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I have been blazing through some repairs to the Whistler the last 3-1/2 years. It started making oil in May of 2015. It sat for a while, the wiring rotted off so I couldn’t get power to the intank pump to check the boost pump seal. Then we had a hurricane. Life got in the way and such.
It now...
I started about a year ago removing the broken wiring harness from my M35A2 whistler. I had everything under the dash and at the lights disconnected. Then the hurricane hit, I had family members evacuate to me and I hot wired the truck started to move it out of the way. Life happened and I just...
I got RED from McKoen in December of 2010 as a parts truck for my M1009. Soon after my son Colton convinced me it would be a great project for him to build and become his truck. He was 12 at the time. There is a thread on here somewhere about the RED build.
September of 2011 my direct...
The first 10 minutes are kind of boring. However they do a good job of showing how to remove and replace the IP. Kind of funny to see what didn't make it into production as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20FBN3tdJUg
I think I am blessed to do more than 90% of all my driving in 6.2 powered former military vehicles. I have been doing this for years. Each of the 4 trucks has a different "normal" engine sound. We all know that the best description of a normal healthy 6.2 is "a washing machine full of...
A few weeks ago Colton had driven RED to work at the airport. He texted asking if I could bring him a clean change of clothes since he had a date after work. I don't need an excuse to visit the airport, so I set off with his clothes to go look at planes.
It was very hot and I parked my a/c'ed...
The M1009, RED, that Colton built up has M1008 doors on it. The only difference I have ever found is that the M1009 has rubber seals on the top of the door in addition to the cab mounted rubber seal. My M1009 has the door mounted seals. My USAF Suburban does not have the door mounted seals...
Texas is getting rain this year. Some of us have gotten 20 inches just this month when we normally get around 4 or 5 inches for May. The ground is saturated and any thing that falls now is going to run off on the surface. We got more than 3 inches in about an hour here yesterday afternoon...
The mechanical lift pump on my M1009 started dripping two weeks ago. I parked it until a new Delphi unit showed up in the mail. Anybody that has done this repair knows to hate it. I have done it 2 times on M1009's in the past year. Practice did not make it any faster or easier.
Lots of...
4 1/2 years ago I wrote about my ALT 2 issues:
http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?54292-CUCV-alternator-symptoms-diagnosis-and-fix
From then until now, the ALT 1 light would kind of glow anytime anything electrical was turned on. Running the lights during the day I couldn't see the...
6 years ago tomorrow Sermis, Boxcar and myself picked up 4 M35A2's, 3 M105A3's and a M101A2 from Warthog. We had 3 people picking up 4 truck and 4 trailers. Part of the recovery process was the 3 barrels of WMO Sermis allowed us to bring along.
My truck always ran pretty good, but has never...
I really hate long run on paragraphs on internet forums. I try real hard to keep mine 3-5 sentences and at least a double space before the next one. I have made two post today and both had at least 3 paragraphs when I wrote them. Yet, they posted as a big block. Any idea what is causing...
I have seen magazine or internet write ups for years that talk about how the M1009 has an extra spring leaf on the front making it a 3/4 truck compared to the 1/2 civilian K5 Blazer. I have treated them as most things on the internet or in magazines should be treated, blah, blah, blah. We all...
While I was finding and fixing the loose motor mounts bolts on the Bomber last week. I also found all 4 inner fender to cab bolts loose. They looked fine while doing tire or brake work. It wasn't until I was under the truck wondering how to pick up the engine and get the motor mount bolt back...
My 1984 former USAF 6.2 powered C20 Suburban was running great. I stopped at the store on the way home from work the other day. I fired it up and even though it sounded ok. There was a noticeable vibration. At idle, in gear and while driving. It ran like normal though. It did make a weird...
My students and I are slogging through my M715 re-power effort at work while Colton and I keep getting his RED M1009 project moving along at home. We were cleaning up interior plastic parts to paint yesterday. Since the seat belt reels that mount to the B pillar have burgandy colored plastic...
I remember a thread from years ago about the plate in the B pillar with a threaded hole. This plate is what the post screws into. The plate is also made to move so the post can be adjusted. The thread from years ago which I could not find today talked about how the plate could fall down into...
I have owned one of my M1009's almost 3 years now. I think the fuel gauge has worked correctly about 2 weeks of that time. When I first got it, the needle pointed waaay past F and never moved. The previous owner said it had worked sometimes. I followed what the manual said:
29. FUEL GAGE...
I left Friday afternoon to take my Scouts on a camp out. We hiked a mile or so Friday, camped, hiked 12 miles into the middle of nowhere Saturday, camped and then back Sunday. I had intermittent cell signal and just turned my phone off except to check text ever few hours.
One of my Scout...
I am putting a HMMWV can 6.2 in my M715. It had the long injectors which resulted in the #6 and #8 lines hitting my heater housing when we test fitted the engine. Not to worry I thought because Warthog has a 1988 CUCVII/contract military truck with a 6.2 and short injectors in my pasture. I...
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