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What type of alcohol or fluid are you or should you put in your alcohol evaporator? Also is it hard on the seals and oting to use it? I keep reading that the alcohol will deteriorate things.
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Alcohol evaporator
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What model truck and does it have abs?
clydizzel
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I have an m923a2 with abs
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The drier has a 24v heating element to take the place of alcohol. Does yours have a bottle as only the older non abs original brakes had them?
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Yes i still have a bottle by the drivers tire and it has an on off valve on it
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I think your talking about the ether bottle for cold start. It's about the size of a spray can, mounted upside-down, above the drivers front tire.
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Negative i have a white plastic bottle mounted in front of the front drivers tire. My ether is on the firewall. So im 100% sure its not the ether
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Well that's new to me. ... I don't have that on mine.
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looks like this but its installed behind the tire on the frame
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My m923 also still had it. The original non abs brake trucks had it. When the trucks where changed to abs, they did away with the alcohol system since they installed a drier with a heater. Sloppy installs did not go back and remove it. There was a line going to the compressor and I think the other one to the air governor on some scrap non abs trucks I have seen. I would think you should have nothing hooked up to it.
I am not positive as I live in the sub tropics
with no real "winter" experience but I thought alcohol was not compatible with drier/heater systems.
I am not positive as I live in the sub tropics
with no real "winter" experience but I thought alcohol was not compatible with drier/heater systems.
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It might work once........
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Hopefully the truck is still equiped with a fire extinguisher.....
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So mine should have been removed when it was upgraded with abs
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Yes, I would think so. Just to be clear, mine is bolted to the driver's side engine block close to the firewall.
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I have one of those mounted on my M109A3 (multifuel). I never filled it with anything so I don't know how well they work. I thought about taking it off and putting it on my more driven M35A2, but I never have. I don't drive it much at all in the winter because of the salt. Only a little low range trips around the neighborhood drifting it around in the snow. So I never have experienced any icing up of my air system.
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The alcohol snifters work good, and they came with the Arctic Kits, that had the fuel heaters in them. That's all I have ever used. To answer the question, heavy truck shops will have stuff called "Air Line Antifreeze". Its about the same as "Heet" that is put in gas tanks (and is interchangeable with it), but it has a slight colored dye in it that will allow one to find air leaks better. Using it in conjunction with a drier defeats the purpose of the drier.