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The bright side is: You blew your transmission within 100 miles of home. You're less likely to fall into a hot spring pool in the next few weeks. As a bit of consultation:

Looks lie he put on a bolt to preload the kingpin bushing rather than the convestional spacer pre-load. Should be ef#egtive as long as the bolt stays put.

Fond memories of Bellows beach in my youth. I was found once alone on the beach at age 2 by an SP sailor. They way my parents describe the incident, when I was asked what I was doing by the SP I casually replied "I'm heading to the officer's mess to get a cup of coffee." So I guess my coffee...

Here. Not much use losing one's head, I was coming out of surgery for a dental abscess about 11 years back (popped a filling and it got infected before I could see a dentist, eek), and the doctor commented that I was the easiest patient he'd worked on in a long time. Apparently people don't...

That was probably me - it was memorable. But I imagine that pales in comparison to seeing a trailer that looks just like yours going by you - probably as bad as seeing loads of sparks in your rearview mirror while you're hauling wooden pallets, then pulling over and realizing your trailer isn't...

Best to rotate on a 5-tire cycle: Makes everything wear down evenly including the spare. When it gets close to time to do tire changes, do one at a time feeding in where the spare tire would go next, and the tire that is the spare gets cycled out. You may get an extra 25% tire wear this way...

M1009 = two buckets up front :( I had to find a local upholstery shop to do replicas - much cheaper than LMC IMHO

Brings gravity to the saying "it went bang - means it's hosed"...

Have you done a head-light harness or a horn relay under the hood? You have to understand that EVERYTHING that signals outside the truck goes through that fuse to the blackout control switch. IMHO it's the single biggest weak point of the electricals in a CUCV, the second being the lack of a...

Stay the course, work through it :tank: - most of the problems I've seen, experienced, or read about on CUCVs are traceable to someone not reading the TM and not understanding the subtle but important differences from the CUCV line to the civilian Chevy's. You will pull this truck back, and the...

My 2cents, put a foam covered paper filter back on... I ran a K&N filter in my Toyota pickup for a few years, one time I went to clean the throttle body as part of a tune-up - there was a fine oily dust coating the entire interior of the intake. All that crap came through the air filter and...

Installed LED blackout light (Trucklite), new grill (NOS), un-bent the NATO port, fixed glow plug system :beer:

California bureau of automotive repair directs service shops that if the tires are 10+ years old, the shop may only touch them to replace them.

Thier book doesn't include the CUCV values. When I did two tires on the M1009 in the fall (sidewall tread separation on 11 year-old tires), I brought the technical manual with me. The factory manual overrides their book apparently. 1403 sounds like 14th week of 2003, and if that's right, that...

Have any idea what the date code was on them?

Fusible link, or many, are most likely toast.

Caster is done with shimming the leaf spring mount to the axle (rolling the axle forwards or backwards). Camber should be more or less set right from the factory - if it's off, you might have a bent axle tube. The only way I know of to fix that after the ends are welded onto the axle, is to...

You're forgetting how persistent Imperial is - still call it a Pint in the UK when you want a beer... Not a half liter. Metric is used constantly in Engineering even here in the USA - decimal math is a lot easier than fractions. Just got my M1009 back from a cooling system refresh, chasing a...

If you plan on running that truck empty on the street, you may want to put the proportioning valve you took out back in. Without it, your rear brakes may lock up sooner than they should (of course with bigger tires you may be able to "get away with it"). 2cents Getting closer [thumbzup]

Trick an old 2-stroke mechanic taught me, crank for a bit, and if it doesn't go, let it sit. The heat for compression on the cylinders will warm the cylinder's interior, and the next time you crank it's a lot easier - kind of like a super glow plug. This knowledge always made starting my...