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Speaking for myself, I'll never own another KLR650. I bought my '06 new, maintained it perfectly, and this past spring went on a trip to Kentucky. It used a fair amount of oil on the trip, not excessive for a single cylinder running hard on the highway, and I kept up with it. I was only home...

Congrats! Nice to see more trucks are being let out! Jim

I believe the int. wipers is controlled by a small box under the dash. Find a box for it, plug it in with the int. wiper switch, and you should be able to use the int. wipers. At least many years use that box... Jim

No easy answers, but I'll throw some possibilities out there. I would think the 5.9 would be a bit shorter than the 3208, giving a bit of room for an intercooler. The best option would be to put the intercooler out front (as they should be ahead of the rad. anyway) with a custom grill, as...

Congrats! I'm glad someone else is having some luck! Jim

Keep the 360 flexplate with that engine...I believe they are balanced different. Jim

I've never heard of that one, my father has grossed over 40k going into the sawmill with his '06. (before I hear crap over the weight, its about 1 mile on a private dirt road, under 30 mph). I'll take the Allison any day, I just hate the d-max. Jim

The several articles I've read about the axing of the smaller diesels (Toyota & Ford were working on them as well) told that it was because of the new EPA regulations passed recently. The engines won't meet the new requirements thanks to the feds. Lets hear it for the Govt...give the auto...

I've seen newer 3/4 ton Suburbans and pickups with the FF 14-bolt. I think its a coin toss which one you get. Check the spring pad mounting location width between the rear axles. Most GMs are the same, but there were a few that were different. The fronts should bolt right in. For the front, if...

O.K., not MVs, but here are a couple of my old Toyota...first pic was me getting deeper than I wanted (it should have been deepest in the middle, and not keep getting deeper all the way to the end!) First shot is before the snorkel, 2nd pic is after I installed a snorkel (and I did test...

I see an issue with it not being triangulated enough. You have more of a trapezoid, not a triangle, so its going to want to do what a cardboard box with no ends does- flatten. There is 1 weld to stop it, but a lot of force is going to be put on that weld. In the pic below I circled the weak...

Just my 2cents from years in the auto repair business and many more years in the 4-wheeling hobby (including building and repairing them), but the Detroits are the way to go. Standard limited slips (with springs and clutches) work O.K. when new, but quickly lose their effectiveness. They also...

:ditto: Filters are so cheap for this transmission, and it doesn't require any special fluid (unlike some of the new transmissions running $20+/gal. synthetic) there is no reason not to change the fluid and filter on a regular basis. One thing we used to do at the shop I worked at for customers...

My opinion/belief is to keep the torque converter matched to the transmission. The reason for this is that a torque converter is very good at collecting particles from the fluid...it works as a natural centrifuge and the particles collect inside it. You don't want to put a torque converter from...

By that wording it sounds like they would require every 1-ton pickup being driven by a mom bringing a swingset home for her kid to stop. In fact, dpending on how you interpret the wording for the combination weight, it almost seems like they would want anything with a combined weight of 10001...

The sticky point is the term "used in commerce". What is considered commerce? Thats pretty much up to the DOT and the judge. The owner of the truck is hauling a load for someone else. In many places that makes it commerce. Is anything exchanging hands? If the owner of the load pays in any way-...

This is a subject that comes up on every site dealing with hauling and trucks, and I've never seen a clear answer. I think thats because there is no clear answer, because of the variety of laws, and the way the laws are interpreted. By common sense, and by many state's laws, you are non...

The stock 4bt specs are actually pretty close to a MF. I laugh that my Durango (with swapped in 4bt) puts out as much as the Deuce. Using an intercooler, turning up the fuel, and a larger turbo, the little 4 cyl. would actually put out a lot more than the MF does in stock form! And think how...

We should come up with a thread (unless its been done somewhere) listing all engines that could realistically be swapped into a Deuce. Not that the multifuel is a bad engine...I like it...but just showing options. Nothing stupidly large, but realistic possibilities of medium-duty diesels that...

Blood_of_Tyrants, That mill has folded up and gone under, the same as the larger of the mills in Berlin, and many others in the area. Many other businesses have closed as well- Currier trucking, Currier GMC, and others. Unemployment is extremely high right now, and the towns (mainly Berlin) are...