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This is the first thing to check if intermittent alt light and low voltage, even if belt seems tight, and there is no obvious slippage. Tighten the belt to make squeak go away, they get too narrow even if seems tight. It can creep up slowly too, with alt charging some. Condition will slowly...

For OD paint, I use this company. CARC green substitute is close to the original color for your truck, and you can get spray cans in the appropriate colors too, if you want camo...

Yeh, $900 is not bad. If it is just a flex plate replacement, I'd count that as a medium repair, as opposed to 'major". If you lucky, it is the only problem, but I'd take a close look at torque converter mounts to plate also. The transmission internals may be fine. If you drop the...

I bought several sets of Wellmans when they were the ones being recommended over the AC-13s. They failed early, and some of them did have to be extracted because they had swelled. At some point it was claimed that that was a bad batch and problem corrected, I do not know. I switched to the...

Well, it is not as bad as the first Jeep I got when 14. It was a M-38 with the F head, to accommodate the taller motor, someone had added a CJ-3B hood and front clip, and welded an extension to the firewall to fill the gap. I did end up getting a less cut up MB a few years later. One thing to...

It might be worth a grand to the right person if the body tub, and the rest of sheet metal are original and solid, if it's rusty, sounds like there is not much original to work with. Does it still have the T-84 transmission? I'd look for one that needed less work and spend a little more, but...

That is one classy old machine. I have a modern chain trencher, and it is likely better in every way, but when they built this, they were inventing the technology, and before hydraulic motors. I am impressed.

Interesting thread, I got one of these last year, and assumed the seals might not hold up to diesel. Are the distribution stations in front of trailer still hooked up?

If the replacement filter has a petcock, you should be able to drain out water, as water goes to the bottom. I crack the bottom of my water separators to check as part of periodic maintenance. It is pretty easy to tell if it is water coming out or diesel. There almost always is not water...

Hard head, going the extra mile and doing a good job as usual. Impressed by your very thorough enclosure build/improvement thread a while back. Overdrive, one problem with the stock flap is water can wick under flap and into muffler output even with flap intact, this is especially true if snow...

Sounds like you are burning oil, would not be surprised if motor was in need of rebuild. Knock might be injection related, but also could be connecting rod, more likely to go at piston wrist pin than at crank, especially if the motor ever sucked a glow plug or was used with starting...

When one of mine gets a death wobble, the first thing I check is the drag link and tie rod ends. Even a little play in drag link can cause it. Balanced wheels, king pin springs, steering gear and it's attachment to frame and stabilizer good to check as noted by others. One other thing that...

You guys are funny, hopefully intentionally.

Perhaps the wide mouth was speced for ability to fill with scepter cans and the like.

Is your fast idle circuit turning off after warm up? Green wires by IP, to fast idle solenoid and idle advance should power off after truck has reached operating temp. The ''tinny sound" sounds like it might be the warm up circuit timing advance staying on. Does not sound good, nor is it...

Also nearby and use and 802 as primary back up generator, can run all house essentials and then some; well pump, laundry, lots of lights(best to go to LED), multiple food/beverage refrigeration units, a few window A/Cs. This may not be true if you have and electric cook stove, dryer or heavy AC...

Stock batteries are hooked up in series, 24V, if modified to 12V, you could have fried several things, including glow plugs, glow plug controller, and starter, if cranked for more than briefly. Hard to help you more than that without more info. Link below will answer a lot of questions for...

Cool video, looks like fun, but got to say, even when I was a young idiot, it would have not occurred to me to run so close behind, but I suppose that is part of the fun. I'll leave it at that. (haha)

I registered 8 units to be recalled on 11/6/17. I got 6 of them over the course of last week. They were the same grade as the ones returned, as expected. Just got the last two, and was pleased to find they were all metal commercial grade types, they must have run out of the others for now...

There is a lot more racket from a diesel, especially a 6BT. Might want to consider additional sound deadening, as you'll be right over it. Cool project though.