Recent content by SP5

Very nice,,quality work, with military looks. The "solder and crimp" method is intresting,, coming from Delco. In many years of doing marine wiring, for an inspected vessel, the Coast Guard does not like to see a combination crimp-solder,, they want a crimp only, and absolutly will not allow a...

Could the file(s) from Peashooter and Clinto be fed-into a 3D printer,,? If so, could not the printer produce a part that could be used as the actual pattern for a casting,,? I don't know much about such things,, a good friend of mine is a long time pattern maker, perhaps I should talk to him...

Yes, they're known as a WC-62, and they all had open cabs/no doors. Here is a restored one, on Jay Lenos Garage; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c68L_tieVs

No, for the times I used it, I only needed a small amount, and didn't have any alcohol on hand. If you want to add alcohol to the mix you should use 100%, (200 proof,) stuff if you can.

I'am on a forum where the main subject is the restoration of old/ancient woodworking machinery. As many of those 50>100 year old tools are pretty well frozen-up with rusted fasteners/shafts, that becomes a big issue. Everybody there swears by the acetone/atf mix as being superior to any of the...

I'll try to clarify some stuff. In a halftrack, you have, lets say, to make it easy, a couple of tracks in the rear, that are about a foot wide, by about 4 feet long, or so, contacting the ground. If the ground was level/flat the natural tendency of the vehicle would be to go in a straight...

Yeah, I was being somewhat faceitious, in a halftrack, when you lose a track, all the torque/motive force being sent to the sprockets is lost, just like a 2 wheel drive car with one wheel on ice, (there ain't no Posi in the sprocket drive rear end). So, with only the torque to the front end...

You keep getting "torque bias" confused with "speed/rpm bias", and they are not the same thing. In a M1078/LMTV, when you're going down the road in "normal/highway" mode, the output torque of the trans is being sent 70% to the rear, and 30% to the front, but both drive shafts are turning the...

No, the air lockers do not disconnect the drive train, they serve to "lock" both of the wheels together by eliminating the differential action of the third menber. You're not going to re-invent the wheel, you need to use an old-fashioned transfer case, one that has 2 wheel/4 wheel...

In the "real" halftracks, you use the transfer case to disengage the front axle when you are on a hard surface, the front end is engaged only for sand/snow/ice/slippery conditions. There is no provisions for the two driveshafts to turn at diff speeds while the front end is engaged. The pitch...

What seems to be one of the biggest hassles with a Hydroboost/Hydromax system for a deuce is the problems of mounting the master cylinder and a power steering pump. You don't "have" to have discs, a Hydromax master, of the right size in piston bore, (I think it's two inches,)operating off of a...

Please, don't mis-interpet my post, I was only trying to point out that the fixed anchor, single cylinder type brakes were, and are strong, but that it is necessary to have some type of power assist in order to develope sufficient braking power in a heavy vehicle. I used the example of a modern...

It being Winter, and with talk of snow tires, I thought that this video might be of some intrest. That GHE is pretty neat, built in Romania, but uses Chevy/GM engine/trans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poFPA9IfTgk

Deuce brakes are "intresting", being basically a 1930s design. Because they use a single wheel cylinder and duel fixed anchor pins there is only one leading shoe, and one trailing shoe for each drum, and the shoes switch depending on vehicle direction when the brakes are applied. When you are...

I don't know, but is it possible to dig-out the snow from the high, (drivers), side, to allow the truck to tilt back to the left,, even a little bit will really reduce the chances of the truck trying to roll-over to the right,, maybe even air-down the left side tires too.