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I was headed back home with some piglets a few months ago when my M1028 suddenly stopped running. I was able to get it restarted by jumping power from the glow plug relay to the fuel pump. I drove about 2.5 hours home with this arrangement. For a long while I had a no start - almost as if...

Thank you. When you are troubleshooting and you start finding wires that are not on your schematic you kinda start wishing you'd bought a Hodaka Road Toad instead.

1986 M1028 - equipped with aftermarket snow plow and salt spreader. Those aftermarket items have been removed. I have two mystery wires that I cannot find on the wiring diagrams. The first is a 3 Red wire with fuse link that goes from the far right of the firewall power block to nowhere (not...

I'm married = in trouble already. Let me give you some wisdom from restoring my M38A1 - NEVER, and I mean NEVER, utilize a time when your wife is mad at you to test drive a vehicle you are restoring / working on. Why? Because you don't want to here her laugh and slam the phone down when you...

Thank you. Those "stickies" are invaluable reading. I will put that test on my enormous stack of troubleshooting procedures. This is no different than finding out why my wife is angry. Takes a long time, I'm never right the first 400 times I ask what's wrong, have to keep trying ... It's...

Thanks for replying. I think are right - at a minimum I could eliminate that as a problem.

Thanks for the reply. The truck won't start. I'm slowly working through the troubleshooting procedures. I can tell you that my glow plugs are cycling on and back off rapidly. From my reading I have learned that may be caused by too high voltage and the GP controller is shutting the glow...

I recently lost all power to my 1986 M1028. A wire from the engine wiring harness block had rubbed the fire wall and shorted out and no power was going to the harness. I repaired that and now I can get the truck to turn over but neither the GEN 1 or GEN 2 lights activate when I try to start...

Yup. After sitting for 4 or 5 months plus that final two hour drive with no recharge the batteries were pretty weak. I'm just happy to have found the short. Gracious day in the morning that was tedious.

Uh, negative Ghost Rider - it was the wire not the fusible link. The wire section in question had rubbed the firewall to failure. Fusible link intact.

When you troubleshoot make sure you don't get fixated on the idea that a certain thing is wrong - you might be wrong and waste a lot of time. I searched and searched and traced the fuel pump power. Never could find anything wrong. Out of frustration, I replaced the ignition switch - good...

Good idea. I pulled the dash and instrument cluster last night. I was going to replace the bulbs anyway ( I like to be able to see my gauges in the dark, I'm funny that way). It occurred to me that I should try to induce a current along the fuel shutoff wire from the key to shutoff...

Progress Update: Verified voltage on batteries. Verified voltage on fuel shutoff (0 volts - but when a jumper is ran from to fuel shutoff it will pump and truck will attempt to start) Ran wire from bulkhead wiring harness block to fuel shutoff. No change. Clean and applied dielectric grease to...

Thanks, I tried that after I read your post. Didn't work for me. However, I think this is telling me the problem is from the bulkhead to ignition switch route.

I replaced the fuses today. I ran a new wire (temporary) from the wiring harness bulkhead plug to the fuel shutoff. No change in condition.