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Or a "steel" and a half....lol

Done many over the years with a punch & hammer. I use an old race as a drift. It's not rocket science.

Does Ca have a historic vehicle licensing program? AZ does, completely non-commercial no restrictions other than carrying really heavy loads. Has to be 25 years old or more. DG

Make sure and use the special inverted-flare wrenches when tightening those. A regular open-end will distort the nut when getting them really tight. DG

Something a bit hard to wrap your head around is the difference between the source impedance of the grid and a genset. Impedance is a term describing the resistance portion of an AC circuit. Remember, any type of resistance in a circuit will lower the amount of energy. The lower the...

Ratings are one thing, reality another. A lot like "The map is not the territory" Just a simple question: What brake HP is the engine in the genset rated at? An inrush amperage, even X5, will easily run over a hundred Amperes for a very short time. 100A X 230V = 23kW. At 760W per HP, that...

Over the years since '72, when I started driving my repowered M37 with a 318 V8, I put a lot of miles on it. I came to the realization, high engine/road speed eventually ate up the ring & pinion. It didn't break, it wore out the teeth. I found the same thing a few months later, with a Diesel...

Looks a little like a WW2 Ber-Hur trailer with the axle exchanged.

Most of the 50's vintage tacticals were primed with red oxide primer at the factories. The real red stuff, not the modern brownish color. You can see it occasionally under the green (or blue or grey) topcoat on a rig that hasn't been apart for a long time. It binds like crazy to clean steel...

Same here. The Goodyear LTS wheel is the best, safest, and strongest ring design ever.

That is right. Overly simple...

If I remember correctly, the 6602 uses hard chrome cylinder liners and iron rings. Very tough to score them.

Indeed. It is really hard to navigate soft sand with hard tires. First thing you learn when living next to the largest dunes in North America. Isn't that the purpose of a CTIS system? Too lazy to push a button?

If your engine is really grimey, try EZ-Off oven cleaner spray. Let it set on for a while, then rinse off with water. Repeat. It can save a lot of effort...

Methinks that block is a later one with a full-flow oil filter.

If indeed being a 265cu engine, the water pump fan spacer will be missing to accommodate the longer block and the front motor mounts will be on the frame rather than the riveted brackets, al la the Canadian trucks.

The original T245 engine will have a bolt-on oil filler pipe, not one just pressed into a hole. Quite unique...

Single-phase motors can pull up to 600% of running current for the first couple seconds. Also check the cap for the correct uF and check for it being open or shorted with a VOM set on Ohms. If it is good, the reading should kick up at first, then fall to high ohms. Also, eBay has a lot of...

Doing commercial electrical work in a lot of high-power broadcast facilities, I've always tried to make things foolproof. The problem is fools are so damned ingenious! Many times I've changed my modus operandi to try and keep things safe.

A serious (not some plug-in job) surge protector wired to the output lugs will catch any transients over nominal voltage. As far as flickering upon load applications causing momentary undervoltage conditions, that will require a lot of external circuitry like a Sola transformer that will...