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  1. Retiredwarhorses

    M1151/1152/1165 12v - Where is it?

    Nothig should be “grabbed“ from the 200amp, pull your 12v load either off the rear battery and fuse what ever your taking, or the factory Has already provided you the means for both 12 and 24v on the accessories panal behind the battery box with fuses that are waiting for you. The need for 12v...
  2. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    DS4‘s are NOT inherently more prone to run aways, I work on them to in the H1’s since 1999, owned more H1’s than i can remember, never had a problem with any DS4 in the shop…PMD failure? Yes…but thats a dead motor, not a run away.
  3. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    remind me not to ride in your trucks, over 30yrs as a Diesel mechanic and till that day, never had or seen a runaway diesel, this includes god knows how many diesel Generators i have worked on. and a reminder, this “runaway” as you call it was not due to what Normally causes a runaway diesel...
  4. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    I love Monday morning QB’s
  5. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    ummmm, shifting it to reverse will decimate your park pawl at just 1/2mph
  6. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    shifting into park isn’t the issue…it’s at wide open throttle till you get the motor off, left in gear and foot mashed on the brakes gets it down to a manageable rpm’s
  7. Retiredwarhorses

    Return line leak

    you will never get the clips on if the motor is in the truck, it’s a nightmare. order 3.5mm Diesel fuel rated slip on fuel hose, it has a yellow strip on the outside, I’ve used this for 20yrs in my shop...
  8. Retiredwarhorses

    What have you done to your HMMWV today/lately

    The reason TACOM continued to put out contracts for different PCB’s and EESS’s was because they couldn’t keep the failure rates down to an acceptable level, it wasn’t till the S3 development that they finally developed a box with an acceptable level of MTF. The box you have was of limited...
  9. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    Any diesel can become a runaway, one way is severely excessive blow by and a saturated CDR, the excess oil can combust as part of the fuel it needs to operate. This is rare as rare comes…
  10. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    Thats what happened to me!
  11. Retiredwarhorses

    Changing Brake Pads On M1123

    You don’t need to remove the radiator to replace that either
  12. Retiredwarhorses

    Holy hell 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

    Been there, done that….my story. left a paid Gig for a photo shoot, went to get on the expressway and as I slowed for traffic the engine raced, threw it into neutral, bad idea if I wanted a blown motor, back into gear to lower rpm’s, foot on the brak, I turned off the truck….no go pulled over in...
  13. Retiredwarhorses

    1097 HMMWV

    All A2’s and above are 4 speeds, M11XX trucks are all 4 speeds
  14. Retiredwarhorses

    Changing Brake Pads On M1123

    you have gone waaaay down a rabbit hole….
  15. Retiredwarhorses

    Changing Brake Pads On M1123

    drop the halfshaft, remove the rotor
  16. Retiredwarhorses

    3 x geared hubs leaking

    first off…check and make sure some jar head didn’t fill the geared hub up with gear oil from the half shaft retaining bolt plug area and not the fill plug on the facing plate, yes….people do this. make sure your vents are not clogged and Check the torque on the steering arm cover bolts. there is...
  17. Retiredwarhorses

    Runflat Lubricant alternatives

    I’ve used nothing for 20 plus years….
  18. Retiredwarhorses

    EMP Proofing HMMWV

    I’ve literally been hearing of this EMP crap for over 25yrs from people, as I’ve told anyone who cares….you got bigger issues if there is a directed EMP strike, and it ain’t your hmmwv you should be thinking about. 27yrs of CBRN crap and we really didn’t touch much on EMP, now…Chem, Bio and...
  19. Retiredwarhorses

    Help Identifying Engine Label

    6.5’s didn’t suffer this issue, the turbo did…AMG fixed the issue when GM dropped the motor in 99-2000
  20. Retiredwarhorses

    Valve Cover w/ Emission Sticker

    The factory emissions label from GEP is for the most part never on a motor That’s been rebuilt, the entire motor is painted black. Only OEM drop in motors or original moto have the GEP decal on the left valve cover….
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