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Sad but true, the Detroit and surrounding areas are torture! I will be there next week and am not looking forward to that part! Guess who I am working with next week?

You would have to set up a drain tank and scavenge pump to take the drain oil back to the engine being low mounted like that. The turbo response time would go down with the long runs of pipe to and from the turbo. There would also be a lot of pressure drop with the volume added by the long...

I machined up steel male AN bungs for the rear block plates. I then TIG welded those to new plates. The hoses are assembled and then the rest is procured. All the AN fittings are CNC machined which is what I meant by 'Shame to hide all that Aluminum machining work...".

I fabricate seals from rubber that I buy in bulk that is often used in landscaping for edging. I also use weatherstripping and automotive generic seals. It is not brain surgery but it is tedious. I really should make some templates to save me the measuring and trial fitting time each time I...

For a guy preaching on restoring and not modding, I noticed in your signature a 1972 M35A2 "Bobbed Deuce", seems pretty hypocritical does it not? Moving on to enjoying my HMMWVs in whatever respect I desire as I have the right to do as does anyone else who legally bought them does.

I guess you could paint it? Shame to hide all that Aluminum machining work but OK.

I also have installed many dual fan setups. I dont run the dual fan housings as there are much better single fans that put out much higher CFMs than any of the dual fan housings I have found. I run only 24V fans and I run them through a 24V digital controller. The big added Item is the...

With all due respect, there were over 280,000 HMMWVs built and at least 1/2 are likely to be released to the public. There are plenty for the purists to restore and plenty for others who want to go off roading and such too. Relax a little...

I think the next batch might be all blue but black would be so cost prohibitive in the volume I am doing to make any sense. The AN fittings are just not common in black. Besides a lot of OEM hoses on the HMMWVs are blue!

Update: All orders have been shipped and the last of 4 initial kits was sold locally. I was able to build one additional kit which is now available as the paint dries. I will be building more kits but as the demand seems high I will be taking pre-orders to give people a guaranteed place...

Yes all these engines have the same uneven cooling issues. The GEP engines have improvements to reduce the failures common in the earlier 6.2 and 6.5 GM engines but they still run hot in the back cylinders all the same.

I have done this with the N/A 6.5 by making a custom 'T' that connects the OEM exhaust manifolds to a custom Garrett turbocharger that sits in a similar position to the stock GM7 turbo. The Garrett is light years better than the GM7 as far as efficiency and is also much physically smaller which...

One is reserved for you, pending payment. Thanks!

\ I was hoping for closer to $200 but there is a lot of fabrication and welding time so kits will be $250 each which includes everything you need, even gaskets.

OK I have everything done for 4 sets. Once the paint is dry I can show the complete kit both on and off the truck. The first 4 will be followed by larger batches as demand is determined. I have put together a step by step 'how-to' with pics that will go with the kits.

I just air up my stock tires to 40PSI and I go 50 MPH on my county roads. If it starts to oscillate, stop counter steering on just hold the wheel. The driver is causing the hunt by counter steering too aggressively. It is just like pulling an unbalanced trailer, once they get going you are...

They still scrap a ton of them. They just sold off 50+ for scrap ONLY, no parts salvage in Utah. Nice A2s and later slantbacks with turrets etc... almost made me cry...

Well a little late now. They should be in next week. In the mean time I am machining up more of the weld fittings which takes time.

Unfortunately I think the Chinese took the term 'breaker bar' to mean something else as I have broken every one I got from there.

So just a little update. The only hold up right now is AM General as luck would have it. They are supplying the new block off plates and are delayed. Here are a couple of pics showing the custom fitting that will be TIGed to the new block off plates, the AN fittings and the AN hose. More to...