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Air ride? I think about that often. Huge job to remove the Hendrickson walking beam setup and then find a donor air ride tandem set up and redrill the holes for it in the frame. Try an air ride seat first. Helps some.
Welcome. That is a very nice well equipped GPW. It definitely appears to have had a ground up restoration. Any provenance would have had to be discovered by the person doing the restoration. (uncovered markings etc.) In general, '42s typically remained stateside.
Welcome. I will chime in on 6, until the fuel leak is fixed, starting will be difficult. Often the fuel filter base is to blame. Also, check your glow plugs for continuity. When those are burned out, 6.2s hate to start.
Welcome, nice truck! The red circle thing is your stoplight switch. Take it off and bring it to a heavy duty parts house for an updated replacement. Please don't drive it with 60 psi air in the system. All 915s ride like that, they will jar your teeth out with the Hendrickson suspension...
Welcome and congrats. I flat towed a 1078 back from Sleazeville to HOUTX but that was zero fun. Took 16 hours door to door. Have some hotshot drivers on standby. Rear top bows have to come off if so equipped.
One of my sore subjects with my former hometown truck manufacturer is the lack of an end treatment for the winch cable other than a clevis. Well here is my solution, the tailchain hook assy from a M35 series truck. Red River Parts fixed me up, ask for the heavy chain, they have a 3/8 chain...
Try this guy, he is from Magnolia: lynx1hotshot@hotmail.com. 832-605-0466. Has a great new Landoll and did a great job on an overdimensional job for me a while back.
It goes without saying that driving this on I-10 at 35 mph is not an option.
Air up that tire, remove the banjo bolt from the wheel stud, and soap test to see if you get a bubble in the banjo fitting. If so, the wheel valve could have contamination or be defective. If that is good, the O ring at the wheel flange is likely bad. Hard to bubble check that unless you use...
My new MTRs are all 08s too, I'm just really glad Goodyear does not agree there is a factory defect with them. These have the Kevlar sidewalls which is a new thing for tires.
Lookin' good. We all got a little insight into Faith Tire's warranty nightmare here in a thread a while back. I suppose the scrap tire buyers have discovered there are more reasons than low tread that Uncle will dismount a perfectly good looking MTR.
This thread covers what you want to do: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?165169-Will-an-old-fashioned-GM-speed-driven-fan-clutch-fit-the-HMMWV&highlight=viscous
I would use the Fel Pro gaskets. Seems like when you silicone two parts together directly, it becomes nearly impossible to get them apart, no big deal with castings, but you tend to bend up the valve covers prying on them. I assume you have to change the valve covers to suit the CUCV CDR...
Your M51 looks super clean to me. All driveline components except for the engine are the same between the two trucks, what are you gaining by doing all this work?
Yeah, I did not think so. "Lose power and eventually stall" does not sound like the abrupt engine off situation you would get with the wires. As far as the return line, I would get the compressed air nozzle and start blowing.
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