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No idea why that would happen, 911, but at least you won't have to worry about rust on the left side for a while.

Today's lesson in hydraulics. Had to play musical tires with the SEEs and naturally used the hydraulic impact wrench. Plugged it into the snow blower SEE and...nothing. Okay, I forgot that there has to be sufficient air pressure for the hose reel circuit to kick on. Once the rpm went up I tried...

Since you'd way over CGVWR with your pickup and the SEE on a trailer that can legally support the 16,000 lbs., wouldn't it be safer and easier to drive the SEE those 30 miles?

I'm sure you have good reasons not to contact GP yourself and find out where in the system your paperwork is, as I've suggested in the past. I simply don't understand what those reasons are. Besides, if not having any paperwork on a FLU makes you a non-owner, I don't own a single one. Not even...

Hey, I can easily see myself screwing the backhoe up if running at 1,800 rpm. It took a few days, but once I realized that it works just fine at 1,100, or so, I found it much easier to operate at lower rpms with my limited skills. I don't think you need any mechanical lifting power to deal...

Not that I condone drinking and posting, but should the thirst become overwhelming, I found the perfect remedy in the toolbox a while back. Actually, I didn't even know what this lump was until recognizing it in a video on the "Unimog Tractor thing" thread three days ago. It's a pump. A...

Thanks, General. Air Force would make sense in this case.

Welcome back among the living, Gadget. And I won't even make the obvious a bad pun. Too bad you didn't resurface a few days ago, when I had two of the 'houses off to check anti freeze levels. For now, I'm guessing that the oil level should be about 18 inches down. Come to think of it, wasn't...

Well, there goes the neighborhood. Found this a few miles away.

Correct you are, Bison. Somewhat recently I learned that one way to identify them is as FLU419.101, FLU419.102, and FLU419.103. But it seems that FLU419 is automatically associated with the SEE, and then there's the FLU10344 designation for the HMMH. The latter makes some sense when knowing...

Okay, you had me fooled there, Bison. Your "45MPH OFF HWY 55MPH ON HWY" stencil obviously doesn't apply to a FLU, yet it sounded familiar. Sure enough, there's one on my HMMH, too. I even have one without any mention of off highway pressures. But as you probably know from reading this thread...

Ah, that explains a few things, Bison. But those are maximum speeds, not minimum.

I remember reading the official procedure in the manual, but not what it was. Since my SEE seems to squirt some into the system every time it's started all by itself there was no reason to occupy valuable space in the brain cell. Cleaning out the receptor was about the only thing I did when...

Alright, who here can help decipher the markings on the doors on my FLU? It reads "E199", and directly below it says "TE004M". Up front is stenciled "AF 93". I'm sure that there's a clue to where it used to live in there.

The parts SEE came with dead batteries, so the routine was to fire up the M1008, hook up the jumper cables and start the SEE. No wrenching on battery terminals required. Or, I could've used a 12-volt vehicle and a separate battery (both batteries in the SEE were toast, so I needed two 12-volt...

If you're willing to skip the convenience of using the NATO plug, don't overlook the fact that you can charge/jump start your FLU with just about any vehicle with a 12 Volt system. Of course, if both of the FLU's batteries need help when jump starting you'd need two 12 Volt vehicles and two sets...

Fresh Cab "smells good to us"? Really? Yeah, there hasn't been any proof of rodent activity since a I tossed the baggies in, but I wouldn't exactly call the smell good. Well, I suppose it largely depends on what the cab smelled like originally. Fresh Cab does smell better than a decaying rat...

I have never tried that Craftsman set on Torx fasteners since I have Torx sockets, in the smaller sizes, but I would imagine that those multi-sockets would work just fine.

Before i finally got around to buy the correct tool, I used a 1/4-inch pass-through ratchet with the 8 mm "splined" socket on the battery box, the kind that's said to work on square, hex and most any fastener. I thinks it was visible in the photos of the battery installation a while back. For...