Lots of places will receive your goods in Sweetgrass… Montana Shipping Outlet, At the Border Storage, Montana Mailbox. Ive used all three.
There is also a service called DYK Post that will pickup your items from Montana Mailbox and bring them up to one of their various their depots. Ive...
Searching for anyone that is sharing a 3D scan or 3D model of the center control/dash insert for a 61/62. I have my own 3D printer and am looking to print a new dash insert for my personal collection of switches and such. But I am also lazy and don't want to do the hardwork of modeling the...
I have just recently re-acquired this exact tank.
I bought it in 2001 for an HJ61 I called Trippy. Sold the truck in 2003. Truck was recently retired and parted out, and I did a little bartering with the dismantler, and took it home. It had become pretty crusty over the last I 16 years. I...
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Their transmismission died catastophically with a sheared counter shaft. I hope your is just the notorious and well known and oil leak.
I had a catastrophic transmission failure on my own return trip from Alaska in 2002, caused by oil leaking from the transmission to the...
I am located in Calgary. I participated in helping the other french travellers in December! https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/hzj75-help-needed-near-calgary-ab-canada.826631/#post-9489486
Regardless, we seem to be developing a specialty here in Alberta for helping French travelers with their...
I am the culprit who goaded Lumpy70 into his heretical post re: the failure rate of the vaunted H55f. I am also in possession of numerous H55f’s, every one of them broken beyond repair for a variety of reasons. Most of them have been countershaft failures, possibly induced by front bearing...
Greetings Baxter650,
I was just made aware of your build the other day. VERY nicely done. With an avatar name of 'behemoth60'... you can probably guess that I am a fan of built 60 series.
Having built and run a 53" tired 60 series with a 'high output 3B' running lots of boost, my advice...
Popped the windshield out of Tippy this summer... haven't gotten around to replacing it yet. Before I do, thought I should investigate options other than glass for this purpose built wheeler... anyone every try plexi glass to replace the factory windshield in a 60?
Peter Straub
Definately an air bubble.
Generally, when the stock gauges lie to you, both the fuel and temp gauge lie together. i.e. the temp will read hotter than normal, and the fuel will read higher than it really is. This usually happens to me on road trips... the fuel gauge doesn't seem to go down...
A SOA on stock height springs *without* rotating the front axle is possible if you have a 5 speed or a long 4 speed (i.e., the spacer to make it the same length as a 5 speed). You need to ensure there is a double cardan on the t-case side of the front drive shaft, and you'll need to trim about...
Yes, I am but one of several Tough Trail victims.
Would you believe that all the doors still open and close nicely. In fact, the front passenger door used to be sticky, but now it works better than ever! Can't roll up the window, though. And of course, those safari snorkels, being made...
Negatory Brother! The legendary strength of 60 series lids hold up fine to flops under 1,800lbs of 53" tires. The result, however, is just slightly beyond the capability of the buffing wheel to fix, so now I am looking at new top/door options.
Peter Straub
seperating a birfield from an axle in the field is easy. Assemling a birflield onto an axle shaft with the spring clip is more difficult.
Look-up 'Marlin Tack'. It is the solution to avoid the need for the spring clip on the axle. It won't work, however, with a factory electric or cable...
Clearly, we're not going to find concensus on this. I agree that more torque is required to accellerate a heavy tire at the same rate as a lighter tire, but the torque doesn't come from the tire, it comes, in a long and round about path from the driver's right foot, which, in a surprisingly...
That really has nothing to do with an axle shaft.
Aha! Torque. That's a better answer. But torque doesn't come form a heavy tire. It comes from your engine/drive train.
If you're making 10,000ft-lb of torque, and use apply it through 110lb irok, how is this different than applying...
Usually about 70% tread left. They are usually retired by the miltary due to having a cut in them or something. Not enough of a problem for a guy like me, but any excuse to put new tires on an APC, I guess. Plus, they are re-groovable. I've regrooved a few, and other than being slightly...