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I've been stewing for weeks over Les Schwab's inability to understand what I was trying to tell them, that SOMETHING IS LOOSE IN THE STEERING, causing the truck to randomly change direction while driving down the road. They kept insisting they had to do an alignment, when they just did one a...

you might want to post the name of the company if you haven't sent it off yet, as I'm sure at least someone on here has tried them and can give you feedback as to whether they do a good job or not.

At any point did you use a laser thermometer to verify the temp gauge is accurate? Fan doesn't engage until at least 220 on NA unit's and I think around 230 or 240 on turbo trucks. With my cadillac valve unplugged, the truck sits at 180 degrees. And yes, 220 degrees is still within normal...

Alternative option, since that battery bank shows you've got some decent investment into the system, is looking at a 48V DC water pump. Will require a little larger cables, but you gain some efficiency in not having to convert from the DC power of the batteries to AC power through the inverter...

I would expect it to look the same, as it's basically the same engine except in 24V instead of 12V, and tuned to government specs. I don't know if it's compatible or not as I'm not a fuel system expert, but physical appearance doesn't mean much when the internals can be tuned completely differently.

The 15 amps running vs 88 startup on the sticker is a factor of about 5.7 to 1, so even if you're down at 2700 watts running, you're probably looking at a minimum of at least 5 times that number, and probably closer to 6, so 18kw for a split second isn't unheard of. I don't do installs and...

If your "normal" draw is 6500 averaged out, then you'd definitely want the 803 as opposed to an 802 or 7kw gas unit. The surge is very short, but the gasoline generators are just built too lightly to handle the startup surge of multiple aircons if they decide to cycle at the same time. Your...

" Whoever manufactured these counterfeit parts should be ashamed. Pay the extra for OEM! " Sorry to say, but whoever paid good money for a set on ebay, when the originals from a reputable source aren't all that much more (about $275 for a pair of them straight from AM General) is the one who...

Yup, slots cut into the uppers, but bolts and locknuts for the lowers.

High percentage biodiesel blends for home heating oil sounds like a bad idea to me. Not everyone goes through a full tank in a year, and with how quickly biodiesel breaks down and grows biological contaminants, there is going to be a lot more system failures in the future.

As others said, there are a lot of factors in how long a fuel will last. Oxygen and moisture are the two fastest killers. Biofuel blends are also much shorter life because of the organic components. Straight 100% diesel, in an airtight container, in a cool location, can last a very long time...

Red dye is only to distinguish between fuel sold with or without the road taxes added to the cost. Other than that it's the exact same diesel.

Anything that will fit a standard HMMWV body will fit the M1123. The only real differences between the M1123 and an M998A2 is the rear airlift bumper and having everything for the fording kit already installed except maybe the intake and exhaust stacks. Not much difference at all between the...

just airlift bumper, the M1123 doesn't come with the winch as standard equipment like say the M1026 or M1046 were

They are unidirectional as noted, but the reason why they aren't mounted for the tread all facing the same direction have to do with the date code on the tire is only on one side, so usually the tire gets mounted with that side facing out.

yeah, a load bank makes doing test runs and cleaning out the system much easier for diesels. For your Generac though, it will run thousands of hours no problem without ever being load banked. It's always nice to know exactly how much load it can take, but unless you plan to be pushing that...

JP-8 has enough additives to not be an issue. It's what we ran all of our trucks on in my unit since we had lots of it for the helicopters (and as far as I know the entire military runs everything on it) It won't hurt to put in some lubricity additives, but not required.

Directly above the portion of the chart you posted above is fuel tank capacity, and above that is the chart for how much fuel it burns at those load levels. So that really is just how long it will run on a full tank of fuel. Running the unit out of fuel can be a major issue with some engines...

Yup, you're not the only one...

and be careful of the B-pillar pieces, they are the most easily broken parts.