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make contact with admins of private sites if you have a question about a seller on private sites…have common sense about
the part and price, chances are you were drawn to them because the price was cheap…wake up, if It’s to good to be true? It probably is.
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This topic has been beat to death since H1’s came on the market…it’s a lesson in futility, but I’m sure some others will
just attempt again anyway, in those cases, GL.
my rental fee is my shop rate x8, so $1k per day, after 8hrs it’s still shop per hour…I charge door step to door step….
No one drives the truck but me or if required by union rules that a stunt driver “SAG” has to drive it, I’m in the truck…so it’s gener off to
wardrobe dept to get suited up.
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the heater is the simplest of designs you will find, you either have power at the blower end or you don’t when the truck is running and the fan switch is on high, if not? You need to start behind the instrument cluster, there is a single power wire to the center of the blower switch…
Quite wasting time and pull the pump back off…you only need to remove the backing plate with the pump still attached, you don’t have to remove the pump off the backing plate.
its possible you get a glycol leak in that area down the road…how did you break it? It’s a steel bolt that threads into the aluminum timing gear housing
you are aware that truck has a switch to deny 24v to the Cadillac valve solenoid….if the fan wasn’t engaging “meaning it had continuous power” , why didn’t you just flip the switch which is the same as unplugging the TDM or the Cadillac valve? This would have allowed you to just to just drive on.
im an OEM shop, I’ve had many military contracts
And work on and worked on pretty much every tactical vehicle in the inventory up to a few years ago…I just use DOT5.
you generally won’t find a good used motor in a govt can, why? It’s not a practice to remove a good motor and replace it with a new motor, the motor was removed for a reason and the refurbished or New motor in the can was installed into the truck, the old motor is returned in the can for...
after buying a few hundred trucks, I’m pretty well versed in how it works…your assume the price is $7500, plenty of R1 trucks for under$6k, you don’t know where the OP lives and where he buys the truck from,Yermo and Albany aren’t the only yards now and you dont know if he owns his own trailer...
$10k is more than enough money to get an auction truck…just understand how the bid and fee’s work before you bid.
Also…determine what truck model you want or can afford upfront
yes, the radiator is longer than the shroud…I Had to align the bottom of the shroud so far down at the bottom, I used a flapper wheel
to remove some shroud at the center bottom so the rubber isolator would line up correctly.
If this wasn’t done, the shroud sat to to far back and the fan blade...
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