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5 years? Sheesh, I bet 1/2 the country's vehicles are riding on tires over 5 years old. Another step towards “the wussification of America”

Seems financially counter productive to replace $10,000 worth of tires on a truck that is only “occasionally driven”. Are the people...

I would be happy with one like the 60s and 70s with a standard cab, 4×4,long bed with a V8 and 4 speed manual.

All good points, still it is curious that it is always the left side that fails. I will check the alignment out when my crazy summer...

WOW! Totally not what I expected to see after looking at the remains of that bearing! I can't see how even a dropped bearing from the...

This is strictly a guess on my part, and in no way is meant as a criticism, but I think I see your problem. Part of it at least. The...

For the inner race to still be intact, you either have a broken shaft inside there somewhere, or a bearing was dropped during assembly...

I am thinking along the same lines, the FEL does look a bit wonky. I did think to get it on a level surface to check height on either...

Please post a photo of the bucket and curl cylinders. Chineesium steel is always suspect. However, I have done some really sketchy...

Inspection and flush at a bare minimum. Something moved or broke to release the inner race. Something has been ground up to make all the...

Not sure what that is from, but in my book it would warrant an immediate tear down. That is a lot of debris to have any any gearbox and...

PS. Please post info on the after market cylinders you are using.

Do you still have the original bolt on bucket? I replaced mine with a quick attach setup, but I didn't install a torsion bar between...

Go to my web site here: Harnerfarm Jinma 284 The first document has a pretty good drawing of the clutch mechanism on page 29. It also...

Is your battery loosing charge while it sits? Have you done a load test on the battery? I know you said it was new, but it just might be...