lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:23 pmFreeFlier wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 11:15 pmlake_wrangler wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 9:04 pmThis truck was sitting in front of my bus at a red light, one day...
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I once saw one of those where the lettering was right-side up . . . and the CJ it was on was not.
We soon fixed that, and the driver went back to rock-crawling.
I think I was in college at the time.
Neat! I didn't think it would actually work... I was thinking about fluids mixing or spilling out and such... but I guess if each type of fluid is properly contained within the various systems they belong to, it may still work.
It depends on how long it's upside down - We came along before the dust had settled.
And the leaks will be through the vents, which will slow the leakage down a lot, even in a standard installation, and much of the gear lube vents would be altered to prevent water infiltration, which would slow leakage even more.
Oil is the most likely major leak, and when you're running around in the wild, you always carry extra oil, plus a spare filter, since you can sometime bash a hole in the oil filter or oil pan, which you usually discover when you run out of oil . . . but if you have oil, you can usually plug things up well enough to at least reduce the distance you have to walk.
It did leak a bit of gasoline, oil and maybe gear lube . . . once it was upright, he checked the levels, topped off the oil, chatted a bit while the spilled gasoline evaporated in the breeze, then started it up and went back to rock-crawling.
Not sure if battery acid leaked or not, and if there was any coolant leakage, it was out of the "puke tank", since the cooling system is semi-sealed to retain pressure.
Nowadays guys like that use
Optima batteries, which are totally sealed. Optima uses Absorbent Glass Mat (AGM) so the electrolyte stays inside unless the case is cracked, and maybe even then. Very nice, very "hot", very tough batteries.
--FreeFlier