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I got a few tops on this site. Put an ad in the classifieds. A few members sent me freebies.

After discovering the hot fuse for the wipers. I thought I would take a look at the wiper motor and it was a bit tired. It would not wash anymore and seemed to struggle to keep up in the rain. It was the original GM one. I bought a replacement rebuild and put it on. This wiper motor would wash...

Today I took the time to wash/scrub The Mule M1009. I don't wash it very often. It sits out in the weather most times and gets driven year round. It still looks pretty good having been painted 2 years ago. It is fairly straight and clean. The paint is very hard to keep spotless. I use a light 3M...

That's too expensive for my job. I see no point in using Stainless Steel rivets to hold non stainless steel sheet metal together. It will rust all the material away and the rivets will remain. See my point? Stainless on stainless you are on target. Them rivets are made for more precise work then...

You can make it look good. I have had a few CUCV's with patches pop riveted on. I paint them and they look good. Depends what my intended use is. I plan on riveting a left 1/4 panel on Terminus M1009. I am going to cut it off of another K5 blazer and just rivet it fast. I never seen pop rivets...

I never cover the rivets with body fill. That will not work to well. I just let the rivets exposed. If you rivet and cover with body filler you are asking for problems. Youi have the rivets and the holes/edges front and back to absorb moisture. Moisture causes rust and that expands the body...

These are old style 3/16" pop rivets. They have the expandable shank and the expelled mandrill pin. I use a pneumatic rivet gun. You could probably pop them with a good quality hand rivet gun. Do you need some rivets? They have about a 1/4" grip range. I use a 311 drill bit and caulk and rivet...

Old thread I thought I would update it. I sort of forgot about this thread.I added some woodland camouflage to the desert tan Mule M1009. This is what you call real tree camouflage. Off to the bush to get some work done. I want to do it in extreme secrecy. Well it wasn't blending very well. I...

Thank you for your interest in my project. I was beginning to think I was boring you to sleep. Anyway I started with a M1009 that had just been repainted in the 383 CARC paint a few years before I bought it. Needless to say they did a very poor job. They sprayed this truck in the summer time...

OK I had everything all figured out and the time came for reassembling the entire vehicle. I removed and replaced the rear wheel cylinders, master cylinder, front brake calipers front brake hoses rear brake hose, axle seals all 3 E-brake cables and new brakes front and rear. I put all new...

I had a seat out of a 1996 GMC top Kick chassis that was the seat for my project. It was a new takeout and was cut down in the middle for the stick shift it worked perfect. I made seat mounts to fit the floor out of 1/4" X 3" flat bar and elevator bolts for studs. That way I never had to drill...

As always I did a complete cleaning of each vehicle and inventory of all parts and condition and estimate the cost of replacement parts. I wanted a real change to make the Mule. I wanted to do it with what ever I had in my stock pile of parts. I also decided early on that I would not repair any...

First a little history on the (Mule) M1009. I bought it in 2006 at a scrap sale. It was without tires, wheels, alternators , starter and the inside was shoveled full of garage floor sweepings and it appeared to be 500 lbs of broken safety glass. There were 4 of the M1009 Blazers in this...

M1009 short bed conversion I will explain the details tomorrow on my short bed canvas top conversion. I typed it twice here at home and was unable to post. Picture posting at home no problem. I don't know why?

I am trying to learn to post the pictures. I have help from a young Mexican boy and he is well versed in the use of the internet. He said this is not a very user friendly site to post pictures easily. I will work on it. Someone wants to move the pictures to my previous pictures fine. If not...