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Given my low level of experience, I would not want to build something for someone else. Sorry...

I do keep a 50-foot air hose with gage on the Dodge and it couples to the emergency side of the compressor output. I use it for checking tire pressures and I even use it to run a small partical blaster for removing rust scale on small rust areas on trailers. It works about as good an hooking up...

Frankly, I knew far less than I needed to know but that is nothing new for me. The entire controller is at best a cob job. I first looked at the electric controller already mounted on the Dodge. Once I saw how the electric controller interfaced with the Dodge's brakes, we then worked backwards...

If you stll need another quote, you may want to call the company I use for one way deliveries. Ask for Jeff at 1-814-913-1527 I last used them last month for a one way from Savannah, GA to northern Virginia. The cost was $1250.00 They loaded two 20-foot 5-ton beds, and three M32 four wheel...

The cost ofoperation on a per hour basis is in the $2500-$3000 range for this bird. Flying yourself and a buddy to lunch several airfields away makes a couple of cheeseburgers very expensive. There are a few airshows that will pay the owner to show up for a weekend. One can often get a a couple...

I removed the electric trailer brake controller mounted in the Dodge and replaced it with the air brake controller. The air brakes are engaged when the truck brakes are applied. The trailer brake response time is adjusted manually at the compressor and it is done according to the trailer and its...

Trailer Air Brakes for a Dodge Pickup Yes, the big pickups can pull an M105, 30 KW gen-sets, a pair of 10 KW gen-sets, and even a 2.5 ton M1082A1 trailer but how well can the vehicle stop it and can it be done safely. This is especially important since I do not run a dully Dodge. Its a 2500...

We purchase the flow values when we purchase the Titans actuators.

We used stainless steel brake lines throughout. The line runs from the actuator to an adjustable flow valve mounted on the tongue just ahead of the trailer bed which we use to manually adjust and balance the brakes to the truck. We like the trailer brakes to be just ahead of the truck brakes and...

We removed the landing gear and added a bulldog jack. The tongue was cut and rewelded to fit a 27-inch pintle height. This is good for our 4x4 Dodge 2500 and the M1028s. The trailer is level and tracks exceptionally well. We removed changed the tires to 9 x 20 10ply road tires for the smaller...

When doing an "autopsy" on a newly purchased MEP-002 or 003, I change the filters and fill the filter closest to the engine with Marvel Oil. I prime for 10-seconds, DO NOT glow the plugs, and immediately go to start and hold it for 5-seconds but I do not want it to actually run. I let everything...

Good thinking...The yellow, slimy looking stuff is a crude form of varnish which is what petrol-diesel becomes when it gets real sick from age and abuse. The filters MUST be changed. You have several options but you will be rewarded by being patient and getting the Fram filters as they are less...

You are welcome most any day.

I use 75-90 synthetic

I purchased two new ones for my truck three months ago from NAPA. They were in the $43 each range as I recall.

You are welcome to come visit me as I have several and we are in the middle of servicing them after the winter weather. I am located in Warrenton.

If you can get your hands on some Jet A at your local airport, this works fine in the duce. Being super-super clean, it will clean up your fuel system like nothing else. I snag some of the such on occasion as I am the slum landlord at the local airport and frequently in warmer weather an GA...

Fill it with water and tow it around your property. If there are leaks, you will find them. The Govt would have retired the unit due to the age of the fiberglass tank alone.

Pilots have been using fuel/water separators for years. Pre-flight requires taking fuel samples from the low points in each fuel tank and checking for water and proper color of fuel; the color being the octane indicator for different grades of av-gas. Many pilots use a sampling cup that has a...

As late as the early 1990s, leaded 110 octane was available at a few Union 76 stations and this proved to be solution for the high output racing engines we built. The photo to your left is a 1956 Grumman S2F. The last of these were retired from the fleet in 1983. They have a pair of P&W R-1830...