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I did a temporary glow plug by pass and got it cranked. Both gen1 and gen2 are now charging and everything is working good. My next couple of projects will be weatherstrip replacement, bed liner on inside and leaf springs re-arched. Once these are done I plan on getting new tires and put...

I decided to move the ground for gen1 to a different location. Well, believe or not now my gen1 light is working. Guess that it just didn't have a good enough ground. The spot where it was did have a lot of gunk build up. With that being said, I am definitely going to go inspect all...

The gen1 bulb was replaced with a 168. It messed up when i tried to post it in the previous post.

This morning i double checked wiring and hooked all connections up. The glow plug module does not have a card in it, and wont until I get a replacement. Then i connected batteries up. I disconnected the 2 wire plug on back of gen1 to test and see what voltages i get. With the key off: Red...

Thank you for the information on the glow plug module mistaken1. Warthog, I got the doghead conversion completed and it cranked with no problems. It was also about 97 degrees outside. If the glow plug module just controls the glow plugs I am going to do a bypass conversion for that. I...

Well, got the wire and solenoid for the doghead conversion. I started by pulling fuse block to double check the wires behind it to make sure no more burned wires. I found only the red wire coming from starter relay burnt to where it goes through fire wall. I also decided to check the glow...

I am going tomorrow to Napa to get what I need for the doghead. I was lucky that only those 3 wires burnt and not anything else.

Finally, today I was able to catch a break in the rain and get some pictures of the wires in the wiring harness that are burnt. They are the Purple, Purple/White and the Red wires that go to the starter relay under dash. There were only a couple of other wire that had very minimal damage. I...

I am a little familiar from working on one of the fire trucks in the fire department. Well, I did some more troubleshooting and started checking wire harnesses behind instrument cluster. Guess what I found? I found several wires burnt and fused together. The main ones burnt are the wires...

Next time I will be sure to capitalize where necessary. I was trying to get the information typed before I forgot what I was going to say.

forgot to mention battery voltages. front battery is 12.7 and rear battery is 12.6.

gen#1 probs *** COMBINING THREADS *** i am new to this forum and i posted a thread about some charging problems. but, i have done some troubleshooting and now i am totally confused. first- i replaced front battery. old one was bad. second- i checked the alternator plugs for voltage with...

ok. got a new front battery installed. the old one was bad. i am still not getting the charging that is suppose to be there. i was looking at wire diagram and noticed that on the passenger side alternator there were 2 wires coming off the positive on back and only one wire on the ground. but...

thanks for the info. i will call around and see if i can find someone that has a good battery tester. i'm also gonna check some more wires to make sure none of them have shorted to ground. hopefully i get this fixed soon.

i got it to crank today. so i decided to disconnect the battery cable from the positive on front battery to see if it would stay running. well it just died. hooked cable back up and it started the chattering noise and lights flickering on dash and no start. tried cranking several times and...

the batteries were load tested and passed. the non isolated alternator was installed on the drivers side. i haven't found any wires that look burned or damaged. i checked all fuses in fuse block and went ahead and replaced all of them with new ones. they all looked about 20+ years old. i...

i did swap batteries around and still having the same problem. i was searching on forum and found something on the doghead mod. what does this actually do?

i purchased an 85 m1009 about a month ago. when i bought it, it was running good. 2 weeks later the alternator burned out. replaced it with a reman alternator that burned out a week later. found out the wrong alternator was installed. now i have an isolated ground alternator, both were...