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Thanks for the replies and sorry about not replying sooner. I had to put the paint job on hold when they decided to take out the tumor on my left side behind my ear (acoustic neuroma) and the recovery has been a struggle. Good to go now so am getting ready to do this job as soon as the trees...

I'm trying to find a compatible gloss clear coat that I can lay over the GCI 383 Green. I've spent days going through threads here trying to find something definitive but am not having any luck. There's a lot of discussion on here but I'm not finding anything that closes the loop. It's...

Thanks for posting about your install. Nice looking install job and I'll bet it's worth the effort every time you use it. I've been wondering which way to go to add a/c to my CUCV. I have the Banks sidewinder on mine too so have been trying to find out what I need to do to mount the...

I just checked and he used the #24052 semi-gloss forest green and it looks pretty much the same as the first pic. Another you see sometimes is where they take a gallon of Hunter Green Rustoleum and mix in a pint of black and shoot the truck with that. Shouldn't be too hard to find a picture of...

Look a lot like the USMC semi-gloss a friend of mine did his truck with: http://www.rapcoparts.com/padenew.html

I really like synthetics too but when the Army looked into changing to synthetics Eaton was adamant that synthetics not be used in their differentials. I've done some digging and it looks like they still maintain that position...

You've probably resolved this by now but if not, most any Clark dealer can either rebuild it or point you in the right direction. Unless you somehow got one of the original test bed Unimogs that were assigned to 9th ID's High Technology Test Bed it's likely that you have one of the type...

You probably already figured it out and I doubt it's related to your issue but when you get your new mounts, unless someone replaced them while the engine was out, CUCVs were produced with small block mounts. All 6.2s used SBC mounts early on but they went to big block mounts in civilian...

Just an FYI, I had an 84 square body 1 ton dually crewcab that had a 4 speed and it would wear you out shifting. I had it in and out of the shop under warranty and they couldn't do anything about it. I had bought the Helm manual for the truck and while on a trip I was paging through it and...

Great looking resource. I'm looking at installing a solar charger on my old camper and might need more but that'll be tackling a totally new thing for me so have to figure out the layout, cable sizes and so on. I parted out an old semi that belonged to a grocery company and they had removed...

Thanks for the replies! Looking at the truck and the schematics it seemed like a no-brainer but I kept remembering the discussions so wondered whether I was missing something. Thanks again!

I've spent days going through the CUCV files here and see all kinds of good stuff on winch mount options, different kinds and brands of winches and so on but with all of that I can't find anything on where to best connect a 12 Volt winch electrical cables. I worked in an Army DOL when the...

I carry an old pickup camper that I rebuilt (was a $150 leaker) and tow a small enclosed trailer behind that and even at sea level the thing couldn't get out of its own way so I bought a Banks Sidewinder kit and put it on. I also have a 2007 GMC 4x4 dually Crewcab that has the Duramax/Allison...

Back in the late 70's when I worked the engine line at the Ft. Lewis DOL the Army came out with a paper saying this seepage was not considered a deficiency provided a compression test met specifications. We started doing compression tests for awhile but never had a single one fail so just...

Replaced my windshield washer bottle since the original was cracked near the mount bolt. The TM calls for GM part number 3990892 but both of my CUCV's have GM #3961557 in them, as do both of my 1982 civilian parts trucks. I kinda wonder why the difference. The bottle in my GMC parts truck was...

Kats also makes block heaters and they're good ones too, at least in my experience. I just installed a Zerostart #3100057 block heater so haven't used it yet but they're highly rated and the few negatives appear to be installation errors, mainly overtightening the mounting nut. It's the first...

When we first fielded the CUCV (I was a civilian tech rep for the Army at the time) we had a problem with the hose between the oil filler tube and the CDR getting blocked with frozen condensate during freezing weather and then the oil would blow out through the crankshaft seals and we lost...

Yup - Dana limited slip if I remember right. I should have used the right term but that wasn't my point. The point was that this was the only pickup version that came from the factory with other than a regular differential up front.

Is it a dually or does it have singles in the rear? The main differences between the regular pickup, the M1008, and the shelter carrier, the M1028, are that the front differential is a locking differential (M1008's aren't) and it has a shelter tie-down kit attached to the bed. There are a few...

I have a class 5 that I bought brand new and it won't mount to the frame of my M1028 without messing with the hardware and bracing for the pintle hitch and I didn't want to do that. I ended up putting on one of those 5000 lb. rated step bumper receivers from Harbor Freight as a temporary...