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X2 on setting it by ear. We used to lug the motor a bit up a hil in high gear. Let it ping slightly under that extreme situation, and it will be fine for normal driving. A double-check is to see where the timing produces maximum vacuum at idle. I'm really old, so I know about things like...

OK, I did some Googling and I found the name of the products and the vendor. The vendor is commanderchassis.com. They are a fabrication shop and they also sell fabrication equipment. Additionally, they sell these two liquid products. SP3 is the Gibbs alternative. I found it to be pretty...

At the risk of starting a "Gibbs is awesome/Gibbs sucks" digression, a couple of years ago I finally used up the one can of Gibbs I had and I called the 800 number on the label (this was a really, really old can of Gibbs). The number was answered by some other company that used to distribute...

I have had good experiences with Saturn as well, and I have steered business their way.

Correct. Conducting the experiment would help us put to bed the question of whether all of the flex was in the bushings, or if the extra flex needed comes from the torque rods twisting. If that turns out to be the case, then we are set to see how different types of (modified or fabricated)...

I agree that the rubber provides some flex, but I posit that the rubber bushings can only deflect so far, and not enough to accommodate the extreme articulation these suspensions can handle. The additional twist comes from the torque rods; their I-beam sections make them able to twist. Think...

Au contrair. The video is real. The events depicted are not*. My young son whipped up the SFX on a video clip of my Deuce. He did it quick-and-dirty; if he had spent more time on it I daresay you would not be able to tell: he would have added the shrapnel; we would also have started with...

Five ton rods would have a different characteristic in terms of flex (twist), so even if they were adapted to fit because you liked their length, the handling would be affected. There might only be one way to rigorously and scientifically settle the issue of whether an extended strut has...

Really nice, good job.

It's a real video.....

I would suggest that the arms are steel forgings. The forging process correctly aligns the grain - bet you didn't know that. By now you have probably seen my other post regarding the considerations when modifying or building new torque rods. In a nutshell, they have to be able to twist to...

I would like to comment on the topic of stretching the torque rods with flat stock or some other method. Think of the photos you have seen of the extreme amount of articulation the rear bogie of a Deuce can accommodate. One wheel all the way up and the other all the way down, with the other...

What he said..............

Does it have to be green? If so, you are looking at more topcoat. Can it be black? Then I am partial to POC (plain old undercoating). Touch up any bare metal or rust with rusty metal primer and some top coat. Then hit it with POC. It is flexible, spot damage can be repaired (unlike bed...

X2. Using POR over paint is just paying too much for paint. POR only works on bare metal, and in fact likes rusty metal the best. That is why it is called POR (paint over rust) and not POP (paint over paint). POR works a lot like super glue. It needs moisture to cure. The moisture is what...

Is it possible that as a result of all your HH adventures, a bunch of diesel ended up in the sump? The reason I ask is that I assume that now that your HH is fixed, you are driving the truck, and voila, this problem. I am always suspicious of simultaneous failures (or failures closely...

There is one factor not often addressed and that is the speed at which your genset runs. If it has a two pole rotor, then you need 3600 rpm to get 60 cycles. If you have a four pole rotor, then you only need 1800 rpm for 60 cycles. (If you have a lot of poles, then the rpm goes down...

The nice thing about that strap is that it still permits full articulation. :)

One point of clarification on my previous post: it looks like the pieces you found in the oil pan are themselves too large to have been circulating through the oil passages. Probably, it was smaller pieces of whatever they were that got caught up in that main bearing. A whacked-off edge of a...

What he meant is that the crank is cross-drilled. Of the oil that goes to a main bearing, some drips back to the pan but a lot goes through the cross-drilled hole to feed a connecting rod bearing. If junk got into that main bearing, then some junk could have gotten to the associated rod...