Recent content by Lenny

Last week I posted a thread about my M35A2 https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?188613-1967-Kaiser-M35A2-oil-pressure-problem&highlight=. I just barely made it home that night with failing oil pressure. The next day I checked the oil and according to the dipstick I found it to be about 6...

Thanks guys for the links and espscially the video. Lenny

I hate to sound stupid here but I don't know what a fuel compensator looks like, where it might be, or how to bypass it. Could you please help me further with this. Thanks, Lenny

I've had this truck for two years now. I use it very infrequently. I've done some work on it but nothing major. It has always run just fine. The other day I took a 15 mile round trip and on the way back I began to notice that at traffic lights while idling my oil pressure gauge had dropped to...

Could someone please tell me what the correct lamp numbers are for this truck. The marker lights and BO lights are different numbers. Is this correct or should they be the same. I know that the turn signal lamp is a larger bulb. Thanks, Lenny

Thanks guys for the suggestions. Just to be sure I just went outside to verify my problem and what you said Oboyjohn. I found that just putting the left hand switch in "Park" doesn't do it, however if the left hand switch is in park and the top switch is in "Service drive" then the...

I haven't run my truck all winter. I would hate to subject it to all the salt they use on the roads here in New Hampshire. However it started right up the other day and it runs fine, however I found that in both front light units (that hold turn signal, black out, and marker lamps) the marker...

That is a good point about the grease. I really never thought of that. Thank you. Lenny

Thanks guys I appreciate the info. Lenny

On my M35A2 there is a valve on the front panel that controls air to the wiper motors. The people I bought this truck from have this valve so tight that it will not move I will need to put pliers on it to get it started, however before I do this, to open this valve from a closed position do I...

I had no idea! How did they ever cram 1948 electronics into those trains? Lenny

Nothing in 1953 was electronic. It was all relays and switches. My equipment is all original as it came from the factory. Probably the only "electronics" in a household back then was the radio or TV, (if they had one). Lenny

This makes a lot of sense. I did notice when this was presenting itself that it was mostly when the engine was running and the supply was 29 volts. So this is how the voltage to the gage was regulated. I hadn't even thought of indication differences between 24 and 29 volts. In the system I...

We want to replace a defective Sprague transfer in my truck with an air shift. Does anyone know of a reasonable source for an air shift unit and of course we'll also need a parts kit as well. We were just quoted a price from Eastern for a rebuilt unit well over 2000.00 Thanks, Lenny

So I've been wondering. An automotive gage is essentially a DC voltmeter. A conventional DC voltmeter has two terminals, a positive and a negative. There is never any connection to chassis or a "ground" of any sort. So what could be inside these gages that is tied to ground? Yesterday I...