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I would assume altitude reduces MPG, but I got an even 20 out of my 09 driving up and down the mountains. Flatland here is at about 4k feet. I'm running a HMMWV IP on a NA 6.2 with an open element air filter and turbo mufflers. I dump a quart of 2 stroke in with a full tank. Sounds like a lot...

I don't know that it would break. I just anticipate the worst outcome and have layers of backup plans.

Just cut it short so when it breaks off, you can push it in and install another one. You can snip them to a point with a good pair of shears or wire cutters.

Y'all are seriously overthinking this. I'd have cracked my cap in half putting a blind rivet in it and replaced the whole assembly with a civilian unit by now.

Maybe put a flat washer under the head to encourage it not to snap off the umpteenth time it goes for a swing at a gas station.

You're right to be worried about breaking your cap. You can occasionally find a used one on eBay for entirely too much money. It's cheaper to replace the entire fill hose with a civvy part.

After you mentioned they were just about 5/8", I found some grommets in my junk bin and glued the bump stops into them with a dab of silicone. Saves me having to send them back.

There's no telling. Civilians owned this truck for 10 years before I got hold of it.

Anybody got a lead on rubber door stops? I ordered GMK414440373S from Parts Geek. The holes in the door jamb are 16.3mm, but the parts they sent have 9mm flanges, so I'm sending them back.

Those Mile Marker electric 24v HMMWV winches that go for a grand on eBay: The jukebox is vinyl and CD with Bluetooth and USB. I had a USB stereo on a big fairing I put on a Yamaha 1900 about 15 years ago, so it's familiar to me and probably what I'll use to load up the tunes. I got the Elvis...

The 3M Combat Arms settlement hit my account this morning. Considered ordering a HMMWV winch and Engineered Vintage mount. Ordered a jukebox instead. It will get more use. Remind my desiccated corpse of this decision when you find it holding a shovel in the dunes.

I replaced mine last year. I want to say 5/16", but that's my best guess and I don't stand by it. If you lay on top of the engine, you can reach under the intake and yank it out from the firewall side without having to remove the intake. Then, you'll have a hose to take to the parts house.

Agreed. Could be a tiny leak. You just don't notice it until it has made a mess, kind of like how my water heater flooded my house one drip at a time. If necessary, you could put florescent dye in your fuel filter to help you find it. When the IP goes, the truck will start and die immediately...

I'd replace the rubber hose from the filter before I had the IP rebuilt on a good running truck.

I usually won't cut good sheet metal, but yours is already cut. In anticipation of logistics issues with living overseas, if I were in your shoes, I would just get out a tape measure, a roll of masking tape, an angle grinder with cutoff wheels, and your choice of corrosion preventive. There's no...

Thanks to whoever invented the PEX bushing. I got enough to last the rest of my life ten times over for a few bucks. It never latched so well.

That's why I went freelance. Shops always tried to make me do work I shouldn't have been doing. If I managed it, they profited and if I didn't, they got to gloat about how women can't turn wrenches. Expressing an honest understanding of your specific capabilities was viewed as a weakness. Going...

I've found a good first step to removing rotor set screws is to place the proper 3/8 socket in them and strike it with a dead blow hammer once or twice before removal. They will usually come right out after you shock the corrosion in the threads. On the other hand, if they salt the roads where...

@Cucvnut Engineered Vintage mount? What winch?

If I still had my pintle hitch... If I had someplace to park a trailer... People born in Las Cruces think this isn't the middle of nowhere, but they're wrong. You saddle up for a 700 mile drive to buy things like this trailer, and you pay three times as much for it. There's at least one M1008...