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Methinks that block is a later one with a full-flow oil filter.

If indeed being a 265cu engine, the water pump fan spacer will be missing to accommodate the longer block and the front motor mounts will be on the frame rather than the riveted brackets, al la the Canadian trucks.

The original T245 engine will have a bolt-on oil filler pipe, not one just pressed into a hole. Quite unique...

Single-phase motors can pull up to 600% of running current for the first couple seconds. Also check the cap for the correct uF and check for it being open or shorted with a VOM set on Ohms. If it is good, the reading should kick up at first, then fall to high ohms. Also, eBay has a lot of...

Doing commercial electrical work in a lot of high-power broadcast facilities, I've always tried to make things foolproof. The problem is fools are so damned ingenious! Many times I've changed my modus operandi to try and keep things safe.

A serious (not some plug-in job) surge protector wired to the output lugs will catch any transients over nominal voltage. As far as flickering upon load applications causing momentary undervoltage conditions, that will require a lot of external circuitry like a Sola transformer that will...

Nice work & technique.(y)

I'm going to be stripping a complete M35 rear tandem soon, so if someones spring pockets are really worn, mine may be better and can be had for the shipping.

Yeah Memphis was the outfit with the fiberglass tops like in post #8. Years ago I bought an M35 that they had customized with that top and an Allison 543. That top went to now departed Tom Kelly. The black plastic top was prolly made in a Mattel Vacuform from Hell.

I use the pictured wheels on my M54A1. I also run tubes/flaps on them, using an angle grinder and cutoff wheel to extend the stem hole out to the rim flange. Nary a problem in many years of use, and they don't go flat by themselves now. I remember seeing lots of 900-series trucks at the Guard...

Working that ruck will just eat up that little 3053 trans. Why not use one from a 900-series? Air shift, overdrive high range, same series U-joints. Somewhat smaller than your original, easier mounting as well. Really tho, I've given my old M54A1 a lot of hard jobs and many miles on the...

Maybe check your mixture ratio at the tailpipe.

Overthinking anything with an MV is never a good idea. They were designed to live on, in spite of a young soldiers best efforts to the contrary. Modifications (if any) had better be done with the wisdom & forethought of the Tank & Automotive Command brains.

Or buy a Blue Ox engine brake and use it backwards in the intake.

99 out of a hundred 4-cycle runaways are from turbo compressor seal failures, causing the engine to run wide open on lube oil irrespective of the status of Diesel shutoff. With the amount in the pan being gallons of oil, it usually pitches a rod from overspeed before running out of "fuel" for...

I'm still waiting for someone to try bunker oil in a multifuel truck. Prolly a user on an ocean coast, most likely.:p

Polychloranated bi-phenals were banned in the US in '79. Old designators were Pyranol or Askarel, among with others. Found in a lot of transformers and high voltage capacitors made up to the mid-70's. Personally, vintage oil caps of the values I use in my home-built ham gear with PCB oils...

They were built in the late 90's, and killed before their time when the second spectrum reallocation was mandated by the FCC. Essentially it was pure mineral oil, with a viscosity much akin to Diesel.

The backshell of the connector will unscrew, pull it back a bit. Work an ice pick under the rubber boot to get it to move back a couple inches as well. You may have to split the tape covering some. A tiny amount of DOT3 on the wires coming out of the boot will help with this task. The pins...

Divergent thread notification: A friend of mine pulled over 1,000 gallons of transformer oil from decommisioned TV transmitters. He runs it straight in his Cummins Dodge. I tried a tankful in my M54A1, never noticed any difference from Diesel.