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    PURest Air Dryer constantly purging/leaking

    I have the newer style "PURest" air dryer, and it just started leaking out the purge exhaust valve. The air compressor is to outrun the leak, and keep the tanks full, when above idle. Does anyone have experience with what causes this and how to repair it? I tried googling, but didn't find...
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    Issues with 3-piece runflats installed incorrectly?

    One of the things I'm worried about is that I don't have any spare o-rings. So if they screw up an o-ring while taking apart the tire, I'm stuck.
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    Issues with 3-piece runflats installed incorrectly?

    I had the 3-piece Hutchinson runflats installed on my M1082 trailer, when I had the tires changed a month ago. I just realized they didn't install the rubber rings that sandwich the runflat between the rim. I'm about to drive the truck and trailer 2000 miles to Florida! Will this be a...
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    LED Light bar location

    $2K is actually fairly inexpensive for custom or low-production-quantity welded racks. For example, you'll pay $2k for a Gobi Jeep rack, that they get to make thousands of. The commercial store-bought roof racks get to be cheaper by mass-production, and using thinner walled tubing and weaker...
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    LED Light bar location

    "I'm only going to spend $2k on this stuff, honey." <A few years later, looks around the shop at $20k worth of equipment...> "Oops." :oops:
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    M1079 Transmission Fluid Question

    Always check the surplus places and eBay too. Those kits are on eBay right now for $25. (You have to use some judgement with NOS stuff so that you don't get old rotten rubber, but for a transmission filter you should be fine.)
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    Trickle charger / maintainer

    I found my bad wire. Always something. So I guess if I had to do it again, I'd get the Noco GenPro 10 X2 https://no.co/genpro10x2
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    LED Light bar location

    In weather (heavy snow, fog, very hard rain, etc.), I've found having the lights as low as possible was best. Those kinds of weather reflect light, so if you have the lights high it just turns into a blinding ball off light right in front of the windshield. With the lights low, that...
  9. Awesomeness

    Trickle charger / maintainer

    That does make sense, so now the question is "Why wasn't I getting 14V across that one, when I checked just now?". I'll have to go check my cables.
  10. Awesomeness

    Trickle charger / maintainer

    But he didn't. Some of that might be true when it's charging more than one battery at once, which it does at first, but then it starts charging them round robin, and just maintaining them. I just went and double checked, and mine is currently charging only battery #4, which reads 14V, and the...
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    Trickle charger / maintainer

    Care to explain then? Not sure why you have to be such a jerk about it. If there was only one charger, hooked to one battery, it could charge one battery only. If you had 4 chargers, each one hooked to one battery, and plugged in any one of them, it could charge one battery. Put all 4 of...
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    Trickle charger / maintainer

    Spendy for a battery charger, yes. Spendy in terms of pretty much anything else in the military-vehicle hobby, no. They're a couple hundred bucks, and seem to really do a good job prolonging the life of the batteries (e.g. different charging cycles for desulfating, different modes for flooded...
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    Trickle charger / maintainer

    I use the Noco Gen4, which charges and maintains each of the 4 batteries independently.
  14. Awesomeness

    Ship a MTV from PA to CA

    Be ready to pay about $2/mi, which in your case will be $4000-5000+.
  15. Awesomeness

    Decontamination circuit

    He misspelled the word "my".
  16. Awesomeness

    Decontamination circuit

    You're just going to have to google it and see if somebody has a picture, or call one of the distributors and ask.
  17. Awesomeness

    Decontamination circuit

    There are numerous posts on it, and the part number is in my parts spreadsheet here in my signature.
  18. Awesomeness

    Why does the tool box have one corner mounted with a rubber isolator?

    Maybe there is too much stress when the frame is twisted up on big off-camber offroad stuff?
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    Alternator bracket

    To clarify... Look up the part in the -24P manual diagram, and then the corresponding parts list. The description sometimes will read something meaningful (e.g. "Bolt, XXmm x YYmm". If not, there are cross reference tables in the back of manual that list NSN. Copy the part number of the bolt...
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    Alternator bracket

    If you look them up in the -24P manual, it may say what they are, or you can then google the NSN and it will probably tell you.
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