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Oh, and another symptom... reverse seems to work ok until I try to back up an incline, and then it seems like the engine is pushing but it won't go. Could the high fluid level be the cause for that?

Wow... I'm having a hard time understanding how it could have been OVERFILLED, if anything. The only time I have put it in anyone else's hands between the last time I checked the trans fluid level and now was with a mechanic who I believed knew what he was doing enough that something like this...

I was driving my M1009 home from work today, stopped at a light, and when I went to take off, the engine started to go and then seemed to stumble and lower RPMs for a while like it was trying to "push" something to keep going, and after a few seconds it went back to normal. It happened a few...

I don't know, but I'll take it if you don't want it. :D

Got any antenna mounts you'd like to get rid of?

So I bought myself a new 1000 watt power inverter from Costco to put in my M1009... it came with about two feet of cable, so I thought the easiest way to wire it up would be directly to the accessory wiring harness in the truck's interior. I was under the impression that this was 12v, so there...

"Aircraft Black" is paint color #37038 off Milspray. I don't believe it is actually used for aircraft, I think that's just the name they chose.

I want to paint my M1009 in aircraft black CARC, but the only place I've found in my searches that carries it is Milspray at more than $250 for a gallon. Is there any other place to buy correct-looking aircraft black CARC paint from, preferably for less than Milspray?

I ended up taking the entire alternator off the mount and swinging it around so I could get that belt on there. The Gatorback was a little bit harder than NAPA's equivalent, I think because the Gatorback had a slightly deeper tread on it.

NAPA's belt fit fine, and now that I've got that blade bent back into position I should be good to go as far as the belts go. Now to find a rear window crank and a tow shackle for the front bumper! :D

Oh for the love of *#$@... I got my new 15581 belt on after taking the entire alternator OFF to get the belt to go into the pulley... tensioned it up nicely and drove around all day yesterday with it. Today on the way to work my GEN 1 light comes on and I start noticing that my generator gauge...

Great.... NONE of the belt numbers on these match up. The brand is "Dayco" and the belts supposedly matched up to the Gates belt numbers, but they obviously are not the right ones. If you kill an Advance Auto Parts employee, does it count for a whole murder or just half of one?

I bought a set of belts to replace the aged and squeaking belts in my M1009 this morning. I got under the hood with my ratchet and started loosening up the alternators, which were both adjusted as far out as they could be for tension and still the old belts seemed a touch loose. I started with...

I had my keys made by a locksmith here in MA months before I even bought a truck. He thought it was a bit strange that it was a trunk blank and not a regular ignition blank, but they work fine.

How easy of a conversion is this? I snapped the crank off mine, and I haven't been able to find a junkyard replacement. I've got a guy who has the whole regulator setup new in box and will probably sell it to me for cheaper than I can get a new manual crank at autozone, but its going to come...

Anyone tried running Cherrybomb mufflers on a 1009? I'm thinking about it considering the $20 price tag, but I want it to sound good, too.

RE: Tasty! I was thinking of bolting down an ammo can in between the seats and fastening some sort of cupholders with pop rivets.

I'm not actually 100% sure. An electrician family friend dropped by and took a look... he found the problem under the dash and fixed it. Wasn't a fuse, and he didn't elaborate while telling me not to ground things like an idiot next time, but whatever he did worked. :)

Thanks for the help everyone... I got the lights running again with 20 minutes left to get the truck inspected. No more accidentally grounding wires for me.

It's definitely not a fuse. I've gone through every one of them and continuity-checked and everything. I'm either going to have to hire someone to look at it, or trace the wires myself when the weather looks better and I have time. There's got to be a burned out fusible link somewhere, but I've...