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Installed a Dead Bolt lock on the drivers side door.
Went with a keyed Schlag which was caged into a couple of rack rails cut to fit. The holes in the rails lined up with the lock cylinder and angle iron mounts. Installed it into the bottom of the door which is about waist height on me.
Had to...
This is what they listed on e-bay;
Manufacturer Part Number
11664561
Other Part Number
2930-00-1176159
This is what was on the bag 11677293 which coincides with TM 9-2320-260-34P-2
page 493-1, figure 493 "COVER, RADIATOR PART OF KIT P/N111648581"...
Installed an Arctic Radiator Cover sports bra on the old gal. Purchased from Memphis Supply on E-Bay. Appears to be new, although the instructions were photocopied from the manual.
Think I installed it correctly. Couldn't drill one part of the brush guard to install supplied attachment...
Installed a Diesel Parking Heater in my M813 and it works...so far.
I went with an 8KW Voyocht, 12 Volt for a few reasons. First it's all metal construction, most of these are made of plastic. Second, the kit came with parts I would have had to purchase separately and finally it had fewer...
Replaced the exhaust pipe. Bought a new one from Eastern Surplus and Equipment. The old one had rotted out at the elbow. Tried to repair using JB Weld Exhaust Weld Wrap. It lasted about a year before blowing out. Three of the 3/4 inch bolts were accessible using an impact wrench, the fourth with...
Someone must have changed the fluid as the stuff in the cylinder was miscible with water.
The kit comes with a bracket. There's a flat cross brace at that position in the cab, just three bolts, also supplied with the kit. Had to mount it on the outside of the brace as my shoulder belt runs up...
Installed a remote brake reservoir kit purchased from Big Mike's Motorpool.
When I was first MV shopping I checked out a bobbed Deuce in NY that had one of these. That variant used copper tube to the brake cylinder, Mike's uses rubber hose. I'll likely go the copper route eventually but for now...
Drained and changed the Transmission and Transfer Case Oil with GL1 - 90W. Thanks to TechnoWeenie for solving the drain plug wrench dilemma, found that the 9/16 inch plug wrench is the best fit. No big chunks came out of either housing, nor was there a lot of metal on the plugs.
The oil on...
Not so much worried about the yellow metal issue. From one SS post I heard GL-4 had half the sulfur content as GL-5 and from another that the newer GL-4 and 5 were yellow metal compatible. The GL-4 I topped off the Trans with did not smell of sulfur.
There was something else about mixing...
Found this data sheet at O'Reilly's, but more specifically under Applications.
" O’Reilly GL-1 Gear Oil is designed for use in manual transmissions and transfer cases in on highway trucks and off-highway equipment, which require an API GL-1 gear lubricant. It may also find use in industrial...
Solved one problem, created another.
But first solved my hesitation on acceleration and hard start by replacing the spin on kit I cobbled together with the original canister rig.
Was experiencing a loss of power in acceleration, thought it might be a clogged filter giving me the opportunity to...
Topped off the Differentials, the fitting appears to be a half inch square socket. Spent a day looking for an SAE square head wrench key set, could only find metric. Then I realized my half inch ratchet tool has a square head, could it be that simple?...YUP!
The outer diffs were down about a...
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