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No evaporative emissions system with diesels, much higher vapor pressure and flash point for diesel fuel, no charcoal canister either..

The obvious question is "why go back?" :) Even in CA, the CARB/BAAQMD nuts know that pre-1992 no car or truck was required to have OBD, pre-1994 no light diesel had EGR, pre-2004 no diesel had catalytic converters... I thought Texas put retards and crazy people in the electric chair, how'd...

If you are going for power and speedy recharge off-grid, get the largest panel you can physically fit under your roof rack - they aren't too expensive right now. In addition to making a slide-out storage compartment under your roof rack, you could also put drawer slides to allow your panels to...

One that's more like your mountain retreat... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq1GoO_NuaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmZ5-9a0Rac

About 800miles? Sounds like about $125-160 in fuel, $100 for a motel, plus about 4-5 meals (roughly $50). That's estimated at $275-310 before problems. Flat tire with bad spare can set you back $100, tow which puts you up overnight will cost you a motel room in addition to repairs. If you...

Don't be scared, just be careful. A while back I did start a thread in the CUCV section about electrical stuff, I never did have time to finish that, and I probably should - one section was supposed to be about charging batteries (like an auxiliary bank). If you can avoid adding more than you...

Yet... :)

If you were going to do the York, I say run it directly to the engine's belt. Fewer energy conversion steps. If you're trying to charge a third bank you could use the 24V across both batteries to a charger for the other bank - half the current at twice the voltage to get the same power, and...

If you can have someone who is familiar with CUCV's come out with you it would be a value add. Check out the member map and locate people for SS along your potential route. Have a fully charged cell phone and credit card handy... Flashlight, basic hand tools, electrical tape, zip-ties, fuses...

Simple, PLC/Embedded-PC (RaspberryPi/Arduino/etc...) reads interprets IO/analog values, writes to an entry in either a Redis or SQLite database. Any web server or browser can read from those natively (HTML5, PHP, Java Script). Off the shelf Guage code is available...

How far "wireless" are you hoping to reach? What task or function are you trying to accomplish with this system?

So I'm distilling down your requirements as you write them out. You will find that most commonly unless you are dropping in a brand new Cummins Power or Cat Power gen-set with OBD/CAN, remote monitoring is done with "building blocks". You might want to separate your functions (monitor vs...

Sounds like an ITAR question, not just for DHS (customs) but also DOJ... You may need an export license even though you aren't selling. I'd recommend EXTRA caution crossing that line.

Nice. If you find yourself doing a lot of ends, you might save yourself some time and use electronics solder-paste. For example this 5-tube pack has a Tin/Lead solder with a no-clean flux at about $10/tube. Squirt a little in the connector before you shove the cable in and it saves you the...

I read you on the easy/cheap/"good-eough" points. I have a few compression-type that I keep in my truck should I have a cable problem, but in 15 years I've only ever used them to help others who had the clamp-type fail on them. I'd personally caution that they are not "fool-proof", and much of...

I measured this morning, the holes in the ends are about 3' (36") from the back of the slave port. Again, probably enough to go to the batteries, but not enough to go to the bus on the firewall (not that I'd recommend that anyway).

It should also be noted that you aren't guaranteed a good contact with the entire cross-section of the cable with a nut-compression fitting. I have trouble shot many car stereos in my day, and most of the cars that have or had compression/camp-on fittings had bad heat marks around the...

If it's not tinned copper, and oil/water/temperature rated, I'll pass. I'm dead set on UL 1426 Marine Primary or Type-W Mining wire for my automotive projects.

I recall the cables being about 2' (24") long, I can measure tonight, or you can shoot clitogf a PM. Should be enough to go to the batteries, but I don't think it'll make it to the bus bars.