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I'm not addicted to SS... It's normal to try the site every 5 minutes for 6 hours ;-) -Chuck

I'm not sure who, or what "theroy" is, but I would never post that either ;-) You are probably right about the mentally handicapped thing, I must be, I keep trying to be nice and get along with you. -Chuck

How does alcohol do this? While you are googling around for an answer, do look into the alcohol caused corrosion of dissimilar metals in carburetors and fuel systems. In fuel systems they are using only pure anhydrous ethanol and methanol, which is far less corrosive than alcohol/water...

Hi MS, Any particular reason you chose grease over a light weight oil? The alcohol kit will help keep any condensed water from freezing up the compressor, regulator, and tank bleed valves, but the resulting alcohol/water solution rusts things up just as quickly as plain old water. -Chuck

Good idea, except the inspection station will take one look at them, see the cracks, and the DOT date, and say they are all trash. -Chuck

When the deuce's axles were being developed, silicone RTV was just a gleam in some chemist's eye. To a very large degree, the head shed didn't go out of its way to invent solutions to problems that were non existent. Cork seals work fine, if you bother to install them. However.... In my ever...

Looking at the bobbed deuce in Maddawg's picture shows me the mechanic that made it has a distorted sense of priorities. When you shorten the wheelbase, put on monster tires, and take the resulting truck-a-sore-ass into the rough to go hill climbing, stump jumping, mud bogging, or rock...

It's kind of funny that folks think of the multi-fuel process as being old, and the plain old diesel process (such as is in their brand new diesel PU truck) as being new. The multifuel system was invented in the 1960's as an enhancement to the direct injection diesel engine. The diesel system...

Taking it apart, cleaning it and then refilling with DOT 5 is the best way. Because the DOT 3 is heavier, it would be very hard to convince all of the DOT 3t to leave the system through the air bleeder screws, which are mounted at the top of the wheel cylinders. -Chuck

By the time the sidewall starts cracking like that, the cord could be compromised. It isn't meant to be exposed to the elements... I have run radial tires with small splits like that, and had them rip the side wall when I hit a pot hole. Also, if they are dry rotted around an area that was...

You could always use an adjustable propane regulator. They like to work in the under 5psi region. -Chuck

Welcome! You've joined the ranks of a great bunch of guys that love deuces. -Chuck

On my deuce, the C-turbo's whistle is most noticeable when the engine is idling, or when it is spooling down while shifting gears. When the engine is pulling, you can't hear the whistle over the engine's bark.... well, the driver can't. Everyone for about a mile radius can hear it just fine...

C-turbo's whistle up, and down in pitch every time you move the pedal. .. there is no mistaking their whistle. It isn't subtle at all. If your D-turbo was whistling, and now doesn't, perhaps it had some junk stuck to the turbine that has cleared itself off? -Chuck

Big Case got into a truck pull at his local Hooters restaurant. He was up against a 1T PU truck, and got soundly beaten. There is a youtube video of it : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YSe8KDrXlo The moral of his story is probably to put a few thousand pounds of tires in the back of the...

The TM for the LD465 is: TM9-2815-210-34-1 It is available in the Resources section. The Continental LDS manual is primarily about the fuel system, the IP and how they can mess up the performance of the engine. The only thing missing from your LD465 over the LDS465 fundamentally is the...

The answer to your questions are very nicely laid out in the Continental LDS-465 trouble shooting manual referenced on the first page of this thread. It is written in a nice conversational style that is easy to read. Lots of illustrations, and virtually everything applies to your LD-465...

You say tomato, I say tomahto. When you get right down to it, all 1960's era 6 cylinder 4 stroke diesels aren't all that different.... except where they are. -Chuck

Isn't it really a matter of the design path having been forked into two directions after the LD-465 was built.? The LD-465 and the LDT-465-1C/D are virtually identical, save for the goodies necessary to make a turbo charger work. The LDS-465-1/ 2, however, is beefed up in a number of ways...

Hi Jason, I got them from cranetruck when I asked him the same question: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/43459-ldt-465-1c-vs-lds-465-multifuels-3.html#post484708 -Chuck