Recent content by Don1357

I briefly crawled underneath but could not spot anything amiss with the naked eye. Which honestly, it doesn't say much... These guys were gone by my army days but I recognize the overbuilt construction, I'm hoping that front end alignment/wheel balancing would cure it. If anything I'm sure they...

Near Denver. If somebody could suggest a mechanic to diagnose it would be helpful. Everything looks great, it does leak oil here and there but nothing terrible nor puddling forming. I wanted to test cruising speed at 45mph but once it went past 40 the front just starting shaking left and right...

The 230 is an industrial motor built for low RPM, high torque applications. Because of the low RPM rage, there was no need to even balance the engine; it was supposed to say bellow what, 2,600rpm? I would imagine that if you attempt to fiddle the governor to allow for a higher RPM, reaching said...

Yeah... As I said I'm a newbie at these, so the numbers are not ingrained in my mind just yet. But as I mentioned to the other poster that actually makes the math work on my favor. Another question I have is how much performance can be had from the stock engine just by building it better? Just...

Got the wrong number filed on my brain :-\. Which is good, because from 5.88 to 4.88, the speed gain for the same RPM would be a bit over 8 1/2 mph. If my math is not failing me, a 5.88:1 geared rig traveling at 45mph, would travel at 53.68mph. From there if a vehicle traveling at 53.68mph on...

About half that :D I would like to stay pretty close to stock. To me (the ignorant newbie) it seems the the real issue is not the differentials, but an unbalanced low RPM engine that is prone to get mighty pissed if pushed at high RPM for long. So phase one would be to go 4.88:1. That lets...

Which I see going for the low-low price of $600 per set (sadly American, not Canadian, plus shipping), that, plus seals, bearings, gear oil, (and somebody that actually knows how to set backlash/preload adjustment) should let me regear one of these green puppies? That assumes that the Canadian...