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In short... I know what I've got disappoints you guys in terms of being true to the original. I got the truck in this shape it was in: half the dash lights don't work, the glow plugs on a button, the engine wiring hacked to pieced to set it at 12V. LEDs, CB radio, power seats, an AM/FM radio -...

I'm replacing the 12V starter he had put in with a 24V starter, figured the dog head relay mod might save me considering he already chopped and moved the original starter relay, I figured it might give me a decent shot at keeping the 24V starter alive for a time. The fuel pump was electric when...

So... fuse box question. Top left corner in the photo, that's where he has the 12V fuel pump power drawing from (brownish/black wire). Two slots below it (the red wire next to the 40 amp orange fuse) he has the radio/CB plugged in to draw 12V power. If I hook things up 24V will these fuse slots...

Back at it today. Nobody ever seems to need me till I make plans to do something I wanna do... Since I'm working on hooking things back up 24V I thought it may be prudent to check where the guy had the after market radio, fuel pump, and CB radio hooked up to. The CB looks like it goes to the...

Little update for y'all... 1) I picked up all my wiring from West Marine - had a store right in town, super nice guys there. Got some thick cables to make battery cables and run 24V to the starter. Been waiting on battery terminal lugs to come in before I started cutting cable. 2) I got a...

I'm assuming this is to prevent the 24V bus power from contacting the solenoid signal wire from the starter relay? Honestly, the cable is completely out and it's gone. Was melted beyond belief. I'm replacing it with correct spec marine wiring, and adding the lugs myself. So it's the perfect...

Just what I needed, thanks @cucvrus

Thanks @Keith_J - I might keep it there temporarily while I doghead relay mod it, just to make troubleshooting easier. If it works, I'll move it back behind the dash. This might be a really dumb question, but does anybody know offhand what the stud sizes for the bus bars are? And the engine...

Is the starter relay in the stock spot? Seems too easy to do that doghead relay mod... thought I was gonna have to dig through wire hell to find it

Okay so here's what I found looking for the starter relay. Is this stock? This is sitting on the front of the lower dash about 2ft from where your right knee would be. I also took a picture of what's behind the dash...

Thanks Keith. I thought the doghead mod would be crazy complicated, but I looked up the thread and understand a lot more about the ignition and starting circuits. Warthog did an awesome job walking through the circuits. Going by the garage soon to check the status of the starter relay and...

Delays, delays, delays. Got to love hurricanes and problems at work. I'm going back to the garage today to take some wiring measurements, I've got a list of what I need, just not how long I need. These are the wires I took out when I was taking the old harness out. I'm going to sort out...

Interesting! I actually have lugs like this currently, but they are corroded to hell and the fastener bolt is rounded and stripped to the point where it doesn't stay tight. He also had the lugs directly attached to the cables, no ring terminal cables screwed on. I like this, I will run it like...

I also picked me up a klein crimper/cutter and irwin wire strippers. Figure they will also come in handy. What do you mean by military lugs? Are those for a specific kind of battery, cause right now I just have two old diehard gold batteries with top posts

Love an opportunity to learn. Looks easy enough, I'll get it done! It'll feel better doing it myself.

Hurricane (tropical storm) Ian interrupting my plans to go work on the CUCV. It's about to start coming down and it's gonna be a little rough tomorrow. Shouldn't hit us too hard (SE-coastal NC), the garage and the CUCV will live. I'm still pondering about battery cables... I want to do these as...

@Keith_J I told you I'd double check it! I had it labeled right, but always good to check it. Red/white to bus bar, red to harness block. I also labeled BOTH alternators. Yanno, at this point I just anticipated that if I only labeled one, the day would come to install the alternators and...

Because everyone here is so kind (and because I've been away for too long) I decided to take a few more glamour shots of the old girl as she currently sits. Yes I see that trail of fluid above. The new PS pump had some residual fluid in its lines. Left a lovely little snail trail for us...

Perfect keith, thank you so much. Yeah, definitely don't want to mix up those red/red and white wires. That would be pretty catastrophic. I have both labeled with tape right now but I will label the alternators in the morning and double check my tape labels to your comment to make sure I didn't...

Keith, do you mean the one with the red ring on it? That's gen 2 charging the rear battery going to bus bar then rear batt?