What have you done to your CUCV today/lately - Part 2

[BostonPatriot28]

I took my CUCV to Freeport, MAINE I left from West Virginia on the July 18th & stayed in Rhode Island for the night, and left the next morning took over 4 1/2 hours because of a accident with two vehicle's, plus the state trooper behind them everyone had to gawk at the scene! I took my son and two daughter's out with my old lady and her folks came out too. I have some photo's of the campground as well as Portland & some of I-495 I-95 got home 2 days ago now lost a total amount of 5-6 qts of Dexron III, dropped the truck off at the shop yesterday at 8am. Had a great time in Maine now back to work


so in my case RobM36A2 my truck broke during vacation

 

[BostonPatriot28]

Toucan Sam is painted on building because of the college called MECA Maine College Of Arts there was other paintings but I happen to be walking by that one

 

[Drock]

Was there ah bar near by? That's the Guinness beer toucan

 

[BostonPatriot28]

yup and a Chowdah bar too lol (New England talk not misspelled)

 

[1StumpJumper]

Romoved stock bed and installed a M101A2 bed.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Romoved stock bed and installed a M101A2 bed.

At your leisure can you post up a pic?

 

[1StumpJumper]

At your leisure can you post up a pic?

This is the only one I have so far. It was a rpetty straight forward process. If you look carefully, you can see the GM tail lights zip tied to the bumper!

 

[Drock]

What are those tires? Did you have to lift it for clearance?

 

[MarcusOReallyus]

Romoved stock bed and installed a M101A2 bed.

Why? Just because it looks good? Or is there some other benefit?

 

[319]

Finally installed an additional slave port on my contact maintenance truck. Because of where I park the truck, a port on the back of the truck is more convenient if the need arises to start my generators or M35. Ran 1/0 welding cable to the buss bars on the firewall. Protected by a 400 amp fuse. Made a cap for it out of CPVC.

 

[TechnoWeenie]

Finally installed an additional slave port on my contact maintenance truck. Because of where I park the truck, a port on the back of the truck is more convenient if the need arises to start my generators or M35. Ran 1/0 welding cable to the buss bars on the firewall. Protected by a 400 amp fuse. Made a cap for it out of CPVC.

I always wondered why those trucks didn't have more than one port.. It would seem that in some situations it wouldn't be feasible to nose to nose the ports...

 

[chief1983]

This also reminds me of my wondering why cars don't have trunk battery posts for jumping. Or amp hookup

 

[MarcusOReallyus]

Finally installed an additional slave port on my contact maintenance truck. Because of where I park the truck, a port on the back of the truck is more convenient if the need arises to start my generators or M35. Ran 1/0 welding cable to the buss bars on the firewall. Protected by a 400 amp fuse. Made a cap for it out of CPVC.

Love that cap! What size did you use? Did you glue a cap onto some pipe to make it deep enough?

 

[1StumpJumper]

What are those tires? Did you have to lift it for clearance?

They are a trial set of 37"s on Ford 16.5 steel discs. I am eventually going with 12 bolts. The fenders were bent up from GL so I cut the fenders to see how well the 37s would fit with no lift. I ended up replacing the front springs, shackles, and bushings with stock height springs and recovered 2-1/2" of ride height and the death wobble went away.

sOReallyus;1581783]Why? Just because it looks good? Or is there some other benefit?[/QUOTE]

My bed was also slapped around by GL so a swap was in order anyway. I really like the look of the M101 beds on these.

 

[319]

Love that cap! What size did you use? Did you glue a cap onto some pipe to make it deep enough?

Two pieces, 1-1/4" coupler and 1-1/4" cap. The coupler has a rib inside to keep pipe from slipping through. I carefully filed the rib until the coupler fit the slave port snugly. Don't file too much. Then cut the dome from the cap, and glued it to the coupler. Used solderless terminals crimped to paracord for the lanyard.

 

[gpzTurbo]

New stock size wheels and tires from the local 4x4 shop.
After welding new steel into the rotted front floor and then coating with Por15 I had the whole floor Rhino lined.
Replaced bench seat with a Tahoe (3rd row) one for the kids.
I ordered a marine stereo today and will tackle that install next.

 

[86k5]

Awesome seat! I need to start looking for tahoe buckets and 3rd row.

 

[olly hondro]

Changed insurance companies from State Farm to Geico. The former said " Hey, that is a Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle, so it has to be insured as a commercial truck. Pfffft.

 

[chief1983]

And Geico will do you better? AmFam was more than cool with it, when I said it's just a K5 with stiffer springs and a diesel. Offered to send pics and they didn't even care. But I have a pretty chill agent.

 

[Warthog]

DO NOT TURN THIS INTO AN INSURANCE THREAD.

I will delete the entire thing.