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Great pictures! too bad I was out of town, the show was reasonably close!

A link to all the pictures from the road trip is here: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=152725#152725 now here: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/military-vehicle-road-trips/14702-road-trip-2007-pictures-posted.html

There are about 900 high resolution pictures categorized by date and location. Of most interest will be Memphis Equipment and Groban Supply co. http://www.bunkerofdoom.com/travel/steelsoldiers2/index.html

The Hz is determined by the engine speed and number of poles in the alternator. On the Onan, it may well be the same engine and alternator, only the speed is lower for 50Hz and the regulator may be different or adjustable since the lower the speed, the lower the voltage in some cases. There's no...

The statement that you have to access the internal connection is correct. There is a thread on this somewhere, with diagrams. Once wired right using the internal connection it will be fine.

Brian, Thanks for your comments, the pleasure was truly mine. If I had the luxury, I would spend my time driving the less traveled roads and visiting smalltown America. A person could spend a lifetime doing that. It is in those places where (IMHO) we find the people, culture, and other things...

add 453 miles from Memphis to Home (Yay! I'm home!!), 2915 miles. I get 8.8 MPG and did indeed pay $3/gal. once outside of TX/AR area.. 331 gallons, $993 in fuel !! ow! plus three gallons of additive for $65, 4gallon of oil due to the oil leak $6, the little trip to Memphis Equipment - about...

she purs like a tiger.. will be observing the pyro in its new location. turns out i have the old style headgaskets but the OM there said that they are ok if not abused and he considers 8lbs boost to be reasonable especially if there is no diesel smoke at WOT. so, on the road.. gonna head in the...

Hwee I am in Memphis Equipment. Got in at 0730, and they are putting my truck back together. I'll have pics later but the entire rear side of the rearmost port of the exhaust manifold gasket was gone. Since everything had to be taken apart, it was a good decision to drive to Memphis and get...

After looking at it, the firewall is a little sooty, but no evidence of burns or fire shooting out.. mostly it is noisy. In any case, fumes were coming in the cab, so here is how I stopped that, after trying several things. close all windows. open drivers front window to first notch. drive above...

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 .

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 That's right.. I recall that. Well I went out and looked at this in the light of day. I don't see any evidence of damage from driving it, such as the supposed fire of the exhaust shooting out and hitting the wiring or the firewall. Maybe it is...

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 Finally this brings me to the reason for being up so late. I am on the way to visit Jason (jasonc), hopefully to check out his collection of stuff. I am currently 100 miles east of Joplin, Missouri in the outskirts of Marshfield, with a blown...

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 Today I got to visit Brian (54reo) and Alan Congiardo. I met them at the family biz, Marcello's Italian Restaurant. Who ever said there aint no such thing as a free lunch!! I had a pizza, and let me say that was about the best pizza pie I have had...

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 BTW here's the nomenclature tag off the coast guard transmitter I did not get. It's the one shown about 9 pics up, the large unit with the coils inside. first letter is "L", hard to see it.

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 more.. then I am back on the road to a hotel. St Louis tomorrow! Hope to meet 54reo and his wife for lunch. Jasonc - I could find my way close if I come down I-44 towards Tulsa. It is about 6 hours from ST Louis to there. I will PM my phone #

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 54reo, will be in St louis tomorrow. I am in Bloomington IL at the TA truck stop right now, will find a hotel after a while. ahh.. the great mystery meat in the bowl was eggs, did not look right, but tasted ok. As for the hot dogs, that is...

RE: Re: Road Trip TX -> North, SEPT 29 - OCT 14 found white ldt with orig spin on filter block will try to get.

Im here at Groban and I hipe they will let me take pics because you guys are going to like this. using my phone right now, but later will report.

What inside diameter of hose should I buy for the slobber tube? It seems sort of large-ish (After 4 years, the electrical tape/pipe clamp adapter thingy I made for the too-small-diameter one is starting to come loose.)