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I would love to join you somewhere, sometime. After I get my LMTV fit to drive outside of the yard.
I have 10 acres north of Eatonville and a large barn/shop that would be a good place to have a party.
Lots of old crap to start up and play with.
The avatar is a 1941 M3 diesel radial.
Mike
If you have scuffed pistons, you will also have leaking liner seals. Better pull the liners and replace them. PS, been working in Detroit's for nearly 50 years.
Cheers
Mike
When we update mine, we will make a short video with instructions. It is not for the inexperienced or faint of heart, the controller is built kind of like a sandwich with vertical circuit boards between the slices of bread. It requires complete disassembly to get at the problem capacitors.
Mike
Would it be possible to just install a straight 24 volt alternator and center tap the batteries for the 12 volt loads? I worked on transit buses many years ago that were built that way.
Mike
I have a friend whose WTEC2 was acting the same way. We put in the TCU/keypad from mine and it worked. I took the ECU to my electronics tech at work for a check up. He found 6 bad micro capacitors in the power supply, he replaced them with the more durable can type capacitors and hot glued them...