What have you done to your 5 ton this week?

Coffey1 said:

Looks like you gelded your stallion this week too.

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Pulled the exhaust manifold, heater box, air intake, rocker box, and everything else in the way so I can remove the last head in preparation of replacing the #5 cylinder liner. Not to bad but the Texas heat is a killer.

This week I finally got my 24 volt LED cab lights mounted the way I wanted them on that narrow strip over the windshield. And this evening I redid my bumper and clevis's. While I liked the bumper numbers on there.....I was not at all a fan of the tan colored paint in big ugly rectangles. It was like that on the front bumper, and the tail gate. So I repainted both locations. Took plenty of pictures of the bumper numbers in case I decide to recreate them later.. But it looks SOOOOO much better now with the bumper painted nice, smooth perfect camo.




Okay, while I'm having fun with GIF animations:

Getting the equipment ready for a big rental. 2 APC's, 3 923's and the Chieftain. Rentals have been slow. A new customer.

MyothersanM1 said:

Continuing the air brake saga. Old brakes...off. New brakes...on. Ready for hubs, drums and axles to go back on. See the progress in posts 33-36 below...
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?140055-M809-series-(M818-Air-Brake-Retrofit/page4

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You've done as much work in that thread as you've done on the truck. Nice write up. That thread doesn't pertain to me but it's been a good read all the same. There's a lot of good general brake information in there.

Swamp Donkey said:

You've done as much work in that thread as you've done on the truck. Nice write up. That thread doesn't pertain to me but it's been a good read all the same. There's a lot of good general brake information in there.

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Thanks! It's been quite the haul. Luckily those backing plate rivets are done The plumbing will be tedious, but not hard. The front brakes will just be a swap with the drums/hubs being the only heavy part.

I gave my fuel canister a soak in muratic acid, painted it, installed new brake lines and a new fuel filter. Alas, she won't restart. See my help thread here: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?140897-NHC-250-No-start-fuel-problem

sed6 said:

I gave my fuel canister a soak in muratic acid, painted it, installed new brake lines and a new fuel filter. Alas, she won't restart. See my help thread here: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?140897-NHC-250-No-start-fuel-problem

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Get a screw on filter kit.. Cheap, and worth not having all the bravo sierra to deal with.

Mine was a rusty ole mess....

TechnoWeenie said:

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Get a screw on filter kit.. Cheap, and worth not having all the bravo sierra to deal with.

Mine was a rusty ole mess....

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Where and part numbers please??

swbradley1 said:

Where and part numbers please??

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I built mine..

Build list is in this tread somewhere...

4770/24770 filter head (x2) , about $25 a piece
A couple 1/2" NPT x nipples
1/2" shutoff valve
had to make the compression to barbed nipple adapter

swbradley1 said:

Where and part numbers please??

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I think I have a small pile of those barbed fittings, depends on ID of hose buts
looks like 1/2" IPS on the threaded side.

If you are not in an area that uses road salt the steel nipples will be fine
but if you are in a salt area I would go w/ solid brass nipples everywhere.


Good job!

Artisan said:

I think I have a small pile of those barbed fittings, depends on ID of hose buts
looks like 1/2" IPS on the threaded side.

If you are not in an area that uses road salt the steel nipples will be fine
but if you are in a salt area I would go w/ solid brass nipples everywhere.


Good job!

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Do NOT use zinc/galvanized... use black/brass ONLY.

The diesel will eat the coating, and you'll have crap lodging in filters...

Well I finally got to work on my beast so I changed one of the air lines that had a leak, I figured out the wiring problem with the transfer case solenoid and pulled a pile of wires out from under my truck that went nowhere. Now we can shift from high to low and it doesn't look like a birds nest hanging from under the truck anymore

Loaded sod, and more sod!

We started getting some of the dents a dings out of her today.

My hard top was about to be a convertible so I removed front glass cut out as much cancer as I could and mocker up some 2" angle between top of windshield frame and roof Major improvement Ill need to rebuild entire perimeter of hard top and theres some spots getting real thin on top Suggestions ???.
Also gonna try and incorporate a steel sun visor off the front of the roof
What gage sheet metal would u guys suggest??
PS I hate drilling holes in steel

Paint job.
Tan to 383 green using the Behr marquee.
18 year old girl at HD found the color and had me paint in about 10 minutes.

Check with Westfolk, he makes a nice dual spin-on fuel filter unit for the 5-tons as well as the Deuce...

That is a nice looking paint job. Did you do a lot of surface prep?