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Once you have the correct key for the master switch (which does interrupt the negative side), your starter may work. EI has them. And get a battery box/hood key while you're at it, if you don't have one already. Edit: If you want to make your own key for the master switch rather than wait for...

Smart move to leave the rod end attached, making it stay in a good position for working on it. The downside was that you worked on it in the sun, which prompted the custom A/C installation, right?

Not familiar with 404s per se, but most likely the first filter is a strainer, not a true filter. It's a cleanable mesh on FLUs, and may be on your 404, too. If I were a corroded part and someone sprayed WD-40 on me, I'd laugh, too. I think there's a reason that WD-40 recently released a series...

So you're off to a good start...not. Come to think of it, that's how they would say it in German.

This site's rules won't let me post the most appropriate response to that.

Took a few photos today while thinking about rim and tire beads. First is a 16.50 on a 2-inch widened stock wheel, which is spec rim width for that tire. The unusually beefy bead lipon the SEE wheel still sticks out quite a bit. Jay Couch has run these on stock wheels and says it works fine. I...

Dear General, I don't think you give them enough credit by merely calling that mix volatile. It appears to be a finely brewed concoction of things. Including, but not limited to, fungus, bacteria, water, something that promotes rust, stinky additives, and some sort of a flammable liquid. It...

Sorry, I did indeed mean 12.5, not 12.2. I have very mixed emotions about those so-called rim protectors. They do no harm when run at higher inflation pressures, but when aired down they can form a gap in front of and behind the lowest point of the tire. Basically the sidewall pivots around the...

Ron, we don't know about your SEE yet, but General Hood is definitely in a glass house situation here, calling my fine collection "debris". At the very least it should be "mostly functional debris".

Ah, I forgot about those. But now that I have a SEE with a tweaked rear toolbox... Guess that means that the M1008 gets the old one, not a new one. Either way, I'm looking forward to the delivery in person. You may not need a trailer to bring it all (starters, tool boxes, plus whatever I forgot)...

I may have some photo that shows the potential problem, but I'd have to dig around for it. For now, picture a modified Japanese car. Those guys really take the wide wheel/narrow tire concept to the limit. Low riders have nothing on them. Even the 12.2R20 Michelins are really too narrow for the...

She did buy me a T-shirt that reads "Only one more, I promise" on the front, crossed fingers on the back. But that was a while back. I think that hiding it in plain sight worked.

The main drawback with skinny tires on a wide wheel on something that goes off the pavement is when dirt gets forced in to the bead. That can be accomplished by crossing a ditch diagonally, or driving along in a crevasse, like I did. After that you'll have a slow (if you're lucky) leak and will...

No, that I have not. I figured that if the hole starts bugging me, I'll either put a larger diameter boot on the shifter, or make a cover plate of some sort. And I'm still in denial over having actually seen a non-eaten, non-ripped seal for the loader levers. But now you got me thinking. Since...

Okay, okay, I'll stop whining about it being hot here. That it didn't get into the 40s last night was bad, I thought. By the way, at this point my girlfriend has walked by the "new" SEE at least six times...within two feet of it. It's not exactly hidden, but parked parallel with the driveway...

Unfortunately, there's no way I can look through a few thousand proof sheets (negatives for B&W photos) or about the same number of color slides. Yes, lots and lots of photos from the 80s and 90s. I don't even remember what shops those broken cases were in. And yes, it obviously takes something...

Are you hoping that someone will post that they don't help strengthen anything, or that they can make things worse? I'm hesitant to write this, for obvious reasons. but I have one 208 (and have had a few) with the rod. I have also seen split cases as a result of the chain wadding up. Sorry.

Two months, huh? I'm, guessing a couple three weeks less. But with an ever increasing amount of vehicles, they are harder to keep track of so you might be right. And a dilemma it is. I don't have time to fix this one up to the standards I'd like a working or sellable machine to be at. Heck, it...

Not a single post refers to it as "useless". The debate seems to be about how useful it is, and for what. Okay, so here's one theory for why that rod exists. On civilian vehicles it serves to keep the big chunks from ending up on the highway when the chain in the 208 breaks the case in half...

General, I'm suspecting that you may have owned this one in a former life. The paint is really nice.