Recent content by NormB

It WAS the fuel pump. Thank God. Took the better part of 3 hours to change out - and Retired Warhorse was right, no pressurizing needed - who engineered that arrangement should rot in h_ll. I managed to find my “spare” (at least 8 years old - when I bought it) and have another on order just...

Pride? Nein, Danke. I prefer gluttony myself.

thank you for the offer. I’d replaced the sock when I rebuilt the fuel tank/lines/sender/etc. Also put a cutout in the floor to access the tank if needed. At most I’ve probably run a few hundred gallons of diesel through since, flow out the release screw on the filter doesn’t seem to be impeded...

Is this the right pump? I’ve read through several dozen posts here on the NAPA parts (Napa Online won’t load for some reason) and this is all I can find at O’Reilly (plus the other with the crooked lever). I HAD a spare, I swear I did; ordered it from Amazon years ago, even found a box in the...

A few years at least. I trailered this down to TN from MD about four years ago and have put on - MAYBE - 120 miles driving since. There’s always something. Firing the contractor, seeing lawyers, calling plumbers, electricians, carpenters, drywall installers/finishers/tile guys, flooring...

I’ve mostly garaged my M1038 for the past 2-3 years, running it for an hour or so every trip down (about 10 to 15 times a year I’ve come from Maryland to Central Tennessee), oil changed a few times (it’s due). Just got moved in about 3 weeks ago. My neighbor’s work truck got stuck (we’ve had a...

Thanks. I never left, really. Just trolled more often. It’ll take a little getting used to Tennessee - the quiet mostly, lack of sirens 24/7 - my wife’s having some culture shock. I helped a neighbor unstick his work truck with my HMMWV winch earlier today and think my fuel pump died; I’ll be...

D’OH! I changed it in my profile, didn’t mention it in the post. Hampshire, handful of miles up the hill from Mount Pleasant. 76 acres abutting neighbor’s 88 and another neighbor’s 57. 20 acres pasture/arable, the rest is forested. Got a 100 yard rifle range - extendable to 200 if I ever get...

My wife and I (with the help of our two kids who drove the cars while I drove a 26 foot UHaul truck) moved into our (as yet to be finished home in Tennessee on 12 May, 2025. It has been a whirlwind. Still hauling water from a neighbor, although I intend to connect the well to the house...

I’m slowly but surely transitioning from iOS and OS-X to Android and LINUX… possibly an UP-phone this year. Apple happily scrambled several hundred gigabytes of very carefully managed music files mixing album covers, lyrics/metadata from the 1930’s with those out of 2010’s and worse; between...

Yep. The very one. this is how mine looked before putting down strips of 1” Gorilla super 100 mph tape (“duct” tape). Actually used it once to take a look while troubleshooting a wonky fuel gauge. It’s one of those mods you don’t know you need or wish you HAD done until you do. II’d...

Thanks. I only responded as it was a topic I had direct experience with. Since moving my HMMWV to Tennessee a little over 2 years ago I’ve gotten into several other hobbies (vinyl LP collecting, building tube amplifiers, rebuilding REVOX reel to reel recorders) and becoming our own contractor...

This is where one of those DeWalt oscillating tools with a carbide half-circle blade would have come in handy. Did mine Years ago AFTER I’d dropped the tank to replace filter, seals, hoses, etc. and realized I could have done all that had I already HAD the hatch in place. REALLY easy to do...

Well, I tried posting this a couple nights ago but my neighbor’s place has so little cell phone reception even with a MiFi Verizon gadget I couldn’t get enough throughput to post. Got the HMMWV down to TN Thursday, 759 miles, 12 hours door to gate, my buddy driving half the distance at about 90...

all in one day? I was young once.