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Down boy! Just didn't see the point. If the fork lift portion was left out of the suspension flex photo requirement perhaps there would have been more than one eligible photo lol. Guess it was an easy one to get the ball rolling. *edit: LOL! :?

The first challenge outcome was pretty much a given since cucvnut's photos are well known around here.

Also, this company makes .125" (1/8") thick copper exhaust gaskets. A pair of these stacked under the passenger manifold for an extra 1/4" clearance may be the ticket... http://www.coppergaskets.us/index.htm

Another question: many of the eBay oil line kits use a restricter in the oil feed line. Is this necessary? I don't have the factory line so I don't know if it uses one. Just picked up my turbo setup but need a couple odds and ends. Besides the oil lines I need the fuel pump block off/ drain...

low miles does not always mean what you think even if they are original. That particular vehicle may have taken a half A million short hard trips. My truck showed 32,000 miles when I bought it but from the hardened mud and gravel I dug out of everywhere it is obvious that the troops were having...

Yep. I'm just glad I don't have to pay mechanic's wages. If so, I'd be driving something different, dousn't matter which system the truck had.

Yep,we're all on the same page here. And yes, good discussion since the OP is asking for opinions. I am slowly learning more about the 24v system. In my previous life I was a certified mechanic at a Ford dealership and the normal 12v system comes easily to me but this is the first exposure to...

Ok, pointless to argue since I've never looked into the Rosscommon procedure but also seems pretty common to read about guys getting their 24v systems worked on somewhere and really getting things hacked up by folks that don't know the 24v system. Even more reports of garages refusing to touch...

Perhaps he was but I still think more people would be able to help if that were the case. Maybe not from this forum but almost everyone is more familiar with a standard 12v system than these oddball twin alternator 24v zombie hunting vehicles.

It would seem that MORE people would be able to help you now. You just can't get a jump start through a 24v slave connector, and what are the odds of running into that when stranded? A military truck could still jump start your truck with standard 12v cables from his front battery. I don't...

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Pickle fork and big hammer?

Thanks for the tip on eBay search phrase. Ton of stuff there to make the feed and drain lines. Picking up my turbo stuff this week. How long of lines should we be looking for? I'm looking at a line kit that has a 17" return line and a 36" feed line.

I had a full size Chevy van slip some threads on a tie rod over a bump in the road at 60 mph a few years back. Hit the bump and the steering wheel jumped about 90 degrees. Scary. Between the rust on the threads and the sleeve not being very tight it jumped. Luckily it didn't come all the way out.

Agreed. Wholeheartedly. You take it off roading once and the steering wheel ends up off center by a full 1/4 turn! You keep driving it and make the trip okay but your next trip off road puts your steering wheel a FILL 1/2 turn in the opposite direction! This is FAR from a small issue. You use...

Personally I've never had the opportunity to jump start another military vehicle and doubt that I ever will.

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Very true. Personally when I get ready for a race I just temporarily loosen the 2nd belt. That being said, I don't have an issue with someone wanting to do the conversion. Or ANY conversion for that matter. I think the 24v system is cool and unique but some others think differently. Sometimes...

Agreed. The modification does not do anything for the original problem, but it DOES cure the original design flaw. The circuits are not the same as the civilian versions. There are far too many sub circuits that are all feeding off that 30a headlamp fuse. I learned that from the sticky here...

Yep, the headlamp circuit problems are right in the stickies up above. The fuse doesn't blow because there is no short but the circuit feeds a lot of loads so that fuse gets hot if there is ANY kind of poor contact or dirt. Don't worry though. The only time it's going to bother you is after dark.