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Good news is that I got my money back. Back to square one with the motor situation, though.

Yeah so it looks like a new radiator is about 600 bucks so that’s cool. Not sure how that works since I just got one for my Cummins for less than half that, and it’s basically the same thing. I have approximately zero interest in resurrecting/repairing 40 year old radiator technology, so a new...

Been a rough weekend so far. Bought a motor (6.2) from a guy here locally that had it in a HMMWV. He took it out because it spun a rod bearing apparently. He told me it had a new crank in it and new pistons with new main and rod bearings. Picked it up on Friday for 350 bucks. I figured I’d use...

Pretty high dollar custom radiator tubesheet solder bloom cleaning device with compound offset cleaning head tool. Also known as two old scribes I welded together.

@Keith_J this is what I appreciate from you, outstanding input, thank you.

I hear you. I’m not sure that I need that level of cleaning quite yet. Frankly, I’m not sure that even 40 years ago it would make sense to completely de-solder a heat exchanger of this size just to clean it! Either way I made a lot of progress with mechanical cleaning and improvisation at this...

Head gaskets are brand new! Lol don’t have a motor yet. I’m going to continue with mechanical cleaning at this point in an effort to get the majority of it off at least. It’s just a pain working though the small holes to reach the tubesheet. I’ve cleaned more heat exchangers than I care to admit.

Well, haven’t been able to get too much done with work and the ridiculous weather here the last few weeks. I’m working on the radiator now. Flushed the oil cooler and trans coolers with a few cans of brake cleaner and compressed air/vacuum. There is a significant amount of solder bloom on the...

Troubleshooting electrical issues without the grounds being verified good is like troubleshooting a fuel system issue without checking the filter first. Bare metal on bare metal, then go from there! Good luck it’s a pain.

Beautiful. We’ll done.

Did some engineering to get the truck bed moved into the shop. Sometimes you gotta improvise when you don’t have a tractor or several people to help.

Finally getting around to painting the inner fenders. Lots of prep work plus it has been absolutely miserable here, and I don’t have AC in the shop (yet!). Using this undercoating stuff on the bottom side, and let me tell you, I don’t know what this stuff is made of but it has some serious...

Got the reinforcements off of the old passenger fender and riveted to the newer one. I was going to weld them on, then decided not to because it would just end up burning all the paint off and rusting underneath like the original did. So I painted the under side of the brackets and then started...

Looks like you have LED lights in your dash? If you do have LEDs, it is going to give you problems due to the thermal flasher relay design and also it will not work properly with the alternator circuits from my experience.

Started working on the inner fenders today. I have two sets. One set is the original set that was previously painted, and the other set is an original set off a different square body that are in great shape-just need a paint prep and some fresh paint. Unfortunately the original set that have...

My wife found this sweet pic yesterday…regret getting rid of this M1009 big time!

I was able to get the radiator support finished up and mocked up this weekend and also got all the wing supports for the bumpers and pintle painted as well. I had to make a repair to the voltmeter since the needle broke off. Got it epoxy repaired and retested SAT.

I was able to get one side of the radiator support painted up last weekend and installed the transfer case shifter after a good cleaning and lubrication.

It was in terrible shape no doubt! Not only was the drain hole plugged, but it was actually damaged pretty bad from the improperly routed field wire. Good thing DC motors are built well I guess. Most cleanup was cosmetic except the field lead repair. The project took me a whole day though. I was...