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Your route looks near to the Custer Battlefield at Little Big Horn. Charles Kuralt once called it the saddest place he'd ever been. From most any perspective, he has a point. It is on my list, but, it doesn't look like i'll make it. Go, and tell us what it is like.

An advertisement in a local(think Allentown,PA-ish) weeky has a 454 plus th400 plus 4.10 dual wheel rear from a 60,000 mile motor home, asking price $1100. Current week's issue. Sixty thousand in a motor home chassis might be considered high mileage/harsh duty in some circles.

Yes, a most excellent bargain. Keep that man's number on your speed dial.

I bought a new GM balancer at the dealer in late '08 or early '09 for my 6.5. Paid $65.ish retail. The box said,"MADE IN USA" I thought it a very reasonable price. Then i asked the man for rubber dampered pulley that bolts to the balancer. The parts guy said, "i always have those in stock. That...

Thanks for the replies. After reading the link from Mr. Zout, i'm not really sure if i want to mess around with this project at all. The residue certainly seems to have some seriously harmful potential. As i'll be working in the driveway, there is no way to control the dust. Perhaps maybe i...

Okay, i'm giving up i guess. I have not been able to find an answer on my own. So, are all CUCV's painted with CARC paint? And, if not, how can you tell? Before next inspection i'll need to do some serious body work, and i don't want to rip into it unprepared for the hazardous potential of...

Seem to recall that the Burlington Northern RR experimented with some propane fueled railroad locomotives. A pair of locomotives with a tank car of fuel in between them. I have no idea about the actual engines, though. It would take some doing to put spark plugs and an ignition system on a...

Same turbo set-up as on the civilian full size van. Not TOO bad to work on after the doghouse inside comes off. It would not fit a Blazer or Pickup by probably several inches at the firewall.

Thank you, immensely, for that bit of hard earned information. Many times people have given me attitude about "wasting gas while idling". Now i can tell them exactly how much!

Never saw a drain plug in a GM automatic until my '02 Savana, the 4L80e HAS a drain plug. So did the Goodwrench remanufactured transmission i put back in. Both plugs were rounded over and siezed. Can't pull 'em anyway! Maybe GM wouldn't be bankrupt today if they hadn't started putting drain...

I just bought a 95 3500HD truck with a 454 and the NV-4500 transmission and 4.63 gears in the axle. I am inclined to agree with the linked article. The gear ratios in the NV-4500 are widely spaced and, well, they just seem cumbersome. And this is with a 454 (read: a lot of torque). In the little...

This is, admittedly, a hijack, sort of, but, is there anything special about the CUCV wheels? That is, are they different from the wheels applied to the civilian versions of these trucks? The wheels that came on my M-1009 had similarly abused lug nut seats, badly enough that i condemned three of...

Hmmmm, your theory is intriguing to me and i'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

McMaster-Carr has 16mm socket headed cap screws of sufficient length to put a nut and washer on, then thread through the balancer itno the crankshaft. It gets "just" enough thread into the crank to pull the balancer on. Hold the socket bolt with a hex key and turn the nut with an open end...

There was a factory valve for selecting one tank or the other, of course. The last one i bought was dual circuited, that is, it had six ports to accomodate the fuel supply and return lines. In operation the fuel pump drew from and returned fuel to the same tank. This didn't require operator...

As long as the subject of 4-ways and turn signals has been broached, do all of your turn signals work with the ignition turned off? Just discovered mine do, and i'm not sure if they should. That is, none of my civilian buggies work this way, just the M-1009. Is this a military specific...

Other places, other experts, have suggested the temperature sensor should be in the pan. This should indicate the temperature of the oil that the transmission has to "work" with. But, that might not be reflecting the maximum temperatures the oil is reaching as it works through the system.

Yes you did. And i completely missed it. My apologies. It looks like my eyes are getting as bad as my memory: there were THREE twos. I'm gonna chalk it up to "PWE". That is, Posting While Exhausted.

That expansion tank was still available at the dealer three years ago, or so. About $25 retail, as i recall. The part number should still be molded into your tank, mine was. The last four digits were all twos, sorry i can't remember the whole number right now. I've been awake for about thirty...

My experience on a '79 one ton was that the tanks AND the brackets that hold the tanks are interchangeable. The truck was a chassis cab with dual wheels and came with a single tank on the right side. I scrounged another 20gal. tank from somewhere and it fit perfectly on the left side. Later...