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True, though the formula is generic. I just manually checked the winch ratio; it's 30:1, which means my drum would turn at 58RPM, not 76RPM, with my AC motor running at ID-plate RPM of 1750 RPM. I only had time to eyeball the drum ID but it looks like it's prolly 5", too. Not much impact on...

Here's yet another permutation of winch application...Gringletaube, please weigh in here. I'd been trusting the formula you cited but not sure what it's based on, so maybe that's the problem. I'm looking at repurposing a winch taken from a scrapped 5-ton, by using it in a stationary...

I don't know if anyone will ever run into this or has before, but apparently whomever sheared the shear-pin off last just kept the PTO engaged with the driveshaft spinning, and the winch input shaft NOT...or maybe it started to turn after a few minutes of spinning and heating up at that join...

Thanks Jeff...does rain count as a penetrating lubricant? I'll get a puller on it and see what happens.

Can anyone confirm for me that, with the shear pin gone, I should be able to simply slip the PTO driveshaft back and off of the winch input shaft? In my case, the winch is a 'spare' that I'm going to adapt to electric-motor drive, so to get started, I need to pull the remainder of the...

Long after my purchase, I am requesting an SF-97 through GL. In filling out the online request form, I have to fill in some blanks to provide vehicle info - but I'm thinking it's all information that should be on record to begin with, either because it was standard for that vehicle, or (in the...

Gringeltaub - thanks...I had the chance to get into this yesterday afternoon, and found the problem. Your suggested approach worked - disconnecting both shafts still left them running regardless of winch-control lever position, so I shifted my focus to checking the fore/aft movement of the...

Great stuff, gringeltaube, and thanks patracy...G - looks like you embarked on a project to update the TMs, what with that photo & markups! Your own, I assume? I'll get back on this when/if the rain ever stops here - those are just the details I need, thanks. When I was using this truck 'for...

I've not used my 5-ton (M-51 dump) for years now while working on it sporadically. Getting it running recently, I noticed that for some reason now, the two transmission PTO shafts spin always - the only thing that halts them is the clutch being pressed. (On this variant, one shaft runs front...

There's more info on this than any person could hope to digest (yeah, that's not all good) at the infopop.biodiesel site, i.e. on two-tank WVO systems - maybe you've seen it. I've been mulling/planning/putting off some of the same engineering concerns you raise here. Last few years I think...

I see your point, and that kept nagging at me - but then again, what's the explanation for the horrifying, knocking-irregularly-max-high-revving cold starts - each time blowing out black, wet fuel, leaving stains all over whatever happened to be in the general area of the exhaust, along with the...

Having a break in the rain, I improvised before getting back and seeing these replies; thanks. Remembering that I had a surplus docs'-office type vacuum pump, I rigged it up to a big old jar (two holes in lid for tubing in/out) as a vacuum vessel, and then sucked all the crud out of the voids...

I'm doing an entirely-too-rare oil-change on my multifuel. Either I forgot this last time, or it's something new: with the OF canisters off, the open casting reveals what looks like it might be a quart or so of pooled oil - that can't easily be drained from those deep casting recesses. Since...

Eureka - you found it, wbdodgeiv! (who KNEW?) I just tested using this syntax, and indeed, got 120 results spanning 5 pages - a lot more manageable result than 1000 over 40 pages, which has to be a maxout and not even a real result anyway. Could webmaster maybe place the required Boolean...

The forums would be immensely more useful if the "Search" function worked like most others do, i.e. if it were something that resembles a standard Boolean search. Unless I have overlooked a key "search" feature set, right now, users like me are going to get identical results from any of the...

Well, I've got lots of colorful old magazines to use or even some rosin-paper (and even an arch-punch set) but I'm thinking I'm gonna go with just RTV using the partially-cured-bead method. My reasoning is that all four of the rear hubs were weeping oil slightly at that joint, from well before...

no shortcuts to getting system cleaned out It was time for me to go through my brakes and either stick with DOT5 or change to DOT3. Like some others, I tend not to subscribe to the the thinking that mixing of DOT3 & DOT4 will do anything more dramatic than create two layers of immiscible...

Jake, Thanks, good stuff. I think you weren't following my concern WRT the low-pressure-alarm-switch (vs. gauge) location, though - my concern was that I not place my filter (dryer) such that if it blocks up, it won't leave the air tanks on the low-pressure side, thus not alerting me to a...

Jimma - while searching for info on rebuilding my air-pack a few months ago, seemed like half the related posts included people with locked-up air-packs, and people suggesting they add oil to the little port behind the piston, etc. In my case, I'm probably much worse than the next guy in terms...

I've been pondering hardware options to filter my onboard compressed air, I think before it goes into the tanks, since chronic high humidity and oily crap are obviously doing a number on my air-packs. My first thought was to use something from the ground-based world of compressed air, like...