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If it were mine I'd strip apart the engine, then take the block, crank, and head to a competent machine shop for them to check out. That bearing looks pretty toasty, I'd be very surprised if the crank bearing surface isn't at least a little messed up as well. The imprint of the valves on the...

The wheel is 8" wide where the bead seats, the tire itself is 12.5" wide. From everything I've heard/read on going to the bigger tires there might be just a little rubbing at full lock when turning, but even without the body lift you should be okay for space with the body, unless you plan to...

unlikely to hurt the motor, if you put too much load it just bogs down. During some playing with a 3 ton ECU I ended up putting over 9kw of load on my MEP-802A. The only effect it had was bogging down the engine until the meter read 100% load (probably about 40hz or so as a guess). You'll...

Air intake and amount of fuel injected aren't directly related in a diesel, unlike a gasoline vehicle. A diesel will intake the same amount of air at a given speed no matter how much fuel is injected, as it doesn't have to mix the fuel and air before combustion, it just injects fuel into the...

Come on, this is serious. You should at least use bailing wire or 100 mile per hour tape, not zip ties and duct tape. Think of the children.

Yup, I agree with that. The load doesn't care how much power the generator is producing, the load only cares about how much power it is receiving. Frequency will drop as the generator is loaded, but will always read the same at both ends of the cable, no matter how much the voltage drops.

Actually, that's the opposite of what I said, or what I intended to say. I said if the 12V isn't properly designed to deal with the possibility of reverse voltage that it could be an issue, but I assumed that the engineers thought of that and said this only becomes an issue when you add things...

Anything properly designed to go into a 12/24v system on the 12V side of things should have some type of diode or other reverse polarity protection built in. If you're adding 12V accessories to the system by just attaching them straight to the second battery, then yes, you could potentially see...

I agree with having voltage drop, but it's not possible to drop the frequency over a wire distance no matter how much resistance there is. It will be the same frequency no matter the voltage at either end. Unless my understanding of how alternating current is way off and my google fu is...

My 1123 had armor, not sure what type, but the holes were there to mount the soft door hinges. So far I've ignored the holes, they haven't been an issue in the weather. I did use some leftover 1/2" flange head bolts from when they removed the armor to attach some rubber to the inside of the...

The impression I got is that he pulled the utility meter, disconnected the lines out of it, and connected them to the gen. Should be more than large enough for this load. He can correct me if I'm wrong.

15kw generator will produce 15000 watts of power no matter the configuration, it will do 15kw total at single phase 120, 15kw split phase 120/240, or 15kw of 3 phase 208. It's my understanding the 15kw rating is at .8 power factor. If you are running a purely resistive load with no losses or...

If it's not loading down the generator, then I'd say it's likely that the bottleneck here is your charge controller only asking for 5500 watts of power, rather than the generator not producing the power. Just because the solar panels are capable of producing more than 7200 watts doesn't always...

mine came with the winch plate. I used one existing hole, and drilled one 1/4" hole for the other side. If I had your style front, I'd use zip toes, or maybe weld a small bracket onto the brush guard to bolt it to , either near the center bottom, or below one of the turn signals.

I got tired of the floor mat/insulation stuff falling down on the passenger side footwell, so put a couple of 1/2 inch bolts and washers left over from when they removed the armor through the [ad and the wheel well where there had been bolts before. Then used a few more bolts to fill holes on...

Soaking it in penetrating oil is about all you can do. I don't know if that shaft is tempered or not, so I'd be hesitant to use a lot of heat on it. A little bit might be okay, but not a whole lot. Just soaking it and giving it time.

Does your state do trip permits? I know here you pay for a 3 day permit to haul or drive pretty much anything you want as long as it's reasonably arguable to be road worthy.

on normal keys that won't come out of shafts I normally use a cold chisel at one end and tap it for a bit, trying to get it to move. If I've tapped it enough that it slides but won't come out I start using the notch cut by the cold chisel to start prying on it, unlerss it's wide enough that I...

if it's showing either nothing (all the way to the left) or charging properly, might be a bad connection somewhere. I don't really trust the stock gauge all that much except as a general reference, and I needed to add a couple USB ports (for dash camera, eventually). Found this on Amazon...

I know that there's a bill being worked on again over on this side of the mountains by one of the local guys who is in the PNW Steel Soldiers facebook page, and he's also talking with the AMVO group on Facebook.