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Agreed. Steel and aluminum don't do well in direct contact. Everything I was bolting on was bolting to the fiberglass hood.
Well worth a mention that steel and aluminum should be insulated from each other.
Edit to add - now that i think about it I have stainless steel nuts in contact with the...
I removed and painted the light buckets, replaced a bunch of hardware with stainless, scritched and repainted access doors, grilleguard, hood hold downs, and replaced the rear hood seal and related hardware.
A lot more work than I thought it was going to be.
Before, and then several after...
I'm not sure it's a matter of keeping a lower overall operating temp. I think it's more a matter of preventing localized hotspots.
Keeping the whole thing cooler may keep the hotspots less hot, but I still think the primary concern are those small pockets near #8 that get hot. I speculate that...
Now that I have a functional door handle, I took the doors off and drove it to sonic.
The rusted brushguard, headlight bezels, and other assorted tan nastiness is bothering me. So I took the brushguard and headlight bezels off and got after them with a powered wire brush. Then I painted them...
I keep forgetting my insurance card and registration since there was no good place to keep them in the truck.
Now there is. I bolted in an ammo can to serve as a center console. I used existing holes so no harm was done to the hmmwv.
Tried to start it a couple of days ago at 6*. It cycled the glowplugs, then gave one halfhearted crank and clicked at me. I gave up.
Today, having not charged the batteries and having not done anything to it, I tried again. It cycled the glowplugs and started easily on the first crank...
I did my first piece of idiocy today. I ran the redtruck out of fuel in the middle of nowhere.
I considered driving the hmmwv to go get some, but in the end I decided to just rob from the tank. I removed the nut from the bolt that goes through the rubber plug. That was insufficient to let fuel...
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