Recent content by LCA078

It's not uncommon for folks to paint their canvas to "new" again. lots of folks use RAPCO Parts paint or even stuff at big box stores. search for RAPCO in the forum's search bar and read to your heart's content. here's RAPCO's website https://store.rapcoparts.com/index.html For just a door...

While this may or may not apply to your problem, one trick I've done with noisy bearings in pulleys and tensioners is to shoot a bit of grease into them and they quiet down a lot. You still have to take the pulley or tensioner off the engine then drill a small hole in the bearing's shield and...

That sucks. But I think a push button gp controller is the right way to go to be functional yet simple.

In the -10, look at Appendix G, section G-3. LUBRICATION INTERVALS. Lots of good info about all the different lube points and intervals. And of course the military makes it confusing because you have to scroll pretty much to the end to find the exact line about the crankcase oil: "Have oil...

Agreed- dino oil is good for our trucks. Today's dino oils, or the additives really, are better than what was available when our engine was designed 40+? years ago. And agree with Coug that getting rid of the nasty stuff in the oil is really what matters as opposed to the oil breaking down in...

Yeah, that's a pretty bad noise- even for us seasoned folk.

That thing looks like a golf club!

and to keep it off topic a bit longer..... My first job in the military was as an avionics/navigation radio repair tech working in the back shops. The hangar techs (the spark-chasers) would troubleshoot the radio on the aircraft first, and if it was verified bad, they would pull it and send it...

Ok, getting back on the topic of random noises, I'm glad that KKroger got his squeal figured out. That would drive me bananas too. I know it's been covered before, but I believe the exhaust heat shields on these things were purposefully designed to make noise. When I first received my...

I have it too. I even called the VA disability hotline for tinnitus but nobody answered. It just kept ringing.

God help the LT or CPT that tries to fight the WOPA. Note I said 'tries'. Bad ju-ju. So bad....

All hail the WOPA!

Back in the day when I was at Ft Rucker, we were training on goggles flying nights in the dead of winter. After a long night flight, we landed and were one of the last crews buttoning up our TH-67 (Bell Jet Ranger) when I kept hearing a very faint 'tink tink tink' when we would move the blades...

A good time to fold your mirrors.... https://www.tiktok.com/@pilotwife3/video/7247989751343631658

The other crazy part about mirrors on a military vehicle is that no matter when I get in a MV and put it in reverse, I instinctively do two short honks on the horn before looking in any mirror. And then I only use the mirrors to look for the ground guide...not anything around me. With my...