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I had occasion today(15 APR 2015) to drive through Fort Indiantown Gap in PA. Surprised to see an M-1008, parked, but in obvious use, and an M-1028 running and driving on the base. Thought some folks here might be interested.

TWELVE HORSEPOWER! FIFTEEN HORSEPOWER!! My physics book says watts equals volts times amps. So my 66amp alternator at 14.8volts makes less than 1000watts. ONE horsepower is 746watts, so, ignoreing thermodynamics, i should get the full output of the alernator from a 1-1/3HP motor. Yeah, i know it...

Probably. But, those things cost real money. The stuff i threw together was already here. I have used this "device" to keep idle batteries intermittently charged. It is driven by a 1/4 horse electric motor of probably 60 years of age. The current alternator is a 66 amp internally regulated from...

I am posting in this forum because i am dealing with a GM alternator. Simply, does an internally regulated GM alternator, as found on the CUCV, care what direction it turns? I have had a homemade "battery charger" made from such an alternator, driven by an old (i mean OLD) washing machine motor...

Many times, that brief starter engagement, followed by the "ZINNNNNGGGG" sound is indeed the drive gear failing. The Bendix, that is. If you yank the starter out and try to turn the little gear, it should not turn in one direction at all, and should turn very stiffly in the other direction. If...

I had a 16.5" Goodyear Wrangler unseat itself from the wheel, at speed (50ish), on an inner dual. The truck was loaded, heavy, but not terribly close to the limit. Just unseated itself. Those tires were probably 15 to 17 years old at that point, with good tread and only the slightest signs of...

A website called www.6066gmcguy.org has a lot of information on the Twin-Six V-12. And a lot of other neat old truck stuff. Including some pictures of these trucks. A few years back, i hauled a very similar looking rig on an eighty-nine foot railroad flat to slower, lower Delaware. It was...

Saw a movie once, i forget the title, guy had a bush buggy of some sort, he called the vehicle "the anti-christ". And so i call mine. Some days. Some days the kids and i call it "William". My youngest son suggested that the night i brought it home.

Sadly, that airport has closed, and the biplane was sold at auction. It wasn't a restored antique, by the way, it was a new, purpose built biplane. I never had the opportunity to go for a ride, either. The plan is to build a shopping center on the property. The Airport Diner next door is still...

The neighbors all around me don't even notice the green truck, except the kook right next door. He's easy to deal with: I just don't think about him at all. The college students sometimes get their panties in a bunch, but they are usually very LARGE, unwashed panties, because laundering and...

The oil pressure gauge sender can be tee'd into the existing port for the idiot light sender, i used brass fittings, 1/8" NPT. The water temperature sender is screwed into an adapter plate on the cylinder head at the rear. The same ports that the thermostat crossover attaches to at the front of...

I have had a set of 60G's in my M-1009 since '07 or '08, on a manual switch. I freely admit i abuse them, 30sec or more of "on" time on a cold start. They were all removed in Oct 2010 and tested OK. I also use the Bosch 80034's in my 2002 Savana van with a 6.5 turbo. The automatic circuit...

A railroad experimented with propane fueled locomotives some years back, there was a thread here on SteelSoldiers some time ago talking about it. I seem to remember it was the original engines modified to inject the propane as a gas with a bit of diesel fuel at the correct time to light the...

The Stanadyne FM-100 filter is what came standard on the later model Chevy and GMC trucks. That makes replacement filter cartridges available just about everywhere. My 2002 full size van has one on the frame rail about under the driver's, uh, seat. The filter element itself acts as a water...

Absolutely grab it! As i understand it, those Doug Nash overdrive units became something called U.S Gear. They were an alternative to the GearVendors overdrive. And, supposedly much more durable, too. I have read reports that U.S Gear is no longer making them. It would be a shame to see it go to...