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Which TPS are you using? The GM one I used read backwards. I was able to tell the TCM to reverse signal and all was good after that. See if you have that option before you get into the wires.
Have you changed your fuel filter, checked you in tank fuel pick up sock or looked at the IP return check valve for debris? Any or all the the three could cause your issues. They are also cheap to look at and do. If you have debris in the return check valve. You then get to get an IP rebuild by...
If you unplug the battery, you turn off power to the pink wire on top of the IP. You also have a non charging alternator. However, something in your wiring is probably messed up to allow power to the pink wire with the key off.
If, with power turned off to the pink wire on the IP, the engine...
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea of the 2014 rule change and didn't know about your effort. I am currently building a "buggy" for Boxcar in my class and we just discussed making it road legal the other day. Not knowing it is currently impossible.
350° on the EGT is about right at idle. I see 300°-400° at idle most of the time. It jumped to 275° as soon as I fired it up this morning and was at 325° or so when the cold idle kicked off.
It won't make the boost gauge move until you put a good load on it. Revving won't do it and neither...
At least those head studs have paid for themselves now. How many sets of head bolts have you not had to buy?
If it holds 15 psi for more than 20 minutes or so, you are good. Overnight means you have one heck of a tight test pump and hose set up.
You could pull the brake drums off to make them lighter. Otherwise, some kind of stool to sit on so your legs can kind of catch the hub as it comes off...
The -20 manual has a wonderful 76 page long troubleshooting section. Then another trouble shooting section on just electrical stuff. The opening page of that section states in very clear terms to make sure you have two batteries that are fully charged and have been load tested before doing any...
It might have just had some surface corrosion on the crank as well. My M35 Gasser didn’t leak a drop of anything around town and on 30 mile test drives. I drive it to Houston one super hot August day and see something shiny in the mirror on the passenger side bed about 60 miles later. Transfer...
Pull the fill plug on the transmission to see if oil gushes out at you. It could have some water ingested in that raised the level some. Also, check your engine oil level to verify a few things. One, that you still have some and how much you have lost.
Oil psi will be the same no matter how...
14 vehicles in the convoy this morning. Biggest ever for us.
I made it home and got all unpacked. Nice seeing everyone again and meeting the new ones too!
Thanks, Tim
That was the most informative post yet. So, 35 is not your maximum speed. It is how slow the truck gets on a specific stretch of road. Which is totally different than what you started this thread with.
Ok, there is a point when you are pushing the throttle pedal and nothing happens. When...
Also, Trailboss. You still want those 6.2 rings? I forgot them last year and have a note on the M715 steering wheel to dig them out tonight and load them up.
The weather keeps predicting rain, no rain, rain, no rain, etc.... So, I put the CUCV M1008 cargo cover on the M715 last night. I haven't had it on the truck in years and it appears to have shrunk. I know it went down to the bed rails in 2012. But, I don't think I have used it since. So...
It is like there are two different threads going on at the same time here.
One part of the thread has a totally stock M1009 with 85,000 miles, 4 radios and can't go over 35 mph. If everything is stock as in tires, axles with the 3.08:1 ratio and transmission. 35 mph at sea level when holding...