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I've read some horror stories of the stock Harmonic balancers coming apart on the 6.2L's and destroying engines. (Rubber coming apart, etc) I've got no projects planned for my M1009 at the moment.. would a new fluidampr be a good investment? They're kinda pricey, so it would take a lot of...

Anyone out there have tips to strip off the rubber / plastic coating on the top battery brackets on the M1009? They're peeling + rusting at the edges. I'm swapping the batteries and wanted to take a quick crack at repainting the tops with self-etch and giving them a cheap rubber bed-liner...

I was poking around looking for a new fuel tank cap for my M1009 (and quickly realizing my current cap with the clogged vent is worth it's weight in gold) and stumbled across a military fuel truck nozzle on eBay... It kind of looks "correct". (The end is a clamp which would seemingly...

Anyone have any magic woo-woo tricks to remove the rear T50 seatbolt belts in the M1009? Wanted to apply bedliner to the back-half and they seem "permanent" lol I've been PB-blastin (top + bottom), heating (bottom nut), beating, PB-blastin (top + bottom), heating (bottom nut), beating for a...

I'm putting a light bar on my M1009, and there is a 12v connection on the firewall that is conveniently switched by the Blackout / Civy light switch. Anyone know the current limits of that circuit? I have a feeling it's where the lighting ties into, so would be the perfect place to power the...

I noticed the other day that the drivers side while driving was a *lot* more "exhausty" than the passenger side. I rigged up a plastic bottle with an air fitting and pressurized the exhaust system with 5psi. Had a moderate exhaust leak at the drivers side exhaust header + flange connector with...

I have an M101 with heavily dry-rotted / cracked 900x16 tires. The bed is rusted out a bit in the corners, but otherwise it's in ok shape. The thing isn't super useful for me with the current tires... i've hauled some lightweight stuff in it in years past, but haven't really wanted to put much...

While I was pulling the intake manifold, noticed a old duct-tape wrapped block taped to the back of the wiring harness. Pulled it, Looks melted, two pins, folded over with burn marks. Any idea what this is?

Due to some excessive oil leaking around the top of the oil fill pipe, I'm swapping the CDR valve and vented oil fill cap. (found both cheap, and need a quarantine project lol) While poking around on my "ever increasing quest" to swap rotten rubber lines (34 years in the Texas heat seems to be...

So, after putting up with a oil cooler lines (slowly) leaking over the last year, I decided to try and tackle swapping them out. I had a new set of lines from rockauto, I went cheap (my mistake) and got the off-brand SUNSONG ones. The old lines were "good-n-tite" on the fittings attached to the...

Anyone have any guesses why the starter on my M1009 *still* sticks? I've already swapped the starter for a new 24v one, done the doghead relay mod, swapped the neutral switch on the top of the steering column, and tested the batteries. I gotta drive her 400 Miles next weekend, and don't want...

Noticed some leakage from my transmission and the gaskets were looking pretty old. Pulled pan to the standard lovely bath of ATF. (anyone have any mods adding a drain to the TH400? The "controlled spill" never seems to go well on the best of days) Anyway, went to check the magnet for metal...

Thinking of doing a modification I've seen a lot of camper shell folks do. The hard-top on the K5 is unruly to remove/put on by yourself, and I hate dragging buddies over constantly to remove/apply it. Does anyone have any thoughts about doing something like this to the M1009...

Just a heads up to anyone thinking of replacing their steering tie rod ends (inner / outer), removing the 32-year-old original factory ones takes a 4# sledgehammer, heat, WD40, and the might of Zeus. :naner: Flipping through the TM's trying to find the torque.. anyone know it off the tops...

Good morning! I need to swap the power steering lines to get my M1009 inspected (they have a *slow* pin-hole leak around where the hose meets the metal line) While I'm bleeding the power steering, is it worth it to swap the hydroboost for a rebuilt unit? Truck only has 60k miles on it... but I...

So, I'm noticing the exposed fiberglass on my M1009 is suddenly rapidly accelerating. I'm currently experimenting using bondo-glass on the exposed areas to try and seal them, but so far the results haven't been great. (and it's going to take a lot of bondo) Any ideas? I wanted to keep the...

I generally want to keep my M1009 as stock as possible (maybe converting to a flat olive paint job), but one thing I've wanted to do for a while is improve the trailer connectivity. I really didn't want to hack in a bunch of 4-way trailer splices, and definitely didn't want to disconnect or...

I just got a freebie military trailer this evening for my M1009 CUCV with "just starting to crack" tires. Haven't had the time to pour over the faded info badges, can anyone identify which model it is roughly?

Now that my brakes work on the farm fresh M1009, time to address the power issue. I've noticed that going up hills in the area gets difficult at highway speeds (65mph) Pedal to the floor, unloaded, the M1009 will top out at 53mph going up inclines like she's towing an 18-wheeler. * New fuel...

So, ever increasing drama. 1) Got CUCV, had a (recently created) sludge mix of DOT 3 + DOT 5 in it (brakes semi functional) 2) Completely flushed out brakes with DOT 4 (availability + price thing) 3) Changed old rubber brake lines on front + suction bleed w/Teflon tape on bleeder screw. No...