Search results

If you are brave and have lots of extra money you might try changing the entire backing plates to an air setup from something with the same diameter drums. If your brother-in-law owns a heavy truck salvage yard it'll be easier figuring out what you need. That's just the beginning, then you'll...

WHEWWW! Just took a call from NHTSA's George Stevens, I'd left a message when all this got started. Tried to explain what the situation was and all he could say was that I'm not the Army, that the exemption is ONLY for the Army and ALL these trucks are to be sold with "OFF ROAD USE ONLY" on the...

General DDoyle may have saved the day, he got me pointed at Federal Code for NHTSA regs 49 CFR 571.7(c) which reads: "c) Military vehicles. No standard applies to a vehicle or item of equipment manufactured for, and sold directly to, the Armed Forces of the United States in conformity with...

ddoyle: Mr. Merritt and I had a nice, civil conversation. He's a bright, funny and busy guy who related some interesting things that have happened over the years auto/regulation-wise and explained there was nothing that could be done on his level, this is either an Alabama legislature thing to...

ldj1002: Yeah, I could lie but there's a potential downside, a 'material false statement' about title issues is a Class C Felony... I've got enough to worry about without getting in a bind with the bureaucrats up in some big building in Montgomery. ABN173: The NHTSA guy's point was that...

Just spoke with Mr. **** Merritt, Import and Certification Division, NHTSA and it is the NHTSA's postion that there is NO Certificate of Conformity with DOT standards for ANY military vehicle and NO such thing as a waiver for ANYTHING. In a nutshell, any military vehicle must comply with...

Yes, the issue is the 1996 date of manufacture and the VIN on the dataplate, pre-'75 and they wouldn't care, proper VIN and they wouldn't care, over 20 years old and they might not care. However, I'm not prepared to try the 'backdoor' route of using a frame serial # or changing dataplates...

Kohburn: That's because there are no titles at all for pre-1975 vehicles. Dumptruck: It's not the local office that's the problem, it's the title people in Montgomery, wherever you apply it will be the same deal. I spoke to Mike Gamble, uberboss over titles, and he says this is the law plus...

Here's the Code of Alabama, #3 is the problem. I'm told the legislature intended this to regulate grey-market imports and all those people trying to tag everything from ATVs to golfcarts. Remember this is Alabama, where Count Rossi registered a Porsche 917 (!) back in the day so he could drive...

Imagine my surprise when I try to title and register my A3 to get all good and legal: I have a valid FL title (where my GL billing address was) but am now told that the head of titles at Al Dept of Rev has decided ex military (and postal) vehicles MUST have EPA and DOT Certificates of Conformity...

My A3 engine and trans have been rock solid, the CTIS system is another matter. Despite that annoyance I love this A3!

I'm in Florala but that's too far to 'drop by' for help. It's not that tough a job but you need basic mechanics tools to do it. You may want to find a surplus gallon of silicone brake fluid (I've bought it on Ebay) before you do anything, the parts house will beat your brains out by the pint...

I wish to purchase you're autocoche immediately. Please forward you bank number route and address. I provide bank cheque and ship charges to you by post, when arrangement made shipping you return me difference and deliver autocoche to port embarquee. Thank you very much kind sirs. Dr. Richard...

I've got 6 or 8 A2s in various stages of repair, ranging from turn-key to work dump to parts vehicles, and I've had some really pretty low-mile A2s in the past. I've played with, praised, worked and cursed these vehicles. I've also got several 5.9 Cummins around here, all the stuff to put one in...

92 foot pounds sure doesn't sound like much does it? I've never tried to measure what it takes to turn the wheel but, when loaded especially, it's tough. Add in some rough terrain getting turned around to dump and it's worst. I'm a taller guy and all that flailing around in that small cab can be...

Probably not the best idea to just drag the cable under the truck. I should know, having done extensive research into tearing up winches and cable... But I remember seeing some kind of MV (commie?) with a centrally located winch, you could run the cable out the front or back with some manner...

Ridetokill: The beauty of these devices is there is NO hyd. cylinder on the linkage, it's all in the torque generator itself, pressure hose in, return hose out. Carl_in_NH: I understand what you're saying but I have Air-O-Matic on my A3 (my Pretty Deuce) and it ain't power steering in the...

I was browsing through the Surplus Center catalog (yeah, I know, I need to get a life!) and found a 'steering valve/torque generator' that might splice into the steering column shaft: https://www.surpluscenter.com/item.asp?UID=2009101906584132&item=9-7124&catname=hydraulic This would avoid...

Here's what happens when you use a bolt: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce/26126-winch-fragged.html My A3 has the hydraulic setup but the pressure valve seems to be set pretty low so the winch doesn't have that much pull to it, at least in terms of trying to pull out stuck farm tractors, even...

Did the calculations here w/ several buildings, heat pumps, window units in barn-loft, pool, well, washer/dryer, etc, not to mention heat strips in HVAC if it's cold, and wound up with better than 40kw at start load. Sure, EVERYTHING will never start at the same time but I wanted to be able to...