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For all those reasons, 🤔 and my own thoughts. My M37 case used gear oil and it's still going 60 years later. My HumV transfer case will be a guinea pig test truck a tax right off. Get some baseline temp measurements and the whine (which has been a noise coming from ?) and then switch to...
Just kicking this around the shop.... Transfer case aluminum ATF... Iron case gear oil. Like the OP said, gears is gears. Those transfer cases do seem a bit sloppy. Now the automatic transmission that's another story with it's clutches, and control valves. Gear oil in there and it's a brick...
A rule of thumb is that if the case is cast iron, use a gear oil, or in the case of the np203, you need to use 30wt motor oil. Aluminium case Dextron lll.
Next under the truck drain and fill.... as an experiment I think I will bypass the cooler and swap some fluids. Looking too see if it...
I like the way you think on the transfer case. 🤔 Never used ATF in any of the transfer cases till the HumV show up. OEM guys are going to have something to say.
All 👂's.
Thinking outside the box (y) Gearbox, CAMO
It's the short service time that worries me too. Yes, HUMV's require one to be on top of all the parts. With all the knock off parts in circulation, it pays to pay a bit more and not having to do it over again. This is why a REAL good going over after receiving a 25 plus old truck is...
Somebody say Camotek ??? My ears were starting to burn LOL. Yep, the paint jobs can be a bit sloppy. The over spray is a light killer on the plastic lens. All of them. Having new ones is a BIG difference. Doesn't matter incandescent or LED. What you did to clear (pun) up the problem is...
Rivnuts great in many application. Try these clip nuts. No special tool, just up size the hole a little. slips / locks right in. Get the heavy duty ones and check your edge distance to reach the hole.
In this application... perrrfect. The cats meow, CAMO
Not so much pinched or cut... but there are contact areas (small button) that when the windshield is up, come together. Age, rotting rubber and corrosion work at making for a bad connection. Many owners never see them or lower the windshield.
Couple of these... connectors (top and bottom)...
Thank you Bulldogger for the write up. Glad to here you got the bad ones swapped out. Run out there in your PJ's tonite and test them.
That would be a sight to see... LOL, CAMO Camoteksystems.com
YOU are absolutely RIGHT for all the reasons stated & 14ga wire too. The HMMWV "RUN" position is typically about 2 Amps. The "START" position about 6.5 Amps to pull in the solenoid, then the holding winding / contacts do the rest.
The switch I posted and it's rating of 70 inductive Amp is...
That free print is incomplete missing the last page. Neutral safety switch is in series with the "START" position. Stock military switch at "RUN" is rated at 20 Amp, 30 volts. Start position the same with 70 Amps inductive load.
IMO... and it's free, I would be VERY concern as to the...
Return lines headaches.
Here's the POOP from my experience on the fancy, green or black, no clips, slip on, with a woven outer jacket, general web sites kits or bulk lengths. At first this magic hose seemed to work (but I had my doubts) Give it a year or two and the leaks will show up. The...
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