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A few , areas you may look at. If you have bad shaft seals in the inducer or exducer you can suck raw engine oil into the turbo and it will dramaticly increase black smoke. a careful check of you oil level with confirm or deny it , Also one can remove the intake or exhaust pipe and visually...

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Did notice its a 5 ton, have one of those as well , must apologise, I still think all M 35 LDS/LDT , Its either fuel, too much, or air , not enough, combustion, inadequate, ( IP adj. or injectors ) I assume you are running it unloaded most of the time, keep the rpm up and the accels gentle ,

Iam not familiar with Ohio , would make sure its operating properly, My 109 doesn't smoke at all even under load. But at the risk of POLITICAL INCORECTNESS, Is the smoke measurable . is it Illegal in Ohio in the time it will take you to discover the culprit. If its illegal , certainly don't...

Guys just some advice on "SOAP" Spectrometric OiL Analysis, We used it since the 40s in the USAF on Jet engines primarily. That is where it started. IT CAN BE a wonderful tool , but there are a couple of basic things one must understand 1. to be of any value you have to know what metal...

It wasn't a government paid holiday, Certain Agencies were "at minimal manning" almost exclusively in the DC area, The rest of us were told TOUGH NUTS

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Stay away. there's a reason the Italians built it and the Israelis are selling it , Centrifugal engines are rarely used these days, last one in the USAF was a J -69 used in the T- 37 tweety bird . solid little engine, low thrust, easy teardown and overhaul. It was a French design and was in in...

OLd Belle Chase, Used work the odd A 10 A Warthog. , they had an AF reserve unit flying form there and we (23rd TFW ACTIVE , England AFB LA ) did trng and touch and goes, when they became a touch and come too a full stop for maintenance we used to drive down to recover them, hope they fixed it...

There were quite a few floating around the USAF for a while! I have one, although it was in fact one that was used by the US ARMY at Spangdalem AB in Germany in the Air Defense ARMY unit. They called it a motor pool jeep and it was kind of the bastard step child, you could see someone different...

Found your ATF comment interesting, Have used it for years, Although I have changed to Marvel Mystery Oil as an additive. For years in England at a gas station (Petrol Station) one would find a small container to add a squirt of lube oil to your fuel.makes sense. Two stroke oil, yup , could see...

Ive had terrible luck with Gama Goat Alts, seems every time I take it over 65 MPH ( down hill on the interstate) it fries the alt, Suspect its rotor speed. Had good luck (knock on wood) with my M 109a3 . lots of trips, no problems . I have adjusted the potentiometer on the alt before, BUT alas...

please PM me the source, iam ready to upgrade thanks Andy

I remember adding the little instamatic one use throw away cameras, All the O6 s thought it was just spiffy, Never had one work after setting in the records bag for a year!

I haven't seen a 900 series 12 volt heater element. Its a two min trouble shoot mine is 24 volt

I use Napa brand fleet guard down to -45 . works for me !

You can check voltage at the air dryer, easy to get to the connector , Comes apart hard, BUT if its 20 degrees or less just start it and wait a few, then Just feel up around the heater element, you will feel it .

Thank you for the pics, Hum I don't have an 923 cab , but there is a guy down around Madison,NH has parts on here frequently. Don't remember the years/mdels of his part outs , will check

AH HA . all good information. Now its forecasted to be 45 on Wednesday ! better get a flu shot! Hair dryer, can by one I guess, don't have enough hair to use one, but for a truck YUP

Its interesting that the biggest consumer of Jet Fuel "JP" still hasn't got a position on its use in MOVs