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You are doing something wrong, something is wrong or you are buying used unknown condition boxes, because as a shop that only uses OEM KDS and Narton S3 start boxes, I hAve maybe 1 box a year that is faulty , and those are from the auction that were blown when the truck arrived and most likely...
The U.S. military operates these vehicles in every operation theater on the planet…to include Artic environment,they don’t add additional batteries .
The Hawker battery is an incredibly robust battery, albeit expensive, they seem to last what seems forever.
If an owner lives in frigid temp, they should make every effort to ease cold starting, block heater, in door storage etc…there are no benefits to cold starting unaided,
No need to replace the 400amp unless you want to just spend more Momey or it fails…changing the solid pulley to the clutching pulley and correct belt will lower “indicated” RPM’s because the pulley is larger, you are going to tach higher no matter what in these ECV’s due to 2 reason, one is that...
Just installed my EOD shelter….I’m thinking it’s easier to just run another slave receptacle behind the battery box and install and slave connector to plug into the BEOD shelter…they chopped off the OEM plug, never could figure this out because it’s not hard wired.
Yes, true, but for this exercise in a hmmwv, there is no AC output to utilize off a 200/400 amp unit.
I looked in the CE Niehoff book and see AC going to no where…I only see where they refer to AC in testing from the cannon plug.
Test phase signal into regulator (AC). Set meter to diode tester...
replace with a straight pipe, new Cat, hog it out, clean it…its the owners decision as it’s a federal government violation to remove or modify smog devices for road vehicle.
this black smoke is a 95% a clogged catalytic converter, disconnect the down pipe from the converter underneath the truck….i see this on almost every turbo truck that I buy, had 3 last week, I’ve been pointing this out for years on these trucks.
very common, I did 2 trucks in one week not to long ago, but you need to pull it all out and asses from there, you have a 75% or better chance that the bolts are Finger loose and just need to be hit with some heat.