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I intend to do some home siping on the stock tire , probable some groving too . The difference between a good and bad snow tire is the number of small notches and grooves to catch on the snow .
No gurantee that this will take the tire to great or even good but ill make a post about it after...
Started a new pole building , useing the deuce as portable scaffling . To get around the back side i either had to cut up some dang big trees or .............
Cant see to post a pic on this site but theres the links . Dont know what i need to do different then on any other site .
seeing if my photos will post
i can post a link , why dont this site see to let me post from my photo bucket ? No issue on any other site !!
normal this just shows a photo hmmmmm
I sure dont see CO being a problem with this set up , theres a plenty tall chimney which should draft nicely . I doubt the truck is so air tite as to run out of oxygen .
Iv been giving thought to cold weather camping in my deuce as well . Think im going to build a mini cabin in the back i can slid in and out with my tractor . weather proof and easy to heat . Still in the mental build stage .
Im in the N half of MI , live in the middle of 30 acres and my property has a strange clause with the building and zoning so in short they cant say crap to me about any thing . Property is classed " special use " this was done years ago when we proved we had scrap on the property prior to there...
Iv read these type post before , i have a different type of neighbor problem . They come and borrow my Deuce , jimmy , jeep and so on . But never complain about them .
I do towing , so we run into this a few times a year where some one grabs a gas pump and puts it in there diesel truck , pickups most of the time . In a normal pickup it only takes a gallon or two to shut them down , the gas seperates in the filter and accumulates , all of a sudden it just shuts...
I bought my deuce as a toy and as an ambassador for my company . Tonight it served its first job as ambassador . A major delvery company had a driver put gas in his diesel truck , we towed it in to there garage and the mechanic was just a whining about disposing of the mixed fuel .
Multifuel...
I have played quite a bit with civilian tires , regroving , siping .
Snow and ice is simple this , the more minor groves , notches the better they work . Regarding siping i have found if you take a box cutter , razor knife and make small cuts in the lugs it really helps on hard pack snow or...
Darn Bob what time were you up there ? I went up and wheeled a little with Chuck and dave , joined up while i was there . I cant make it this weekend but i may run up for a bit Friday night so i can meet a few more folks . If i do ill just run up in the H3 rahter then the deuce . Depends on how...
7.3 orginally designed to run 250,000 most will do well over 300,000 with good maintence . Power Ok not great .
To bad you dont have a inline IHC DT 466 thats a heck of a good motor . My Hercules takes a death run ill let you know how the 466 works in a deuce [thumbzup]
I put the roll pin in today because i had one of the correct size and needed to spool up cable that was wrapped around the bumper . Plan to change it out .
Thanks for the link , man thats a long read ha ha .