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There was a mid-life mod done on some CUCVs which bypassed (and sometimes removed) the glowbar resistor mounted to the firewall and wired the feed circuit to the glow-plug relay to the front battery (12V side) instead. Apparently it was done to aid slave-starting it in a dead-battery condition...

All black CARC on anything I've worked on...about fourteen-fifteen, I guess...in addition to the stuff I've seen in the scrapyard.

As others have said, pretty much anything from the VRC-12 family thru current SINCGARS stuff is 'correct'. Both were in Desert Storm side-by-side and even later, and the Guard just turfed the last of their VRC-12 family sets either last year or the year before. Most common radio in the...

A basic digital voltmeter with 'diode test' or just an ohms/resistance scale is a great tool for checking glowplugs. Basically, set the meter to any ohms range or diode test, hook one probe up to nice, clean engine metal -- touch the other probe to the tip of the glow plug after removing the...

I've towed lots of them - once even all the way from Malmstrom AFB to Seattle. Everyone's right in that they do tow squirrely, so I generally bungee-corded the steering wheel to allow the wheel to travel a limited amount for cornering etc. without winding up over at either far extreme. Some are...

I've dealt with two that have had that problem. If you look it up on Google there's a site with some pics of exactly what happens to the cooling loop, but basically it cracks inside the transfer case at the mount point and then, as has been said, nicely drains your transmission. For most users...

From what I gather they changed their minds just about hourly as to what they wanted and even outright bought a bunch of stuff they're not going to use now. They're also filming in Cold Lake at some point so maybe they're thinking of you for that sequence or something. (sometimes they also...

I liked the first Transformers movie! The Decepticon MH-53 Pave Low was just awesome...but then again, the Decepticons get all the cool vehicles anyway (like that MRAP Buffalo taking out the bus on the highway.) The second movie...eh...not so much, but still fun if you're in full Brain...

From people on that show I hear that A-Team actually got that M1010, a bunch of 686 tan Humvees hardtop and troop carrier configurations, a couple of CARC camo Humvees, a few Leyland DAFs masquerading as LMTVs (I guess), some M915s, whatever the M800 family expansible van is called also tan, and...

Fair Radio Sales has tons of them www.fairradio.com and Mike Murphy has them too www.murphyjunk.com There are so many out there you can usually get new ones for cheap. Right now there's a whole new install kit on Ebay which is at $40 bucks or so if you want to go that route.

Nice rig. Your MD-522 modem looks brand new. I have an ex-UN GRC-142B rig at work which was still set up for the old TT-76/TT-98 teletypes but which nevertheless had the interface boxes, cables, mounts etc. for the KG-84 rather than the KW-7.

Aah. So much for speed reading. It looks like the same weird power connector used for the GRC-106 judging by the pictures, as the female portion of the threaded center connector is on the equipment end for the GRC-106 and the MX-7777, where for the common VRC-12 stuff it's the reverse. A few...

MT-1898 mounts for the R-442 receivers are all over, but Fair Radio Sales in Lima, OH has your pick of either gov't reconditioned ones or used ones here: https://www.fairradio.com/catalog.php?mode=search&query=mt-1898 Pretty sure that CX-10613/G cable is just the standard VRC-12 series...

Yeah..I just went through his list also and while he still has four or five of the battery boxes he seems to be out of the HYPs, so maybe I got the last two. You'll probably just have to keep an eye on his auctions and see what turns up, because I too looked everywhere before I found the ones...

Ebay vendor Austin Aviation has them now and then but he rarely labels them 'HYP-57' so you have to go through his radio listings. He has the appropriate battery boxes now and then too if you ever decide to do a manpack (PRC-77) configuration. I bought a bunch of stuff off of him and have...

Found out when I was looking for one that the AS-4333/V specified for the PLGR is actually the AeroAntenna Technology AT575-29. If you go to Ebay and key in "AT575" in the search box, you regularly come up with a bunch for sale with and without the magnetic base for under $20 bucks (there are...

I've never seen an electric one on a CUCV. I have a bunch of M1008s and M1009s here from 84-87 and they all have the VRV (Vacuum Regulator Valve) setup which takes vacuum generated by the vacuum pump (mounted in the 'distributor' hole at the back of the engine) - regulates it according to the...

Problem is that there are a billion manuals for the GRC-206 thanks to there being something like seven different variants since the 1980's. Most of ours seem to be the V(2) and V(3) types, but to my knowledge those manuals only show the plain model RT-1209 as part of the URC-113 setup. It...

Hmm. Just went through Brooke's material again and I think the person who said it's for hooking up to the C-11525/G Controller is right, because the C-11525/G seems to have the same 19 pin connector as the RT-1209A, whereas the GRC-206 cabling wants to hook up to the type of connector found on...

Also, once you hook the radios up make reaaaaaal sure you've followed the wiring instructions in the manual exactly or you *will* let the magic smoke out. One of the local collectors has smoked three of them in the last couple of years (because he insists on doing it himself), and each has one...