Search results

https://youtu.be/0SS-11bTM34 I took a video of mine, above, when was trying to understand why it wouldn't pump. The silver metal part toward the top of the frame has a "finger" that rides on the top of the rotating plastic part. When that finger is on top of the rotating plastic part, the...

Dude... Read the manual. It's #8 below. If you click on the highlighted word "manual" above, it's a link to the manual, which you can bookmark, download, print, etc. The highlighting tells you it's a link. There are 5 basic CUCV manuals. The -10 tells you how to operate it. The -20...

Sanity is overrated.

Cleaned up winter-induced rust and depot-painted my chrome mirror using behr paint from Home Depot. I brought them a number from my bridge plate for them to color-match. I chose the one that best matched the rest of the truck. Turned out OK. I was disappointed that the metal I so...

I keep this in the truck. It provides a thin but welcome layer of waterproof insulation between me and the slush/mud/gravel etc. http://ads.midwayusa.com/product/169107/midwayusa-competition-shooting-mat

I'd never seen anything like that either. When I brought it in, I asked the tire guy if he could repair it. He wasn't sure if I was joking or nuts.

When you inspect tires, note the date of manufacture. My spare was original factory equipment, 33 years old. It had never been used except once, this summer, when I had to run an errand in the middle of rotating my tires. When I tried to use it again in the bitter cold, it crumbled. I now...

This winter, I drive the CUCV every day, whatever the temperature. We did the usual SS mods and maintenance stuff. Antennaclimber glowplug card. Fresh glowplugs. GP resistor bypass. Fresh GP relay. Dog Head starter relay. Big commercial Penn batteries, each rated 1000 CCA at 0 degrees...

The truck starts much quicker today, at 50 degrees, than it did day before yesterday, at -20 degrees.

This is a design flaw in the CUCV. Too many amps pass through that fuse. You need the LMC headlight relay mod. See the "Headlight" section in http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?123199-CUCV-Helpful-Threads. Don't put it off and melt your fuse block like I did.

Wow. A 33 year old tire. I'd never looked at date codes before. When I asked mechanics to assess the tires, I guess they only looked at the tread, and not the date codes. They all gave the tires a thumbs up. You'd think the State safety inspections would check the tire dates. All they...

The tire techs at NTB debated whether that was a 1 or a T. 1983 would make sense if that were the original spare in a 1984 truck. The way the sidewalls disintegrated in the cold, I suspected it might be original. I drove on that tire briefly this summer. I was rotating tires and needed to...

The shredded one to the left is DO1403. The NTB tire guys didn't recognize that date code. The other two that failed are 518. IIUC they're either 17 or 27 years old. They all had vent spews, those little rubber "hairs" that stick out of a new tire. The tread on all was excellent. As you...

3 tire failures this week. I knew the tires were old, but the tread was hardly worn. I guess the bitter cold got to the old rubber. After each of the first 2 failures, I pulled a wheel off the M1101 to use as a spare, to tide me over while I decided what tires to order. When I found the...

Changed a tire in 6" of fresh snow, while wearing office attire. Truck started pulling to the right, so I pulled over to take a look and sure enough... Tire was toast. Added a change of clothing to the stuff that lives in the truck. Thinking about adding some plywood to support the jack on...

Forgive me if I state the obvious, but if tank crud keeps clogging your sock, in addition to filters, you may want to clean out your tank...

Rosanna Danna Danna? Gilda? as in Radner it's always something!

You're not the first person to discover that the factory tire changing tools are inadequate. I'm glad it worked out for you. GM 1-ton lug wrenches are a sick joke, in my experience. I bought a big breaker bar and lug-nut socket, that I keep in the truck. I'm larger and stronger than average...

In the wintertime Northeastern US, you need a shovel even when 2-wheeling on the paved roads. I got my kids collapsible snow shovels for Christmas (among other things). They were somewhat underwhelmed when they opened the packages. Then we got another 7 feet of snow. The shovels saw a lot of...