I just wanted to share this with everyone cause I did not notice any Forums in the past talking about this and I found it really interesting.
So yeah I owned my M1028 CUCV for just over a year now, and last week i went to change the glow plugs cause some were dead and it was not starting in the cold. also I decided its time I did the resistor bypass to prevent any future problems with the new plugs.
so first thing first i went to change the plugs it had the original wellmans in it I was expecting them to be very swollen cause i would run them extra long to help it start while it was dying on days i really needed the truck and well there the wellman plugs there known for swelling.
Well to my surprise... no amazement not a single glow plug was swollen!
So i put my new AC Delco 60g's in change the connectors and everything then I decided to move onto the resistor bypass.
so I gathered allot of info off of this site on how to do it. then I realized it was already done!
the wire leading to the resistor with the full 24 volts is there but the wire coming out the other side that suppose to go to the relay was gone. and the relay had a wire going to a 12 volt source right next to it on the firewall.
I never paid attention to it before when I replaced the relay just put the new one in the exact same way the old one was and never paid any attention to the resistor and what was hooked to it till now.
I asked the guy who sold it to me if he did the bypass and he said no he did not, cause the guy i bought it from would buy them from the states at government liquidation and import them into Canada and sell them here. thats how I got mine.
So yeah it appears the Military must of done it!
this truck was last serviced by the Military in 2011 I found some of the papers talking about the stuff they did to it under the seat when I was cleaning. plus the military wrote on some of the parts they replaced with the date it was done and what not. so i assume it was still being used by them up till recently before it was sold.
Also its a Contact maintenance truck just throwing that out there.
but yeah has anyone else ever come across any fresh from the military CUCV that had the bypass already done? or is this like a rare case?
was the military mechanic on here reading about how to repair a problem they had?
or was he just thinking outside the box and figured it out by him self i wonder.
Either way this is interesting to me and I felt I'd share with everyone my discovery!
Here is a picture of how they did it.
So yeah I owned my M1028 CUCV for just over a year now, and last week i went to change the glow plugs cause some were dead and it was not starting in the cold. also I decided its time I did the resistor bypass to prevent any future problems with the new plugs.
so first thing first i went to change the plugs it had the original wellmans in it I was expecting them to be very swollen cause i would run them extra long to help it start while it was dying on days i really needed the truck and well there the wellman plugs there known for swelling.
Well to my surprise... no amazement not a single glow plug was swollen!
So i put my new AC Delco 60g's in change the connectors and everything then I decided to move onto the resistor bypass.
so I gathered allot of info off of this site on how to do it. then I realized it was already done!
the wire leading to the resistor with the full 24 volts is there but the wire coming out the other side that suppose to go to the relay was gone. and the relay had a wire going to a 12 volt source right next to it on the firewall.
I never paid attention to it before when I replaced the relay just put the new one in the exact same way the old one was and never paid any attention to the resistor and what was hooked to it till now.
I asked the guy who sold it to me if he did the bypass and he said no he did not, cause the guy i bought it from would buy them from the states at government liquidation and import them into Canada and sell them here. thats how I got mine.
So yeah it appears the Military must of done it!
this truck was last serviced by the Military in 2011 I found some of the papers talking about the stuff they did to it under the seat when I was cleaning. plus the military wrote on some of the parts they replaced with the date it was done and what not. so i assume it was still being used by them up till recently before it was sold.
Also its a Contact maintenance truck just throwing that out there.
but yeah has anyone else ever come across any fresh from the military CUCV that had the bypass already done? or is this like a rare case?
was the military mechanic on here reading about how to repair a problem they had?
or was he just thinking outside the box and figured it out by him self i wonder.
Either way this is interesting to me and I felt I'd share with everyone my discovery!
Here is a picture of how they did it.
