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The JW Speaker lights are so sweet, I plan to get a set. Did you go with the heated lens?

I keep telling my self Chevys are like legos, it’s pretty much a bolt in deal. I plan to do a thread documenting either how straight forward the swap is, or how foolish I am 😂

I’m very fortunate to have a lift and tranny Jack so it should be a pretty straight forward deal. I'd love to get my hands on a M880 some day! Unfortunately I will be swapping the entire pedal set and it probably won't be super fun. I'm looking forward to rowing gears again someday soon!

I'm quite familiar with driving lockers with auto transmissions. The reason for my post is a manual transmission is a direct drive (no slip at all) and supposedly makes these traits worse... Curious to hear others experiences with a manual transmission / Detroit locker setup

I certainly will! There are already some excellent threads on this site I’m using as a reference. So far I have the transmission and hydraulic clutch pedal set. I need to order all of the rest and should have everything collected in a month or two to begin the work.

Also this dude (Rocknus urban camouflage) put out some awesome content. I would watch every CUCV related video he did starting with “CUCV classroom” I assume he’s a member? https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEhhfKFkDsGTHR1GJ8MkWA9xDif0PlSfz

I found these pretty helpful when I began un- hacking my wiring (still a work in progress) all of these live in the “helpful CUCV threads” tab in the CUCV forum. That page has 99% of what there is to know about these trucks. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/cucv-starter-circuit.129483/...

Not trying to be a jerk but I suggest you study up on this by reading through the many existing threads on the subject. this is because you likely wont get a shortcut answer and even if you did, you need to understand the basics of the wiring system on these trucks before any advice would be...

I am in the process of swapping a NV4500 into my m1008. I hear with a manual I will really notice the rear locker on the street. Does anyone have any experience with this?

Did you use a pre bent kit or is that custom?

I know these have a vehicle speed sensor built In… can you wire a tach to this?

I have collected almost everything I need to do a NV4500 swap on my M1008. when doing this swap what is the protocol for the vacuum pump? I believe it's only use in a CUCV is for shifting the TH400, is the correct? Also mine is leaking (badly) should I cap it off? Can I delete it?

I’m looking for a muffler that will sound good but not be crazy loud and especially won’t drone on the highway. I’m open to either a cross over style or duels Any suggestions? For a diesel should I be worried about a chamber style muffler getting all plugged up with soot? I noticed a lot of...

If you don’t want to rewire your fuse block, you make little jumper wires to revers the polarities and double stick tape the flasher can somewhere. I personally didn’t like either scenario so I’m still using the stock flasher.

let us know how it goes that is one of the ones I tried and couldn’t get it to work. I didn’t try to revers the polarities yet on that one though.

I was able to replace everything in my taillights with LED's and use the stock flasher. I'm still running regular bulbs upfront for now. I would NOT recommend the LED bulbs from Holley for the brake lights, the brightness difference between regular running lights and the brake lights was not...

That’s a fine looking truck!

Best idea so far!

I spent much of my career professionally restoring and tuning vintage road race cars. I do all of my own work, I admittedly don’t know much about diesels but the rest of the truck I can handle with a little bit of research here and there. If I were to modify the truck would remain as spartan...

I love CUCV's in all forms from bone stock to max effort offroad rigs. I know I'll get responses such as "it's your truck do what ever you want". I also don't want this to turn into a bash session, but I'm interested to hear peoples philosophy on this: I have a 99% original m1008 in great...