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The cans are held on with a thru bolt. Just unscrew it and they come apart.
One reason for keeping them as is, if your truck dies with plugged filters, you can remove the element and drive on if you are on a CRITICAL drive. No so with no spin-on replacement on board.
Obviously, this may lead...
Silver brazing (Silfoss) would be a good choice, and with Copper wire/bussbar no flux is necessary. It will do fine with a MAPP gas torch from a good hardware store.
Clean up both surfaces and go for it!
Most single-phase motors pull around 600% of running current to get up to speed.
Unless it is an inverter-type genset, the 60Hz freq (speed) goes down and things go awry.
The problem with small gensets is that kind of demand has a lower load impedance than the alternator, and can't provide...
Once I had a deuce with the 17' expansible van on it.
My M543 wrecker was at the end of it's rope, so to say, lifting it enough to drive the truck out from under it.
Those boxes are ungainly heavy!
I pulled it because it was bent up by DRMO or some unit such that it couldn't be expanded, so...
Hey, if it's not a rust bucket, there is nothing too hard to get fixed there.
Having a winch is a very good deal there.
What kind of goofy headlight is that?
My M54A1 came with one, still has it.
I've seen other rigs with a single chain link welded to the shifter. Loop the chain thru the wheel, lock it to the shifter in gear.
Precisely why the military just paints over the old stuff.
Well neigh impossible to chemically remove it, as CARC stands for Chemical Agent Resistant Coating, including strippers.
I suspect success running an air impact with a newer 5-ton is easier, as their air system is designed to support full air brakes.
My '67 5-ton has air=over-hydraulic brakes, and the air demand is less than the others.
I have a 1" Chicago Pneumatic wrench and my M54A1 won't run enough air to take off more than 1 nut without a wait to rebuild air, even at high idle 2100 rpm. Apparently the line size is too small to deliver the required CFM.
I solved it by using a larger portable tank, filled from the red...