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Yeah I'm trying my best to get set to make it to Georgia this year, just gotta find me a decent truck. No way I would go without some green iron of my own.

Think you might make the Georgia rally?

Well there was another poster here that said their deuces used to melt cable ends in Vietnam a lot when they got loose or had a bad connection. So much so that they apparently had a mold to recast the cable ends. Maybe like he said you had a bad connection and it caused it to get hot. The...

The clear stuff is exactly what I was talking about. It is dielectric grease and bad stuff for that purpose. I knew what you meant. And just because 5 tons don't have these problems means nothing. Every vehicle will eventually have some wired problem, and I'm inclined to believe that it was...

I never use grease on battery terminals. Dielectric grease is just that...Dielectric insinuating that it stops current flow between two surfaces. Not what you want on your battery posts. Napa sells battery terminal protectant in an aerosol can. It goes on red kind of like spray paint. Works good...

You need to get some sleep bud, 9 out of ten times I overlook something simple because I'm tired.

Oh come on, that's all the fun right there! Certainly not as bad on these trucks as it is on all of the newer vehicles with wiring harnesses the size of a radiator hose.

Cool man. Let us know if we can help. I don't have much to offer at this time, but whatever I can do.

Hold on, is it possible that the bendix gear may have stuck in the engaged position and turned the starter into a generator of sorts? I've seen it happen about twice in my lifetime on civvy vehicles. Of course, it's normally accompanied by other wiring being rubbed through or shorted.