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truck1 - make sure your rear proportioning valve is adjusted properly. With no weight in the bed, the little dot should be at 12:00 o'clock. I explain this in my rebuild thread. When this is adjusted properly, your M1028 will stop on a dime going forward or reverse. Hope this helps.

I think so. I will try it with the 4000 rpm GM tach and see if it works. Say, where is that tach buffer located? (stupid me)

Thanks Warthog. I plan to start fooling around with it over the holidays and will post my findings. It seems reasonable to assume one pin of the STE/ICE plug would drive the tach. I have both the 24v M998 tach as well as a GM 4000 RPM factory tach out of a 1985 C60 diesel dump truck. This GM...

Thought I would bump this thread back to top since there were no replies. I too am wondering where to obtain the tach signal from the STE/ICE port. Is the brown wire the one that comes from Gen 1?

Hey M1009 Newbie - it would be helpful to many viewers if you could post some photos of your install.

Reply to nyoffroad - I had the 20" rims built way back in 1985, 28 years ago, and installed on a brand new 1985 K30 single rear wheel pickup. Back then, 20" rims on pickups were unheard of. The only way to have 20" tires on a pickup was to build the rims to accommodate them. So I hired my...

I will respectfully offer my opinion regarding adding heat to the 6.2. There are other threads which discuss adding heat to the larger engines, however my comments pertain to our CUCV engines. Having owned and operated diesel engines for over 40 years, first with construction and grading...

Hey Diesel Freak; many of your questions can be answered by reading my rebuild thread. You will indeed need crossover steering with that much lift. I tried to lift my M1028 using a modified steering block and ORD's drop steering arm, but the geometry just will not work. With this setup my...

Here's what I did - I purchased a new civi fill spout with locking cap and fabricated an adapter to marry the civi spout to the military body bracket. Worked like a champ. I cut the adapter from sheet aluminum I had in the shop. It's so easy a caveman can do it. Hope this helps.

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Ahem..... thats AMEN, not A-man.

Makers TeleMark - With all due respect, I built my 20" split rims in 1985 and mounted 11.00/20 NDT's specifically for elk hunting in Colorado. Between 1985 and 1995, I made eleven round-trips on these tires from my home base in Georgia to various CO hunting spots from Bears Ears north of Hayden...

Ditto on the skinny tires for snow. My 11.00/20 NDT's will easily maintain traction in 12" - 16" fine powder and will absolutely not tread-fill. I ran these wheels and tires for 10 years on a 1985 1-ton K30 single-rear-wheel civilian truck and enjoyed outstanding traction in deep snow. In...

Mine came with the cover from Jatonka. But I believe any Ace hardware has them as well.

I would look at a Jatonka Winter Grill Cover though,really makes a difference,well fitting and well made,and easily installed. After you get the engine cranked and warmed up, the Jatonka Winter Grill Cover is a must-have to maintain correct operating temperature while driving in very cold...

They were running JP8 in my M1028. When I repainted it I made sure I stenciled it correctly.

Reply to Carbon - the wheel centers are seven-sixteenths thick steel. I had the rims built back in 1985 and ran them over 250,000 miles on a K30 Chevy SRW civi truck. I was fortunate to have a good friend who owned a machine shop. He first dressed each blank on a giant horizontal grinder to...

Please, PLEASE, disconnect that darn buzzer!

You can do an easy 2" lift without having to change your drive shafts or steering modification with a simple spring swap. Give Steve at Off Road Designs a call. Hope this helps.

I certainly hope so. The set he built for me are fantastic!