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It's not that the fingers (levers) are under a lot of tension. As you bolt the pressure plate to the flywheel, the force of the pressure plate bottoming out on the disc forces the fingers down, or forwards, torward the engine. Conversely, as you unbolt the pressure plate, you'll see the...

I don't have solid evidence in front of me, but I strongly, strongly believe that the alternator/generator plays no part in the C/D designation of the multifuel. The C series uses the first generation head gasket with separate fire rings and pressure relief slots. The D series uses the...

Rapco makes a premixed, correct shade Strata Blue in an Alkyd enamel. It's a simple, single stage paint, just thin it and shoot it. Everything about it is good for the most part: cheap, easy to shoot, very correct color, covers really well (it's a thick paint with heavy solids), etc. The...

I've actually shot pretty much everything through their crappy guns and I have to say, I think they're very good guns. I have a $400 Sata that I barely use anymore. The HF cheapies are so cheap they're disposable. At my last job (the one that ended in 2013), we started doing some paint work...

I more or less copied Andy and Ken's rear winch idea but I built a mount for fairlead so the rope would exit beneath the crossmember, saving me from cutting my bed. Complete installation here: http://imgur.com/a/y8WKT

All of these pictures are Rapco paints with the small tipped HF cheapie gun:

I think Rapco calls for a 1.8 tip on their paint. I've shot a lot of it with the standard $9.99 HF paint gun and I think they're a 1.4 or 1.5 tip. I just turned the pressure up a bit and it shot fine.

Ok, how's about some video? :) We had a bunch of people shoot video this year and we sincerely appreciate all the assistance we received, in terms of people willing to be interviewed, people willing to shoot video and people willing to let us use their vehicles. I have 2 videos initially...

To my knowledge, there is not a miliatary trailer that is a good fit for transporting a passenger car. Even if you accept the weight issues, you'll have trailer height issues, making the breakover angle an issue with any vehicle that's not truck level ride height. My buddies and I are all car...

1. Nice work- well thought out and very professional looking. 2. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE buy some scuba gear and recreate the world famous video, since you will probably be better equipped than anyone else.

These uploaded pretty quick for me.

A. Forewarning: I'm probably going to merge this thread with an existing "catch all" dual circuit engineering thread, where people have discussed all the various way it might be possible to upgrade the single circuit system. See...

You're going to be doing this:

Ok, then it's safe to assume you've lost the 24V power source and that's why we're discussing 12V at all, correct? If it were me, I'd find a civilian 24V alternator and I'd replace the 12V alternator currently on the 318. That pretty much solves all your issues. If you want 12V power...

Let''s back up for a second. I assume the 318 engine has a civilian, 12V alternator on it, right?

Well, you have a couple choices: Get some sort of alternator or generator that puts out 24V and feed all your stock components 24V ...................... Or use the 12V alternator that your 318 is almost guaranteed to have and convert all the stuff on your vehicle (gauges, lights, etc.) to 12V.

I ran into this the other night. It would only let me do one at a time. Any more than that and it would show it was uploading them, get to 100% and then the upload window would close and there would be no images on the screen. Uploaded 5 or 6 pics this morning without issue.

I'd just like to add that my numbers are based on the "crawling under a lot" system. A major restoration I'd estimate $20-$30K for. And my definition of "major restoration" is this: You're certainly welcome to pass along the assessments from this thread to the owner. My experience in the...

:) Ok, so here's how I get there: I don't know when M108 production stopped, somewhere in the 1950's. So let's call it 1955 for conversations sake. It's 2015 now, so this is a 60 year old truck. The OP stated it hasn't run in at least 8 years and that it obviously has a lot of deferred...

There's nothing on that truck that would scare me off, but I'm also smart enough to see $5-10K in work to get it up to snuff and that doesn't include restoration/cosmetic stuff. It's pretty solid and complete for it's age-still has the waterproof plug wires. Interesting it got the air horn...