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Hey guys, I'm a student at Penn State and a member of the local PSU Car Club. On the 19th of October we will be having a benefit car show on campus from 10AM-4PM. The proceeds from the show will be going to THON to help fight pediatric cancer. I know this is a regular car show but I think it...

Hey guys, I'm just about ready to yank the 6.2 and had a question. Any tips or tricks on how to get the transmission unbolted from the engine? Also any other tidbits of info on pulling the engine out from people who've already done it would be appreciated.

Well I ran her all out last night. She's all stock except for the pumped turned up. I was running against mildly modified new diesels so this run was just for fun. It was the oldest truck at the entire event and the crowd loved that it was an old army truck. Pull CUCV M1008 - YouTube[/...

Hey guys, I've noticed as of late the hack that had previously affected the forum is back. When I click steel soldiers say off of google half the time I get redirected to that fraudulent page. Anyone else having problems? I already dumped my cache and cookies.

hey guys, well I have an oil that is well frankly slowly driving me insane. When I first got my m1008 it did'nt have any leaks. after about a year I saw some slight dripping from the pan. So i pulled the pan and redid the rtv and put it all together and no more leak. A couple of months later I...

Hey guys, well with summer coming up I'm excited that I'll finally be able to get all my work done on my m1008. One of those things is going to be a sound system install. I have just about NO experience in car audio so I figured I'd bounce my plan off you guys to see what you think about it...

Hey guys, well after my last offroad adventure I lost a window. I got out of the truck shut the door, and heard the sound of shattering glass. While working on the door I see that all the weatherstripping is shot. I'm debating whether or not its even worth to do it. We have a ton of old chevs at...

Hey guys, Looking for how I'm going to lift my m1008 in the future and depending on funds, I'm basically looking at either a budget maybe 4" lift, with shackle flip in the rear , or do it right with a 6-8", crossover steering yadah yadah. How high can you lift the truck and keep the stock drive...

Hey guys, I'm ordering a new inner fender for my m1008 since the current one is rotted out. I was on lmc and they don't even allow you to select a k30, just a k20. I figured it would be the same but just wanted to make sure. Are they going to be the same inner fender?

How do you get these stinking things off? I have yanked and pulled on them but they refuse even after pushing that little silver tab on the back of them.

How do i get them off? I have some bad rust holes in the firewall that i want to patch and need to remove this panel to get a better look and what a PITA im going to be dealing with. Help appreciated

Hey guys, I've been working on fixing up my m1008 and have finished all the little rust holes and things that i could fix by sanding coating with a litle acid then either using bondo or it with fiberglass. however i have two generous rust holes in the corners of the firewall and it definately...

Alright guys well i got my m1008 fall of last year. Picked it up in philly and it drove home fine. As 20+ year old things are it has issues so i'm slowly working on it so its a nice and clean truck. So far i've replaced the rear axle gasket and fluid, replaced the power steering gear, and...

Now i don't need to walk him! :razz:

Hey guys, i've been driving my m1008 around in the snow and its been a blast but i have a question. When i'm driving offroad and it starts to slip the truck starts bouncing really bad. I mean if i keep the throttle on i think i'm going to break something? Do i have bad shocks? It wouldn't...

Hey everybody, well after replacing the steering gear on my m1008 i'm having a little bit of an issue. How do i bleed the power steering lines. I've gone out 3 times trying to turn the wheel lock to lock and every time it still is not turning nicely. Also foamy fluid is belching out of the...

Hey guys, After finishing my adventurous axle gasket fix now I'm working on pulling out my now cracked steering gear to replace it. In the tm it says for pitman arm removal to have the truck jacked on the frame. Do i need to do that just to pull it off the steering gear? Also any advice on...

Well i went to change the rear diff oil on my m1008 and it seems that in its 24 years of life it never has had its fluid changed. It took me 4 hours of scraping and spraying just to get the gasket off and now that i have it all back together the fill plug is pretty much fused to the axle. I...

Hey everybody, so i went to drive my m1008 into the garage to fix the oil pan gasket and found out my power steering leak has become a major issue. Looked at the steering gear and it looks as if its cracked beneath the cap. I've heard this is a issue on these trucks. Is there a proper brace to...

Well after driving my cucv around for a bit its minor issues have shown. Including a rear axle cap leak, steering box leak, and oil pan leak. Now i went and got the oil pan gasket and seal, but now after looking through the TIM it says that for 84-87 trucks to just use RTV sealent. My truck is...