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The 2 relays next to the Doghead relay. One is "bouncing". Everytime the relay clicks all running lights dim on the truck. The circuit bounce is most of the time fairly fast like holding a ping pong ball close to a table. The lights dim and brighten to the clicking of the relay. Any ideas?

One night driving my 1986 m1008 i noticed that my headlights and dash lights will dim and go to back to normal. When they go dim and back to normal i can also hear what sounds to be a relay or solenoid pulling in or out. I can never duplicate it though. Its totally random some times it will...

I have a 4" lift on my m1008 been running 33 duratracs with no DW problems. I came across some Humvee 37s and put them on the truck and now cant go over 35mph without extreme DW. Im thinking its the kingpins. But I don't know why I never had any DW with the 33s. Has anyone else run into this...

Me and nuthinfancy swapping his cab out. He rolled his truck in the mountains. I rolled mine 2 years back but didn't shoot a video of the cab swap but i got some footage of nuthinfancy's. Not sure what model or year the forklift is but it is also a military forklift just painted yellow. Its...

I have put a new cab on my m1008 and with the new cab the vacuum pump is pressed pretty hard against the firewall I was wondering if you loosen the bottom bolt can the pump be turned without causing any damage.

I have replaced the cab on my m1008. Went to start it yesterday and the glow plug solenoid does not come on and I have no "wait light". I took a jumper from the top post of the solenoid to the smaller post below it and can jump the solenoid making the glow plugs come on and the engine fires...

One of my engine brackets(the one actually attached to the block) is broken got the new one just wondering when picking the motor up if anything such as fuel lines etc. need to be removed. So that they wont break when picking up motor. Thanks

Last year I rolled my m1008 and crushed the cab. I drove it around the house several times after being wrecked. Then loaded(drove) it onto equipment trailer to take it to the farm.(going to swap cabs). Drove it around there several times. About every week would go down and start it up. Then...

Today my gen 1 light came on it came on after i pulled out a kenworth tractor. Dont know if that had anything to do with it or not. When i got home i had a complete rebuild kit for the altenator from cucv electric. I rebuilt the altenator, put it back on truck and light still comes on. The...

I got 150 gallons of diesel for free because it has been mixed with only 1-2 gallons of DEF, was wandering if it would hurt anything to burn it I have a water seperater fuel filter so I think I should be alright. Just want other people two cents to be safe.

Was wandering how many of you guys have had your IP rebuilt and what kind of price range. I got a quote of 1,200$ to remove, rebuild and re-install. Sounds a little high to me just wandering what yalls input is.

Im due for an oil change and I usually use rotella 15w40. The guy I work for has about 500 gallons of cheveron 40w oil, CSX used it in their trains. Ive looked it up and some people say it wont matter and others say dont use it. Just want to know if anyone else has any input.

I have a m1008 with 20,xxx miles on it and when towing my utility trailer down the interstate at around 55mph for about 1 minute I will loose power and it looks to be bluish smoke pours out of my exhaust, if I let off the accelerator it will go away but if I go back to 55mph it will do the same...

My passenger side altenator is producing 30 volts, so i purchased the rebuild kit from cucv electric. I just purchased the truck and the altenator looks brand new. I know its supposed to be an isolated ground altenator i was wandering how to tell if it is an isolated ground altenator. I dont...