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I have a comment and a story on this line of thought... vehicles are machines. The world is tough on machines, especially when the world is not human tuned for vehicle survival (i.e. roads). Is your daughter involved in any of the repair work? This stuff is just as important to learn as how...

This is the best video I can find of the cowl vent actuators in the kick panel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubE7Nhop7iw Operation should be obvious :beer:

Obviously a bar is missing... [thumbzup]

I've had that failure on a '71 Mercury Cougar on a bridge before. I used a paracord shoelace to temporarily reconnect the throttle cable to the pedal lever - this got me off the bridge (MacGyver would have been proud). I ended up using an aircraft cable to replace the original hardware - using...

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Indeed - I had missed it before but that picture you posted is looking into the back of two un-crimped plug terminals :jumpin:. that anderson plug should pull apart at the half-way point, then you just need to remove the two terminals crimp them to a cable set and re-insert them :)

So I gotta ask - is this really for your daughter or was that an excuse to get one for yourself? :beer:

Nope went "boom" then it slid into a curb... Memorable though. :beer:

In racing they call it "nutting and bolting" - every nut and bolt gets checked for correct torque (and lock wire if applicable) before they let the car or truck loose on the track. This should be part of regular inspections to at least see if any nuts are missing or loose - I've come across...

You should re-torque your nuts after the first 50 miles of driving. If any of them were rusty at the root where it pressed into the hub/axle, I would just replace them - they stretch over time, and rust at the root is a good way to snap a stud.

Self exciting alternators should still go to sleep 1uA or less (0.000001) - they wait to see a frequency on the stator coils before waking up and turning on. For those of you who do electronics with embedded microprocessors, the most common way is to use a counter on the input, and then wake...

The tacos were good so you can't have them back (I'm not sure you'd want them at this point [thumbzup]). Yes that is partially the type of "confusion" I would have expected. As for the charge stabilizing, you are also not beating it with variable loads like winch and inverter use, or leaving...

Look up Dorman 924-526 - it's the modern winch/hoist they use, much easier to use. Also for a jack in backwoods, look at the HiLift, and if you get it learn how to use it correctly. And think about that mud - will the ground support the load of a small jack footprint on the soil with a loaded...

I would recommend looking at non-GM specific potential solutions for RF suppression, once you broaded your view to things other than what the CUCV came with you will find many more options and sources. The most common method for reducing noise across (radiated energy) a fast "switching" device...

Good man, make sure the foundation is solid before building the house... Yes, you should put in a ground return wire for heavy continuous loads, steel has about 20% the conductivity of copper (or 5x the resistance), and the frame is an imperfect conductor already, rivets bonding components...

So here's what I would recommend doing first, pull the fuses for your 24v devices and then measure the current again. One of the things you have to be careful of is backfeeding your 24v devices. The second thing I'd check is the alternator wires for any current when the ignition is off - if...

Just about any truck or car can be used off-road, I used a Kia rental on Oahu, HI to take 93 out to the tidal pools, didn't even get it dirty [thumbzup] (can't quite get all the way around the outer edge of the island by old hwy 93...). For the sake of reliability I'd warn off of a 2WD only...

Remember that all of the lights go through that fuse as well as the horn power, so that the service/blackout switch can control them at a single point and modifications or additions to the original lighting design has an impact on this one fuse's draw. IMHO this is the one weak point in the...

From that picture, the positive is at the top of the picture exiting the left side of the image, the ground is the fat cable at the bottom of the picture exiting to the right of the image (I may have + - reversed) - the little wire coming out from the case of the alternator going to the...

Time for some tacos :)