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My advice to you is to carefully remove the old seals, take the seal along with the ID and OD measurement of where the seal goes, and go to your local bearing supply house. NOS seals are too old, and technology has come a long way from rawhide.
So basically you send them the pins and back comes a block for $30 ea? Who does the denuding of what is left of the old rubber on the pins? That price is amazing.
The lugs are 1 1/2" same as all other Budd pattern military trucks. For the CTIS banjo bolt, I always grab an adjustable (Crescent) wrench. For jack cribbing, I would get 3 pieces of 4x4 timber, each 1' long.
You DEFINATELY want to get Eastern's kit for installing the plumbing needed for the air shift transfer. I would not be concerned with the appearance of the outside of the transfer, what is inside it what is important. Open the fillers and look in there, should be shiny new with no rusty water...
OK, next topic on this thread, OVM to get the truck ready for a 225 mile run. The TMs cover this well, but one item that always poses a problem is the fire extinguisher. Since becoming a firefighter, these usually forgotten items have a renewed importance to me. Problem is, which type and...
What makes this difficult is getting a reversable shaft to the rear winch. Transfer PTOs are hard to come by, and transmission PTOs generally require a wet kit, again a costly item.
Some follow on information. You will recall that the transmission ECU was burned by a possible short somewhere. The only bare wire I could find was from the transmission to instrument panel harness connector. A wire had come loose from the contact in the connector. To repair this, a contact...
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