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Thanks guys but none of those are near Lexington, KY or Grand Rapids, MI.

It'll pull but with 37's you're basically like a stock civy truck with 3.42 gears. It won't be a power house but it will be fine. You have to remember the military truck was geared stupid low so it could pull a M101 trailer and have eight guys in the back all day long at 35mph. It's not a...

Anybody have one? I put up a post in the classifieds last month and also on ColoradoK5's classifieds but got nothing worth pursuing. I live in Lexington, KY but have friends and family in the Grand Rapids, MI area and will be back there this spring/summer. I can do either place. Just looking...

Uh huh...cause Dana 60's and 14FF's wear out from 37" tires...uh huh...:roll: I have 38's on my truck and I bet it's no slower than most of you guys with stock trucks. Not to mention when you're bouncing off the governor at 55mph I can go 70. I can go faster but my ears hurt...about like...

I had them on mine with no lift, slight trimming, GM 16.5" wheels, and a bit of adjusting of the right turn steering stop. The key is to keep them under the body and not sticking out. I'm the one that has the narrow 38's and 1" of front lift now. More cutting but nothing drastic. I'm going...

15x10's are a bit wide. What size tire do you want to run? 3.5-4" is the ideal backspacing on these trucks. Wrong. They don't weigh any more than a civilian K5. In fact, I'd bet my '89 K5 weighs more than a M1009. They just have standard 1/2 ton springs for the highest GVWR for a K5 Blazer...

****, Toyota's IFS is actually durable. GM's IFS is just enough to keep the truck moving while it's under warranty. Even light offroading beats it up.

Ugh...using GM's torsion bar IFS under a "tactical vehicle" scares the bejeezus out of me. <---shudders

That's NOT a CUCV-II. That's just 89-91 Chevy Crewcab of the older body style that the military must still own. The CUCV-II was of the newer 88-99 IFS body style trucks. Unless I misread that and you are still going to be putting up pictures of a different truck, an actual CUCV-II?

Wrong, not all CUCV's were camo. Most of the Navy and Marine Corps' were solid green and the AF had a bunch that were white and some that were blue. Plenty of Army CUCV's were solid green as well.

CUCV glow plugs work at about 12v, civy glow plugs work at about 6v. HMMWV glow plugs are the only ones actually at 24v. Just return them and order the Wellman plugs, they're great. I've seen reports of the Autolights swelling too.

State Farm. Big Ugly is still reg'd and insured in Michigan. You WILL have to give them the VIN eventually. They'll probably get confused by the D in there where a civilian truck would have a...I think...G. Just means it was bought by the government. I had to explain to them a few times...

If you look around you can find a stock GM air baffle for that hole in the core support. I got one from a friend and ran hose to it. I've had bad luck with the hose I'm running so I'm trying to track down a OEM GM air intake setup for the 6.2L diesel. Oh, CUCV's already have the single plane...

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Well, I ended up with the polar opposite of what I was really looking for when I bought mine. I was expecting 29's and 3.08 gears for mileage and got 3.73 gears and the towing package. My Blazer was setup as a tug boat. Factory hitch, big rear brakes, 3.73 gears, 29" tires (thing must have...

Kenny, pretty much all of the aal's today are the type Croatan described. Meant to be bolted into the pack. I've had good luck with long aal's in the past but that was on vehicles with positively arched springs, not sure how they'd work on our stock front springs.

I used this one: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/cucv/20600-faq-thread-cucvs-2.html#post226622 Worked fine for over a year now.

I read that in a wiki faq or something somewhere. It's wrong but I know it's out there on the interwebnets. 4.56's only in the CUCV pickups.

What does this sound like?

Shouldn't be. It was a non-emissions diesel.