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Thanks, FarmMOG. And glad that it all works well now.

Hmm. I recall seeing them referred to as check valves elsewhere, and I think I've seen the arrow on mine, although stamped, not painted. Do you have a part number handy for your old one? It'd be interesting to see if it matches anything I have. By the way, my loaders' valves are plumbed...

If it was installed backwards, which it sounds like, did you try turning the check valve around?

Alright, be that way.

Welcome to the group, IdahoFLUzer. And congratulations on the relatively trouble free operation.

This bucket is the real thing, found it for $400 about three hours away. Half price of the aftermarket stuff on eBay, and in great shape. I needed a 12-incher, and it's more or less permanent on the Winter SEE now. But the Summer SEE definitely keeps its 24-inch bucket. If I could only have...

Ah, never thought of that little detail. Mine probably works, but is useless as the pump doesn't have the correct parts to make the vacuum usable. Plan A was to hook it directly to the modulator, so that's what I'll try. While my 1008 is nearly always in First gear anyway, it hasn't bothered me...

Another few hundred feet of ditch created. Not very rewarding when using the 12-inch bucket, by the way. The front of it tends to fill up, leaving the rear of it empty. And that's in addition to only having the ability to get half the load of the stock bucket in the first place. Oh well, it...

Or to get the air out of the system, maybe?

Looks like I'm the truly lucky one here, so far. Got my low mileage, rust (and almost dent) free M1008 for free. Still not sure why my friend thought I should have it, but he delivered it and I wasn't about to say no. Sure, it had crappy tires and no side windows, but that was easy to fix. Been...

I've done the mechanical tank cleansing (although it wasn't for rust) using chain, and it's no fun. For rust I'd use N-Terpinal, Evapo-Rust, or something similar. If one is really lazy, fill the whole tank. Otherwise, with the tank removed, I'd put enough in to cover one flat section at a time...

It's like black sand in this case. Whether it's asphaltene or bacteria I don't know, but I've cleaned it out best I could - without removing the tank - and BioBor seems to have helped. Or so I thought. This was the first hiccup in quite a while. This is the tank in which the lower 25% looked...

Yesterday, yet another grave digging session with the Summer SEE. On the way there the strainer had to be cleaned out. On the way back, in almost exactly the same place, one more cleaning. I suspect that the second one (pictured) was largely due to me stirring the crap in the tank up by putting...

I can't recall seeing a strainer in the tank on mine. But it might well have been blown off the pickup tube when I fought the fuel issues and used compressed air on the tank's outlet. On the other hand, I'm glad there isn't one - it's so much easier to clean out the strainer by the valve.

Checked this morning, and I have three of each. At first I thought that maybe the HMMHs came with aluminum and the SEEs with steel tanks, but my "Summer SEE" has an aluminum tank. Either way, that's also the one which (still) requires a cleansing of the strainer every now and then, but I just...

I did (somewhat skeptically) add Seafoam to the oil in a 232 Six that had a ticking lifter, and which had been ticking for years. It got quiet.

Yeah, in an ideal world I'd replace all the gaskets and seals before putting that one back into service. I'll try to remember to try turning it a tiny bit today, just to satisfy my curiosity. If I remove the heads now, with my luck I wouldn't find the heads again when it came time to reassemble...

Bighorn, I've been wondering about the current health of a 350 I pulled out of a '76 GMC quite some time ago. It's now on standby for when/if the 6.2 in the M1008 gives up, but you're painting a grim picture here.

I don't see why towing/driving with different diameter tires would be so bad with a Gov-Lok. Sure, the spider gears get to turn a bit more than usual, but nothing compared to on vehicles with central axle disconnects in the front.

Well that was an easy enough fix. It's funny how alcohol can make things work better sometimes.