1stSarge
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Hello all, we have had our new M1008 for about a couple of weeks now, and thought I would share my experiences. I have looked long and hard for an M880, being a dodge guy, I was very familiar with the way Chrysler does things. But I could never find what I was looking for. But it seemed very easy to come across a CUCV. I then started doing some soul searching, to figure out why I was biased, and I came to the conclusion that I really wasn’t, I just was not familiar, and a little intimidated by diesels.
After researching the heck out of CUCV’s (most of it here on SS), we began looking. I didn’t know much about GL, and I felt way more comfortable going to a lot and test driving, ect. We located a guy that had several about 250 miles away, and planned to make the drive.
To make a long story short, we drove about six of them and really looked over them good. We picked one out, paid cash, and drove it home. The drive went fine, but I was really nervous, it was a Sunday night, raining like crazy, and I knew next to nothing about the truck we just bought.
We arrived home at about 2:00 am, exhausted but proud and relieved.
Why we bought this one: bone stock, not one spot of rust anywhere, not one dent, the wheel wells are green inside and underneath the entire body is shiny black undercoating. The engine and compartment was completely grease and oil free, no evidence of any kind of leak. The truck started within one second of turning the key (and still does). And it drove great.
Funny side note, while at the dealer, after driving one of the other trucks, we were walking away from it and the starter relay kicked in, and began running. The dealer turned around and looked like a poltergeist just landed in one of his trucks. I knew what it was, where it was, and what to do, thanks to SS. I ran over and saved the day. ( I didn’t get a better deal on my truck after this, but he did let me scavenge whatever I wanted from the other trucks to go with mine, so I have the jack, tools, roadside kit, ect.
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SS has been a tremendous asset to our endeavors to break into the world of MV’s the resources here are great. I have been lurking and reading posts now for quite some time, and when I see questions in the heading I almost know who is going to answer and what they are going to say. I can almost picture Warthog with a text file on his desktop, and copying and pasting the same answers to the same questions to people that don’t know how to use the search functions.
( I had printed the FAQ, and downloaded the manuals before even purchasing the truck).
Others, like Doghead, and 319 have been my heroes in chasing down many small electrical gremlins.
I know next to nothing about diesels, but I am quickly learning the electrical systems of these vehicles, so can chime in on those topics. (But I might still need help there too sometimes).
I am going through the electrical system right now and snapping photos along the way that I think would be helpful in some of the most common problems. I will put them up in a later post.
We are looking now at GL listings and are planning our next purchases.
This is a great online community, and I am happy to be a part of it.
Couldn’t have done it without you.
After researching the heck out of CUCV’s (most of it here on SS), we began looking. I didn’t know much about GL, and I felt way more comfortable going to a lot and test driving, ect. We located a guy that had several about 250 miles away, and planned to make the drive.
To make a long story short, we drove about six of them and really looked over them good. We picked one out, paid cash, and drove it home. The drive went fine, but I was really nervous, it was a Sunday night, raining like crazy, and I knew next to nothing about the truck we just bought.
We arrived home at about 2:00 am, exhausted but proud and relieved.
Why we bought this one: bone stock, not one spot of rust anywhere, not one dent, the wheel wells are green inside and underneath the entire body is shiny black undercoating. The engine and compartment was completely grease and oil free, no evidence of any kind of leak. The truck started within one second of turning the key (and still does). And it drove great.
Funny side note, while at the dealer, after driving one of the other trucks, we were walking away from it and the starter relay kicked in, and began running. The dealer turned around and looked like a poltergeist just landed in one of his trucks. I knew what it was, where it was, and what to do, thanks to SS. I ran over and saved the day. ( I didn’t get a better deal on my truck after this, but he did let me scavenge whatever I wanted from the other trucks to go with mine, so I have the jack, tools, roadside kit, ect.
) SS has been a tremendous asset to our endeavors to break into the world of MV’s the resources here are great. I have been lurking and reading posts now for quite some time, and when I see questions in the heading I almost know who is going to answer and what they are going to say. I can almost picture Warthog with a text file on his desktop, and copying and pasting the same answers to the same questions to people that don’t know how to use the search functions.
( I had printed the FAQ, and downloaded the manuals before even purchasing the truck). Others, like Doghead, and 319 have been my heroes in chasing down many small electrical gremlins.
I know next to nothing about diesels, but I am quickly learning the electrical systems of these vehicles, so can chime in on those topics. (But I might still need help there too sometimes).
I am going through the electrical system right now and snapping photos along the way that I think would be helpful in some of the most common problems. I will put them up in a later post.
We are looking now at GL listings and are planning our next purchases.
This is a great online community, and I am happy to be a part of it.
Couldn’t have done it without you.
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