Recent content by 77 AMG

Same. We'd love to meet more of the Big Iron Family and hang out with the ones that I met way back when...

I smell a road trip from Ky happening soon...

Thanks. I'm not "pretty fearless" as you put it about working on this thing, as much as it is more of a "sure why NOT?" kind of thing. Working out in the middle of a field isn't a new thing to me, sadly... Truck is parked out in a filed, literally. Old tobacco field, to be specific.

The liners seem to be subject to destruction MOSTLY by crappy cooling system maintenance, or, rather a serious lack of maintenance. The rattle noise in the top end of the engine is from a pushrod bouncing a little bit, since the lifter kind of "checked out" and collapsed. More "fun" to deal...

UPDATE- Yea!!!!!!!!!! (no, not really) guess who gets to do an "in-frame" because a liner decided to let go and pressurize the block/cooling system? <- THIS lucky guy... FMW(allet). Sigh, at least the truck is safe at the farm...

I'm getting ready to go pull the rocker covers and see if I can figure out what I hurt in the top of the engine when I oversped it a couple of weeks ago... sounds like rocker arm/ pushrod rattling in there.

Yeah, I've *always* thought that it was weird, being setup like that considering that the Deuce is a "draft tube" style as is the 923 at work. I am not going to mess with the truck until next week, as I am kind of heart broken, currently.

Well, from what I understand, the water pump is a cam-centric design and the if the belts are even a little bit loose, the pump will cavitate worse than normal. Having a non-functional temp gauge probably doesn't help, either. Also, blew the crankcase "cap" off of the valvecover when this happened.

I'ma gonna STEAL this idea... Seriously, though, thanks. I already can lock the X-case in "neutral" basically the same way. Tab welded to tunnel, padlock through hole drilled in the "knot" on the lever.

I managed to overspeed the engine in mine, overheat AND have it shut down, all at the same time, on the Interstate on the way home yesterday. Anyone else here happen to check off the "steer 5 ton at high speed on busy Interstate and NOT cause a wreck" part of their PQS yet? Now, it has a...

New model Jeep Gladiator next to my XM813. The Gladiator is on 35's, for what it's worth.

You can also raise the steering column up about 3/4 inch on the dash and get some "relief" from having the steering wheel try to start a fire in your lap when you have to turn the wheel in a hurry. Just make sure to re-set the lower mount!

Gave $4500 for a hardtop, winch equipped, troop seater model about 2 years ago. Pretty rough condition, but, she has *always* answered the starter when asked, even at 9*F with OUT assistance! Shows a little over 16, 000 miles as well.

Yeah, he is getting *pretty* good at repacking hubs, even figured out how to hold the hub assembly up so that he could fully grease everything in there. I found this interesting tool at work...

Man. Your lunchbox locker *REALLY* went out to lunch! Hopefully, you still have the old spider gears stashed somewhere...