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    Desulfate.... or not... that is the question

    Should be top and bottom where large alt and battery leads attach. The load terms should be the middle pair with only one large lead on each terminal. Should also be able to measure at batt terminals... unless you have really bad connections between alt and batts, should not have significant...
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    Mav’s M1088A1 Conversion

    Thats how i would have found it... the cat sensors are not listed in the mil documentation and the cat coolant sensor does not appear to have a pigrail... If it is for the ether, then it is probably a 35F switch(mine was)...
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    Desulfate.... or not... that is the question

    If your alt is making 14.1/28.2, it should be charging your batteries just fine at ~1hr run time per day. Start the truck, are you getting 14.1/28.2 AT THE ALT TERMINALS, and at the battery terminals? If not, either the alt is overloaded(more than 100A combined load), probably due to...
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    Mav’s M1088A1 Conversion

    I would suspect it is the sensor for the ECU. I just went to look for wire/connector info and discovered the A1 and A1R diagrams don’t show the engine temp sensor connection to the ECU… got wire numbers off that sensor and the one to the rear of the housing?
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    Mav’s M1088A1 Conversion

    It is either a gauge temp sensor or a temp switch or an ECU coolant temp sensor. On the A0, they put a gauge sender on the rear side of the housing(upper port), off of a T that circulates coolant to the expansion tank. The heater feed is the lower port, both can be seen upper left in your...
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    Mav’s M1088A1 Conversion

    That wire to the AC terminal on the reg feeds RPM info to a LBCD, which the A0.5s dont have(no LBCD, remote or manual battery disconects)... so no youvare not missing anything if you dont have a LBCD...
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    M1078 remove 2 batteries

    What causes sulfation: when you draw electrons out of a battery the plates obsorb sulphur ions from the electrolyte. The deeper the discharge the more sulphur is absorbed. When you add electrons to a battery it pushes the sulfur back into solution. When the plates hold sulphur too long it...
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    M1078 remove 2 batteries

    I have seen some of the solargizer panels installed on top of the Air op hydraulic pump or air filter as they are not that large. Plenty of room up on the roof of the cab...
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    Stewart & Stevenson M1089A1 wiring diagrams?

    Here: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/fmtva1-electrical-schematics.158229/
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    Stewart & Stevenson M1089A1 wiring diagrams?

    There is a set here under present conflict vehicles. It is just the schematic and located near the A0 manuals...
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    M1078 remove 2 batteries

    Yep, battery tester. On wet cell batteries, you removed the caps on the compartments/cells and inserted it to measure the electrolyte level. If the tip contacted electrolyte, the led would light indicating the cell was sufficiently full of electrolyte… unusable on sealed batteries…
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    M1078 remove 2 batteries

    You only need one balancer, even with 4 batteries, as the two series strings are wired in parallel, and parallel batteries are already hardwired to balance:) a single balance will balance the 0-12 to the 12-24 batteries(or vis versa). But you still need a source of power to replace that lost...
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    M1078 remove 2 batteries

    No, the 1 and 2 indicate battery 1(gnd to 12v) and battery 2(12v-24v). In your pic the outermost batts are grnd-12v(batt 1 in my diag). The innermost are 12-24v (batt 2). The connections near frame are 24v. One to the starter, one to the 24v batt term on the polarity box and one to the nato...
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    M1079 Won’t Start.

    Here, I condensed the important bits out of the mil schematics for the A0 start circuit. you will need this eventually, everybody does:)
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    M1079 Won’t Start.

    Drop to two batteries, your very expensive alt will thank you. The truck doesn’t need 4, and the alternator is really undersized in the dual volt configuration to charge them properly. CB79 feeds 24v IGN power to the TCU. Yours could be either wtec2 or 3 TCU. A 2 has a wider green LED...
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    M1079 Won’t Start.

    No trans display, no neutral start circuit. As mentioned clean the polarity box connections and shunt connections between spare and air filter. CB 79 should power the trans controller, but it also gets 12v from another breaker(will have to.look it up). Ypu need those to power the trans which...
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    Winter front. M1078

    The rad can pull in a lot of air down below on either side. Here is a pic of the .mil version, like a diaper that bridges and seals that space between intercooler and rad. kind of a pain to install from what I understand… i was thinking a set of tracks on either side of the rad face so I...
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    Winter front. M1078

    Yea a large chunk of the lmtv radiator air comes up from the lower bumper area...
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    Winter front. M1078

    Yea, whats it look like installed/where does it set?
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    Wire diagram m1078 a1

    What general said. S5 connects it to sensor - on the ECU…
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