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I think the price is right on! :shock: Check out this Jeep, it is exactly the same just different, right? And it sold for $12,000 :wink:
http://tinyurl.com/3aswue
Uh.. Er.. How about Hydrochloric Acid. :shock: You may want to neutralize with baking soda or some thing before you have a new trap door down to the ground.
ZAK~ Is that two pounds of lead on your rear wheel or is your truck just happy to see me? :wink: When I switched from the bias 9.00-16's to the radial 11.00-16's, there was a huge difference in the quality of ride (45 to 50 MPH) and with no wheel weights to speak of. :shock:
I was...
I am sure you will notice the Duce axles on the high rise Dodge. The biggest downfall I find with these trucks is the mud that the axle bulldozes and the mud getting in the belts & the belt failing. (best to use an electric water pump and a bed mounted radiator). The biggest factor of a...
acetomatoco~ I always carry a bit of emery cloth in my too box so that is what I had used. Good to know about the aluminum oxide abrasive though. Emery has always been my sand paper of choice. You can get it in bulk on eBay prety reasonably. I am set for about the next 10 or 12 years.
Another quick point to add to devilman96's initial address. Just like you can't expect a fish to live out of water, I don't believe that you can expect a our hobby of vehicles created by the government to be used by a government sponsored military to continue. That military's surplus, we as...
RE: tractors
A bit more info, the CASE military tractor, Model LAI had an interesting engine described as: "In 1942, Case built the first of the LA and LAI models equipped with the Hesselman fuel-injection system, which allowed a standard Case spark-ignited engine to burn diesel fuel. This...
RE: tractors
Here is a link for a JD "A" with twin 30 cal guns:
http://www.knapptedesco.com/tank.htm
Check out the power point presentation if you can, it is neat. The dis-advantages for production are pretty funny! I will post the article contents here for posterity:
John Deere Co. Built...
On that note, I heard an interesting story telling of the woes of going off the silver standard of our coins in 1964 and the devaluation of our currency. In 1964, one legal United States silver dollar bought four gallons of gasoline. In 2007, the silver value of one legal United States silver...
Over charging? When mine is in the red, there is no charging and you are running off the battery only? Is the red on the right? See the photo of my gauge.