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Find someone with an ultrahigh pressure washer. They are usually 40Kpsi and will strip anything. Set the regulator on about 30Kpsi with a rotary head and you can take the truck down to bare metal in short order. I stripped a 20' covered horsetrailer, inside and out, in 3 hours. It removes all...
90% of the work is done in 10% of the time. The last 10% (the details) takes 90% of the time. You are building a really nice truck, and your attention to details is going to really pay off with the finished product. You are showing admirable restraint, I always get it running, then never quite...
Just looking at the engine pics, if you take the 12 V alt belt, get one long enough to go around the crank pulley as well, that would eliminate the water pump concern. The 24 volt alt. still looks a tad iffy, IMHO.
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I'd be a little cautious about the 24 V alternator pulley, you don't have a lot of contact with the belt. Maybe a slipping issue whan running with headlights on. If you have a load on the 12 volt alternator, it might cause the water pump pulley to slip on the belt that is driving it and the...
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