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My bad, I should have explained a little better. The pigs we have are Guinea pigs. I reread my post and realized I wasn’t clear on the pigs I was talking about. Two of my wife’s male Guinea pig’s got frisky and were beating the daylights out of each other. I thought they were going to kill each other. So I stuck my hands in their crate to separate them. It was a mistake! Them little buggers tore into me like a tornado in a trailer park. Got cuts all over my hands as well as a deep puncture wound that required 5 stitches to close. It’s still leaking ‘cause one of them nicked a vein.Holy crap. My wife's cousin farms hogs. One day, the boar abruptly copped a major attitude with her and probably would have killed her had she not ventilated his skull with a .357 she carries. My point being that I'm glad you made it out OK.
Thank you very much! I’m a passively good at mechanical issues. I’ve never been very good at electrical stuff.Jeff,
I am not a truck guy, but if you want to insert a light in the same cuircuit as the AUX pump, I assume to let you know when the AUX pump is in operation, its easy. Pull the electrial connector to the AUX pump. Insert a "Y" connection to the PLUG side. The hook one of the "Y" legs to the AUX pump, The other leg gets a wire that runs up to the dash(if thats where you want it) and hook it up one side of a add on light socket. Then the other side to ground. When the Aux pump comes on, the 24 VDC Path to pump (and light) will be completed.
This will NOT tell you when the pump fails. The light will ALWAYS come on, when the AUX pump is turned on. To wire it up so you can see when the pump fails, you need to put the light in series, BEFORE the Aux pump. Hot wire comes from the source, to one side of the light, out the other side and then to the pump. When the pump runs, the light is lit. The pump provides the path to ground. If the pump fails, (shorts out, burns up and so on) the path to ground is broken and the light will not illuminate.
Thank you, I will get one drawn. I need to get that drawing posted. So much to do...Draw a picture of how you wired it up. Lets take a look see.
Now that’s a proper TM! The TM’s we have are severely lacking in these details!I stumbled upon some books on the 5 ton series and strongly believe that even a pig can't argue about the details in these books. Let me know if you need anything.........I have versions in both French or English. How's the healing going?
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I’ve got a bunch of the digital TM’s for the 800’s. There’s a bunch of similarities between the M39 series and the 800’s. The 900’s are completely different.I don't even own an 800 series but I found a huge stack of working manuals at a wrecker and scooped em'.
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They were in a wrecked gubermint truck and I suppose someone was cleaning out the mechanics desk and tossed them. The capacity charts, lube charts, dimensions and pictures are always handy.
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That little trailer would definitely fit the bill. Not too big, just big enough.That truck is such a beast. It's going to need a trailer to slow it down. Fortunately, we're expanding the wheel choice up here and polished aluminum is the new camo. Now you can blend in with the fleet with anything. Thanks to cmv dm for the photo.
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There's a nice single wheel trailer option over here with a decent pic of the combo. Keep it up.
"""""""""""Acquired in the late 1950, and used by the engineers as tractor for a 20 ton Canada trailer. Later they were re-assigned as tractors for the Rogers M9 trailer used as HET´s. """"""""""
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