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Added some fuses and completed the rest of the wiring So last night we got to work again and added an inline fuse for the main power run immediately after the connection to the battery (main_fuse pic). We used a 40A fuse for this- everything connected to this distribution running at full...

By no means am I struggling with this, I completely understand everything being discussed here. It's just good experience to talk things out and make sure we're all on the same page so that we can have an effective, educational, and progressive conversation. I know that's not what you were...

tim292stro- Wow. This is incredible. Mind blown, seriously. If you knew the kind of detailed person I am you'd know how fantastic that was for me to learn. I deeply respect the time you took to write this down and that has certainly adjusted my perspective of how to handle electrical power and...

See the attached picture. I drew over it some to highlight the components. D1 is the first split and D2 is where the hots will be connected; GP is the glow plug fuse. The rest of the individual fuses and accessories have not been added in this picture, the connections are run into the engine bay...

That sounds badass. Best of luck on all the work.

Photos are KEY!!! It helps everyone see what were working with an draws higher quality discussions. This thing has been a blast to work on and will be even more fun to plow snow and thrash around some fields in.

The ground tree is bolted to the shelf that the starter relay, volt relay, and Gen 2 relay are fixed to, directly below the heater controls. That shelf is bolted to the underside of the dash same as is oem. The ground tree grounds connections which run through the switches to ground a 3A circuit...

Yeah this is my first time working on one of these so any thing that's needed has to be bought or made. I appreciate the advice though and will take it into consideration while moving forward with this project. Thanks cucvrus!

This is a great point and I completely agree, it's actually been working discussion point already. We are on a budget so that's why we went with what we did. Could we get away with soldiering them really nice by hand and coating them heavily with liquid electrical tape? Trying to avoid buying...

Work on Old Red this weekend We decided to call her "Old Red". So here's an update: We spent most of the weekend up to our neck in wiring trying to make sense of what we have and what we don't. There were a few things that we were unsure about but here's what we accomplished: Glow Plugs-...

Hey Greg, at this point this is something in the plans but not something that has been acquired yet. I'm sure I'll end up doing a full write-up on this when the time comes if there isn't another thread with this information already. I'll be sure to let you know if I come across anything in the...

This is fantastic. My buddy and I are actually down by the MD/PA line but that's still rather close considering the scope of the forum. I will be sure to reach out for parts or reference. Thanks so much.

Due to the unfortunate amount of red overspray on this truck from the fire dept I believe the plan is to strip down the reflective tape and other decals and paint her red again. This way we wont find red overspray everywhere forever. :-?

Just started working on my buddy's 86 M1008 over this summer which was purchased with a Fisher MinuteMount EZ-V snowplow. The truck was a brush truck for a local fire company and they hacked up the wiring and neglected it for years. I've been using this forum just searching and reading...