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Passive? So if you have a bad battery, it drags both of them down? ;) Unfortunately, that's how the passive balancers work. They will use the higher voltage battery to discharge into the lower voltage battery until the voltage is the same. If you have a failing battery with a dead cell, or...

Personally, I would feed 2 smaller solar panels into 2 charge controllers, one for each battery....Then it'd be practically maintenance-free with no requirement for 110v... But, that's just mission ready stuff, not bringing back dead/depleted batteries... Plus, you'd be able to tap off of one of...

$400 for an equalizer, or $100 for a 2 bank charger/maintainer? :-p

Just a heads up... The small solar panels are usually Solargizer, and they're NOT chargers, they're desulfators and maintainers.. They prevent sulfation when sitting for a while, to keep them mission ready. They will not charge batteries.. Using a 2 bank 12V charger, which charges each battery...

Was thinking about cutting down a 20' connex and removing the bed, mounting to the frame, but the prices of those have skyrocketed. I'm leaning more towards making my own, because I really want a cabover. I may use an M109 box, but I'm not a fan of the space limitations, and modifying sounds...

Spent about 4 hours doing a pre-trip inspection.... Probably should have taken 45 mins but... I'm a little slower these days. Ironically enough, laying under the truck checking the diffs was the easy part. heh. Used about a gallon of DOT5 flushing the brakes. They're pretty good, but not...

Already have an A2 I have an eye on. I'm houseless right now, so it would be a camper/rv of sorts but more tailored to long term use.

Do brake shoe linings fail due to age vs use? Brake hardware, like springs, I can see.. Shoe linings/pads/drums? Not sure if that's needed? Parking brake, I can see as well...

I think it was Doghead that said 'If it's rubber, replace it, if it's electrical clean it' or something to that effect... I agree that there will be stuff that pops up. The idea being to make everything as bulletproof as possible, to minimize frustrations/failures down the road... pardon the...

So, I've been thinking about the best way to make sure that a deuce is a reliable daily driver. I'm trying to make a 'To Do List'. Because I don't know the history of a vehicle that I buy, I usually replace all the fluids as a start, but this heavy equipment being 50+ years old, and not knowing...

I hate to necro a thread, but I did WMO in my CUCV.... and I figured I'd share my results. I'm going off of memory from about a decade ago, so I might be remembering things a bit wrong. I used random oil from friends, that comprised mainly of 5W30 and 10W30, along with ATF and my own 15W40. I...

Just an FYI, the Solargizer is a desulfator/maintainer, NOT a battery charger.

Charge the battery asap. A discharged battery left discharged will be permanently damaged in short order.

Also, off hand, anyone know which line on the trans, and trans cooler, are in/out? I'm trying to flush and check for flow restrictions. Thanks.

I've been tearing through the TMs, and MULTIPLE times, I go to look for a part, and it shows, let's say, 1-12 parts labelled in the figure, but will only display parts 6,7, and 8.. Look in the index, and same thing. This has happened numerous times, and it's driving me insane. I can't trust...

Can an improperly adjusted VRV cause a transmission to fail in short order, like, less than 5k miles?

I dunno if I should laugh, or cry. I wanna do both.

well...... :/

I would definitely appreciate some wrench turners, if at all possible.

Good luck. They're one of the rarest CUCVs, just behind the M1028A2 in terms of rarity.