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I believe they are standard with the turbo trucksI can't comment on when they come in a truck, and when they don't, but my M1165A1 has a tach showing 161 hours (and about 1561 miles).
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I believe they are standard with the turbo trucksI can't comment on when they come in a truck, and when they don't, but my M1165A1 has a tach showing 161 hours (and about 1561 miles).
LOL -- Back in about 1998 or so my daughter was set in the front seat of a HMMWV at the Minnesota State Fair. She reached over and started it right up! (She was 2 at the time.). [Mom was in the Army Reserve and brought her to visit a few times... Clearly she'd watched how to start it.] The people manning the booth ran over and shut it off pretty quickly..
That's a heck of an idea!
Maybe even replace the screw that holds it in place with a little knob...
Drop both pieces in your pocket and you have a cheap anti-theft device for sure.
Just need to be sure that you have a spare knob hidden away somewhere in the truck.
I gave them a good wiggle late last night and I unplugged the packard connection and put it back together. It drives me crazy knowing that one day it was fine and next it doesn’t work and all it has done is sit. I went looking at 4,700 pages of TM and I couldn’t find anything. I found one picture online and it was poor quality and I couldn’t read itWhen the tach wasnt working on my M1151, it turned out to be 2 wires that go to the AC output of the regulator on the alternator that were not plugged in.
If your voltage is in the yellow and your tach doesnt work, maybe the issues are related. Both seem to indicate an alternator output issue. I would start troubleshooting the alternator.I gave them a good wiggle late last night and I unplugged the packard connection and put it back together. It drives me crazy knowing that one day it was fine and next it doesn’t work and all it has done is sit. I went looking at 4,700 pages of TM and I couldn’t find anything. I found one picture online and it was poor quality and I couldn’t read it
Copy. Thanks for the clarification.I believe they are standard with the turbo trucks
Good for you! I don’t have that kind of patience. Seems like I fix one problem and find another one. Old truck that’s been sitting forever what can you really expect…I just got my 1165 started last night after 2 years of piecing it together. (Worked on it about an hour a month). It is an amazing feeling having it move. The brakes need bleeding though.
I’m all for doing whatever needs to be done but the few connections that I have checked are in great shape. Battery terminals are like new. I checked grounds behind dash but they changed the way they ground everything. Everything is at the back of my block on my m1123 but not on this truck..
Nobody wants to do it, but a weekend spent with several brass tooth brushes and a tube of Anti-Oxidation paste will solve a lot of electrical gremlins. start at the batteries. Clean them up, apply AntiOx and then disconnect everything wire by wire (one at the time), clean them, apply Anti-Ox, then reconnect.
It isn't sexy...
It isn't as cool as new big tires...
Nowhere near as nice as doors if it is cold or raining...
Nothing like a radio and big speakers so you can "jam" down the road...
But cleaning up the connections on a machine left out in the weather for 20 years will make it and you a lot happier.
.I’m all for doing whatever needs to be done but the few connections that I have checked are in great shape. Battery terminals are like new. I checked grounds behind dash but they changed the way they ground everything. Everything is at the back of my block on my m1123 but not on this truck.
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