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If the rubber gaskets don't work out for you, here's another approach. It would involve sewing skills, so you may need to learn them or involve a friend. sailrite.com has all kinds of material for making sails and awnings for boats. You could take awning fabric. Use an iron to pleat it like...

I've never seen the pneumatic masts outside of active duty. These are up for auction now, though. Want a 107' tower on a trailer?

I got the 3/4" impact wrench that runs off the slave port for removal, below, and a big torque wrench for final torque. They're in the SS classifieds now. Search for impact.

My CUCV's brakes are not sufficient to run the trailer without its brakes. Even if your tow vehicle has sufficient brakes, on slick roads, trailer brakes can make a huge difference in controlling your rig. On my first road trip with the M1101 I had to make a panic stop on an interstate due to...

You're not the first person to discover that the factory tire changing tools are inadequate. I'm glad it worked out for you. GM 1-ton lug wrenches are a sick joke, in my experience. I bought a big breaker bar and lug-nut socket, that I keep in the truck. I'm larger and stronger than average...

The TM limits are safe, but folks seem to disagree as to whether these are on or off road limits. That confusion led me to try to understand this better. As I understand it, towing capacity comes down to 4 things: frame, suspension, brakes and drive train. I found it interesting to decode...

http://www.kentool.com/ They make *lots* of tools. You should be able to find your item on their site. -jpg

I was told that had to do with the energy-absorbing "crumple zone". The frame in the front is designed to absorb energy in a collision, keeping that energy out of the passenger compartment. I hadn't considered towing without a bumper, and what that might do to the frame. Thanks for the...

http://www.w8ji.com/battery_wiring.htm has good fundamental info on battery grounding. Your negative distribution block needs an excellent connection to the frame/chassis, in addition to the connection to the engine. You don't want your chassis ground path to pass through the engine in order...

Gillcrist wrote a series of books about Naval Aviation. I've read them all. Highly recommended. His first arrested (carrier) landing was in a Grumman Hellcat, and his last was in an F14. He commanded Top Gun, and consulted on the script for the movie. Later, he was tasked to select a...

I find rustystud's rants educational. I suspect barrman and rustystud both have the same motive, to educate the MV community about what can go wrong, how to prevent it, diagnose it, and fix it. They certainly educate me. I'm an MV newbie. I read the TMs and their PM guidance, but rustystud...

I'm glad that worked for you. There are microrganisms that can grow in diesel. This is a big problem in boats. I have no experience with desert. Maybe they require humidity. Certainly a full tank leaves less room for air coming in and out, bringing dust and/or humidity an/or...

As an MV newbie, I find discussions like this very helpful. I want to understand what can go wrong, how to prevent it, diagnose it, fix it, and prepare for it. I've learned a great deal about how to maintain my truck, what I need in my tool box, my skill set, and in my spare parts kit. I look...

I've read the tow bar TMs. They say "Always use safety chains". I've read the archives and lots of posts. I've studied pictures. I understand you want chains secured to the D rings on the tow vehicle, and crossing before they reach the towed vehicle. Some folks wrap the chains around the...

Here is a table from an old Danforth brochure. Note that pound for pound, a few smaller anchors give you more holding power than a bigger anchor of equal weight. For example, for my 18,000 pound winch, 2 20-lb anchors in series would be a good match in hard sand. The brand has changed hands...

Right. But if the boat pulls the rode straight, say due to a strong wind, the holding power drops dramatically. If a strong swell causes the boat to tug on the line, that also reduces holding power. These issues don't apply when we use the anchor to winch a truck. This is why the usual...

Agreed. Remember in boating, much of the pull is up, toward the surface, so they worry about the amount of pull required to pull the anchor up out of the bottom. We pull horizontally, and boating anchors are not marketed for that application, so the straight horizontal pull capacity is not...

The engineering department should be able to tell us how hard you'd have to pull to break the anchor, given a uniform holding ground like sand or mud, and a straight-line horizontal pull. This type of pull never happens in boating, so Customer Support won't likely have this info handy. Boats...

One possible explanation for the original design is for fording. If water splashes up there, you don't want to suck it into the engine. If you drive into mildly deep water too fast, the bow wave can go quite high up into the engine compartment. With this mod, you might want to approach water...