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Adjust the belts?
Mine just started squealing here recently after a cold start. The squeal would come and go as the glow plug relay switched on and off.
Today I adjusted the alternator belts to about a 1/4" to 3/8" deflection at the center of the belt (on the top side where it is easy to...
There are three buses. A +24VDC bus and a ground bus (same as chassis ground). Then you can see the red wire that comes off the negative terminal of the rear battery and runs across the back of the firewall to small diamond shaped 12VDC bus.
The 24VDC (positive and negative) have large wires...
You can see the black plastic wire harness coming up from the floor. The wires follow the frame forward and come up the firewall to the 24VDC bus on the firewall. You should have the bus on the firewall.
I am planning on using the radio rack in my M1009 to mount commercial 70cm, 2M and 6M radios when the weather warms up. I will be using a using a big military antenna for the 6M, one of the raised feed point antennas for the 70cm and a commercial 5/8 antenna for the 2M. All the antennas will...
You need a direct path to ground from the switch. Then put the LED in parallel with that path. (run another #12 or #14 from the ground side of the switch to ground and leave the LED as is)
The LED limits the current through the coil so that the LED glows however that is not enough current to...
There should be a 24V bus on the passenger side firewall. From there you should have wires running to the passenger compartment (passenger side) under the radio mounting shelf. There are two busses there (positive and negative at 24VDC). (See attached picture)
The positive of the front...
So you are using the same pins that normally hold the shackle on to the frame extensions to hold the receiver tubes onto those extensions? Pull the winch and replace the shackles if needed?
Nice Truck. Congratulations and welcome to the site. At the top of the site under resources are the manuals. The lube order shows where the lube points are.
Haven't some people advocated breaking them out if they cannot be cleaned?
I assume that someone may have broken it out.
Is a replacement part available?
Searching for the 626489-4 part number reveals the following:
5985-01-292-0036, 3380-8008-0006, 626489-4
SINCGARS
Pacer Speak The family includes the GRC-206, the AN/PRC-113 manpack( 116-150 & 225-400 MHz), the AN/TRC-176 transportable, and the AN/VRC-83 vehicle-mounted radios.
The unified...
I have not seen any backing plates but others have mentioned them.
Also forgive my ignorance but what is the average thickness of the CUCV sheet metal?
I have found these but I really don't need a box of 100 for $70.00
www.crestfasteners.com
Then I found these, more expensive per unit but less out of pocket.
5/16 - 18 USS Large Flange Thin Sheet Nutserts Inserts Qty (25) [16184] - $31.29 : NutsandBolts.com
There is this design for setting...
Does anyone have any part numbers, drawings, pictures or dimensions of the CUCV antenna mount backing plate?
I do not see the plate listed in the parts TM.
I want to add an antenna mount to the rear of my M1009 (have the mount) but I will need to purchase/build the backing plate and was hoping...