THE PORTAL HUB - Pinzgauers, Haflingers, Volvo 303s and more!

I once had sparks coming out of the passenger vent. Not a lot, just every once in a while after having the heater fan on. After racking my brain I couldn't figure it out. I took off the vent hose and found a wad of napkins in it. I couldn't believe the heat would get so hot to ignite paper...It was ...

Thanks Dave - I am going to spend some time on it tonight.

My head unit is draining my batteries. I don't drive the pinz very often and when I don't cut the power all together my batteries die with in 2 weeks from the small amount of power that the head unit is pulling. I have seen a few different ways to hook up a stereo head unit. One I have seen is that ...

Thanks for all the tips. Some good ideas out there.

Took off the strike plate and it was already shimmed. Looked original. I am just going to shim it a little more. I think that will fix the problem..

How do you guys maintain your batteries during the winter? I have 6 motorized vehicles with 9 batteries(pinz, 4 wheelers, lawn mower, RV etc) that all have batteries and I am tired of replacing them in the spring.

Do you use trickle chargers or what?

Thats a good possability. Even with that, the latches have never been that good. Maybe a shim would fix the problem.

my door latched have gotten progressivly worse through the years and now I my driver side door will barely latch. No big deal in the summer because I just took the doors off. But there is a fall in the air Inwhich I would like doors that stay shut. Just looking into any ideas that any of you might o...

I did it with the steering colum on my work bench. Pretty easy that way.

My valve cover gasket's have been good, but the oil pan gasket is a different story...leaky sucka

Lightningpinz wrote:Early on I had some water problem with the civilian, and I still have a little noise on the radio.
So I run the civilian, but would run the military if I had lots of extra money

What did you do to correct the water problem. I think I have the same issue.

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Yes, you need springs :cry: I agree with you Jim, I do need springs. But even in your pictures with your axel almost free swinging, there isn't much room for travel for those shocks... I am assuming with the tire on the hub and the weight of the truck, you could be in the same position. Could the s...

One question with these Dutchtech Shocks. I installed mine and the exposed rod is is even shorter than the pictures that Jim posted. How much length is needed for the shock not to bottom out while performing? I havn't used them off road so I don't know if they bottom out yet. This may push me into d...

ah.... ! i wonder if i can do the antique thing in utah! Nope - Utah has tougher registration laws than even California. Instead of a rolling date to exempt a vehicle for emissions (like most states use), Utah has a set date. Pretty lame. Truck and Antique licence are not an option either. When I h...