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Filtered WVO is a pretty good solvent. Biodiesel has an even better reputation as a fuel system cleaner...

500 Watts isn't a lot of 28 volt action. The quad mount must not draw very much or it has really big batteries...

The DUECE you say! As you can see, it's a very common misspelling. Welcome!

Jake gave a bunch of information there, but his short answer remains the same: The multifuel is an old engine designed around old technology coolants and lubricants. You don't need, nor do you benefit from anything fancier than what was generically available by 1970. I suspect that DI water...

If you put spacers on a spindle, the center line of the wheel has moved outboard. Wheel bearings are usually set up to carry some designed proportion of weight on inner and outer. Most trailer bearings are supposed to have 50/50 weight distribution, which is why they're often identical inboard...

To expand on Speddmon's post a little, it's important to remember that these machines have usually been sitting unused for a year or more before you get one home. It's important to resist temptation and a) read the manual so that you know how to operate the thing (procedure for purging the fuel...

It's funny that they're advertising deceleration fuel shutoff. Every EFI vehicle I've ever driven turns off the injectors if engine RPM is above some value and load is zero. On manual trans vehicles it's pretty easy to spot, especially with a cold engine - just coast down a hill (not...

The old school way to do this (as was done back during WWII when men were Real men, gasoline was rationed, and cars were flatheads with < 6:1 compression and crappy fuel economy) is to take an opposing pair of pistons and rods out of the engine. With an OHV engine you also take the valve...

I went so far as to take my battery tray off the skid to have a look underneath. No joy for me...

^^That explains why I, all the way up (ha) in Charlottesville didn't hear about this show until the stand-down and resignation fallout. Talk about lousy publicity! I would happily have driven down 29 to the show if I had known it existed. Oh well. Hopefully they'll do it right next year.

It's all about the rated amperage output. Get that number and the source doesn't matter as long as it works and is properly made.

Good question. The MEP002/003 has them along with intake heaters. Don't know why they don't exist on the MEP-004. I suspect there was some durability or qualification item that lead them to using an ether shot system, manifold heaters, or whatever.

There are two ways to go with this truck's drivetrain: Full stock or modern reliability and speed. Given that the brakes are probably pretty good if the bed is empty, you could probably stand to put more engine under the hood and go faster with it (within reason) than stock would allow...

Oh, and grease everything! You'll be amazed at how much easier the steering gets when there's lubrication at all the metal-to-metal points. It's also worth mentioning that trucks that are driven regularly are happier trucks. Sitting kills these things. It's much better for you to drive it...

Here's a pic of a deuce earning a living with its original bed. It's a service truck for the earth moving company subcontracted in for site prep on a big construction project near where I work. There's a fuel tank with pump, lube and hydraulic oil tanks, and presumably maintenance equipment...

That is easily the nicest unrestoerd M37 I've ever seen. Even well-cared-for fire department ones tend to be modded up for brush truck use. If you want to make one into a rock crawler or mud buggy, sell this one to a restorer and get one with a blown/no engine. Yours is just too pretty for...

I guess it's time to come out of the closet... My MEP-002A is my second diesel engine. My first is an Indian clone of a Lister 6/1 stationary diesel. The ST series gen heads are very popular for people setting up homebrew generators for all the usual reasons. They're a standardized...

I would definitely go looking inside things for sand - did it on mine, in fact, even though it was apparently (and actually) clean as a whistle. Unmounting the air filter and having a good look at its insides and plumbing to the engine would seem a reasonable thing to do. Likewise, pop the...

Put simply: if you're really worried about it, don't shift into AWD unless you're sure all the wheels are turning the same speed - zero is always safe. I'm guessing that the dog clutch on the M35 TC is pretty forgiving about engaging if the dogs are pointing at each other - not all are. We had...

Or could be crankcase gunk at the valve inlet, now that I think about it.