Recent content by Stratoghost

Those all look nice. It would free up some space in the back too. Looks like a welding project for me sometime in the future. As soon as I can figure out where to get some metal for a reasonable price. BTW, Is that steel or aluminum, and how much does it weigh by itself? I tend to...

That looks really nice! Does anybody know how much weight the fiberglass roof will take?

Nice! Thanks! Will do.

Thanks for the info. I looked up the part, it isn't expensive. The job doesn't look too hard to do. It'll give me a chance to change out some hoses and radiator fluid at the same time.

When my truck warms up on a very cold morning, like we've been having the past week, a sheet of fog starts coming out from the front of the dashboard next to the windshield. It doesn't smell like radiator fluid and the radiator fluid level is the same as it has been. It doesn't smell like...

Threads like this are useful as the search results are not always the best due to the terms used. For example, I used the terms " best cucv trailer." The search removed the term "best" and only used "cucv" and "trailer." The results did not yield the thread "Correct trailer for a M1009", but did...

Before I tell you what it was doing and how I "fixed" it, let me tell you a few modifications I did to it prior to the incident. I did the doghead relay mod, replaced the glow plug relay with one that was recommended, did the resistor panel reroute mod and added a glow plug button in the cab...

Alright, I said I would post what I did to get mine to work, but I forgot as I was so happy that it actually ran. I bought some wire brushes and a large tube of dielectric grease. I unscrewed every contact on the positive and negative blocks on the firewall and brushed every contact, washer...

Big Block 88, by efficiency, do you mean improved gas mileage?

Your problem seems a lot like mine. It will turn over and even act like it will start then nothing. All power shuts off. Not even the heater fans or lights will come on. The glow plug control box bypass switch I installed will light up the wait light. I did the Doghead relay mod, bypassed the...

Brutusdog, since I didn't have a replacement for the rubber cover, I took a piece of 3/8 tubing, sliced it longways and taped it to the wire so that it covered the post. It is sitting mostly under the adjustment bracket, so it isn't an eyesore.

Could someone who has or is doing this post some pics to show how to do this? Thanks!

Warthog and others helped me out last week when I was all but giving up fixing my truck. The positive post on my passenger alt came in contact with the mounting bracket and toasted some fusible links. The one I missed was one on a big red wire coming from the battery that went under a wiring...

I got to Autozone with the destroyed fusible link and they nor I have any idea how many amps it was rated for. They have no resources for looking up stuff like that. I brought up the wiring diagram on my phone, but they still had no clue. Does anyone know what it is supposed to be?

Thanks Warhog for the warning. I wired it straight up just to see if it would work. I will now go back and put on a fuse.