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No reversed polarity, but 12v to 24v cross connect possibility. Also Powerpoles don't lock, a major shortcoming. In a rattly diesel on a bumpy road they come loose unless you zip tie them. I have lots for emcomm, but the lack of a decent locking scheme sucks. If you build up a pair of...

I'm in the same biz. Sorry to see it happen to SS. I guess that makes you part of the big boys club seeing someone bothered to hack this little forum. Thanks for all you do and stemming the bleeding. You turned things around quickly as well. No outage for months!

I have my deuce as a no-electronic nothin tinker toy since you can't wrench or modify any civvy car or truck of similar age. It always kicks right over, no matter what the weather and has been more reliable than my fleet of rice rockets. It is expensive to operate and maintain, but I don't use...

Simple and elegant!

Often with those push-on fittings, pushing the line in fully to seat and seal will fix. Next easy try is to pull on the outer collar and remove the line from the fitting, then trim off just enough plastic line to put only fresh plastic tubing inside the fitting and then reassemble. That wil...

All one 'needs' to do is disconnect the cable from the controller at the CTIS manifold under the truck (pax side, center) to fully disable CTIS. The system has no truck air pressurization when not operating. To dispel a common myth, the most common source of A3 tire leaks is not due to the rim...

The volume of air required to inflate 6 super single tires simultaneously is MASSIVE! The little air compressor on a Cat 3116 doesn't have a lot of capacity at idle. 1300 RPM is almost 3 times more output than at idle. It takes a large volume of air to raise the pressure and the CTIS will...

Is this the A3 Ether canister, mounted inside the engine compartment against the front grill? If so, you can get them at truck stops. Pricey, though. I seldom use ether on my A3 and you shouldn't need it in the bay area either. It doesn't get all that cold there.

I fully agree with this. It really isn't rocket science and torque wrenches can be very inaccurate based on how they are used and treated. As a kid, I was taught by the mechanics I worked for (for free no less) that on a standard 12" wrench, a 'grunt' was pretty consistently 80 ftlbs. I...

A discone antenna for a mobile scanner is a bit of overkill. Diamond makes a small, flexible version but it's pretty obvious. I'd stick to a whip. Most modern public service communications, especially in urban areas, are now using 800 MHz band trunked analog or even more trunked digital. The...

Are you really sure it's the pressure relief valve? There's two, one mounted on the dryer and most trucks have a mod (MWO) to put another one right at the compressor outlet. They are set to blow at 150psi. The occasional air escape heard is likely the dryer cycling. The dryer under the truck...

My A3 is 1996 and after multiple discussions, DMV would not give historic plates even though it was built from an earlier vehicle due to the mfg. date on the title, which is the date of record they use to determine historical plate eligibility. So I am stuck with commercial plates even though I...

Uh, this isn't exactly correct. Cali requires an 'air brake endorsement' for the operation of any vehicle with air brakes and consists of special written AND behind the wheel skills test elements for the CDL, class A, B or C. In fact, if you take your CDL in a vehicle that does not have air...

MMO: Marvel Mystery Oil

I picked up a brand new 3/4" one on auction at a bargain price. It will not loosen rusty A3 lug nuts, but few things do besides a pipe and a breaker bar or a 1" mega impact. It is pretty handy for just about everything else. There are generic sources for cheap brush replacement. The...

If it failed in a pin hole, you can bet there is more unseen corrosion and weakened steel in the vicinity or inside the tank. Scrap it, its a literal time bomb. Foa a couple of bucks you get reliability, piece of mind and possibly the savings of ambulance and emergency room costs or worse...

The temp repair indicated was fine to limp home. The permanent fix is to either patch in a new section of metal line using flare type fittings at each end or to just replace the entire line. You'll perform just as much or more labor brazing (including disassembly, prep and reassembly) compared...

I put a capfull of MMO into the inlet to the drag link as indicated. I then reconnected the air line and worked the wheel in both directions about a dozen times and then repeated oil application for a total of 3 times. This freed the drag link - mine was leaking 'on' all the time. The oil...

The unit under the truck has nothing to do with the legibility of the character display. All it has are the drivers for the selenoid valves. Your problem sounds like a power or more likely a grounding issue. Check that out fully & carefully.

The antenna needs to resonate at the transmitting frequency to avoid reflections back into the unit. This both maximizes power transfer and avoid overheating the final amplifier stage of the CB. 110" is the best compromise resonant length for the 11 meter wavelength that the 40 CB channels fit...