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I've had better luck using desulfured rapeseed oil (you know, canola cooking oil) to quiet the engine. Lube = win. Cetane boosters, aka stuff like Diesel 911, help with the power department, but I don't trust them to not break things with normal use - so they're a cold weather only thing...

... what are those hockey pucks? They look like grenades, or field expedient makeup holders... or something.

Yes, I've got cardboard on the grille attached with quick ties. It helps, a little - it'll get 'warm' at 30F at any speed except for idle, but any colder than that and if I'm idling in a parking lot, it ceases to provide "heat" beyond enough to drive out the chill while wearing full outdoor...

Not necessarily recommending this, but when I was living in CA, I got 3 Hella motorcycle horns (of different frequency) and wired 'em up on a 20A fuse. It was louder. :)

Oh yeah, and found out the previous owner painted the truck with (ARGGG) a paintbrush. This was an unintentional discovery at the car wash, resulting from the flakes that came off...

Let's see, this is a long list. :P * Replaced the air filter with a K&T filter. (I was having thoughts about running without a filter until it came in due to concern about parts breaking off and flying into the engine - it was that bad! I suspect it was the original.) * Swapped the 800 CCA NAPA...

Wow - for the cost, I'm actually kinda surprised how much you don't get with that shelf, from my eyes. Great for convenience but it doesn't really look like a long term solution to me.

Am I going to see much of a difference between a 24V direct drive and a 24V gear reduction? I've heard it said annecdotally by one person that the DD is going to actually spin faster than either 12 or 24V gear reduction, but I can't make sense of that. As I'm understanding, 24V DD out, 24V...

I should add, I got my m1009 in November and never really had the time or $ to deal with what I knew would be necessary "winterizing". Based on experience, I know that having a lift pump will help at least a little bit in getting fuel to the engine so minimal cranking will be required, but it...

Thinking I might just build my own, actually. I'll take the opportunity to do it right with cabinet doors and fully wire it for electrical. Maybe I'll tap a couple areas in the roof and put some doorway insulation up there to keep her insides a little more isolated from the elements while I'm at...

So it has been a balmy 0F this week and I can't get my m1009 to start. I just killed the batteries trying to get her to turn over. Not even a suggestion that she would turn. I've had problems at anything under 20F. I've got a 200w magnetic oil heater on there and did all day.I've also got a...

1ton - I just looked through your build thread (your build is awesome, btw) and didn't find any pictures of the overhead shelf. I don't like the look of the plastic shelves, they seem... chintzy and weak. Is the one you pulled from the conversion van of higher quality/build/material? I had an...

Ouch. How fast were you going when you hit that? That's a really clean break.

I had a difficult time with Progressive and my VIN. They kept telling me it wasn't in their database, and that the closest thing was a K10 (gasser). :|

Really? :| That's frustrating - NAPA couldn't source me an aluminum one here, had to resort to mounting something slightly different (also copper) which I got from O'Reilly's. Mine is only 'tolerable' down to about 10F at an idle, but stays warmer at highway speeds. I was told that this might...

I've just done a couple little things since there's "not a lot to do" (heh heh) to her since she's got it all going on. :P These are all relatively hasty things I've done in the past month and a half to get her 'every day ready': * removed about 300lb of surplus radio equipment from the inside...

Well, like I said, I've got a 4 psi MAX pump (the Carter inline pump) running on my G30 van, now. It seems to do OK with the winter thickening of the fuel, and I've got a friend who's been running his identical pump for 5? years now (over 100k). So I'm sure whatever PSI will work; but what's...

I've perused the forum and done a fair amount of web searching to find the 'ideal' answer to this question, and I've come across a couple prevalent recommendations for electric lift pumps for the CUCV: * Get a "universal Carter" lift pump. Nobody I have seen on the forums has posted any...

EPA crap is anything but straightforward. :) Here's an idea: bring a couple gallons of diesel with you and mix it with the WMO. Then it's just unfiltered fuel and not waste or bulk oil. (I have heard rumor that people have gotten by with underground bulk waste oil storage by mixing it with...

Drove 1800 miles cross country to get her home. :) Also, removed some decals and crap so it'd be less of a police attention getter ('military police' makes them edgy, apparently).