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The "Pioneer Toolkit" (shovel, pick-mattock, axe, saw, telescoping loppers) is always on board, in my opinion. At the very least because if you take this truck on trails, you end up having to trim lots of low-hanging branches, fill ruts you leave, etc.
Finally made new shockcords for the cargo cover. The old ones lasted about 4-5 years, but were slowly failing. The collars are pretty hard to press onto the shockcord hooks, so I had to design a special tool.
Picture is hard to tell, but crappy looking welds are often the result of contamination or poor shielding. Be sure to grind/wire brush all the paint and rust off the metals before you weld them. If your welder has a shielding gas bottle, be sure it's turned on and adjusted properly, and if...
It means that the truck is designed to withstand a High Altitude ElectroMagnetic Pulse (HAEMP). One of the secondary methods of nuclear attack is to detonate the missile high in the atmosphere, not on the ground like in an attack designed for physical destruction. The resulting EMP is then able...
I don't have one of those inline heaters on my LMTV. I once had one on a K5 Blazer, because it was easier to install than trying to take the exhaust manifolds off to get to the freeze plugs. It worked ok.
On the CAT 3116 engine, the freeze plug you need to remove is very accessible. In fact...
Technically yes, though I think sometimes the term "coolant heater" is used more specifically to refer to the style that goes inline in the radiator hose, thus heating the coolant mainly. These block heaters replace one of the freeze plugs in the block, hence the name "block heater", but they...
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