new member sort of

[Subdood]

Hello all from Alabama! I am sort of new to the forum. My Son David joined several years ago when he purchased a 1985 M1008 M1009 running gear and an SM 465 transmission with an NP 208 transfer case). He loved the truck, my wife cried and promptly named it "Big Ugly". In 2011 he was called to his eternal home shortly before graduating from high school. A case of youth, inexperience and too much speed in a vehicle, my wife's mini van. We kept the CUCV and in the past i used his account periodically. I felt it was time to start my own. It is still ugly, but we realized he saw it as it was in his dreams, not what we saw. So the tag says "BGUGLI", and the front windshield has a decal that says "David's Dream". Regardless of what I may do to the truck, those shall remain. Since I have had it I have installed yukon 3.42 gears, 31 spline axles and a detroit locker in the rear, and converted it back to an automatic, installed the doghead starter relay mod to it and went to 31's from the 33's he had on it. I haven't done much else yet, but plan on making it the way he had talked about it. My next big challenge is the heater, keep burning up fuses, no blowing them, melting the case. I have already replaced the resistors, blower motor and switch (not just throwing parts at it, they all failed at different times). The wiring is of course old, and it looks like a high resistance connection at the fuse block. May just jumper it out and install a new separate fuse holder for it and see what happens. Attached is a picture of the BGUGLI.

 

[MtnSnow]

Hello and welcome from Utah!

 

[doghead]

Our rules request a state listed in your location.

 

[zout]

Have to remember - he is from Wreckerman's territory !!!!!

But Alabama does need to be added to your location just like the Moderator and site requests it as a rule to help us.

ANYHOW - now that you have been spanked - put down the last Sat in April on your calendar and watch for the ZOUT cookout thread - your not that far away and excuses are not allowed. Come and have some fun (even Wreckerman seems to find fun here)

 

[Another Ahab]

Hey Alabama, welcome from up here in the grand old commonwealth of Virginia.

I hear your weather's kind of special lately; you taking the family sledding outside later today?!

 

[bigboy44]

Hi and welcome from Covington, LA.

 

[RodUSMC1962]

Alabama, great state, welcome from Indiana!

 

[Another Ahab]

Alabama, great state, welcome from Indiana!

You bet! Ever hear Lynyrd Skynyrd, as done by the Red Army Chorus of Russia; it's a hoot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jrg0X9H6FGU

 

[Subdood]

Sorry about the state thing. Corrected and thanks to all. As for the Skynyrd Cover, all I can say is WOW!

 

[Subdood]

Hey Alabama, welcome from up here in the grand old commonwealth of Virginia.

I hear your weather's kind of special lately; you taking the family sledding outside later today?!

It has been something. I was driving home in the Big Ugly Tuesday when my blower stopped working. Of course I was stuck on I -20 trying to get home. Fortunately it wasn't that long and I was just a few miles from home. So this afternoon I finally had a chance (and the weather was warm enough) to work on it. My Son Dave who had the truck before hadn't put the heater core in correctly, so all the air bypassed it. Upon further investigation the blower fuse had melted again. Not blown, melted so I need to figure that out, but I'm pretty sure at least I can get some heat now, if I can get the blower running!

 

[123mack]

We have some members in our club here in Alabama who are good troubleshooters. You can meet us at one of these events (the next local is the AGCA show in Birmingham) or I cam PM you a phone number. One other thing, no one will give you a hard time for a modded vehicle, we're not that kind of a MV club. http://www.ddmvpa.org/?p=events

 

[Subdood]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to give it a go, but if I get stuck I may take you up on it.

 

[Another Ahab]

We have some members in our club here in Alabama who are good troubleshooters. You can meet us at one of these events (the next local is the AGCA show in Birmingham) or I cam PM you a phone number. One other thing, no one will give you a hard time for a modded vehicle, we're not that kind of a MV club.

We even got a Hot Rod forum if you want to consider Krazy:

- not everybody goes wild about it (and that's ok too), but there is genius among us

Like check out JerseyHick's Deuce. If it's your thing: go for it.

 

[Subdood]

Very cool. My Truck is the way my son left it, and for now I am just going to do some basic stuff. Needs new doors, and a left front fende, some interior work. Thanks for the info.

 

[dependable]

Welcome to forum. A fact that does not show up very well in TM circuit diagram is that the heater blower circuit is tied in with alternator 1 circuit and light on cluster. Try checking output voltage on that alt, also for short in cluster harness.

 

[Subdood]

Thanks Dependable. I just finished messing with it, and the heater switch was burned up. I think I will see if I can find a female connector for the switch as the existing one is sketchy i appreciate the heads in on the TM drawings. I will annotate shortly. I make notes on mine as to when / what I replace, rewrite etc. I have cone the dog head starter relay mod and it is on there, also Blower motor, and blower motor resistors.