in my 40 years of pulling crap out with a chain ive never broke one.. but i use grade 100 chain too and i never yank. been towing recovery for 30 some odd years............
straps do work better for yanking... but ive busted a few of them (way too much weight )
ive been pondering cutting out the spare tire area of a car and fabricating that into my truck bed so as to make getting that tire out more easy.....kinda like in the pic of this spare in a car.....and to have a cover made from the bed floor....
hydraulic fluid,atf,10 weight oil,what ever i have available..... if it has oil it will work an not fry the pump........no oil pump will fry......squealing pumps tighten up the dam belt or use two belts or buy a better belt.......................
any thing over 60 is way too much from the top of the engine. they dont really need that much pressure ..whats important is it has oil flowing through them bearings.. i had an international that had zero oil psi and it ran fine . dang thing never had oil presure , but the oil flowed through it...
nope i have a free flow air through the front. not eveer hot under the hood. engine runs cool too 165 temp in engine. i have big holes next to rad so air flows right on through.. no ac cooler in front of rad and no oil cooler so air flows right on through that too.
mine is not flipped but cut. really had no choice the engine fire destroyed everything. so i modified everything. i like it. i dont worry about heat cause its not hot under that hood she has way too much air flow in the front..
i remember seeing something like this under there but it was much higher up and i thought it was part of the cruise control system i was going to remove that like i did the rest of the garbage they put in there...lil black box looking thing definitely connected to the cruise control or whats...