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Welcome. Your engine could be factory new, depot rebuilt, or an engine that was pulled out of a truck due to a fatal flaw. Paint on the engine usually tells the tale. Bright fasteners means new, all black paint everywhere is rebuilt, all black but evidence of being installed means dead. But...
See where it says 55 inches? If you take that length plus the width of the pulley to the auto parts store, they can match it. Sorry I don't have the Dayco number, but this belt is nothing special.
The Hertz of each generator needs to be identical to allow paralleling. So if either generator is off a little, you will not be able to parallel. Next, the alternating current waveform has to match between each generator before the transfer can occur, otherwise loads will suffer and the...
Hmm, if you restored it, you already have a picture of all that it would be good for, a museum display. The structure looks like it just needs new planks. The tank looks like it would take some very special carpentry to remake the wood pieces. Not sure what I would do with it.
My advice on paint comes from my efforts in the past to paint prep HMMWVs like the one in the attached picture. NOTHING is more time consuming than attempting to prep a truck like this for a decent looking professional paint job. 5 or more flaking coats of military applied CARC with zero prep...
Big question to me would be did you end up with a GM engine or a GEP. 2000 was the change year. I think GM. See the bar code decal, that’s a GM thing. I also don’t think that engine has ever been removed or rebuilt which is a good thing. Given the engine is NA, most likely the cracks that...
With no air the clutch is engaged. He was right. Double check you have the right fan to go with the clutch you have. The fording switch overrides everything.
Yup they shift rough no question about that. And yup when towing something that drags them down. I used to do a lot of flat tows of M37s with it and oh that was awful. Loaded in the bed was not bad.
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