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You should read this. The wait light has nothing to do with controlling the glow plugs. It's purpose is to tell the driver not to attempt to start the vehicle until the glow plugs have had sufficient to time to heat up. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/cucv/62477-gp-module-theory-operation.html

You can definately get it from an electrical supply house. I have never looked in the warehouse building stores like Home Depot or Lowes but they may have it. A really good hardware store may have it as well. Sanchem NOOXID electrical grease & electrically conductive grease dielectric grease...

Great news. :grd: Glad you solved it and thanks for the after action report. This will help others with similar problems. Just goes to show one can have all the proper voltages in all the proper places but the system fails under a load. In the commercial electrical industry we use thermal...

That conductive grease is great for keeping high current connections clean and functional

As warthog always points out, at the beginning of the electrical section are the instructions for reading the schematics. It is amazing to me that these small towns get the nice surplus equipment but then no one in the local government seems to have a clue how search the internet for the USGI...

I went to start my M1009 last weekend. Turn the key on (I have 12V GP conversion) and everything was great. Turn the key to start and nothing. All lights go out, voltage drops to nothing on the gauge and the starter motor made maybe half a revolution. Turn key off, wait, turn key on, all...

This came from warthog. Looking at the 24V bus there is the lead to the battery that you had disconnected and the there are two leads to the passenger alternator. The negative side of the passenger alternator is +12V above the vehicle chassis. I am thinking that this 12V is what sparked.

If you glow plugs are working then this is only a matter of time: http://www.steelsoldiers.com/cucv/67012-click-click-boom.html#post802869 Since no boom perhaps your glow plugs are not working. Did you follow the TM when checking them? What ohm reading did you get on each one?

Is this drawing an accurate representation of what happened when you were cleaning the battery wires?

I am still trying to figure out what shorted. I have not gone through the schematics yet. Just flying by the seat of my pants here but if you remove the back battery positive cable is there still voltage on that cable when measured to the chassis ground? I need to change my back battery so I...

From the CUCV WIKI: Batteries Group 31 or 6TLs Really any 800+ cca batteries will do

Too late but for the sake of others the front battery ground should be the first wire disconnected and the last wire reconnected when doing electrical work on the CUCV (or any other negative ground vehicle for that matter). Was that terminal that made contact with the chassis the back battery...

If I understand you correctly your positive fuse block is connected to the positive of the front battery (same point electrically as the negative of the back battery) and your negative fuse block is bonded to the vehicle chassis. If so that is the same as most of the original factory 12V...

I kept my big antenna on the front so that it would tie down to the rear so that it could pass under tree branches without snagging. Not off road tree branches but the ones that hang down over the roadways. I have been driving down residential streets where a car coming the other way forced...

My money is on the 12.2v battery being bad or at least not being charged correctly when the engine is running.

The negative post of the second battery 'floats' 12V above the vehicle chassis. If your inverter has the case internally grounded to the negative input it too will float 12V above the vehicle chassis meaning if you bolt it to the chassis there will be a dead short from the front battery...

Have you read this manual? LDS465 Troubleshooting

What I noticed in my limited experience was that when my stock system started cycling the glow plugs on and off in fairly quick succession and the wait light took longer and longer to go off was because my glow plugs were failing. I was surprised at how quickly they all burnt out (electrically...

Chalk up another victim of the brilliant GM window-in-a-truck-tailgate-design, I too learned the hard way to be careful about what goes in back near that inside tailgate handle.

America! Land of the FREE and home of the brave. Simply amazing how many people BELIEVE that no one should be allowed to do anything that they do not personally approve of. Yet these people would be the first to scream bloody murder if someone tried to "shove their morals down the...