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I personally like the idea of skin cancer on my hands. Actually, I think my hands just hate gloves. I always wind up using bare hands by the end of the night collecting oil. None of the reusable rubber ones seem to work well for putting on and off without getting the inside filthy and defeating...
the resistor drops the 24v to 12v for the glow plugs. If you have a glow plug fail, the resistance changes, allowing higher voltage to the remaining GPs. eventually it will cause a cascading failure of the GPs.
They do make 24vdc charger/maintainers with boost (100amps or so).
A lot of marine and construction equipment is 24vdc as well.
Do they make one from a factory with a slave cable plug already on it? I don't think so, never seen one. You can purchase one, and get a used slave cable end, and...
$.50 a mile? you couldn't make anything driving it for that. Not if you have to buy fuel, maintain your truck, have insurance and tags, etc like the rest of us. That's insanely cheap, so cheap I would avoid it like the plague.
I've meet Eric with Surplus Transport and helped him load and ship...
**** I'll drive my 2004 Dodge 2500 that gets 33mpg hwy on WVO and other fuels, and is bare bones stock.
the big issue with woodgas, is tars and impurities in the 'gas' literally gumming up a standard IC engine.
Try and find a battery wholesaler or warehouse, they will usually sell blemished batteries at a steep discount. I run all my stuff on Hawkers or Blems, and almost never have battery issues.
I have been hoping to get an electric wiper setup from an A3, only minus the electric motor. I have several big locomotive style air wiper motors, and want to install that in the center of the windshield frame where the electric motor went.
I don't know about you guys, but every deuce or 5 ton...
Dang it Tracy! I didn't get to see the pics due to your rash and childish behavior! lol
I would have found it interesting...
I like Rally's. There is only one around here, in Sumter near where I work(ed)
Welcome to the site! I have family in Greenwood.
I live to the SE of Columbia.
I posted a thread a year or so ago, about doing a SC gathering, maybe just at my house, to do a 'meet and greet' I would still like to do this but finding a month and weekend that works for most of the SC folks...