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If your registration goes as it has done for others, WIDOT is going to take a look at your VIN, see that it isn't the standard 17 digits, and isn't listed in their VIN database as a valid VIN, and then ask you to prove it has an FMVSS (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard) sticker.... It...

A teenage girl, driving a car load of her teenage friends, hit my truck one morning. She had no license, no registration, and I called in the cops. They came, impounded her car, and she left in the cruiser. -Chuck

Oh golly! This subject has been hashed, and rehashed many times over. First, welcome to the site. Second, there is a pretty nice search function sitting in the line just below the "STEEL SOLDIERS" heading of this page. If you search on some things like registration, Wisconsin DOT, GL...

If he was indeed that bad of a driver, and perhaps even uninsured (who knows?), the cops could have solved something very important: They could have taken him off of the road and maybe saved someone's life. -Chuck

I wonder if they are all that way? The filters I have been putting on my trucks direct the flow downward through the center of the screw/plug. -Chuck

Is the pedal hard when it does start working? If so, you need to take some time and adjust your brake shoes. -Chuck

I'm curious about the purge screw on fuel filter thing. In every application I have seen, the fuel filter cans point downward, and the screw on the filter is the water drain. Are these spin on filters mounted upside down? Or are you warning that the water drain, when in the downward...

Well, it's like this, as the truck sits, the oil drains back through the oil pump and empties the filter cans. Because there is nothing to stop the flow of oil back and forth, it also drains down all of the journals and galleries that are above the sump. When you start the engine up, all of...

Just curious, but how are the very infrequent miles driven to and from shows, and in parades... some of the most limited activities on the road... going to be representative of the safety of these vehicles for general use? Changing all the rules, and then gathering the statistics, isn't going...

You have narrowed the window you are viewing SS in. "Thank" is the right most button, and you have cut it off by reducing your window width. Drag the window a little wider, and "Thank" will come back. Then you can Thank me ;-) -Chuck

If you check the TM's, you will find that the recommended way of doing the switch over from DOT3 to DOT5, which was done in the late 1980's, was to use the pressure bleeder filled with DOT5 to flush the system of all of its DOT3... Very much like you did. However, like you, I too have done that...

The only reason I can figure out for the vented style is one that becomes apparent when you think of the truck's mission: get-er-done war machine. Multifuel engines have seriously high compression ratios, 22.5-to-1. There are all manner of sorts of abuse the engine could suffer that would...

It would be interesting to test the lithium grease vs motor oil torques. Probably the best way is to tighten a couple of times with motor oil, and mark the final resting point of the nut, and then try again a few times with lithium grease and see what happens. My intuition says there will be...

There is one other reason for excessive blowby, and that is a cracked block, or any other breach that causes the coolant to get into the oil. Coolant leaks are easy to check for, your oil will turn into mayonnaise after running a while. If you see any sign of gorp on your dipstick you likely...

Just curious, but why do you use lithium grease, when (as far as I know) all of the references for torquing engine head bolts since the beginning of time call for clean motor oil? Have you found some added advantage, or was it just a -- if oil is good, grease is better thing? ASME...

Actually, I do believe what you type. I have had nothing but very good results with Government Liquidation, and what they did for you is exactly what they should have done. It is a shame that it had to pass through some bone headed idiots before it got to someone reasonable. Now, if there...

I have seen other amps, notably in the R390A, where the ground connection on the volume control gets corroded, and the low end volume becomes intolerably high. -Chuck

I look at it this way: If you have a piece of steel on your anvil, and you use a little 1 oz toy hammer, you could hit it forever and never cause it any real harm. Hit it with a 4 oz hammer, and maybe you could go a week or a month before it is deformed too much to use. Hit with your 8 oz...

Of course! But then you would have to pull all of the piston/rods, press out the bolts, press in new bolts, check the rods for alignment, and possibly size them, scuff (hone) the cylinder walls, put in new rings, bearing shells, gaskets.... Sounds like a bottom end rebuild. In an ideal world...

You are worrying too much. The transmissions were designed back in the days of yore before all the special additives were even thought of. The manufacturer recommends SAE50 engine oil, or straight SAE90 gear oil, without the EP additives,... just like a tractor. The EP additives can contain...