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Well, I recently replaced four batteries because three of them went bad. They were installed in '99, and aren't the oldest ones still in use. I would check all wiring and connections, and load test the batteries, before spending money on new ones.

So why was the tank cleaned out, and what were the filter(s) clogged with? If there's bacteria in the tank, you'll be changing filters a lot.

Yeah, the high idle switch requires (high enough) air pressure to function, but that shouldn't affect the loader switch. Odd indeed. Even 1,000 hours sounds unusually high, let alone 11,000. Maybe someone forgot to turn the engine off on a Friday evening, before a very long weekend?

Those Fort Polk guys must be amateurs. The forklift drivers at the GP Texarkana lot can inflict real damage.

Has anyone ever taken the time to figure out how many parts are unique to an M1009 versus a K5? Could it be 2%?

Call it stupid pride, or whatever, but if there's any possibility that I can fix a vehicle myself rather than getting insurance involved, I'll give it a try. Last time that didn't work out was in '81.

Some Unimogs, and probably also other vehicles, came from the factory that way. Engage 4WD and the axles automatically get pressurized. Many moons ago, a friend who (for whatever reason) thought that it would be fun to drive into lakes pressurized pretty much everything on his Jeep. Seeing...

Not sure how I would commit any fraud by not having functional odometers, or not driving a vehicle during the past year. In either case the numbers don't go up, but whether I put zero or 350 miles (or even 5,000) on an insured vehicle shouldn't really matter, should it?

Darn. Not even in CA did they require a working odometer.

Well, so far that hasn't been an issue. There are one or two that are broken, and I told them that. Either way, as far as I know there's no law that says that you have to have a functional odometer - speedometer, yes, but not odometer.

Unless they force you to run a log, electronic or paper, how on earth would they know where you accumulated those miles? Like you, my problem is usually that I can't get many miles on the vehicles. By now the insurance company has learned that when I say "The odometer reads whatever it did last...

Too late for the advice now, but you could've saved some time by doing the fender trimming before installing the new springs. Using the 35s as a "cutting guide", of course.

There are times when we need to be careful about what we ask for. But better an eternally locked diff than open, I think. Other than tearing up the ground a bit, there's no real drawback that I can think of. Unless ...the dog clutch is only partially engaged. You may want to measure the distance...

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I can relate. Today I was surprised to notice that the FLU 10344 has 110 miles on it. That's 20 more than when I bought it almost two years ago, and I've even driven that one to the post office once. I may not live long enough to get 100 miles on it...especially if going in Reverse takes away...

It seems to vary from state to state what you can and can't do with classic/antique/historical plates. For example, when I got historical plates for my Peterbilt (to get away from CA's very expensive commercial fees) I was well aware that it should now only be driven to and from club functions...

Okay, I'm curious about how it could get out of adjustment in the first place. Linkages generally don't grow or stretch, so if it was fine to start with, what happened??

True, but on the other hand, when applying pressure, it's working against those 14.7 psi. With vacuum at least it works for us. To what degree it matters when it took a few hundred psi to to push the piston in is debatable.

Hey, you got it moving. Now it's "only" a matter of making it move freely. That'll probably take several on/off cycles. I would begin with doing it with one wheel up, then once the locker seems to work somewhat predictably, take it out and drive. It'd probably help to get in the habit of...

I think the strainer is adequate, but Mercedes obviously didn't take into account that many FLUs would end up sitting in rat infested woods for extended periods of time, sometimes without a fuel cap. Having done a fair share of strainer cleaning myself, having a larger one would be helpful. Or...