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Well, since my accountant says that I can't have the proper heater for my deuce (yet...) I have decided to install the essentials of an M151 kit. Last summer, the lack of a defroster on cool mornings cost me some seat time. Installation was easy, but my question is about where to steal the...

I've done pipe threads both ways many times. Using the recommended drill works just fine. Using the "Other" recommended drill plus the tapered reamer makes a much, much "prettier" threaded hole. I'm quite sure that this makes a better fit. For most applications (such as this) the tapered tap...

The only time I have seen those fittings fail were once in air, and once in fluid, and it was when I had never seen them, didn't trust them, didn't believe the guy who gave us his obsolete (to him) stuff, and I installed a clamp. No clamp, and I won't say "no" failures, but they've proven more...

Yes, the rear axles only get one single lockout hub. You can not "stop" the components from turning, so there's no benefit there. Unlocking one hub on one side of either rear axle stops both wheels from propelling the vehicle forward. So everything in the axle "idles" along under no load when...

Napa has them in the supply chain... I would think that a Napa counter guy in California could look them up and either order one or tell you that they're not for sale there (which wouldn't surprise me terribly). All the big truck shops around here have them on a next day basis too. Not ever in...

Yes, emissions is a part of it. It's a crankcase decompression regulation valve, which means is much more the equivilant of a PCV valve (positive crancase ventilation valve) in a gasoline engine (not the EGR mentioned earlier). It keeps the blowby out of the atmosphere for the EPA, and off of...

When chevy went to IFS trucks they had greater differences than that straight out of the factory. Flatlanders come up here and drive them in four wheel drive from the first snowflake to the end of mud season, which while "wintery" all winter, truely entails about ten percent (tops) of driving...

One quick thought before you go too far with it. I'm not an expert here but I've seen this question come up many times. If you are in first and it works, then shift to reverse and it works, then both "directions" of the sprag are working and the linkage is at least close... If you are in...

I have not seen any miracle in a can work even remotely well in a tube type tire. You indeed can remove an outer dual to serve as a spare if your spare spare is not available. IMHO, this sums it up nicely:

A couple of home-made improvizations come to mind for this mission- First, a twenty five foot roll of bonded speaker wire, making sure it has some sort of ID as to which wire is which. (Usually the cheap stuff has a copper wire and an aluminum wire, some are striped on one side, some are ribbed...

You hear absolutely nothing? Then I'd tend to agree with the above posts, look into the starter relay and/or the button. You CAN hear the starter relay "click" when it's working. Not as loud or heavy as a dead starter's "clunk", but it's very definately audible. If that doesn't "click", you...

It hasn't blown up yet, but if it's gonna then I'm all ears... The charging lead from the alternator to the batteries, as well as the ground circuit for the alternator don't go through the master switch, so the "juice" has some place to go. It could possibly turn off a sensing voltage and...

I leave mine out because it's the right thing to do, UNLESS the trucks gonna sit for a bit. Then I leave it in because it's one less place for rust to gum up what should move freely... But that also goes with the rest of the drill, both shifters in neutral, wheels chocked, parking brake...

Fify seconds that seems like an eternity if you sit there and listen to it...:-D I wait for the oil pressure gauge to come up, then flip the master switch off, then do a final walk-around and bulb check. It's usually done by the time I'm done.

You can go to any truck parts place, many Napa's that deal in truck stuff, Fleet Pride, most truck dealers, or any other miscellaneous places that have Muncie stuff. I don't have the part number in front of me, but it's the short stud kit for a six bolt PTO. If any of those places don't have...

Yeah, the gauges are crimped. The ring that holds the clear lense is crimped all the way around, and it's pretty much not pretty when you try to take them apart. Not to mention that your crimped and then uncrimped and then recrimped area needs to be flat so the gauge can be re-installed flat...

Here's an old post you might like- If you scale the image up a little and study it for a bit you can figure out how many extra leaves the rear springs (might have) had and the corresponding rated capacity. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?t=27418

I had another post on the subject, but my searching skills are not quite honed enough to find it... Anyhow, first I used a coat hangar to pack all the rust and crust into my overflow tube so tightly that there was no hope of ever getting it open. Then I stuck a cheezy china-mart oil pressure...

If it is too full and overflows out the overflow, it's not that messy. If it's too full and overflows but the overflow is plugged, it's all over that side of the engine bay and all over the driver's side fender. Mine has found it's own "happy level", it's in the filler neck but just enough to...

No more than there is a place already made into the bed to mount the 5130-00-134-4535 portable electric band saw stand. The ladder is on th list of things that are not truck equipment that must be procured to complete the fabrication. The van bodies to which the ladder is issued have storage...