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What wire size you run depends on what you are planning to power/how much draw. That also determines what size fuse. Simple wire chart here: http://www.offroaders.com/technical/12-volt-wiring-tech-gauge-to-amps/ For automotive applications, 14 gauge is usually good for 15 amps, 12 gauge for...

if you plan to use it a lot with the engine off then the converter is also a better idea to keep from running down the rear battery, but if your batteries are in good shape and you aren't running the stereo full blast for hours on end or leaving the dome light on for days at a time it shouldn't...

You can get away with wiring things straight to the rear battery as long as the amount of load doesn't get too high. For the older trucks with a 60 amp generator you'd definitely want a converter due to imbalance, but the 200 amp is a 24/12 output, and provides up to 50 amps of charging to the...

if you thought that many was a pain in the butt, try the 24 bolt wheels. Twice as many bolts to torque, and as you have to do a 2 stage torque, one set of wheels involves almost 200 uses of the torque wrench. I'm not looking forward to doing mine when the new tires get here, but the wheels were...

So looking up part numbers and crossing it to an NSN ( 3030-01-524-2460 ), the belt in your hand is for a truck with a serial number higher than 196901, and the one I posted is a shorter belt, for trucks with a serial number 196900 and below. For my truck it's only 110.75 inches, so if yours...

I tried finding the belt listed above on the NAPA website but it isn't showing up for me. Gates K081102 is the same belt (and judging by the NAPA part number NAPA is buying them from Gates) For tensioning, I can barely force it on by hand with no tools, but using a ratchet or breaker bar on...

So got hit by some pretty good wind last night. I forgot to take the shelter down before going to bed. Found the tent about 30 feet from where I had set it up, upside down. Fortunately I didn't have the end walls zipped down or the bottom hooked to the floor holding the two sides together, so...

sounds like just plain bad luck combined with a less than adequate inspection. As for the DC shunt, it isn't a fusible link, it will do nothing to stop current flow in the case of a shurt circuit. The below taken from http://www.cromptonusa.com/DC%20Shunts%20Theory.pdf DC Shunts: Direct...

reset machines will also be up to date on upgrades as of time of reset, such as the quad fuse mod and the like. I don't know what upgrades there might be or stuff like that, so don't know if that part really matters.

Max possible speed and max sustained speed are two different things. When most of us talk about max speed, it's the max sustained speed you can do. That's why 55 is considered max top speed for the 6.2/3 speed. You can go faster than that, but you risk destroying the motor if everything isn't...

definitely. I've gone through in the past and read reports of linemen who have been injured or killed because some idiot decided his lights being on right now is more important than the safety of the people trying to restore his power. That's why I get really touchy when the subject of...

So a "backfeed" is where you take an outlet, such as the dryer outlet, and make a cord so that instead of power coming out of that outlet, you are feeding power into it. When you have an interlock you are specifically preventing a circuit from being connected to the rest of the panel without...

As far as I know, there isn't any legal/approved method of "backfeeding" an electrical panel. As has been stated, only using a proper transfer switch or interlock in the breaker panel can a generator be safely/legally used to power your household loads. What size generator are you using to...

beach run today. a couple 5 tons, a medium equipment transport, an M715, a couple LMTVs, and 3 HMMWVs. It was commented that the HMMWVs were like the little kids of the group, playing around pretty much everywhere on the beach, driving over logs and hills, and just generally having fun.

That was my thought as well, but as you said, not a one person job.

that depends on what you're renting and where you are starting/stopping. They can't track mileage on trailers, so if you rent it near your home and return it the same place, all you pay for is the daily rental fee. If you rent it at the far end and return it at your end, they'll hit you with...

I recently acquired a truckload of random DRASH stuff, and found a couple vehicle boots in the pile, so I tried one out with the BEOD and it fits just fine. Now just need to set up a tent for it to connect to.

I think you can find it in shops that service semi trucks, they actually do it on the truck for steer tires to get the ride as smooth as possible. Not sure if they can do it to wheels on drive axles.

Even those won't take care of an out of round tire though. A big problem with used/surplus tires is you never know where they are actually coming from. They might have been on a truck that was used off road at a training site and got driven around a couple times a week on dirt/gravel, or you...

yes, the base trucks are essentially identical. In the year I've owned mine it's been a 2 door pickup, 2 door troop carrier, 2 door and 4 door helmet hard top (tall version) and currently a 2 door BEOD, with a lot of switching back and forth for events and such. installing a hard top takes a...