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Sad day this week for me, let "Kenny" go to a new caretaker. I couldn't watch it drive away but the new owner, a Marine, currently assigned to Marine 1 sure was happy. Hoping he enjoys it as much as I did.....

A couple of pics of the trip. 760 miles with zero drama. You can see how happy the deuce was behind my 5 Ton.

Getting the truck ready to tow bar down to NC. Any thoughts on special prep for a 700 mile tow?

Took a ride out to Doghead's for a little shakedown. About 55 miles each way. No problems ran perfect. Very happy. Even got DH to drive me around Lake Ontario for a while. All in all a very good day. Also thanks to DH I have the new air pressure gauge I needed.

Now that I have run it, I had a problem with the 150 psi safety valve popping off, but the gauge only indicating 70 psi. Seemed like an easy fix, the safety valve must be bad. I had another one so I swapped it out quick, and......that wasn't it. So I picked up a new air governor, that was the...

It lives! I got the new #5 line and it worked like a charm. All gears are working. Good brakes and a nice clutch. Very happy day today. Even got work done on the 1009 too. Now ow that I am happy and a defective product has been replaced I will say that TMJ Murray took very good care of me and...

I called the vendor on here that I bought the line from. Said I am not the first customer to complain of the same issue with the number 5 line. They have already put a new one in the mail for me, no problem even though I bought it in September last year. Hopefully when I get home from work...

Nope. The rad was like new. I needed to get the fuel tank boiled clean. I would have done both if I could have found one.

We found the problem. Using a brand new injector line on #5 and the ferrule must have slid off during install. Because it was not preset like a used line would be it was impossible to tell. It it is vitally important to maintain constant down pressure during the initial tightening. Very...

Well got the tank cleaned out best I could and reinstalled it. Got everything hooked up and primed and fired it up. Ran great. Took a little spin around the yard and the hydraulic head is leaking at almost every fuel line. Ugh. Got to figure out what I did wrong.

Haven't had much time lately. Still trying to find a radiator shop in my area with a boil tank.

Thanks George, yes without Gimp's advice allowing me some confidence to tear in, well not sure if I would have gotten anywhere near done. Def gotta get the fuel tank boiled out so I can get away from the can under the truck :)

Well now that its running (YAY!) off of a outside fuel source I still have to pull the fuel tank (its got over an inch of what I can only describe as road tar mixed with super glue), go through the brakes, adjust the idle figure out the low air pressure, fix a leak in the heater core, etc...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-V9tK9SGx0&feature=youtu.be It LIVES!!!!!!!

Also, to solve the "cam over" effect found in the IP when timing it to the engine, I came up with this little set-up. I slid the gear and spacer around the socket, lined up the timing marks and then just set the gear in and the spacer and tightened it up. Worked great!

Well, now that I made it back from the Georgia rally and was re-energized to get to work, I got everything all buttoned up, and NOTHING.......In tank pump is not working. Making noise, but no action. Picked up a 24V pump from NAPA, I'll try it out tomorrow. Also appears I may have to drop and...

That was lunch. Dinner with my wife was outstanding!

Well the new pump arrived today. Hopefully everything will start going in tomorrow. Today is my anniversery so it has to wait a day. Comes already set with the FDC bypassed and a new O ring. Wish me luck!

So with some very capable coaching (Thanks Gimp!) and my older son's help, we got it apart last night. Looks like the whole pump is old, and original. With all of the possible leak points in these, I decided to just spring for a new one. Found a nice depot rebuild in so I popped for it. Get...

I used a mirror to snap these, this is about as good as it gets.