Recent content by msgjd

i feel your frustration, chasing a ghost isn't fun .. i hope in the end it's something simple that was overlooked , probably all of us have done it i've maintained 1970's dodge/plymouth products the last 50 years and one day 40 years ago my Trailduster had another no-fire .. For a spell all...

run it in the dark and watch the distributor cap (and wires) for spark jumping .. Wait,,, you said scratches or chips in the cap? Does this truck have a civilian-type distributor ? It's supposed to have a sealed metal distributor assy, and yeah, if it has the sealed one it's gonna be hard...

I had an XM211 many years ago but ran into the sputtering problem under load with a 1940s farm tractor i got at auction... Without gleaning thru this entire string, have you cleaned the air cleaner? .. I have seen where mice got inside those oil baths and they rot into muck and clog the...

The only M-series 6x6 gassers with a tach were the 5-tons and 10-tons .. I have never come across a M44-series 2-1/2T 6x6 gasser with a tachometer . None of the 1950's gas GMC's (M135, M211 etc) had a tach either . These gas deuces were built during an era where drivers were expected to have...

yeah i have run into that too .. apparently a coating intended to stop storage corrosion

i haven't been there since 2009 when the mister miser himself waited to change the price until i rolled in with the trailer from a 2hr trip .. i left empty and never looked back His grandkids took over as you may know and there was a lot of scrapping going on , but the M125 was still there and...

i know it's a dirty word and we're gonna hear that unforgettable voice yelling to beat hell, but did you call over to keeseville?

i don't blame you .. i am not gonna say one of my little 4T equipment trailers may or may not have had operational elec brakes for some time My cousin had a story of his 4T gooseneck being stopped by a local and the guy made him roll forward and use the manual control lever to lock up the...

1: as others said, omni-volt LED's are the way to go 2: As for the plug, i've been hauling commercial "18-wheeler" trailers with my M818's for a very long time... I made a simple adapter by taking a military plug/cord from a smashed M416 jeep trailer at a junkyard and put a 7-pin plug on the...

... and for some weird reason i thought you were Staff Admin on here , making sure we all behaved ourselves .. I stand corrected ! rofl

one of my sideline self-employed ventures before retirement was performing annual grounding/bonding/continuity tests at stoneworking mills and their associated quarries IAW the requirements of MSHA .. Like an automotive inspection station, this sometimes led to me having to also do field...

osmosis via the flux capacitor .. it's fine ! ;)

just checking whether you really read everyone's posts, or just click the "like" button ... lol

it might've had pressure if you had parked that tire in the sun :p

you might want to carry a hammer or billyclub in the cab for when you do your walkaround .. those who are not tone deaf can hear different pitches of notes being played when the air pressure isn't the same among them ;) they don't look flat if their circumference winds up the same as the tire...