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Driving with headlights on during the day seems to help a bit. What amazes me is the ones who drift into your lane, cut you off, and when you hit the horn, stop dead with a deer in the headlights look. Best defense-- biggest heaviest vehicle you can afford.

An electrical supply house should have most any gauge and color wire you need, along with crimp connectors, eyelets, etc. Probably the least expensive source for quality wire. For general wiring, I use MTW wire - Machine tool wire - it is fuel and oil resistant. Where I have to connect to...

Clean threads of oil and use blue locktite on reassembly. Not too strong, can remove bolts if need to. Red is stud lock, I would not use that - need to use heat to remove .

Well, good for them. Sound like reputable people! Many companies would try to bury issue, like GM did with ignition switches.

On any vehicle that is new to you, always trace out cables and confirm how the batteries are wired. After all these years and being worked on by various people, someone could have changed wiring. They will work just as well wired front/back or right/left. Slave port will work wired either way...

Slow charging is always best - only thing better is a pulse charger. I see no reason to disconnect everything, unless you have an undiagnosed parasitic load. As built, it has 2 sets of 12 volt batteries in parallel. If electrical system is working properly, no reason I know of why you cannot...

Yes. I do not like charging at 24 volts because the batteries that supply the 12 volt system often need more charging time than the other 2. The batteries would need equalizing charges to prevent early failure.

Well, most of my experience with old stuff is civy, but an engine is an engine, and a radiator a radiator. As things deteriorate, Cars/ trucks - find out something is marginal when they get stuck in heavy traffic crawling along. Emergency measures - put heater on high and open windows. Pop hood...

From experience - it can be pressure tested cold and be fine, which may be what they are doing. The key is what happens when HOT antifreeze stays there for a while and builds up pressure. You can test with hot water and be fine, but hot antifreeze is a different situation. If you want to...

The 2 part leaf rake in the bed adds a nice touch.

Very good point. Second question - is engine overheating due to poor coolant circulation? Something is putting undue stress on heads. In other aps, I have seen heads crack at valves when cooling passages in head had lot of rust/crud/scale, impeding heat transfer, causing localized overheating.

Question for former tank men - what is the useful life of shells? We should try to find out age of the shells they were firing. I know with small arms, really old stuff can hang fire or misfire.

Let us morn those who have passed, and after we have done so, find out what went wrong, and how to prevent a recurrence.

Painting it black makes it look nice, but the solvent in the paint can cause the plastic to age and crack. On a side note, I think people are overly concerned about coolant recovery tank failure. I have had failures on civy cars and trucks (that I did not own)- usually the hose to the tank...

Unless yu are King Kong, I doubt you can manual steer it if the power steering fails.

If you like it, please post what you are running.

Some of write-up got cut off, and my edit button is gone!! Therefore, second post. Washington (AFP) - First there was the Jeep, then came the Humvee. Now the US military has a new all-purpose vehicle that's destined to become another emblem of American fighting power: the JLTV. Granted, the...

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Instead of bobbing a nice truck, can you remove front rear axle and fab new drive shaft? that brings it to 6 wheels, and is reversible in future.