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Here are 4 more pics. Nice looking HEMMT.

Here are some pictures. The sheer volume of vehicles is mind boggling.

All Berg Supply, in Fayetteville NC has quite a selection of used 900x20 and 1100x20 NDT's. $20 to $25 each, 75% or better tread. Call Chip at 910-485-8800. I am making a run up there next week to get some 1100's, I need 7, Lloyd (popop) wants 8. I will be dragging a trailer behind the little...

I'll tell you what, I'll take that lemon off your hands! If it drove from Ohio to Florida with out breaking down, you have no lemon. It just wants a little TLC.

The sprag transfer case is prone to that failure. It is similar to a starter drive, and will wear out in time. Most people who have the sprag T-case swap to airshift or put in a Reb kit. The sprags themselves seem to be a rare item to find, I have not heard of anyone replacing them. Look in...

We ran a lot of 8V53's on the boats. Good motors, but they would spin the cam bearings out of the block if there was ever an oil pressure drop. Screaming engines, externally lubricated. They were prone to having the blower seals let go and start running on engine oil. Then you couldn't shut them...

What a cow catcher! How much weight do you keep in the back to keep it from tipping over on the nose?

You're right about being gnarly to work with! I made a set of grips for a S&W .357 out of some. Beautiful, but very hard to work. I ended up doing most of the shaping with coarse sandpaper, as it is difficult to carve smoothly. I actually heard of someone trying to make jelly from the fruit...

Osage orange makes nice re-curve bows for archers. The wood also makes nice pistol grips and knife handles. An interesting note: Osage orange was planted all over the SE USA during WW2. The fruit is a source of natural latex rubber, which was in short supply. By the time the trees were grown...

Did your motor croak on you?

Pulling the engine is not bad. The design was for easy maintenance in the field. The main thing you need is a good overhead hoist. I am going to be pulling one in a few weeks myself. TM 9-2320-209-34-2-1, section 2-3 gives the engine removal procedure. The manual is PDF#048881 on the govt...

Break out the welder, weld a tab back on. I would think a big truck shop would have these in stock, rear spindles on a 2 ton Ford are about the same size. I am trying to remember the company that had all the wheel and hub hardware, but it has been 24 years since I worked a parts counter...

Mutant trucks everywhere, I wonder if the NEC has checked that out?

How quickly did this happen? 30 seconds, 2 minutes? 5 minutes? That will help rule some things out. Jumping time would be an extremely fast shutdown, engine drops all power, slows rapidly, hit the clutch and the engine will go completely dead. Fuel pump can be the same, or a couple or 3 minutes...

I would look in the tech manual and find out how to check injection pump pressure. We had a pump fail on an old Case W-7 front end loader, same thing. Running along loading dirt, power started dropping rapidly. In 2 minutes it went dead. It would run on ether, but not on the injector pump. We...

They have added bridge cranes to the AAV line, that helped even more. I am mainly looking at corrosion control, specifically, pretreatment. I have quite a few years in E-Coat and Powder, first rule is: we paint pre-treat, not metal. They are currently using no pretreat at all. Kenny I know the...

The HMMV's were what got me, 20-25 in a row, 50-90 rows in a lot. All configs, mostly 3 color camo. Saw some that were back from Afghanistan for repairs, some of them had been hard hit. A lot of HEMMT power units that had been rolled, looks like that would be a bad ride. I won an auction for...

All This post may need to be somewhere else, the moderators can decide. I visited the paint facility at MCLB Albany the other day. I was doing a little consulting work on the armor line, where they are doing the HUMMV armor kits for Iraq. I got to tour the place, Ye Gods!! at the MV's...

If your truck has CARC paint, you can use laquer thinner. Try it on an inconspicuous area first. Most of the paint pens are laquer type. You may end up with a somewhat shiney area, so maybe try an area inside the bed first. If not CARC, repaint the area. Anything that will take off the marker...

Ahh... The smell of toasted engine parts. Medium rare? Or did you get all the way to well done?