Recent content by nuclearbeef

I might be at Windsock for the 70 meet and greet. You going?

Jonathon, I have that window. It is on the silver Troopy you got the 3B out of. It's yours if we can figure how to get it to you from Memphis. John

I've run a few thousand gallons of jet-A through a direct injected 7.3 in a 2001 F-250, all in its first 100k miles. Never mixed any additives into the jet-A. Never had any problems. Closing in on 300k miles and still on 7 of the 8 original injectors. Purely anecdotal of course. Could be I...

Turns out that most all of my gear oil had migrated to the transmission. Speedo gear melting caused me to investigate and (hopefully) avoid catastrophic x-fer case damage!

About a mile from home returning from a 150 mile trip, my Speedo quit working. Upon investigating, I found the problem.

Just curious since I drive a Troopy, but have never driven a P/U (ute) what your impressions are of the differences behind the wheel.

Here's what I did. https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/backup-cameras.1213382/post-13191629

I got death wobble on my Troopy after replacing springs and bushings. I didn't replace the pins, but cleaned the corrosion off of them. I guess the corrosion was keeping them tight in the old bushings, but after cleaning them there was just enough play to cause death wobble. I installed new...

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I had the same symptoms. One of the return springs in one of the rear drums had fallen off and was loose in the drum. New springs and new pads solved the issues.

Yes, normal. It should begin with higher volts, then drop to lower volts after a time determined by coolant temp. It should do this regardless of whether you turn the ignition to "start". The design is to push high volts to the glow plugs before starter engagement. Then when it switches to...

Sounds like it is working kinda like it should, only the high volt glow cycle should probably remain on a little longer. But, even at -12c, mine only stayed on for 4 seconds before changing to low volt glow.

Jonathan, You are welcome to the windshield frame off of the silver Troopy. (the one you took the 3B out of) I'm not sure it's any better than the one you are trying to fix, but maybe the bad sections of each will be in different places. And the price is right; free!...

Here's my 3b Troopy a few years ago. Got down to +1 F during the night. I went out after lunch and started it. It was +12 F outside. No fuel additives. Did not plug in the block heater. It has a 24v starter and that does make a difference.

Takes me back...