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Trust me rusty, I've had fantasies about a road flare in the fuel tank many times. As satisfying as that would be for a little while, it wouldnt get me any further down the road. When I get to pulling the hubs back apart I'll ditch thr cork and just use RTV

Jeepsinker- the trip from Alaska was just over 5000. That took June-September. Since getting to Nc I spent a month at JRTC. The rest of the time my daily commute has been around 5 miles. Also looked at my first recorded fill up, and Im at 8980 since then. The original cork plug is still in...

Made a disheartening discovery today. After only about 1000 miles the first hub that I had replaced bearings, races, seals, and all brake components on started to leak again. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. As the bearings wear in will they become looser and need to be tightened to set the...

upper end is new, lower end is "good used"

I'll give simple green a try. looking at the parts houses, anywhere from 3-500 per head, now to dig through the classifieds to see if anyone is selling some cheaper. I was going to do the motorcycle thing, but I will have to get back to Alaska to get the endorsement on my license

I was looking at a little 1969 CJ-5 at the lemon lot the other day. When I looked underneath it I had a sudden urge to buy it just so I could work on something that small and light. I'm not overly upset at the progress I am making, Just way slower than anything I have worked on before. Red...

Got up this morning and headed over to the Auto Skills shop to get some work done. By the time I got into the only bay I could fit in and set up to start work I had about 5 and a half hours to work. Turns out that is exactly how long I needed to get one wheel done. I am going through each hub...

You know tracer when I realized what she had done I envisioned the bumper hanging off dragging on the ground and all kinds of carnage. To my surprise I couldn't even find a scratch. All I can figure is she cranked the wheel full lock, backed up and caught the ladder with the tread of the tire...

Well I got off work a bit early today and thought it would be a great time to head over to the Auto Skills shop on post. I got there about 1530 and they close at 8. My plan was to rebuild hubs, starting with the rear axle and work forward. I thought I could get through at least one axle today no...

I am pretty much done in processing, and will be reporting to my unit on Monday. I am not sure how this will affect my ability to work on the problems. I went by the Auto Skills shop today (I don't think the camp ground would be happy with me doing major maintenance in one of their RV spots) and...

I certainly agree this thing should have been mounted on a 5 ton. The Deuce can handle it on the flat just fine, but even there it is really pushing its limitations. I am waiting for the day that some one stops to talk to me and says, hey thats an old ERDlator, I used to drive one of those. I...

One of the hubs has new bearings and seats which is what the seal seals to. When I pull the. Apart I will inspect them thoroughly, see if there are any burs or gouges. The box is original to the truck. It was a water filtration unit commonly called an ERDLator. The link is to some info on it...

I one go out before I left, a different one go out in Canada, both of those and one more went out when I was almost to Bragg. Possibly how I am assembling them?

Makes me wonder how heavy this thing was with the filtration equipment and water treatment chemicals loaded up. No way it was within its max gross weight. Possibly why there are so few around. I would like to drop a few thousand pounds off of his back. Some rough beer math, i figure there is...

Well lots of stuff to work on. Was getting ready to head up to Va to visit my brother and his family. Going through my prerun checks, went to check the tire pressures. One of my inner duals nolonger has a valve stem. Found a place intown that will fix that for me tomorrow. Got my empty and...

Its Alive..... Got the transmission today, had to chase it all over northern California but we ended up with it a day before the scheduled delivery date. Got it installed and everything buttoned up. Took it for a short test run this evening and everything seems to be in order. Will do a longer...

ah that makes perfect sense and would probably get more even grease into the bearings.

having to wait on the transmission kinda turned out to be a good thing. It pushed us to do a lot of projects we would have otherwise pushed off till later. The ladder came from an RV shop up in Alaska. It is meant for a drop in camper for a pickup bed. they make them in a bunch of different...

Here is a picture of the box closed up with my ladder folded ready for the road. Got the brakes all done today. Man they feel so much better now. The master cylinder when in with a remote reservoir kit. To be honest bleeding brakes is probably the job that I despise more than about anything...

where would you put the relief valve on them?