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Interesting! I actually have lugs like this currently, but they are corroded to hell and the fastener bolt is rounded and stripped to the point where it doesn't stay tight. He also had the lugs directly attached to the cables, no ring terminal cables screwed on. I like this, I will run it like...

I also picked me up a klein crimper/cutter and irwin wire strippers. Figure they will also come in handy. What do you mean by military lugs? Are those for a specific kind of battery, cause right now I just have two old diehard gold batteries with top posts

Love an opportunity to learn. Looks easy enough, I'll get it done! It'll feel better doing it myself.

Hurricane (tropical storm) Ian interrupting my plans to go work on the CUCV. It's about to start coming down and it's gonna be a little rough tomorrow. Shouldn't hit us too hard (SE-coastal NC), the garage and the CUCV will live. I'm still pondering about battery cables... I want to do these as...

@Keith_J I told you I'd double check it! I had it labeled right, but always good to check it. Red/white to bus bar, red to harness block. I also labeled BOTH alternators. Yanno, at this point I just anticipated that if I only labeled one, the day would come to install the alternators and...

Because everyone here is so kind (and because I've been away for too long) I decided to take a few more glamour shots of the old girl as she currently sits. Yes I see that trail of fluid above. The new PS pump had some residual fluid in its lines. Left a lovely little snail trail for us...

Perfect keith, thank you so much. Yeah, definitely don't want to mix up those red/red and white wires. That would be pretty catastrophic. I have both labeled with tape right now but I will label the alternators in the morning and double check my tape labels to your comment to make sure I didn't...

Keith, do you mean the one with the red ring on it? That's gen 2 charging the rear battery going to bus bar then rear batt?

No worries, I appreciate the input man. I'm still learning so I ask a lot of questions before I do stuff. Especially this charging system wiring, I've gone over the diagrams and traced all the charging routes about 20 times until it made sense. Just looking at the alternators I kind of forgot...

I appreciate it. Wait, the isolated-ground alternator is driver side? I thought the driver side one has the ground to engine while the passenger side has the isolated ground/internal ground? Or am I misunderstanding what an isolated ground is?

I've come with pictures, as promised. 2 angles of each alternator: Can anyone identify which is my passenger side (putting off 24V in series) and driver side (12V )? Also, pretty sure we put the vacuum pump back facing the right way, can anyone confirm? Oh and here's the other end of...

Oh yeah no no, this won't be my daily. I'm keeping my daily (I drive a 2013 GMC, it's unreliable but more reliable than my CUCV currently). I'll likely be taking this truck out on weekend cruises down backroads. Mess around with the 4wd till I break something, drag it home and call it my next...

I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. I already have new gaskets on the valve covers. My biggest issue has been the wiring though, if the gaskets right now are temporary and start leaking again, I'll need to go back into it later. That's totally fine with me. The black silicone stuff...

This sounds like what I'm seeing on one of the back of the generators. There is a small (thin, didn't check the size yet, but it looked about quarter inch to me) stud that sticks out about an inch off the back of one of the cases and the other one doesn't have this stud coming out at all. This...

I got my alternators checked and cleaned up and they gave them back to me looking pretty much identical. I know one is internally grounded and the driver side is grounded by wire to the motor... but the backsides look identical to me now. I may try and swing by after work today to get a...

I did. The valve covers were leaking oil, I replaced the bad gaskets with new.

Hope a double post makes up for some lack of content. We got the temp sensor in the back of the motor swapped with a new one (I plugged the flood of coolant with my thumb for a couple minutes while the boys used a vise to separate the old sensor from the adapter. We also got the fuel lines put...

Yesterday was the first time I got to put a wrench to the CUCV in a long time. Got the guys together, we pulled the truck back inside the garage, got the hood off, and got to work. I hope all of you are doing well in your own lives, projects, and families! Using my handy dandy sticky note...

With cucvrus help, I should now have everything I need (including the time, sheesh, I think that was the hardest thing to find recently) to get the ball rolling on my project again. She's just been sitting patiently in the yard waiting for me. Time to rewire, bolt down, and get the motor to...

Currently rewiring my CUCV, some new batteries would be perfect! Thanks for the opportunity