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Thats normal for them to dance alittle if you get them too tight it will start bending your generator shaft. I use gates #7630 on the generator and gates #7500 on the power steering.
Installed two red top optima batteries and adapters in my m1009 on 8-11-11 and one has already crapped out. Under warranty for now, inerstate said the cold weather really affects them. Well it is nothing but cold here now. Pulled them out and put duralast golds in no more getting stranded. The...
Driving home down highway after parade on monday deuce sputtered like it was starving for fuel and quit. upon checking petcock drains on filter housings they had no fuel in them. left primary drain open turned ignition/tank pump switch on fuel sprayed out and restarted ok. checked tank vent...
I run full synthetic lubes in my m35a2 gun truck and m998 hmmwv. Mobil one synthetic gear oil and rotella synthetic engine oil. I noticed alot less drag on deuce rears in the winter time and better starting. The drawback is if you have a leak it will get worse with synthetic.
I put ten brand new titan 373s on and at 3700 miles the front ones are wearing bad . frontend was aligned and all parts changed before install. The rear ones are wearing ok. It is a gun truck with the extra weight from mount and cab plate contributing to that wear also.
I have a silver eagle m1101 with top only weights 1460lbs and can haul 2000lbs. The nice thing is unloaded you can grab the pintle eye and move it around yourself. There has been a series of mwos as the different generations have come along. Being aluminum there is no rusting and comon parts...
I have talked with various companies that rehab hmmwvs. They say the hmmwvs that do alot of fording especially in salt water developed frame rust from the insde out. In some cases requiring frame replacement. Due to lack of drain holes in lower frame section. Has anyone came across this or heard...
I was using the rotella 15w40w for years and have recently switched to rotella synthetic in my m35a2 and hmmwv m998. The downfall on the synthetic besides price is it can cause more leaking if you already have some.
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