Search results

At least nobody will walk on your grass! Area beautification detail, anyone?

Wouldn't just that 25k be the answer, then? You could add the weight of the plate, but the weight of the axles themselves wouldn't be added. So 25k, plus the weight of the plate (2k?), minus the weight of everything else on an M1083 cargo (e.g. bed, different bumper, etc.).

Then that's not really a change, right? It's a 10k capacity truck, then you take the 3k bed off now giving you a 13k capacity truck, and stick a 15k howitzer on... you're only 2k over capacity for the M1083 cargo variant. You'd have to figure out which FMTV variant weighs the most in operation...

Those are all things, yes, but ONE of them is the limiting factor. I think that previous discussion decided that the axles had the lowest capacity. I don't remember exactly what to search for, but I think the discussion started with someone asking if FMTVs had separated on road and off road...

Someone figured this out before by looking at the maximum capacity of the axles as the limiting factor.

I just let the speedometer hang out of the dash, and held the panel on with a couple screws. Then I drove back and forth about 1/4 mile on a road between two parking lots. Get up to a certain speed on the GPS, see what the speedometer is reading, then flip ONE switch (and remember which one)...

I have a whole post somewhere that walks through the process of adjusting the speedometer switches (e.g. which ones to move to make bigger or smaller adjustments). This picture (which I had on my PC but is also in that article) contains the jist of it...

They're usually not too hard to find, eBay even. I think I also ordered some from my local Caterpillar/heavy-duty-truck supplier. Make sure to buy spares of everything... banjo o-rings, tire o-rings, even a valve stem assembly, because it really sucks if (WHEN!) you wreck one, and can't...

You guys are worse than the motorpool mechanics!

That doesn't really look correct though. You can probably find a picture of any crazy stuff a motorpool mechanic did.

That block crack is the EXACT same block crack on every one of the trucks with driveshaft vibration problems. It goes from the oil pan bolt up, turns 90°, and then to the bellhousing bolt. It was identical on mine, as well as several other posts here over the years. (PSA: Read my common...

How much did it cost to make it yourself?

Based on the measurements above (0.210" cross section, ~2.00" ID), and according to these charts... https://www.allorings.com/userAssets/file/USAStandardSizes02.pdf https://www.allorings.com/userAssets/file/B1000CommonMetricSizes02.pdf ... it looks like it's one of these close options: USA...

Not a bad idea as long as you fix whatever actually caused it to crack. It's a symptom, not a root cause.

I hoping that with the prevalence of the these gas cans, someone actually already knows the answer. If not, then yes, the guesswork will begin.

The originals are 80A. Aftermarket polyurethane bushings (e.g. Energy Suspension) typically stiffen that up some. I use 90A for my sway bar bushings. (Most of this was described in my sway bar bushing post, I think, in more detail.) 60A would be way too soft. Also, the softer they are, the...

Water/oil heat exchanger, up front. I only have an LMTV, so I have no idea about the rear cooler with fans.

I just got an email from someone who was thinking about putting an LMTV sway bar on his F350. He wanted some rough dimensions, to know if it will fit. These are just some tape measure measurements (e.g. +/- 1/2"??), without really crawling under there, but just in case someone else wants to...

The big Viton o-ring inside the cap of my Scepter military fuel can spouts are cracked and leak. Does anyone know what size o-ring to buy? Thanks! These (picture from internet):

The A1 trucks have them, and show them in their battery box diagram.