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This should make it a billion, then. I'll PM you my special bribe bank account info.

Alright, since you have the ability to pace yourself, here's another one - showing the normal cold-weather procedure. Probably due to the battery disconnect switch issue, the M1008 gets to do jump starting duty.

Thanks. Yes, except for the banged up left door and cracked dash, that one's clean. ​ Finally got a chance to install the pig tail hoses on the impact wrench today, by the way, so this week I should be able to break some fasteners - or sockets.

Hey, Peakbagger, when you get around to doing your air dryer install, would you mind selling me the old alky reservoir?

And since you're a nice guy, here's a second one. Just don't look at them all at once.

Okay, okay, here's one.

Electrical questions: Today the SEE wouldn't start (turned over slowly) so I got the trusty M1008 out for a charge/jump start. Eventually removed the doghouse as the throttle tends to stick when it's cold (-11 over night, about 30 when this happened) and noticed puffs of smoke from the front...

Ron just bought it, and basically just introduced himself this way. He sure seems to like his "new" SEE, and it sounds like it's in great shape.

Uh, oh. We may not get as many SEEs to choose from as the mass purchase of keys might suggest. Just heard that the local (dinky) county yard got one. For free, of course.

There are several coming up for auction, so don't give up on that approach. The good thing with the GP auctions is that you can check out the very telling oil analysis results ahead of time. The bad thing with buying one "first hand" is that it seems inevitable to have a few leaking hydraulic...

So I finally managed to get the SEE temporarily immovable (AKA stuck). Chains on the rear and locked diffs didn't help - not when it was sitting on its belly in wet snow. The loader doesn't have enough power to help push the vehicle backwards...or pull it forwards. The backhoe allowed me to lift...

It was indeed easier - that's what I grew up with. But my handy dandy (free) Harbor Freight tape measure isn't metric. Neither am I, anymore. But I do remember when the Brits started converting, which they did inch by inch.

Hey, there was clean, nice fluid in there. Thanks for making me finally check that. Anyway, overall length (to inside of cap) is 5-9/16, high is at 1-7/8, low is at 1". Give or take a 16th.

Ah, yes, I remember those signs from when my Jeep arrived in Norfolk. That was the beginning of a 3-month cross country trip...on as much dirt as possible, of course.

Got snow(white) there in VA?

I should check the P/S fluid, so I can take measurements tomorrow.

Indians? I thought they were Native Americans this week. Unlike the other millions of people born in the USA, who are... Yeah, where did that thread go??

Yeah, but one would think that once they got farther west, and realized that the land went on for a ways, they'd change the name accordingly. After all, we're not in India, even though Columbus thought he was.

Oh, the fictional one is way east of the middle of the USA. If you divide the country in half, then split the western half in two, you get the center of the actual midwest.

Dang. I need to win the lottery so that I can buy a spare SEE. Didn't roll it while cleaning out the irrigation ditches last year (came very close, though), but now that I think I know how to run this machine...