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RE: Fuel question (I
Actually, in warm weather, WVO will run fine in a deisel engine. In colder climates or the winter, it has a tendency to thicken up. There are kits you can get to make WVO more acceptable in all climates, and I am not sure what it takes.
The first thing I would do is put some oil in the cylinders and allow it to stand for a day or so.
Then I would see if I could turn the engine over by hand, just half a turn will do. Maybe a big breaker bar and a cheater handle on the crankshaft pulley bolt head. Crank the engine with no fuel...
With anything other than the stock tires, they are great in the snow.
But at 16, you are better off getting one of the diesel powered GMC trucks that the military used in the 80's, after the Jeep and before the Hummers. That is what gimpyrob is referring to as a CUCV.
From the video, the driver didn't know hw to drive in soft sand. He should have just let the M816 pull him out as he idled and he would have rolled up on the sand in about a truck length. Instead, he gunned it the whole time and kept it stuck until the end.
The PM's I have been trying to send have been going to my outbox but appear to never be livered and never get to my sent box. Is there something I am not doing right?
Newer radiator caps do have gaskets. They are designed to hold about 15 pounds of pressure in the radiator so that the fluid inside has a higher boiling point. They also allow coolant to exit as it heats and expands. The cap is further designed so that as the coolant cools, it puts a negative...
Neg on one battery goes to ground. The positive of that battery goes to the negative of the second. The positive of the second goes to the solenoid and the rest of the truck. If you want to jump start the truck, the best way is to do it from another deuce, main positive to main positive...
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