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Heres something you don't see everyday, that should be seen everyday.. http://www.dodgepowerwagonm880.com/Dodge%20WDX%20Power%20Wagon%20Dodge%20WM300%20Power%20Wagon%20military%20pictures.html

I don't trust 2 cycle to prevent gelling Though I know Mike runs just it all winter. I think. But I don't need to be as cautious as him about lube. Plus I am sure it will help starting, since I can't plug it in there. 7AM class this semester will ensure it starts at the coldest time of day :bang: Alright I gotta head out.

We got all this -5F or so crap forecasted. I wasn't keeping up with the weather until I heard -4 on the radio. Thought I was picking up a station really far away. To me, anything below 20F feels the same, I just have to look at the overhead to determine how hard it's going to be to start. I haven't started it all week but college is back in session tomorrow so I got it plugged in all day so it's week long rest will be awakened happily. Dumped in some power service, fuel around here seems to run right on the edge of gelling.

I don't know what CCD is. I know it's simple to hook up, it's the interface I don't like.

I took the stock tape player out and found a stock tape/cd player from someone and put that in. I like the simplicity of them, I don't like aftermarket ones with 5 buttons doing 50 functions.

Damn cats I played the song in that vid over a million times when I first found it. :biggrin:

I run it whenever I get a chance to get it. I run B20 also but rarely since it costs 20 cents more than regular.

I meant the radiator produces enough heat to make my overhead sensor read 60f when its only 16f outside.. This was when I was just sitting there idling.

Same thing I do to keep the pressure in the air tank.. Shut the damn valve Would have to be a big line or something. I know low volume/high pressure just forms ice crystals and whatnot, which would probably hinder the effect I want.

I was going to get a heat gun and let it blow in for a while and see how well it started but I have no idea where it walked off to. I didn't think of the heat going up thing. That intake horn was the coldest thing on the whole engine, I could only touch it for maybe 10 seconds at a time before my hands felt frostbit. Be neat to put an air hose at the top of the horn, facing straight down into the intake and have a little tank and just open a valve and let it blow down through the grids and fill the intake with hot air. It stayed up around 500f for a long time. I'd say it must have only taken 5 seconds to get it there, guess it knows to stay on and get some heat energy into more than just the grid coils. Be so easy to drill and tap an air hose into it though! :stir:

Got bored and went out and stared at the beast, being 16F out and nowhere to go I decided to get a little curious. Took the intake off and measured just how hot the grids actually got. Topped out around 500F.

I have winter fronts on and all I know is when I idled after being on the highway, it was in the teens and was radiating the heat to the overhead outdoor temp sensor. This was when the engine had been on the road for 5 hours so it was good and warm. Forgot I took my fan off. I wondered how it went from 16F to 60F

Here you go RacerDan :thumbsup: http://forum.mopar1973man.com/picture.php?albumid=30&pictureid=237 If you look up and to the left of the fan pulley, you see three bolts, that is the mount for the fan pulley, take the three bolts out and the whole mount comes off then you can get to the other timing cover bolts that the fan pulley covers up. So the only thing to wear out is the bearings in that pulley that make it spin freely.

I had to look it up too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monel

The fine people at Ford decided to put a steel rear tank and a plastic front tank on mine. That way, when the steel one rusts out (which it has) you can still get somewhere with the front one. But yeah, it has a 1/8 or 3/16" skid plate under the whole tank and it's still rusted to hell. I say get the aluminum since it will surely be pelted with road salt being far less protected than my ford's, that still rusted.Alright I read a little better, I don't think flexing is an issue, how much is a tank going to flex when it's right over the chassis.. I do think rocks and dirt and other crap can get under the tank and scratch off "rust protection" causing the steel one to leak when it finally rusts. My brother made a tank out of a regular aluminum tool box which seems to work well. I can get a pic of that if you want. But yeah, if your going to have it for any length of time, I would get aluminum.

Yeah, in the morning when the clutch is freezing the fan is so loud, without it, the engine sounds the same cold or warm. Oh, throttle response, naw I didn't notice anything. Engine has too much power to notice

You got any pics of this? I leave my fan off all year and put it back on for trailers. Electric would be nice.

My sig is my list..

Oh yeah. The possibilities are endless with water. I think Mike gets his free source shut off all winter though

Has it always been that temp? I don't really see a problem. I think mine is maybe 50F hotter, though my probe is right before the turbo, you can see the nut it screws into. If you are still having doubts, just pull the probe out and clean the black stuff off and see if it's any different. http://forum.mopar1973man.com/picture.php?albumid=19&pictureid=114

Think this topic is getting old anyways lol. That pelton wheel is basically a fancy old mill water wheel, only more efficient. Mike has some agreement with local irrigation where he gets all the water he wants for free so he runs it through the pelton to generate electricity. Think he has more pics somewheres. Heres some reading about them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelton_wheel

But which rock do we use!

Not sure if I told you the best part about it or not. This might be the funniest joke of the thread, though it wasn't a joke So I was trying to get the damn thing into the transmission splines and it wasn't going. Remember I always wait for everyone to leave because I don't like my dad or brother telling me what to do, I've seen what they drive So I'm prying and pushing and keep taking the beast back out, looking at the splines, then I figure out the engine is so damn heavy that the little chamfer or whats another word, uh, well the splines have a little beveled edge at the end so that it will align itself into the clutch and all, well I figured out I couldn't push hard enough to get the engine to push itself up over that bevel and into the clutch. So I laid under the engine, in between the legs of the cherry picker, put my legs on the bell housing and pushed as hard as I could. I had the back jacked up and put it in 5th and mom turn one of the back tires while I tried to kill myself. Finally hit and she said "the hell is wrong with this thing, it just locked up and nobody is in the truck hitting the brakes" She never helps anyone, everyone just kinda looks down on her since she doesn't know about cars at all so I always call her out to help me with some easy things and enjoy all the things she says that doesn't know any better to say.

Here you go :thumbsup:[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4D6cHLRLUk]YouTube- The Red Green Show Handy Man Corner Changing A Headlight[/ame]Damn W&F, I was avoiding yours cause I am such a slow reader, but it was worth every penny :thumbsup:

Well here being cloudy each and every day all year, you just have to judge on darkness of them. Which doesn't work half the time. I noticed when I visited Denver, clouds are only there when something is going to happen, that would be a nice change.