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    Installing 12v accesories on CUCV 24v system

    Connect to the fuse panel.
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    Battery goes dead while truck is parked

    Right here on this site. Start here to download the CUCV manuals. Steel Soldiers :: Military Vehicles Supersite Then search for 12v conversion. There are several threads. I wouldn't convert unless the starter is bad. Like I said, it is simple. Replace the starter, remove one battery, the...
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    guess what happend today

    I think he means that there is no cure for green metal fever. First it is a M1008, then you "need" a matching M1009 and then you may as well get a deuce, or two, or three. While you are at it, why not get a 5 ton? And so it goes.
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    glow plug controller bypass

    I suppose that the GP controller could fail in the on position.
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    Battery goes dead while truck is parked

    The CUCV uses 24v (two batteries, each with its own 12v alternator) for the starting circuit. Check the voltage on both. If just one is low, put jumper cables across that battery and you may be able to crank it. Then check voltage on both batteries. Chances are that you either have poor...
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    glow plug controller bypass

    I think that mod is to replace the cheap relay that is in the starter circuit, not the GP controller. The simple answer to how to bypass the GP controller is to put in a momentary ON switch, remove the pink wire from the GP relay and route a wire from one side of the switch to the GP relay...
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    Military motorcycle models and makes

    An interesting fact about Indian motorcycles. Prior to WWI motorcycles were used by a lot of rural mail carriers and the Indian was considered the best, most reliable bike of the era and was also the most popular. When the US entered WWI they bought the entire production of Indian motorcycles...
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    Aluminum Soldiers

    :doh: Combat ex-military aircraft, aircraft for sale, helicopters for sale, air charter aircraft
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    Aluminum Soldiers

    Just surfing when I found this neat site with all sorts of military aircraft. Mustangs, Spitfires, Saab Draaken, Skyhawks, and more! Even a flyable Harrier. :drool:
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    Nashville TN.....any oil there???

    Call up Nashville Electric Service (the public electric utility) and ask if they have any mineral oil removed from transformers available. They may just give it to you.
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    Duramax HMMWV playin' 2wd fun!

    Remember the video of the soldiers getting a HMMWV airborne? There is a reason that they made the HMMWV underpowered.
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    CUCV Never Ending Problems

    5.9 Cummins and your troubles will be over. But the 350 Chevy will be an easier swap. Cheaper, too.
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    How do you get the gauge circuit board off the cluster?

    Clean them off well with fine grit sandpaper before you reinstall them.
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    Which APC's can stop .50 cal AP rounds ?

    :roll:Who did you hear THAT from, Sarah Brady?:cookoo:
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    1985 M1009 Starter going out, Atlanta area

    You sure it's the starter and not some other component? If you can do routine maintenance, you can change a starter.
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    Look what followed my deuce home today - Big Guns...

    BTW, it is legal to own big guns like these. But you have to register them as destructive devices and each artillery shell has to be registered also.
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    Look what followed my deuce home today - Big Guns...

    Man, THAT is what I need for tailgaters.:drool:
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    Water in Fuel Light

    Look in the TM.
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    M1009 air conditioning

    Find the parts in a junkyard and do a retrofit.
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