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We appreciate your perseverance and reports and will do all we can to help.

Or cruise garage sales looking for unwanted electric room heaters. At work we use 5000W 208v-240v unit heaters.

Nice work.

Go buy some cheap 1000W, 1500W and/or 2000W electric heaters and rig up a load bank.

PO induced bolt failure?

Continued here: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/cucv/87641-no-start-started-again.html#post1126601

From what I have seen you can get private sale CUCVs cheap but they usually come with PO induced failures and need some tender loving care to restore to full functionality.

If you open up that splice where the yellow meets the purple/white wires what voltage do you measure on the yellow wire coming from the ignition switch? The ignition switch could be bad. Another option would be to disconnect the purple/white wire at the starter relay (the one under the...

The light blue wire is the ground. Did you download the manual and follow the troubleshooting procedure in there to test the card? If you can manually ground the relay terminal with the light blue wire and the relay closes go to the card and try to ground the light blue wire there. Does the...

If you are burning up starter solenoids there is something wrong. Have you done the doghead modification? If not start there. The voltage you read from the front battery negative to the back battery positive is the voltage you should see on the large red wire to the starter. You should see...

If you have power at the top of the relay and you have no power at the bottom of the relay when the light blue wire is manually grounded then you most likely have a bad glow plug relay. Replace that first.

Nice wrecker. Are those bullet holes or bullet dents?

It looks to me like you are putting two coils in series. The coil (solenoid) on the starter (24V) and the ford coil (12V or 24V ????). When you put two coils in series they share the available voltage, which means neither one gets the proper voltage to operate. The starter solenoid is...

If it is dash mounted as in on the inside then the windshield glass filters the sunlight reaching the solar panel causing it to work as if it is not receiving full sunlight (red blink) because in that location it is not receiving full sunlight. They need to be mounted outside to get the full...

The guy is not replacing the solenoid on the starter (so starter/solenoid heat issues remain). As far as I am concerned he is just adding another point of failure in the circuit with the ford relay. I agree. Basically the stock system with a doghead relay modification is essentially already...

It would help if you could draw a wiring diagram of what you are doing with the ford relay. Scan and post or take a clear picture and post so people can see all of the devices, wires and connections in your circuit. If it is in the stock configuration now and working maybe it would be best to...

See if this helps.

The bracket is needed. Without the starter can bind and/or break starter mounting bolts. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/cucv/17825-starting-problem.html#post180532 If you advance search for "broken+starter+bolt" in the CUCV forum you will find plenty of info.

The original direct drive starters need shims. How many is a function of the unique combination of starter, engine and transmission. Bracket is most definitely needed. My understanding is that the original brackets are hard to find. The brackets for the newer gear reduction starters can be...

I will start my unit, verify 60Hz or so. Leave for 10 minutes. Come back to a meter showing 0Hz (generator still running strong). Leave for 10 minutes. Come back to a meter showing 60Hz. The kill-a-watt can be set on frequency and plugged into the convenience outlet. I made a short cord so...