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Mesquite wood is tough. And it is hot. I burned 3 tanks of gas in the Stihl, burying the 17" bar in some of the wood. I stacked about a half cord, he wasn't even home. I need a beer.

Stud welding for tacking was an inspiration out of the blue. I still need to make the patch panel patterns for the metal service center. A brother of mine had an "emergency" tree trimming job. "Emergency" is due to his having a shed built and the tree is in the way. Grrrr.... Oh, another...

Yes, brazing is a good method of repair. Ordinary phosphorous bronze with good flux (Anti-Borax, for example), make sure the metal is clean and shiny where you want the brazing and fit is tight. Braze doesn't fill well so joints like butt joints like to spring out of position with heat, have...

Yes, leaking injection pump heads start hard because the air in the system prevents injection until the priming pumps can deal with it. Oddly enough, the injection pump is an American Bosch so I believe the o-rings are of metric dimension. You should be able to source correct size rings in...

Looking better. I should have picked up a 40 grit flap wheel to level those spot weld fills on the tool box bottom. Andy can burn the old 80 grit flap wheel on that job. If he wants to learn to weld, he must first know how to grind/fit/clamp. Sometime this week I'll have to make time to...

IMHO, glycol based brake fluid causes problems when it isn't changed regularly. Silicone DOT 5 is much kinder to brake cylinders since it doesn't absorb water. When glycol becomes saturated with water and then the temperature drops, the water comes out of solution and settles on the bottoms...

The bed frame rail rust repair was a bit of a kludge, the match cutting was offset due to the flange, grinding the patch to fit took a good bit of time. With the bed, match cutting is easier since there is no flange so an even 0.040 root gap weld preparation will be perfect with pulsed TIG...

Brake lines run in the thousands of PSI. An air compressor is only 150 PSI. Besides, any leaks will show up as a really spongy pedal feel. The real issue to replacing the lines is getting all the fittings and clamps loose without distorting the old lines. Having an accurate pattern for...

I'm up for that, he has the deluxe double flare kit with toggle tube clamp. Rusted fittings will need torch heating to remove, this worked on the rear hose. Bending long sections is relatively easy, the master cylinder to frame bulkhead was a bit of a chore, being only 8" long and having a ...

Yes, wait for the fast idle to cut off. The injected quantity between normal and fast idle is tiny, don't worry about it. But DO avoid heavy accelerator while still cold, unless you have some form of indicator on glow plug status. I saw a few swollen glow plugs when I was in the Army...

All glow plugs have positive temperature coefficients meaning the resistance increases with temperature. This means the plugs will self regulate, up to a point. The problem with the stock GP system is the series resistors (ok, there are 2 resistors in parallel but that doesn't matter) and the...

Stapleton was also in a less favorable part of town...MLK-Colfax-Ontario isn't exactly the Bellaire of Denver. And since the revised Community Reinvestment Act was hot on the schedule, the federal funds for the new DIA were political graft.

The still pictures are salt mines. That isn't possible in the Denver area because salt is deposited in sedimentary strata, Denver is igneous basalts. Which are very hard to tunnel through. Your story is interesting but pure fantasy. The reason DIA took forever to build is typical...

Afterglow. Just keep light throttle until it no longer does this. Heavy throttle with the afterglow can cause glow plug swelling and failure.

All glow plugs have positive temperature coefficient, meaning as temperature rises, the resistance increases. This is what defines a resistance heater, if they don't have a PTC, they will not last any time. PTC is a negative feedback. The problem with swelling is more of mechanical design and...

I have hauled them in the bed of an M1008. The Deuce has 20" rims. With tires, you would need a foot of lift.

Resistors only drop voltage when there is current according to Ohm's Law (V = I * R). The controller has limited current draw, this wire is at 24 volts whenever there is no glow plug activity. Now if you were to use a 7812 voltage regulator, the glow plug control card would never "see" any...

The best solution is to use 24 volt glow plugs and bypass the ballast resistor. That and better glow plug design that don't expand when they fry. I think the older HMMWV plugs should work. I know the Beru/Bosch glow plugs are like this, if they have an over-current issue, they fail open...

15 degree isn't extreme cold for the design of the CUCV. And the glow plug load is significant, especially at -40 temps.

The reason for use of 24 volt GP is to reduce the draw on the batteries. But since half the energy is wasted in the ballast resistor, there is only the balance of each battery during starting. Since each battery is independently charged by each alternator, if you go with the 12 volt tap for...