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Hell yeah, I like it! The truck and the Tshirt are really kewl. I need to stop hanging around on this site. Too many trucks make me jealous. I need to ride over and help you tinker with that truck sometime, Opie, since I'm only about an hour away and I'm often in Roanoke anyway...

Yeah, looks like typical original paint on the engine. I'm sure someone her knows exactly what it is, but if it were me, I'd just match the engine to the truck. One other thing, after you paint the engine, try and let it dry overnight. Sometimes with certain paints, if you put heat to it too...

I'll take a shot at it. If I were to guess, the engine is painted the original color the truck was painted. Probably the Vietnam era OD green. If the truck is now 383 green, I'd probably paint it that color, unless you have some reason for it to be the original color. As far as painting the...

That would be a relatively easy way to raise the compression. As you said, you have to watch the valve to piston clearance, and assuming the R6602 is similar to conventional gas engines, you may have to make a set of pushrods or adjust the valvetrain in some way. You may also have to do a...

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This whole deal just irritates the hell out of me. If you call the Federal DOT, they clearly state that you can drive a semi, and not need a CDL of anykind as long as you are not using it to haul commercial cargo for profit. Basically what it boils down to is that the states would lose a crap...

Jsust about all of the normal manufactures of the repro tops can make them in other materials and colors. It's probably be expensive though. Check with all the usual guys like New Life, Beachwood, etc.

Yeah, that pretty much takes jealousy to new heights. Nice trucks!

It will draw it and hold it. It's the main problem with DOT3 and probably the best reason for switching to DOT5, but DOT5 will also take a lot more heat than the DOT3.

I think the main problem with not idling down a turbo is the lack of oil pressure. Since turbos spin at crazy RPMs and have some really slick bearings they can spin a long time after the engine has been shut down and the oil pressure is gone. If you shut one off while the turbo is still hot...

A hat or a lot of sunscreen and sun glasses for the rest of the guys. Glad to see you made it, 40Grit.

It could be done, but it wouldn't be worth it. The 602 is the gas engine, if I am thinking correctly, and unless you can have custom low compression pistons and a new cam ground then you won't be able to run any large amount of boost. Then there's the whole deal of custom exhaust manifolds to...

I think these are 53s on this dump at Oshkosh, and yeah they look real close.

For those too lazy to clicky or for when Pirate4X4 takes a crap and won't load: http://www.ouversonengineering.com/inc/pdetail?v=1&pid=181 [table cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0] [tr ][td vAlign=top align=right width="10%"]Price: [/td][td width="90%"]$750.00[/td][/tr][tr ][td...

http://www.softcom.net/users/djstutz/pvtjarheadld.html Thanks for the info!

Must be the color of the forum to me and M1075. I assume we both are using the OD green colors and the text shows up white to me also. You can see it if you highlight it.

I agree with all points. I can see how it is frustrating for a new member to deal with the sig problem, especially if they are new to internet forums. Lets face it, a lot of guys can turn wrenches like nobody's business, but are utterly lost on the internet. It's not a huge problem, and we're...

There are many places that sell the ready made seat covers if you want to shop around, but the prices are pretty close in most cases. New Life is one, as well as Weebee Webbing and Beachwood Canvas. I'm sure there are probably many more out there selling similar products. The only one I have...

WTF is up with that thing? That's probably got to be the 3rd or 4th time I've seen it go up for auction, and either get pulled, or it just shows up a week after it's auction ends.

It's been on there a few times. There were two of them, but that is the best one of the two. A guy that's on the M715Zone sometimes has one that he is restoring. It's appearently an experimental model that didn't cut it.