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It was a balmy 3 degrees this morning...you know the weather when your underwear just sticks to your butt crack (not really). Did a 12 count on the manual Glow Plug Button and it fired and died. Did two more cycles and it fired right up and rattled but it did start. Whoo Hoo! As soon as I...

Have not done the J hook style but I did upgrade the arms and nozzles from an 87 Civy Truck that are attached to the arms: http://48cj2a.com/cucv.htm

It is all todays culture, just like Gas Monkey, Misfit Garage, Bitchin Rides, Vegas Rat Rods. They are a bunch of goofy guys having a good time, a little drama, way over priced builds but I still find it very entertaining compared to other shows that are out there. Don't forget Axe Men, Swamp...

I love the switch and wish I would have found one similar at the time I was performing this Mod a few weeks ago. My Alternative was...I took the Seat Belt/Brake Warning window out and lightly scraped the seat belt lettering off the plastic lens. I then printed a new label on clear tape on my...

If you end up getting a Civy Console like CUCVRUS, make sure to get the bracket too...

26 degrees this morning...Did a 12 count and she hit but didn't start, did another 12 count and it fired right up so I think we are good except for getting a starter bracket.

Discovery http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/diesel-brothers/

I DVR'd it so looking forward to watching it.

28 degrees this morning...Did a 20 count on the manual glow plug button this morning and it fired right up. Letting it warm up now before I leave for work.

Swapped the 24v starter out with a new Autolite 12v. The solenoid wire pulled out of a improperly installed butt connector so had to replace that. Fabbed up a new dual battery bracket out of angle iron, drilled and mounted it to the rear CUCV tray. Reconfigured the battery cable to 12v. it...

Listen to this video clip of 3 starts...does the chirp at the end sound right? https://youtu.be/myGapCjMbiE

Put the shim back in the starter sounds slighly better but I don't think I would recommend this replacment starter to anyone when known good ones are out there. Did not see any tags or labels on it but looks alont like the ones on eBay. Owner wants me to drive it for a week and make sure it is...

Took quite a while but finally got the air bled again with the new fuel filter system. Starter is definetley not right so going to test drive shortly and get it up on ramps to reshim. While I waited for the batteries to charge I pulled the dash bezel again to get to the 24 volt meter which is...

You must have missed my change to Post#1's Title: IL - M1009 Will Not Start - Fixed!, although I'm still have inconsistant starter issues with engaging, bendix sticking and it just not sounding correct. I'll try the shim back in it tomorrow and see if it makes a difference.

Mounted the WIX 24770 adapter Picked up three - 1/2" to 3/8" bushings brass 3/8" to 3/8" barb brass 3/8" to 1/4" barb 1" long 3/8" nipple 3/8" 90 3/8" to 1/4" bushing 1/4" petcock roll of fuel safe teflon tape Had more than enough room to get my hand in behind the intake with a 1/4" ratchet and...

I got back to the CUCV today, first pulling the starter... Someone had cut the bracket which would have been the correct one for the gear reduction starter too and I didn't want to spend any money on this or wait if I had to order one so I set out to make one. Took me a while but I found this...

Its been a while but...I believe the upper hole on the left routed the dome lamp and the lower left was the door jamb wiring. The upper on the right was A/C equipment kick panel vacuum lines and lower door jamb switch wiring on Civy GM trucks.

Did you ever find out about getting the CUCV inner fenders wells?

Just getting back to this CUCV after being gone TDY all last week... As I mentioned, I had stopped at the Barber Shop after work on the first test drive day into work. When I went to leave it the starter was engaging but would not engage the flywheel do to chipped and wore down teeth. So...

Not real good images but we had TRC-170V3s and other shelters tied down like this but with the cable turnbuckles not chains in this fashion. This is a good image: