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Went four-wheeling this weekend in the mountains and had an alternator failure at the bottom of a trail 20 miles from a paved road. Was coming down a hill and the belt was squealing so I looked down and Gen 1 was lit. I shut it off in the middle of the trail. Opening the hood expecting to see a...

This is just interesting enough to need posting. I'm probably one of the few idiots that would actually put FI on a flathead 6 instead of doing a motor swap. It just wouldn't be as cool to put a 350 and an auto in it. As always it has to start with the back story - Now don't go having a...

This is what happens when you give a redneck a CNC mill and free time. Not all that special but some people might find it interesting. I've always wanted something to show people that that it isn't a civilian blazer. I wanted to do one with the letters cutout but I don't have tooling small...

I'm thinking of getting a 2000-2500 watt inverter for the back of my 1009 to power some tools and a small compressor. Since the 24v ones are more expensive my budget limits me to a regular 12v one. I already have my winch being powered off the front bat and its also powering the inside of the...

Just so I can be like everybody else and have a transmission problem thread, here it is. Except mine is not the usual "my truck shifts too late" problem. It wouldn't shift at all. On Monday it randomly just wouldn't shift so I had to drive home and get in my other truck. On tuesday I spent...

Took the 1009 to the ice races at Georgetown lake Colorado, and as expected got beat...but it was by a H2 (that was driven by someone who had done this before). http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn161/wkbrdngsnw/Ice%20Racing/th_MVI_1284.jpg I apologize for the bad video and commentary but I'm...

I went out this morning to check the fluid levels and found that I was about a quart low on engine oil so I reached in the back of the blazer and pulled out what I thought was a gallon of Rotella. It was a gallon of 85-140 gear oil in a container that looked very similar. I wondered why it was...

My banks turbo install on the cheap has gone completely wrong. Sorry for the long post but I need to vent about bad decisions and incompetent people. I bought a 1989 C30 for its turbo about a month ago thinking it would be a nice bolt on with very little modification. Not so much, the actual...

I have been having problems with u-joint wear in the front location of the rear shaft and with the best joints they sell at the local parts store I can get maybe 2500 miles out of it. The rollers show almost no wear but the end of the cap is worn to the point that it has about a 1/16" of play on...

I'm new to CUCV's and diesels and I've had my 1009 driving for about a month around town and love the 19.5 mpg compared to my 69 C10 which gets about 10mpg. I decided to take it from Denver to Grand Junction to visit a friend and see how it did off-road. Needless to say it would only do about...