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  1. Cleveland Iron

    Stake pockets

    Well, you could always strengthen the wood with some angle steel on the corners. And yes keep the wood small enough that is can be slipped and and out of the stake holes easily. The last time I had to pull out swollen wooden stakes was interesting. Hydraulic jack, clamps, sledge hammer, 2x4s...
  2. Cleveland Iron

    12 volt slave cable port?

    Just a thought... Hook it up through a battery cutoff like one of these. I know the plastic one has a removable key that must be left in position for the circuit to be active. For that matter, you could bring up power for both 12v and 24v through two disconnects and select which disconnect to...
  3. Cleveland Iron

    Sat behind the wheel of a deuce for the first time.

    Yah, but would you ride shotgun with someone who did? Maybe not. I'll leave it with Mil-spec steering, post mil-spec driver, do-it-himself rear cushion.
  4. Cleveland Iron

    Sat behind the wheel of a deuce for the first time.

    It is already a strong-arm steering system. I wouldn't want a Popeye arm steering system.
  5. Cleveland Iron

    Sat behind the wheel of a deuce for the first time.

    Rather than mucking with the wheel my brother put a thinner cushion on the back of the driver's seat of my deuce. It worked for him.
  6. Cleveland Iron

    Hazard lites on deuce

    Very True! At good thought too! It caught me off guard whe after wiring it in to the indicated wire... I connected the batteries and The motor kicked on. I know RTFM, or in my case the schematic diagram. I did... Ok... I hadn't screwed up. It is actually wired that way... I guess they had a...
  7. Cleveland Iron

    Hazard lites on deuce

    Yep. Pulled the diagram and verified. So does, for some reason, the heater fan. That caught me off guard when I first hooked it up.
  8. Cleveland Iron

    Deuce heater box install

    I went to I think it was Advanced Automotive... The had the normal sized stuff in accordian ducting, I took it up to the counter and told them I wanted this in 3". The guy looked it up and ordered it... Was like $30.00.
  9. Cleveland Iron

    Upgrade complete

    Just make it your default... I suspect that one of the things with the default display did was to get everyon'e attention to let them know the world had changed and "Please Stand By..." We are patching things back together... We will have stuff working as soon as possible. Much easier to deal...
  10. Cleveland Iron

    Deuce heater box install

    Obviously I'm biased. What I did worked for me. I chopped the box with a cheap saber saw. Unless you are planning to mount an air conditioning coil in there too I see no reason for such a large box. I had to swap the fan direction to keep the air intake outboard. Had to butt the box on the...
  11. Cleveland Iron

    Upgrade complete

    Great is the administrator. All hail patracy! I have tried the higher contrast display setting and... I.... Like it! Seriously, people try it out... Everything is so much easier to read, and it gives you the flavor of the old set-up.
  12. Cleveland Iron

    deuce 12v conversion

    12V - 24V - 24V & 12V... Ground is ground. Alternators are naturally grounded to the chassis. ( At least I've never seen one that isn't. ) As for the 24V influencing the 12V system... Generally no. The special cases that occur to me are where you have a common battery shared by both the 12V and...
  13. Cleveland Iron

    Deuce heater box install

    Chop the core box down by all means, most of it is just housing empty air! Just be sure to leave room to allow the air inside the to pass through the entire heater core. Heck, you might even be able to attach the core box directly to the diverter and not even play with that part of the ducting...
  14. Cleveland Iron

    Deuce heater box install

    When all else fails, look at the wire numbers on the deuce schematic. ( Available in the TM section ) Mount the speed control resister some place where it can get hot and not melt anything. You should be good. I considered mounting the core inside too but I just decided chop the box down and...
  15. Cleveland Iron

    Battery Maintainer 24volt

    I popped over to their website and they have a different product for vehicles that are parked indoors often. It actually runs off the truck battery and they suggest it is for vehicles that see often used... However I'm inferring that if you hook up a trickle charger to the truck it would be more...
  16. Cleveland Iron

    Upgrade complete

    I'll admit I liked the green but I will survive whatever you feel will be best. The only thing I can say is to keep the contrast up for the text. Darker background might be better, a couple people I know are red colorblind and for them red / reddish colors show up as grayish. As for anything...
  17. Cleveland Iron

    FM radio/military antenna sharing

    :ditto: What he said. :ditto:
  18. Cleveland Iron

    FM radio/military antenna sharing

    Car radio coax is 75 ohms, not 50 ohms, but don't let that worry you. Unless you are trying to tune in distant/weak stations you should have no issues. Don't worry about matching. Don't worry about tuning for frequency. Use whatever antenna you like. Yes you will some signal loss with the wrong...
  19. Cleveland Iron

    Flasher failures

    I went a different way... I added a Mallory sonalert and a potentiometer for volume control. The high pitched tone is easy to hear and I won't have to clean my pants after I realize it isn't a brake problem... 2cents
  20. Cleveland Iron

    Trucklite Tail light and front blinker longevity?

    Uhmmmm, dumb question... Are those surface mount LEDs? You might be able to figure out how they failed if you could put 2 or 3 volts ( forward voltage ) across the singular LEDs. Just a thought because we are just doing autopsy work...
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