/natural gas. If the engine wasn't designed to handle NG/LP, a couple things to consider. These fuels are a lot dryer than gasoline is. There will be a little less...

Treadwright does the entire outer shell, it wouldn't say anything other than treadwright on the side of it, so it isn't that.

Hope and pray nothing jumps out into the road in front of you. If it does, run it over and keep driving. Either that or lock up the truck brakes, jackknife, and run over whatever jumped in front of you. Third option is be prepared to run into the ditch. If everything goes right it can be...

It isn't so much that the ethanol coats things, it's that it is hydroscopic, it pulls moisture out of the air. It's also an oxidizer, so it makes the fuel go bad quicker. The oxidized fuel coats things in a layer of gunk, as well as plugging smaller passages. The moisture combined with the...

Could be worse, I was in the Army and my truck came from the Marines. I keep having very mixed signals as to what to actually do with it.

There is no substitute for seeing it in real life.

Rapco has all the various paints they sell with images of what the paint actually looks like when painted on something, though actual colors might be different due to your screen calibration. http://www.rapcoparts.com/padenew.html (their website isn't the best, so this page usually has to...

I'd rather not, I prefer my brains inside my head, not dribbling out my ears.

Good grief, I looked through that manual and there are more warnings than instructions! The first 13 pages after the table of contents is nothing but warnings, and warnings on almost every page throughout. I'd wager over half of the total content in the manual is some type of warning or...

Since it has the 24V slave cable, there might already be some things inside designed for 24V like some lights or the fan or whatnot. If that's the case you're pretty much good to go already. If not you might look at just getting a decent inverter to power the lights and stuff instead. With...

The way to check is the date code on the back of the block. Pull the doghouse off and look at the block below the passenger side head. If it's after 99 then it's a GEP block. Mine didn't have the GEP decal and stuff on the valve cover, only know it's GEP from the date (but mine has the 4...

It all depends on what you want to do. As others have said, the aircon will take a bit, mostly for the startup surge. I have a 3 ton ECU (so 36000 BTU I believe) that I easily run on a 5KW MEP802A. It sits at about half load, or a little less in aircon mode. In heat mode it's 10KW so my 5kw...

Do you know if you have the GM block or the GEP block? The GEP block is different metalurgy, so it can withstand the heat better than the GM blocks could, for either the 6.2 or 6.5.

Vent line. Filter is there to keep out dust/dirt.

I know a few of the guys here are running 2" spacers on the M101A2s in order to fit HMMWV tires under them and don't have any issues, so I don't see why there would be any major issues using an adapter to change the lug pattern.

Plus, by the time you balance 2 or 3 sets of tires the centramatics have paid for themselves.

it's 12V nominal. When operating it will be closer to 14V, when shut off 12.6 is considered a charged battery, and if it's at 12.0 it's considered dead. Voltage has to be higher than the battery in order to make it charge. if it's an item designed for use in an automobile on 12V, then it...

It should depending on what RPMs it builds it's power at and what design the 15 KVA gen head is. if it's a 4 pole gen head and the diesel is rated for 1800 RPMs it will most likely work just fine. not likely that the engine would be rated for 3600 RPMs if it's a diesel multi-cylinder. Even...

Turbo is only really a necessity if you're planning on the truck weighing 12k lbs and getting shot at. The 6.5 non-turbo has plenty of power. My truck is around 8k lbs right now and has a box on the back sticking up 2 feet over the cab, and no issues with doing 70+ mph if I want.