Well Warthog has first dibs but...
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Working on the M1078 LMTV
- Thread starter mkcoen
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De-pollenating the LMTV for an event in Austin this weekend. If you've never spent spring time in Central TX you're missing out on the wonderful layer of yellow gunk that coats EVERYTHING this time of year. I know you folks in the northeast are still fighting snow but my wife would trade you pound for pound in oak pollen.
Take some of that oak stuff and brew it in hot water. Makes an excellent oak tea!
She's a trained herbalist and does a lot of strange "voodoo medicine" but I think she'd draw the line at pollen tea.Take some of that oak stuff and brew it in hot water. Makes an excellent oak tea!
MrGoodwreck
New member
So what's the next project going to be?
KGBruce
Member
When I got my M 1078 home I noticed the rear drivers brake pads were missing. Well not really missing but had literally cracked and fallen off the backing plate. I'll be doing a brake job on the rear drivers. Any advice on where to get the brake shoes? Probably also have to get plungers as well. From the looks of it the drivers rear brakes and probably seized up, overheated and then disintegrated! Somebody probably had his baby over 100MPH! Yeah think?
Not sure about new stuff but any time I need a part I check with Suprman 1st. If he doesn't have something he generally knows where to get it.
Duckworthe
Member
You should be able to get your shoes at just about any big truck parts house or NAPA. I looked into them at San Diego Friction and I believe they where something like $75.00 a set. That was also about 2 years ago.
Duckworthe
Member
I don't have the part number off my head.
The 3 day events are always the fun ones. Pretty heavy rain on Fri so just an abbreviated show but cleared off over night. Heavy dew this morning but sunshine and about 80 so a perfect day for the show.
Allan I’ll be sure to tell everyone you wished you were here. We’ll toast you with a breakfast taco in the morning.
Allan I’ll be sure to tell everyone you wished you were here. We’ll toast you with a breakfast taco in the morning.
Anyone remember back to page 70 when I lost my fan clutch? The same thing just happened to Adventure Driven's M1079 only he was much further away from home than I was when mine happened. It sounds like he was able to source all of the newer parts and will hopefully be back on the road tomorrow but it's an abject lesson (repeated) as to the inferior design of the older clutch/fan set up. If you have that style, where the fan is sandwiched between the clutch and an aluminum spacer and an aluminum center to the actual fan, you'd be miles ahead, literally, to change it out while it's in your drive way and not hundreds of miles from home.
As an aside, whether related or not, he just had AC added last week. That's about the same time frame of my AC install and fan clutch grenade. Whether that's a coincidence or actually related is hard to tell but any time you have your cab tilted reach in and shake the fan to make sure it's still solidly mounted and not starting to wobble.
As an aside, whether related or not, he just had AC added last week. That's about the same time frame of my AC install and fan clutch grenade. Whether that's a coincidence or actually related is hard to tell but any time you have your cab tilted reach in and shake the fan to make sure it's still solidly mounted and not starting to wobble.
Mkcoen,
I did notice on my clutch (rebuild thread here: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?155684-Yet-another-M-1078-Fan-Clutch-thread&highlight=) that I have the newer housing with the holes and studs, instead of bolts. Is this type of failure due to the bolts holding the fan on becoming loose, or the fan having an aluminum mounting surface?
Pointman, getting ready to drive 600 miles to Overland Expo..
I did notice on my clutch (rebuild thread here: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?155684-Yet-another-M-1078-Fan-Clutch-thread&highlight=) that I have the newer housing with the holes and studs, instead of bolts. Is this type of failure due to the bolts holding the fan on becoming loose, or the fan having an aluminum mounting surface?
Pointman, getting ready to drive 600 miles to Overland Expo..