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I have 18" or 19" Goodyear blade wipers on both sides of my 1009, they work great...I also have intermittent :D The P.O. replaced the wiper motor and washer motor with the updated versions.

Yeah, I suppose as long as you're really careful cutting the top off you're good to go. I never thought about going from the bottom. Your cheap trick seems just as easy as the GP extractor tool once you get the tops cut off. Yeah, if the plugs are swelled too much, no tool, special or not will...

Good thinking. That's essentially how the special glow plug removal tools work. For an engine on a stand that's a great free way of extracting swelled plugs. However, this process would be next to impossible to do on an engine that's still in a vehicle, especially on the rear-most glow plugs.

Looks like a Mercury Grand Marquis grille, and the header panel on Crown Vics/G. Marquis is hard fiberglass, like the chunk stuck in the hitch. Cliffy, hope you can get all the truck repair/replacement truck stuff figured out fairly quickly ("quick" is not a word insurance companies know).

Dang!! An entire pad lock jammed in there!! That's crazy :shock:

Burgundy is the stock color. But the military changed them out sometimes...or the police/fire/forestry/hwy dept that bought them from the military. Original one got sunbaked, cracked, and torn up, so they grabbed whatever ones they could get. The Air-Force and Navy often had blue, grey, or tan...

Like NDT said, it looks like it's seen some civilian farm/logging use or something. But CUCV's can look that weathered and beat up with only 10,000mi. And with how inaccurate and prone to failing the speedometer/odometers are in C/K trucks, this truck could literally have any amount of mileage...

Glad you're ok, could have been much worse for sure. Hope you don't have any lasting issues and that the truck isn't too bad to fix.

Took my 1009 on a 300mi. round trip yesterday and today. I got around 19mpg. Oil change is in the works for this weekend.

To further expand on this: the larger the tire the slower it will be off the line, but the higher the top end speed (and the lower the rpms). Bigger tires will also hurt your hill climbing ability a little bit due to the lower rpms. Small tire= quicker off the line, lower top speed/higher rpms...

I too used whatever Napa had for a J-code 6.2L. I think it's about 4" tall, but my lid fits tight. Not sure what would be wrong with yours. Might be some dents in in the air cleaner where the filter sits. Do you have any pictures of it? But as long as the filter is sealed to the top and bottom...

Highway speeds are nice and easy with a stock M1009. 60-70mph all day long. At 65mph with stock gears and 30-31" tires you should see about 2200rpm which is right around the upper part of the "sweet spot" for the 6.2L. Some guys on SS even say they go 75-80mph with their 1009's.

So how did the recovery go? And how does the 1009 look in person?

You can buy aftermarket turnsignal switches that clamp onto the column. A lot of hotrod guys use them.

I've never heard it called the Cunningham. I know it as the Cologne 4.0L and 2.9L. The Ranger did pretty good. I took 3rd, only reason for that is I didn't have time to weld the differential, I blew a rear tire and that was the end of me moving. Haha.

The Explorer, probably had the older 4.0L V6, those engines are super reliable. I ran an old 4.0 Ranger with 240K (on the broken odometer) in a demo derby, blew the lower radiator hose early in the heat and lost all the water, the engine never stalled, and after still started and ran great (the...

A trailer. Just because GL says its running or driveable, doesn't mean it is. Could have been running when it was parked at the lot, but the batteries might be gone now, or fuel filter is clogged. I don't have experience recovering vehicles from GL. But from what I've seen on SS, expect nothing...

Oops forgot the relay part. You could run the control for the relay from the ignition spot on the fuse panel (with an inline fuse), and run the pump off battery power. Also, I really don't see the issue with a small filter (and by small I DON'T mean a 1" long/.75" dia. one you put on a lawn...

You can just use a little $3 inline motorcycle/small engine filter. You could wire the pump any number of ways. To the fuse block, to the battery, to a key-on circuit, with a switch, etc. As long as it has a fuse or circuit breaker capable of handling the draw from the fuel pump I think it would...

Didn't get any pictures, but there was an M151 Mutt, a late model M38 Willy's, and an older M35A2 with the N/A LD465.