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No tips on new stuff, but the last time I needed one, I found a working one, inside a crumpled gas tank on a donner truck. Another suggestion is, if worse come to worst, convert it to one from an M35. But that is a diesel pump. Doubt that it would matter, but there were other Gassers around...

Last winter, I installed a brand new heater because it was time. It didn't run 3 hours and the blower motor failed. I swaped it out with the old one. If you try to start it several times, and it doesn't start, the burner section becomes overloaded with fuel, and when it does start, there is...

Is the blower motor running, if it isn't, that will naturally give you lots of smoke. Trouble shooting: disconect some of the circuits and check them with a meter. Disconnect the blower motor and with a jumper wire, see if it runs by itself. Check for fuel pressure. Did you check the fuel...

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New tires -- new tubes and flaps!

Like I said, the clanking turbo was presurized gas, back feeding into the next cylinder, and into the intake side, when the intake valve was open. I think you said the turbo was OK, but be sure to check it. A bad intake valve will cause that symptom too, and mostly that's what I was thinking...

Look up "wire Ampacety" (sometyhing like that spelling) One of the charts I found for the NEC said #4AWG, but probably #3AWG would be better. Assuming 30 amps is the total. That is expensive wire. Can you move the Genny closer? I believe you need the ground rod, not sure about bonding the...

I always thought the M101A1 was for the M37 too. It still had the 9:00x16" tires and 5 hole Budd wheels too.

I just bougtht two replacement Dexter axles, 6000# rated for a different trailer. They cost about $600 each. Nothing about your idea sounds inexpensive to me, nor do I think you will shed any measurable amount of weight.

If an intake valve is burned, it can still detonate in the manifold and make back pressure in the manifold. When you start it, you can check for combustion by holding your hand on that exhaust port. If that one is colder, it is not firing. That is what it is sounding like. The back pressure...

Welcome to the Site! Great pictures. I suspect that it will take a while to trouble shoot that Genny. If nothing else, you have a lot of good parts for your other machine. Good Luck! As far as your "MEPitis"...... Sometimes it takes a nice 003A before you really get on the road to...

Nice looking truck. Good job tieing it down too. Some 40 years ago, a 211 was my first MV. In subsequent years I did several engine changes and several times, I did valve jobs, in the vehicle. When you pull the head, do a valve job while your at it, on general principles. If your carefull...

Nice clean trailers. It looks like the one in the second picture, from the tire stickout, might have the heavier A3 axle and suspension under it. I have seen that around here. Trailer salad is a good description. Like they were doing a "clean up" of trailer parts, before they went to the 1101.

Congratulations on the "fix". I have learned that the best thing one can do is to work on your own equipment, yourself. Its not long, with the TM's and some guidence from the "Aces" on here, that you can adequately maintain your own equipment. The hourly price that you paid the "diesel...

Different areas have different prices. Of late, its probably a fiar price, but I would take a peek inside the master cylinder for water & dirt. The vent tube is smushed, and that can be a contamination issue. The crank for the jack, looks to be missing - no biggy there. To me, a plus are the...

The first thing you need to do, is get a good multi-meter. One that has the Hz function. (I prefer a clamp type meter - it has the capacity to do current as well). Then you can start (with the meter) conveying better, what your set is doing. There will probably be some "heavyies" that will...

NAPA will have them. The freeze plug is a theroetical safety. Your going to be real lucky, if there is no other serious damage to the block and head.

The DOT air brake fittings that I am familiar with, are brass. I would replace the fitting. At best & worst, you will only have to cut off the line, right next to the fitting! You get the DOT fittings at a heavy truck parts store. They are special, and have a special ferrel and a sleeve...

We need a few more clues - is your engine running? When you start your engine?

Welcome to the Site. All above, is good advice. Condition is always a crap shoot. Sometimes, even when you look, but there are great buys out there. About the difference between the A1 & A2: Bodies are essentially the same, but the A1 was designed to go with the M37. It has the mostly...