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On the parts truck. I would part it out if you have the time to deal with it. Looks like the front bumper & guard are in good shape. The wide 6 lug steelies will sell to someone for an older C10. Military blazers are pretty much the only place to get them so they are kinda hard to find. 4 core...
Probably should create a new thread but I am going to try just adding onto this one instead. Today I started attempting to get the charging system working. Checking at the batteries neither battery is being charged. Checking at the output of the driver's side alternator it does seem to putting...
M1008 truck. The reason I say its probably better for a project is it doesn't have the CUCV data plates anymore, county painted it white, and it's missing a few other cucv specific things.
This one is salvagable but I think it would be better suited to a custom project rather than trying to put it back 100% original. For now I am just fixing what I can that doesn't cost me much of anything. May let the next owner figure out what to do with it after that.
It may have fixed itself. Seems like it was/is something inside the IP sticking from sitting up. Drove it a bit today and it didn't even offer to rev up higher. Now onto getting one rusted up front lockout working so I have 4wd and maybe fixing the charging system.
When I bought the truck I...
Disconnected the high idle solenoid. Still seems to want to stick at high rpms sometimes though it may be getting better the more I run it. Either that or I am getting used to it.
New to me M1008 issues, getting it back on the road
Recently bought a CUCV that had been used by the local county at auction. It must have sat up a while because they had it marked as non-running and didn't even try to start it. When I got it home it seemed to start reasonably easily for...
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