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Tech Tips: September 2019 Edition

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

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Tech Tips: August 2019 Edition

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Motor vehicle transmissions may be divided into two basic types: manual and automatic. There are three basic types of manual transmissions: the sliding gear, the planetary, and the friction disk, though the sliding-gear type — such as this three-speed — is the most common today, and is what most people think of when manual transmissions are mentioned.

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

HMV Transmission Basics

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Engine stopped while you are in the field? Don’t worry—it’s usually one of two things: Fuel or spark. This article will show you the steps to diagnose and, hopefully, repair your vehicle so that you can get back on the road! Photo courtesy of The Furious Fourth WWII Living History Group

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Did you just roll to a stop? No problem!

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Just about any barn find is trailerable, and many barn finds are towable, while a few can actually be driven home after fairly simple preparation. However, sometimes what is towable or trailerable (and maybe should be) is transformed in the field into drivable.

Discovering a 'barn find?'

By Steve Turchet
Nov 14, 2019

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Tech Tips: June 2019 Edition

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Bendix drive starters such as this Prestolite, (as well as many made by Autolite) were fitted to Willys MB and Ford GPW jeeps, the GTB Burma Jeep, as well as most International and Studebaker vehicles. Bendix drive starters also went in and out of fashion on CJ-2s, CJ-3As, CJ-3Bs, CJ-5s, and most Ford cars and trucks well into the 1960s.

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Starting Something

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

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Tech Tips: March 2019

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Experience may be the best teacher, but it’s often a hard way to learn and requires being lucky enough to survive the mistakes you make. My first experience with air brakes was in a U7144T similar to this. My truck was a closed cab model. It had a Hercules RXC 529-CID gasoline engine, a five-speed non-syncro transmission with 5th gear overdrive, a two-speed transfer-case, and an early style air-brake system with a mechanical parking brake.

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Air Brake Basics

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

One of the most common reasons a parking brake won’t hold is that the mechanism that applies the brake — the handle or lever in the driver’s compartment, and/or its connecting linkage — is worn-out, broken, or out-of-adjustment.

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Hold it in place!

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Tech Tips: More Bleeding, No Bandages

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Tech Tips - December 2016

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Tech Tips

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

MV maintenance: It’s time to spring ahead!

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

MV Tech Tips with Steve Turchet

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Complete diagram

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Transfer Case Basics

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Tech Tips - December 2015

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

The first question you should ask yourself if considering the purchase of a HMMWV is, why do you want one? Do you want it to restore for shows? Are you a “user” who wants one for its off-road capabilities? Or, do you want one because it will be the biggest and baddest SUV on your block?

4. 1 to 2-ton Vehicles (M715s,CUCVs, HMMWVs, GTBs, G-506s, etc.)

HMMWVS in the Hobby - Part II: Buying tips

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

The cooling systems of most common HMVs have three basic parts: 1) A water jacket cast into the engine block that surrounds each cylinder with liquid. 2) A radiator where most of the heat from the water is transferred into the air as it flows through the radiator core. This air is either pulled or pushed by the engine’s fan at low speeds or when the vehicle is stationary. or is forced through when the vehicle is driving down the road. 3) A water pump, which is the heart of the cooling system. The pump circulates water through the engine block, where it picks up heat, and then pushes the hot water through the radiator tubes where the heat is transferred into the air. The cycle is completed when the cooled water—which has given up its heat to the air—is pulled back into the engine for another go-around.

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Don’t blow your lid. Stay cool...

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

Tech Tips with Steve Turchet

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

2. Quarter Ton Vehicles (Jeeps, etc.)

It's a MUTT! Background and History

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

2. Quarter Ton Vehicles (Jeeps, etc.)

M151 Maintenance: The jeep's no mugrul — it's a MUTT!

By Steve Turchet
Nov 13, 2019

While many of us in the old car hobby dream of stumbling across a dusty but otherwise all-original vehicle in a barn, it’s a very rare occurrence. That is not to say that it doesn’t happen.

Restoration and Maintenance Tips

Bringing home a 'barn find'

By Steve Turchet
Nov 14, 2019

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