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I think the paint job is neat - it reminds me of some of the military Micro Machines from when I was a kid!

If it's the transmission safety switch, I believe you should still hear a click every time you turn the engine start switch. A couple times I've had to shift my truck out of neutral to a different gear then back to neutral to get it to turn over. I think my transmission safety switch might be...

Maybe for something like a C-5? :ROFLMAO:

Quite a few projects start with being ugly! I was fortunate to get my truck from someone who took care of it and gave it a new coat of paint while they had it. It will need another coat at some point in the next few years.

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Painted and reinstalled glovebox for the first time in about 2 years - heater core repair will have to wait a bit longer! At least the flow to it is reliably shut off. Next up: Either reinstall wheel valve stone covers or paint gladhand dummy couplings.

Great add-on! It's neat how being able to 3D print stuff helps us and our green iron :) Now I need a little CNC milling machine...

I'm a fan of The Transformers - though not so much the live-action films. I'm more into the old cartoon of the '80s and the comics. But the first live-action Transformer film, released to theaters in 2007, featured a Decepticon character that turned into a Buffalo MRAP. That character is...

Which fitting? My truck's wheels had both cracked elbows and filters.

If I get a wrecker I may consider adding more floodlights to it. That's a nice setup they have!

Your truck could be a star! Sorry, not you, just the truck :D

And that's why I like zipper boots! The TM even specifies zipper boots, I think.

There's that too, also done in the US. The power utilities actually have dogs trained to smell for oil leaks during substation PMCS since they're not all obvious.

That was an engineer's response if I ever read one. What's the Reynolds number of oil running through a deuce cooling system? :p (Just kidding!) That was a good explanation of why oil isn't a practical coolant for this application. (y) I believe oil is only really used as a coolant for...

This is it. Those guys at the bar @ToddJK spoke about must've had it backwards!

Because there are more lefty deuces than righty ones? Makes me wonder what happened to all the right-side extensions. You'd think they'd all be used up in pairs...

I wish my van had a multifuel then. I have enough kids to keep it fueled for free as long as they're living here :ROFLMAO:

I'd think Volvo would be all over biofuel usage, being a European company.

That stuff would gum right up. As if I didn't like it enough scraping bacon grease out of the pan 🙄 On the flipside, gumming up in cold temperatures might be preferable to pure water freezing and breaking things - I think that doomed quite a few M211s with improperly-applied water coolant...

My truck always clunks into 4th when I suddenly take my foot off the gas at around 30 MPH. Running it through the gears with full pedal it's a pretty smooth shift. I am still running 15W-40, though. Sounds like a vent is clogged on the transmission. It shouldn't be shooting any oil out of...