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I will have to do that next time I change the oil, which might be quite awhile from now. I won't put 3k miles on this truck in 3 years...

I held a piece of cardboard up there, it still got all over the exhaust but that doesn't bother me too much. However you do it there will be a mess. My drain pan wasn't big enough either. I didn't know the truck holds 11.5 gallons including both filters. Let's just say I am glad I wasn't on...

If anyone has thoughts of putting an AirDog or FASS fuel pump on your truck, DON'T HESITATE. The NTC400 runs MUCH stronger with it. Just the addition of an electric lift pump would probably help, but I had parted out a Dodge 3500 truck that had one on it so I used it on this. I also did a...

Getting ready for the Denton rally I threw an exhaust pipe on the truck, new 10' section of 5" pipe was only $67 so I used it and a section of the old pipe to run it straight piped out in front of the passenger tire. I have got to say it sounds GREAT, especially when using the jake! Also...

Yes, VERY hard to find. I kind of lucked into finding this one. A friend told me about some forklifts he was watching and said there was a trailer there so I got online and looked it over. I have talked with guys from Holden Equipment a couple times, they have been pretty helpful. I am going...

Bought me a trailer to haul the M548's on! I will have to build ramps as they are missing, I also have 5 tires/wheels I am taking with me when I go to pick it up. It is a Holden MTO20 Engineering Equipment Trailer (EET). Rated to haul 20k lbs.

I got the cab/hood home last week. When I bid I thought it was a M915a2 cab, it turned out to be a M915a3. The differences: A2 uses tachograph (of which I have a brand new one-I liked that about it because it was easily adaptable to the NTC400) A3 has a separate tach/speedo, this will be fine...

I have been wanting one of the new style cabs (freightliner) to put on my M920, but every time they came up they always went for way more than I wanted to spend ($2k on the low end except for one oddball that went about $1300), some have gone over $4k. Got lucky today and got the only one out...

Maybe I use my wrecker more than most, but running a noisy 855ci engine is 2nd on the list of things I hate about my M936 (first is the gutless nhc250). Even if the pony motor is only for hydraulics and no generator it is still something I would rather have than running a 400hp engine to run a...

It does burn a lot of fuel. I think the NHC250 burns 4 gallons an hour at idle (seems I read that somewhere?), the NTC400 would be very similar to that I am sure. That is at IDLE. I know I put ALOT of diesel in my M936 and I really don't drive it that much. I use the crane quite a bit.

I mounted the outrigger foot plate brackets today on the bottom of the toolboxes. Seemed like a good idea at the time but not sure I really like them there. The holes lined up with the holes on the boxes so it meant I only needed to enlarge two holes and drill two (on each box). The 'foot' is...

My other thought was to get a MEP-802a and mount it on one side, it would stick out slightly past the tires but would not make the truck over 102". That would give plenty of quiet power, not sure if I could adapt a hydraulic pump onto it though. If the generator head is solid mounted and not...

http://www.surpluscenter.com/Engines/Diesel-Engines/26-4-HP-PERKINS-403D-11-DIESEL-ENGINE-28-1835.axd Wonder how well and engine like that would run the hydraulics? I have a guy wanting to trade me one for some tires. I am just afraid 16hp at 1800 rpm's won't be enough?

I really prefer to run a gas/diesel pump. I would hate to think I HAD to have a 3 phase generator just to run hydraulics. If it would run on 11th it would be great.

Haha, look a few pages in and there is another picture of him. He is only about 100lbs, just a lot of hair and he is tall. We give him about 2 cups a day of good quality grain - free food. Plus he is our dishwasher too.

Yea that was a thought as well (electric pump), but i am not sure I could find a pump that a ~5th electric motor could run that would run the hydraulics. The boxes are for the newer m916's. I bought them off of GL, I sold 4 and kept 4. A friend would probably sell 1-2 of his for ~$300 each...

Trying to think of a good way to run the hydraulics off a pony motor instead of having to run the truck engine every time I want to use the crane. I have talked with a guy that has a near new ~19hp 3 cylinder Perkins Diesel out of a small excavator, trying to figure out if it would be enough to...

Got a couple toolboxes mounted and the exhaust relocation started, I will probably remove the heat shield off the muffler as it won't really be needed. I was able to use 3 existing frame holes on each side of the frame which was nice. Driver side box is less than an inch from the fuel tank so...

I thought about container locks, but the problems: 1:S280 does not have container locks 2: I plan to have a pass-through from the cab to the box (the door on S280 will be removed and framed to go from cab to box), so that would require more work to make it removable. I don't really plan to use...

guess I will have to figure out something else if that is the case, I'll make somewhere to attach them