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rarest wreacker I think I know where the rarest of rarest wreckers is located. My Father has a 1935 West Coast International truck rigged with a 90,000 lb winch that was used by the USN during WWII to pull large ships (like aircraft carriers) in to dry dock in California. When the war was over...

NORM (naturally occuring radioactive material) is routinely found in some oil fields. There was a time they thought it was a good idea to inject radioactive material down oil wells (salt water disposal) so that the movement of oil could be tracked by seeing where the radioactive turned up...

Update Well I took it apart and found no evidence of “wielding” I have started it 20-30 times since and have had no more problems. My next step is to put the disconnect switch in. Any other ideas what may have happened?

why put it on the ground side and not the positive side? My concern would be that if the truck had a short you could not stop the problem with the kill switch on the ground side. can you explain.

Any scrap yard that has any chance of getting scrap metal from the oil field has Radiation meters nowadays (or at least are suposed to)and they get more common every day.

I would be happy to pay for a M923 bundle

I have been waiting for over 3 months

Great job!!!!!!!

I will take off the Solenoid tomorrow (July 5th) and let you know what I found

Ok so I started to take it all apart to try and find the problem. What I finally found was the battery cable to the #1 one battery was broken. (this is the one from the alternator to battery) Apparently it had been flexed too much in the past. I replaced that and so far I have had no problems...

I loaned my M923 the local VFW yesterday for a MV show and tell. When it got time to go home I went to start the truck. The starter engaged and would not disengage. I pulled the engine kill which killed the engine but the starter continued to run with both the battery and starter switches in the...

A fellow SS Member has suggested by PM that the problem might be the 12v tap. Is it common for them to cause problems? And when they do turn evil what kind of problems does a bad 12v tap cause? (other than the obvious just not working)

Can you help point me to the correct TM so I can trouble shoot an electrical problem on my M923. I have searched the treads and found a few comments about the electrical control box on the left side near the steering column, but have no idea how to trouble shoot. What’s wrong you ask…. I had...

If you’re up for an adventure pack up 500 lbs of tools (generator, air compressor, flood lights, traffic cones, battery charger X2, and almost every tool you have) and drive her to your house. I drove mine from Lincoln Nebraska to Houston Texas (793 miles one way). Got lucky did not need a...

I worked at this place where we had to park next to a lot that had a basketball goal in it. The local teenagers would play "street ball" they were always sitting on our cars and sitting in the back of our pickups so I got the bright idea to hook up a 12 volt electric fence charger. I drove a...