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    Towing an Off Road / Overland FMTV

    The battery is not replaceable, that is the problem. You must replace the ECU, and cat will program it based on your engine s/n...
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    Adjusting Load Sensing Valve on M1078

    Interesting. Because of the proportioning valve, and according to that chart, the pressure is a lot greater(3X?) on the front than on the rear, but the rear is twice the chamber volume, so it might take a little longer to release the front... did you lock them up while applying brakes...
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    Towing an Off Road / Overland FMTV

    Supposedly, you can read active codes on the 3126 using the check engine light. I believe this is done by closing the cruise control set/accel circuit with the cruise control circuit open/not enabled. Cruise control is native to the 3126 engine ECU. Now wether that feature was enabled on the...
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    Adjusting Load Sensing Valve on M1078

    Interesting, I would assume this would be with an empty truck, and not one with an extra ton or so of cargo in the bed, even though the initial set-up for the procedure doesn’t stipulate this...:) note the pressure diff between the 1078 and the 1080(cab and chassis only, about 2400# lighter) ...
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    Simple LMTV battery question

    On the A0, the TPS is a sensor for the transmission only. I believe NDT is correct that it is a 0-5V sensor...
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    Adjusting Load Sensing Valve on M1078

    That is what it sounds like. Did the procedure have you setting it for a particular pressure? unless they have some arbitrary pressure spec in mind, that doesn’t make a lot of sense for setting the proportioning valve. I mean the point of the valve is to byas the brakes for varying weight in...
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    60,000 BTU heater in M1079

    Yea, the manufacture may have a specified duty cycle, but duty cycles are usually imposed because of an inability to dissipate heat. I would guess if this unit can maintain a steady temp when operating, it probably has no duty cycle...
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    60,000 BTU heater in M1079

    That doesn’t sound right. I would hope there is no way for combustion gas to enter the airstream. But a fuel leak before the combustion chamber might allow fuel to come in contact with the burn chamber or heat exchanger and get heated enough to generate smoke/vapors which are being drawn into...
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    60,000 BTU heater in M1079

    Wow, an honest 3-1/4” in the floor, I wonder whats in the ceiling? that extra insul in the floor only saves you about 300 BTU/hr at the above temps...
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    60,000 BTU heater in M1079

    Thats a lot of heat! An 8x8x12 structure has 512 sq/ft of surface area. If it had 2“ of insulation it might make R10? At 70F inside and say -20 outside, crunching some numbers with say 24SQ/ft of R2 windows and one air change per hour, that is around 7000 BTU/hr required to maintain 70F...
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    FMTV starter issues

    No worries, I have gone over this circuit with so many, I pretty much have it memorized:)
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    Another New WA Member

    How did the wife like your Christmas present?
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    FMTV starter issues

    Good information. The transmission via the neutral start relay provides 24V to the start relay K1 In the PDP. The start button provides a path to ground to energize K1, via the contacts of the starter lockout relay(K24) which disables the starter once the engine has oil pressure. That is the...
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    FMTV starter issues

    One question I didn’t notice in my rapid scan of this old thread, was what EXACTLY is going click when you push the starter button? That will tell y0u a lot about where to look next...
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    AC Option?

    7.5KW is 25,500 BTU...:)
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    Is there a standard 3116 alternator?

    45% of that 120AH is a 54A acceptance charge for those AGM’s, so you might want a larger alt than 50A...
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    Is there a standard 3116 alternator?

    9W-3043 is the cat P/N used in the IT28 tool carrier. It’s 52A@24V and paired with 2 group 31 batteries(100AH/25A acceptance) In series. What batteries are you running? For the 4 battery 6TL config using wet cells 52A would be slightly overloaded trying to meet 60A acceptance charge. With 4...
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    Pulse Battery Maintainers (was Pulse Charging)

    No it has a low volt cutoff..., but it would be used in conjunction with a charger/maintainer, so I doubt it would ever trip unless one battery gets so bad that it absorbs all the power provided by the charger/within the limits of the equalizer... Now if you are so inattentive as to not catch...
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    Pulse Battery Maintainers (was Pulse Charging)

    You can get a basic 5A balancer for $25...
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    Pulse Battery Maintainers (was Pulse Charging)

    Mmmm Love me some magic smoke:)
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