Recent content by slothman

hmm. we just re-registered one as a historic truck a month ago to avoid $500 reg fees they were trying to stick us with. reno dmv.

in winemucca?

That's what I was hoping to hear. I called the GP phone # on the listing- they wouldn't give me the site rep's #.

I just got off the phone with GP- they said there are no forklifts etc. available at the yard in albany georgia. Can anyone confirm if this is true or otherwise?

bump. replaced assist cylinder. still no power. bled and filled system. blew all lines out with compressed air. flushed. ???!? maybe the pump i got was bad?

replaced the steering gear. my old steering gear seemed ok (sans lots of metal flakes from the totaled pump). no change. that puts me at replaced pump, replaced steering gear.. no external leaks on assist cylinder. If we disconnect the lines at the asst cylinder side and run the engine...

Update: The line that blew is one of the two hard lines going to the assist cylinder, at the steering gear. This occurred while doing a pretty major step down off a slope at an angle. My theory is that the assist cylinder acted as as shock absorber and the pressure from that blew the line...

gotcha. will give it a try.

I was essentially doing this, driving around an open field turning lock to lock, but it was pushing all the fluid out the overflow on the first turn.

I blew a line at my steering gearbox this past weekend. Had to drive a half mile before we could work on it. M925A1. Reattached the line. Added oil to max, drove it around turning wheel to both stops, and repeated for ~2.5 gallons of oil (maybe 5 or 6 repetitions?). Oil kept just spraying out...

I have 2 friends with 5 tons registered in Nevada who recently received notices saying that "upon reviewing your paper work, we noticed that your vehicle does not meet department standards for the plate you were issued" and that they need to turn their plates in within 15 days. It further says...

Some googling nets that the LSD in these consists of detroit lockers: http://www.offroaders.com/tech/Detroit-Locker-automatic-lockers.htm

nah if one is losing traction, the other picks up. one normally has to turn faster for turns on hard ground. there is probably some ratio of turning faster that it feels and sends power the other way. its pretty much black magic to me.

Limited Slip Differential... when one wheel spins faster than the other at low speeds the other wheel gets power too. next best thing to an actual locker. And yup!

my 925a1 will spin all 6 in mud... before coming to a total stand still. i like to use gravity as my recovery tool around here though ;) i believe that some of the a1's have LSD's installed, which i think is what mine has. read something somewhere once that the a2's do not