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I looked over that page, and some of the claims don't really sound right from practical experience. Examples: Biodiesel lasts 18-24 months without additives. If you try to store biodiesel for any length of time without additives, you're going to grow algae and other stuff in it, because the...

Painting everything will do a lot to protect it, and won't cause any harm unless you somehow manage to really screw up. I know of no reason why you shouldn't paint them.

It all depends on what exactly it is you are trying to plan for, and what your expected needs are. You burn about 1 gallon of propane for every 6-7kw of electricity produced in a 3600 rpm engine. I can run my entire house on an average of 6kw, so if I got a 500 gallon tank I'd be looking at...

So my M1123 had the MAK added to it, then stripped off before sale. It will has the heavy springs under it from the kit. The question I have is do the changes they made for the MAK affect it's max load rating. I was looking up the kit, and the 4 door version could weigh 3800 lbs. Truck only...

Third suggestion is if you want to actually make any sort of power install a different motor?

Ground wires go to the ground lug. They shouldn't ever go anywhere else. Their purpose is to equalize voltage on all exterior surfaces and give electricity an easy path to escape back to ground/earth in case power tries to go someplace it isn't supposed to. The L0-ground wire you moved to L2...

What generator do you have in your truck? If it's the 60 amp, a regulator is under $100. If it's the 200 amp, you can pick up a used regulator in the $300 range usually. If we don't know what generator/regulator we're trying to troubleshoot, then we can't always give accurate information.

There is a big debate about just how badly screwed you will be if you're involved in an accident with a HMMWV on a uhaul trailer due to things like it's oversized for the trailer, heavier than they rate the trailer for, and that you have to lie in order to rent the trailer. (and yes, the M998...

making sure the tires are inflated properly will go a long ways towards keeping them from failing. Even overinflated is a LOT better than underinflated as the tire will flex less, producing less heat and less stress in the sidewalls

I'd say somewhat minor risk, but if you do mess up you're out a hub casing. If you don't have the gear or experience, then you're much better off taking it (either the assembly or the entire truck) to a machine shop/welding shop and have them do it. With it on the truck you're talking overhead...

Welding something else on sounds like the most logical next step to me. Either a bolt or maybe an allen wrench into the hole. Make sure you have a new plug on hand to go in when the old one comes out.

How exactly do you know it's a chinese block? Just curious as I hadn't heard of Melton using foreign blocks, as I'm pretty sure there aren't any approved vendors for the blocks or engine components over there, and that would be a breach of contract to do so.

the majority of us think a keyed ignition is a bad idea, because as stated most of the kits sold for our trucks use cheap chinesium components for the kit, and they eventually fail. When they fail they take out things like the control box, which can be a $1000 to replace. Some people have...

I remember back in about 2006 or 2007 a contractor company came to our motorpool and sprayed undercoating on every vehicle we had. Took them a couple of weeks. The polished and shiny areas not sure about. Can't see why anything would go there that would rub through the paint, unless the guys...

Having it checked every other week seems excessive, but it really depends on what the standby generator is classified as. Generators in medical backup systems have a lot of specific requirements on how often they get checked, tested under load, etc. The ones I do for an Alzheimer's center and a...

I was told by a friend that sometimes those can pop open and ruin your day. He suggested wrapping it with a ratchet strap to make sure it stays closed.

Looks like the A2 winch plate with the extensions. Though looking at the airlift brackets sticking out of the hood, I'm inclined to believe there are a lot of modifications to this rig

Only one ground rod in the system. The ground wires can also carry current, and there can be issues if there is an imbalance in the system due to multiple ground rods. It used to be code to ground standby generators at the generator, but current code is that the grounding goes through the...

For a reset, the company doing the rebuild has a set budget per vehicle, and they go through it and check all components to see if they are in spec or not. If they haven't used up the budget, they like to do things like replace the engine/transmission or other major components with rebuilt...

The Marines had more trucks than they could use, and weren't breaking them fast enough to need all the spares they had. Then they started getting ECV/REV trucks, and weren't breaking them fast enough to dip into the stockpile of older trucks. So yes, many of these trucks really don't have any...