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Actually if you were happy with the stall the engine to turn it off, all you would have to do is remove the shut down spring and arm on the fuel solenoid.
Course the bad thing, if it was in gear and the parking brake did not hold, the engine would be running after it made a few revolutions.
Course the bad thing, if it was in gear and the parking brake did not hold, the engine would be running after it made a few revolutions.
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Actually if you were happy with the stall the engine to turn it off, all you would have to do is remove the shut down spring and arm on the fuel solenoid.
Course the bad thing, if it was in gear and the parking brake did not hold, the engine would be running after it made a few revolutions.
Course the bad thing, if it was in gear and the parking brake did not hold, the engine would be running after it made a few revolutions.
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Preferably right into the epicenter where man and truck will be perfectly melded together
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Something tells me if nukes start flying, ground zero on round one might be the best seat to have.
With the stockpiles several countries have, living through the attack might be the worst thing that could happen to you.
Dying from radiation sickness, that ranks right up there with the worst possible ways to die in my book.
With the stockpiles several countries have, living through the attack might be the worst thing that could happen to you.
Dying from radiation sickness, that ranks right up there with the worst possible ways to die in my book.
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I just got a idea , if you knew a nuke was going to hit and you were in its radius you could put all the eletrical parts needed to start and run the truck in a microwave and they would be safe because a microwave uses radiation to cook and it is desighned not to let any out so i would thing it would not let any elctromagnetic pulses in, am i right ?
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I just got a idea , if you knew a nuke was going to hit and you were in its radius you could put all the eletrical parts needed to start and run the truck in a microwave and they would be safe because a microwave uses radiation to cook and it is desighned not to let any out so i would thing it would not let any elctromagnetic pulses in, am i right ?
Microwave ovens use electromagnetic waves. They bombard the food and the resulting molecular friction produces heat. The food effectively cooks itself. Your microwave oven is an enclosed EMP device.
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Actually if you were happy with the stall the engine to turn it off, all you would have to do is remove the shut down spring and arm on the fuel solenoid.
Course the bad thing, if it was in gear and the parking brake did not hold, the engine would be running after it made a few revolutions.
Course the bad thing, if it was in gear and the parking brake did not hold, the engine would be running after it made a few revolutions.
If your facing downhill, set the brake, and set the transmission in reverse.
If your facing uphill, set the brake, and set the transmission in a forward gear.
I remember last summer I was parked on an uphill, set the parking brake, and left it in 2nd gear...well I came back to the truck about 30 minutes later and the truck was slowly rolling backward down the driveway...one stinking engine revolution at a time.
Yep, the 6.9 didn't like turning over backwards and when it fired up it sounded kinda funny...but it worked it's way out on the drive home.
That was when I realized the wheel cylinders were leaking on my Dana 70 because my shoes must be covered in brake fluid...never opened it up to see.
I didn't wanna mess with those brakes, pulling the shafts and bearings, so I rebuilt the brakes on my spare Ford 10.25 and swapped that in...big difference with working rear brakes!
Plus, you don't have to pull that crap to service the brakes on the Ford 10.25!!