I'm not going to get into all of the particulars, as you can see there is nothing I can say that will be accepted. The leakage appeared to be coming out around the posts. Suffice it know that the correct batteries were chosen and my vehicles are treated with great care. The van is now 42 years old and still in excellent condition.
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NCL4701
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L4701, T2290, WC68, grapple, BB1572 box scrape, Howes 500, 16kW IMD gen, WG24
Not getting into the battery issues on the thread, but have to say your van is in incredible condition for age and model. The vast majority of that vintage van were used, abused, and beat to death as quickly as practical. Been a LONG time since I’ve seen one nearly that clean. Very nice!
Yes, nice van! And that is what my original battery inn my Kubota just did.....I noticed it was wet around the positive post. And got a lot wetter when I put the charger on it, and charger immediately went to float mode because battery still had 12.7 volts. It just had no cranking power.
What a difference rolling over now with the new battery.
What a difference rolling over now with the new battery.
Those are the wrong, non-original size tires.
(I’d like to BUY IT!)
That IS a nice one! (miles on it? engine/trans? got an 8-track?)
Actually the tires are as close to original as you can get with the new-fangled metric sizes.Those are the wrong, non-original size tires.
(I’d like to BUY IT!)
That IS a nice one! (miles on it? engine/trans? got an 8-track?)
About 157,000 miles.
350 bored .030" over making it a 355. Many upgraded parts in the engine. It came from the factory without one oil ring, a split rocker arm and a metal chip gouging a rod bearing. The Chevrolet warranty added extra valve seals on that piston, idiots. I did the proper fix myself.
Of course it has an 8-track, along with AM, FM and CB all in one in dash unit.
I’ve got a 1968/9-vintage Akai Reel-to-Reel tape-recorder/player brought back from VietNam R&R in Australia with an 8-track player/recorder built-into it and a blank 8-track cassette which has never been used at all (except to play the stereo reel-to-reel “demo” tape that came with it.)* You might need to get it out of my store-room!
* The demo-tape is hilarious. It is intended to demonstrate the stereophonic capabilities of the machine and includes a recording of a steam-locomotive pulling into the station from stage-right. (Keep in-mind that in the mid-60s Japan was still within the memory of most Japanese the events of World War Two and recovery was just entering the field of consumer-electronics.)
The ”demo tape” begins with the steam locomotive (still common in Japan at that time) pulling into the station from the right…and pausing with squealing brakes and hissing-steam just-past center-stage…slightly to the Left when the whistle Blows in your left-ear… and an extremely Excited, Enthusiastic and Proud Japanese Nationalist shouts at you ——“THAT IS THE SOUND OF POWELFURR JAPANESE ROCOMOTIVE!”
It’s all one can do to keep from collapsing in laughter!
* The demo-tape is hilarious. It is intended to demonstrate the stereophonic capabilities of the machine and includes a recording of a steam-locomotive pulling into the station from stage-right. (Keep in-mind that in the mid-60s Japan was still within the memory of most Japanese the events of World War Two and recovery was just entering the field of consumer-electronics.)
The ”demo tape” begins with the steam locomotive (still common in Japan at that time) pulling into the station from the right…and pausing with squealing brakes and hissing-steam just-past center-stage…slightly to the Left when the whistle Blows in your left-ear… and an extremely Excited, Enthusiastic and Proud Japanese Nationalist shouts at you ——“THAT IS THE SOUND OF POWELFURR JAPANESE ROCOMOTIVE!”
It’s all one can do to keep from collapsing in laughter!
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fried1765
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Kubota L48 TLB, Ford 1920 FEL, Ford 8N, SCAG Liberty Z, Gravely Pro.
Deployed to Vietnam from Atsugi, Japan in '67, and returned to Japan as civilian many times since.I’ve got a 1968/9-vintage Akai Reel-to-Reel tape-recorder/player brought back from VietNam R&R in Australia with an 8-track player/recorder built-into it and a blank 8-track cassette which has never been used at all (except to play the stereo reel-to-reel “demo” tape that came with it.)* You might need to get it out of my store-room!
* The demo-tape is hilarious. It is intended to demonstrate the stereophonic capabilities of the machine and includes a recording of a steam-locomotive pulling into the station from stage-right. (Keep in-mind that in the mid-60s Japan was still within the memory of most Japanese the events of World War Two and recovery was just entering the field of consumer-electronics.)
The ”demo tape” begins with the steam locomotive (still common in Japan at that time) pulling into the station from the right…and pausing with squealing brakes and hissing-steam just-past center-stage…slightly to the Left when the whistle Blows in your left-ear… and an extremely Excited, Enthusiastic and Proud Japanese Nationalist shouts at you ——“THAT IS THE SOUND OF POWELFURR JAPANESE ROCOMOTIVE!”
It’s all one can do to keep from collapsing in laughter!
I just "ROVED" reading this post!
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