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    Kia Military Vehicles

    I drove a kimchee m715 when I was in korea they had a big an Nissan diesel and were an impressive truck I kind of thought that is how we should have made ours
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    M1009 was making aweful sounds, took it apart, and cannot find a thing wrong with it.

    look at u joints and the phasing of said joints you would be surprised how many mechanics slip the shaft out of the slip yoke to change a joint than don't put it back together right. cr@p forgot that has a np208 no slipyoke do take the joints out and check them
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    swap the Catperillar D-7155 Overdrive transmission into a M931

    a 3406 in a 5 ton would be cool even a slightly hopped up 3306 would be a neat transplant
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    not a bad hmmwv roll cage idea

    I modified my lmtv and use it every day. I had intentions to change the color but now I think the army green has personality
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    Good local OD spray bomb paint?

    I used krylon on my heated mirrors as said ith a little darker, it more closely resembles black hawk green
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    Best place to drill the exhaust manifold for the exhaust temp sender ?

    the ones I have seen are all right behind the turbocharger usually just before the elbow down or right after it I know a lot of kits say drill the manifold all the oe installation's I have seen are in the pipe
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    Best place to drill the exhaust manifold for the exhaust temp sender ?

    I would rather weld a bung into the down pipe than risk causing a future crack in a cast manifold
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    Acceptable Engine blow by

    taken care of that's what my cat guy says I have a c-7 in the fleet with some where around 65 k hours on it if I remember right. its still running strong and just now showing signs of blow by this truck has lived a hard life because the drivers let it run at idle all the time. since it was new...
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    M1078 WTEC II Transmission Service Manual

    look at the harness in the trans I have seen them come apart and also melt down in high heat areas
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    Acceptable Engine blow by

    the a-0 and a-1 models use a draft tube you are going to see some if you see a nice steady flow of white smoke and oil dripping from the draft tube when run up under load suspect a turbo. I have seen several cats loose the seal on the intake side of the turbo and dump compressed air into the...
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    Air compressor coolant pressure

    my question is how do you know its the compressor a more common cause is a head gasket
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    Storm Chasing/RV 5 Ton Conversion Questions

    how about starting with an fmtv with LASC cab or up armored cab 5 ton there is no reason to re invent the wheel. the other option may be an fmtv with HIMARS cab seen a few of those for sale they are rare but atleaste the up armord cabs have ballistic glass in them
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    help me identify/source items in BDAR Kit

    the belzanna products are the best of the best, but they are expensive. I need to replace some products missing from mine as I have used up most of the epoxies. the super e- metal that comes in the plastic tubs can be used to repair engine blocks, also used it once as a temp repair to put a 6...
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    86 M1009 water fording ideas

    I have had to cross deep water with civilian trucks and with good seals I have had very little get through them when crossing streams. the only advice I can give you is once you are done clean and repack bearings and check your fluids for contamination or instead of spending a little money now...
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    Blown Head Gasket M1083 with Cat C7

    I would suspect trans oil cooler usually when the engine oil cooler fails you get water in the engine oil not the other way around
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    Air force ford f 800

    I have 2 in the fleet as long as you have all the fender parts they will work in some colors the new front end looks pretty good ours looked ugly until it got a royal blue paint job with flat black anti glare pannel on it. now it looks pretty sharp
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    Grease question

    you do not want to mix molly grease with lithium also do not use where it calls for lithium this is per the grease manufactures recommendations. mixing or using molly in the wrong places can actually cause friction
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    Need M1078 towed from Lakewood WA to Enumclaw WA (30 miles)

    if the tcm wont power up he will know which box I replaced on mine. as long as the truck is all there wont be much to get it running will pm you my contact info for tech support.
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    Water/Methanol Injection, anyone??

    the water meth injection is just a chemical after cooling, the evaporation will drop your inlet air temps. where it would likely have an advantage is if you really turned up the fuel and you were trying to control the combustion chamber temps here would be small gains with a stock engine but you...
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    Total Newb: 10KW Generator needed What am I looking for how do I find it.

    I run a mp 210 off an 8k lister petter with no problems you might look at a larger old generation 15 k that is 3 phase and single phase capable
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