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Very easy to install. Just drill the rivets out and use short 5/16" and tack weld the clam shell or grind the bolts flush. Your choice. They give you wire ties. I discard them. But wire ties would work after they are tight in place.

You ask. May I give my highest recommendations to the Energy Suspension. I had a new rubber set fail in 1 weekend at Rausch Creek. The engine sat down on the fuel line inlet of the fuel pump and cut the hose. Was hard to figure out what was going on. I changed the hose and it happened the next...

Easiest is from the back side. I do it from front side if I don't want to get involved in removing a fragile cluster. And if I am just changing bulbs to LED I do it from the front. But to do the entire cluster and clean everything you should remove the entire cluster assembly. Disconnect the...

I have a non working bulb on my M1028. I see that it is NOT charging where it is supposed to be on the gauge. If I use it cutting wood and never increase the RPM's it will never charge at the correct rate. So now I wait till the glow plugs cycle and the engine is warm. I increase the RPM's for a...

Fixing RUST on a 35year old vehicle will be a never ending battle. If the part can be unbolted and has rust I suggest you replace that rusted part. I also suggest you do everything in your power to prevent RUST. These vehicles are RUST havens and always have been. Many of the panels are bare...

Time is irrelevant. I just do it. I have been working leisurely on my current build since November 2017. I have not left a bolt unturned.

You mean like that? That comes with a lot of sweat and toil. But I still recommend you remove the body from frame. The M1009 is notorious for hiding rust in the rea floor rea and is almost impossible to get clean and properly coated while still in place. I have a 12K M1009 in my barn for 25...

Get a nice dry place and lots of tools. Let the fun begin. I been there several times. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/1986-cucv-m1009-decade-after-being-wrecked.173878/ Good Luck. Let me warn you it gets expensive to do it right. I recommend removing the body from the frame. Be Safe.

Well very successful day. I only completed 1 task but it was difficult one and time consuming. I changed the transaxle from my Honda wood hauler. I was planning on converting it to dual tandem drive but lack of a welder at this point will put that on hold. It will be so easy I have to do it...

Hey I have 2 shaded windows in stock. A tempered like new privacy glass and a dot matrix tempered privacy glass. But I can buy all the glass I want from a local glass vendor. You can do the same.

OK. The time has come. I have been outside cleaning the yard and sweeping my shop. I have found and discarded many things I didn't need and forgot I had. Making several hundred feet of steel shelving helped a bunch. I also sorted and used the many parts bins I acquired during the past 30 years...

Listen this guy said I ain't going to pull it out. Stock tires.

My long SOLD Crown of Thorns M1009 has appeared on a used car lot in Ephrata PA. If anyone is interested. I chuckled because it has a clean Car FAX. https://www.carfax.com/vehicle/1G8ED18J2GF115312 But here it is if anyone is interested. Very reliable vehicle. They are only asking a few dollars...

My guess is the turn signal switch in the steering column. Not a fun switch to change but very doable if you take your time. I just disassembled an entire column to get to the wiper switch. I replaced the wiper switch and reassembled the column. I attempted in the past but in the truck. It was...

You should post the pictures. I want to see what a 5K perfect M1009 looks like right before it gets destroyed and devalued. It makes me proud to do all my CUCV's in reversible modifications if any. I mean I turned an M1009 into a pick up truck for 10 years and returned it to an M1009 for...

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/meet-mr-rusty.140975/page-7 Check out my Meet Mr. Rusty thread. I encountered this on a few CUCV's where the glow plug wires were burnt and bad upstream from the glow plug connections. I made a few new glow plug harnesses and just installed them in their...

I don't think the M1009 has them slots. They aren't really needed. This is from Terminus M1009.

The body and frame will rot off and return to the earth before the gear drive would even be worth the expense and effort. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Good Luck. How about some pictures of this 5 K M1009.

I wheeled my M1009 hard. Read this and look at the pictures. Stock worked and I went places others were in awe. https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/terminus-m1009.144523/

I'll stick with my Trucklite LED headlamps. They are the only ones that made my driving at night easier. They also lightened the load on the lighting circuit. I put LED's thru out my old Crown of Thorns M1009. Everything that had a bulb. Only thing I ever noticed was the head lamps. Sold that...