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Kermie makes a good tire machine
The spare on the M94A1 sits horizontal under the truck allowing water to set and seep in between the combat wheel half's causing them to rust weld. As luck would have it we needed to exchange tires and rims. Kermies back HO makes a good bead breaker, rim...
Maybe a torpedo heater under the engine compartment. Did we establish it won't roll with the clutch in or transfer case in neutral?
I'm thinking if you get PO'd when something goes wrong you will be spending a lot of time PO'd. Most of us look at problems as part of the challenge...
After this years rally been fighting ultra slow tire leaks ever since. Got bits of wood stuck between the bead and rim. May have to completely separate the tire bead and do a thorough cleaning on the two front tires.
Got something radical planned for the next rally stay tuned :-)
Bucket Hydralic hose shut off valves
Found out the hard way why there are ball valves on the bucket hydraulic hoses. There are push pins shut off valves inside the nipple if there is pressure there you can't make the connection. The pin won't push in. You have to take the nipple off to relive...
The outer ID axle bearing on the M939 series is slightly smaller then the inner. On four out of five seal replacements I checked to make sure I was installing them correctly. On #5 I spent 10 to 15 minutes trying to slide the whee/drum/hub assembly on before I realized I forgot to check and...
Controllers are inertia operated so you don't have to tap into the brake system. The main bug-a-boo is getting a 12v supply for the controller ,the brakes and lights There are several ways to do that. Tap off one battery. Least desirable. throws the battery bank off balance. Separate 12v system...
If you are actually getting over current at the breaker then you have a short someplace. My MEP003 breaker control 24V DC would pop between 3 minutes and 4 hours of running. Took me 2 meters, 2 tanks of fuel and 3 days to get it. Turned out the shut off solonoid winding was shorting. The...
Not a failure in engineering. Anybody involved in the acceptance process knows or should know this is not acceptable. Its a matter of accepting the unacceptable. Makes you wonder whats going on behind the scenes. Why did the lock out WMO come out way after the fact?
Parked Harball vehicles
I intentionally took sequenced pics of the parked Hard Ball vehicles. Here is the stitched pic.
Click on it to open. You can also see it and down load on my cloud drive be careful not to delete anything;
http://1drv.ms/1LwJZZT
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