What have you done to your CUCV today/lately - Part 2

[Sharecropper]

I'm a little surprised you didn't use AN fittings (Aeroquip) and braided line considering the funds spent on the project already.
Looks great regardless!

I have that filter setup on several things around the ranch and it works well.
Plastic doesn't discolor over time and can tell at a glance if water present.

Nice work
Love the attention to detail.

Don't be surprised. I actually considered converting to AN fittings and lines but discovered the fittings for the R12T filter were male ORB fittings which I did not have in my inventory. In addition I needed to cut the 3/8" fuel hard line forward of the filter and install a 3/8" compression x 3/8" hose barb adapter, and this connection would have been complicated to convert to AN. Thanks for the compliment.

 

[Spence]

I spent the last couple of weekends chasing the electrical issues in my M1010. It was blowing an aftermarket fuse on an ignition wire to the 12V bulkhead adjacent to the master cylinder when I keyed on. I pulled the harness and looked it over, replacing damaged wires and putting it back to stock with the plan B mod for removing the Duvac. I went back to the 24V direct drive starter which required fabricating the now obsolete bracket. I have the 12V redux starter and bracket as a spare.

The wiring had been hacked a lot before I got it, so I was happy to study the wiring schematics in the TM and know what goes where and that it was back to the original configuration. The truck started shockingly fast on the first try after all this work. When I went to turn on the service lights at the blackout switch, the horn started blaring.

Thankfully, I had read about the diode that fails on the back of the relay. I snipped out the diode and now the horn works as it should.
A previous owner had clipped the wire to the horn and I assume they didn’t know about the diode. After the truck had run for a few minutes, I was checking in on the engine and the pink wire to the injection pump sole oid started sparking and the engine shut off.

The fusible link that I installed to replace the aftermarket fuse holder started burning. Luckily, I had a fire extinguisher on hand and hit it with a quick shot and the fire was out. I suppose the insulator for the positive fuel shutoff solenoid stud had failed and allowed a dead short to the body of the injection pump. I ordered q new solenoid and picked up some new fusible link to get it sorted. It felt great to hear it running again!

Can’t wait to start driving it around again.

 

[Spence]

The vacuum line goes to the VRV on the Injector pump. Lower position. This provides vacuum to the transmission modulator for shifting. The single wire connector goes nowhere, it ends on the other side of the firewall in another connector. I have not researched it but may have to do with either the arctic package or the M1010 ambulance. I have the same wire on my M1031.

Correct. The blue wire goes to the fuel pump to the passenger box heater on my M1010 ambulance.

 

[Sharecropper]

Got the Sherpa 24v 17,000 lb winch mounted and the bumper & grille guard back on. The Sherpa came with the wireless remote so I mounted the transmitter on the core support immediately behind the control box so the cable can stay plugged in. More details in my rebuild thread.

 

[maddawg308]

Finally had some free time to play with the fuel system, upgraded to a spin-on fuel filter system as detailed in this thread from a while back. It was a lot easier than expected to install, only thing it's waiting on are a fresh set of batteries and getting the air out of the system, which will hopefully be tomorrow.

 

[TechnoWeenie]

Spent the morning removing the batteries for the fuel filter upgrade, vacuuming and cleaning out the top of the intake manifold and the space between the radiator and the grille that had accumulated a lot of squirrel nuts and bird nest junk from it's hibernation at my former location. Must've been 20 pounds of pine needles and leaves jammed in there. The radiator should breathe better now.

Found these two loose connections, one looks like a vacuum line not connected to anything, center rear of the engine. Other is a wiring connection driver's side against the firewall. Anyone know off the top of their heads what they need to be connected to?

Also scraped off the front bumper markings, I'll need to get some stencils now. There are some other obliterated markings underneath them, but the last owners were:

101 ABN 101 AVN BN HQ10

First block is 101st Airborne. Last block of letters is a little confusing, as there is a 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, not a Battalion, so not sure the discrepancy. Headquarters truck #10. The unit structure I only see the current organization, so maybe someone familiar with the 101st structure from the 1990s when this truck was last in service, if you can chime in I appreciate it.


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101st Aviation Battalion History

Comancheros AHB

A Company, 101st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 101st Airborne Division. First and Finest

www.comanchero.org

The 101st Airborne Division was officially designated as the 101st Air Cavalry Division on 1 July 1968. Over some period of time this was changed through a couple of evolutions to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Mobile). It was expected that the 101st would operate exactly the way the 1st Air Cavalry Division had been doing, but it did not have this total capability until about the end of March 1969 because it did not have the necessary aviation resources. Some time after the designation as air cav/air mobile, part of the reorganization required obtaining (or creating) the aviation group and obtaining the additional aviation units. An airborne division aviation battalion (101st Avn Bn), by TO&E, consisted of a headquarters element (either a HQ company or HQ Detachment), a Direct Support Company and a General Support Company (A and B companies, respectfully). TO&E for the air mobile aviation battalion was for a HQ Company, three lift companies and an armed helicopter (gun) company.

On 1 July 1968, at Camp Eagle in the Republic of Vietnam, the 160th Aviation Group was constituted with elements of the 2d Squadron, 17th Cavalry; the 101st Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); the 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); and the 159th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter). Less than a year later, on 25 June 1969, the 160th Aviation Group was redesignated as the 101st Aviation Group

 

[Tinstar]

Had a Hawker Battery go bad. The other one is still strong as ever.
Attempted to revive it over the last two weeks with zero success.
It will not hold a charge above 11.55

I don’t feel like spending $2k on a new set of Hawker 6TAGMs right now, so regular battery’s it is.

Broke out the Optima 6T adapters and will be installing two Optima 34 battery’s tomorrow as soon as they arrive.

These adapters used to be really hard to find but that’s probably changed. I’ve had these for years.

These give the Red/Yellow Top Optima’s the same foot print and height of the 6T battery’s.
That way the stock brackets still work.

 

[TechnoWeenie]

Optima's are garbage - they went to #%(& over a decade ago when they were bought out by JCI - JCI is usually a very good manufacturer of batteries but they moved production to Mexico and they've been #%(& ever since. Quality control has decreased substantially. Gone are the 10+ year service life - 2-3 years is now the normal for them.

 

[Tinstar]

Installed the new battery’s today.
Looks much different than the hawkers.
It will work for now.

Under hood is filthy and will get a bath tomorrow now that I can move the truck.