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camarossguy2 You forgot to add in the price of the shoe horn you used to pry everything in there! Great job.

I guess you could rewind it but wouldn't it be easier to bend the float level rod? IIRC you just pull the assy. and guesstamate how much to bend it, what the worst that can happen the gauge will be off. Or disassemble the gauge cluster and pull off the needle and reinstall, I did that on...

I think it's fine, I had suck in a red shop towel once. I'm sure it was funny to watch me struggling to pull the rag out and shut the darn thing off at the same time. Ended up pulling one head as the rag was stuck in the valves! Engine was fine.

The SM465 has a pretty tall housing on top for the shifter, are you sure thats not hitting the floor? Second thing I'd check would be bell housing to fire wall and look for engine to frame ground straps. All fairly common and simple but easily overlooked.

I wonder if the po thought he had a grounding problem with the fuel solenoid and rigged it up.

Glow plugs would be my first guess

Well there goes my advice, I was going to say pull the batteries and take them home and charge them overnight and then load test. Oh well new ones are even better. Cangrats!

To wear or not wear seat belts, I'm not going to call names or anything like that just a simple true story. A Few years back I stopped at the scene of an accident that just happened, a woman that resembled a bundle of rags had been ejected thru the windshield of her Cherokee and was laying in...

I think the answer is right there in your post "The motor wouldn't rev up ", your not going to be curb hopping if your engine is performing poorly.

I used one in a 4x4 civilian truck and it fit real good, so good that I bought a second one for a project truck. That one sat for a couple years rolled up in the shipping box in the attic of my garage. When I went to use it it had cracked and split under it's own weight! Your mileage may very.

Fuel is a long shot unless you got gas instead of D2, accidents do happen. Check the lift pump pressure, from my experience when that goes bad it's hard to start not so much your symptoms.

I did something like what your wanting years ago, IIRC it was easier to change the in cab harness than to try to mate them together. I ended up with power windows and lock too as a bonus. The taillight harness I believe plugged into the civvie on no problem. What the heck is a "bull dog"...

If I found that at a yard I'd snap those seats and console up and stash them in the attic for a future project.

Salt water dosn't just cause rust it also is conductive. I doubt thats all of your problem but could contrubute to it. I've worked on similier problems and most time found the offending wire in the back where someone else hooked up a trailer plug or probed the wire and broke the insulation.

Around here if you keep an eye out you buy a Western cable type for $500 or less, everybody wants a quick mount. The last truck I sold went with an 8.5' Western with extra pump, cylinders and some odd ball stuff and it had some rust but not bad. That would've been worth about $500 off the truck...

A used plow from Craigslist should be pretty cheap even this time of year, between my son and I we have atleast 4 good serviceable plows for Chevy square bodies. Now a days nobody wants them and their not worth much more than scrap price.

"I also wanted to do some design of a striker for the tailgate torsion rods to rest on. I came up with a grade 5 1/2" bolt a steel sleeve and a shock bushing". What an exelent idea! I hope you don't mind if I 'borrow' it.

Sure the 6.2 will drop right in and bolt right up useing stock mounts and no need to drill holes or fab mounts, cooling and exhaust would be problem as the CUCV rad probaly won't fit. Exhaust you may be able to use a modified small block Y pipe. Make sure you use a diesel tourqe converter and a...

A company called AUVECO has been around forever selling automotive hardware to body shops and auto parts suppliers, If you check around with your local automotive paint suppliers they may have a catalog. They sell weatherstriping by the roll in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and mountings. If you...

I've found air leaks by pressurizeing the fuel system. You will need a couple of shop rags, some clean card board, and an air compressor, regulator and hose and blow gun. Place the cardboard under the truck all the from fuel filler to core support, then set the air pressure regulator to about...