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A low voltage situation will cause a lot of harm to your starting system. Most likely the starter solenoid welded itself together 'regardless" if its heavy duty or not. Always keep good battery charge or it will rear its ugly head and cause damage to the solenoids, relays, glow plug system, and...
Be easy on him Rick, I'm sure he has a great reason it broke. I deal with the same thing almost weekly. If it dont belong to them they don't care.
Keep us informed.
Nice looking plow setup. Where did you get it installed? I'm looking to get a plow mounted on or 1078A1 for our county in Central NY. We are looking for a experienced vendor that has mounted them on these trucks.
Actually Easter Find is now my spare parts truck.
I use it for trouble shoot issues on my M1009. My glow plug system starting acting up on the 09 so i replaced the controller temp switch; wasn't the problem. switched cards with Easter Find, works fine now. Easter Find is now waiting for a new...
I just pulled mine because I'm also having troubles. I couldn't find it at first but it will be there. Look for a black box about the size of a pack of cigarettes. It might be mounted or like in my case it was stuffed up high above the steering column.
Easter Find was put back on light duty today. She was ordered to pick up the MEP at the Retirement Home and bring it to the job site. The only issue was the CO failed to specify which one; The 802,803,or the 804 Can you guess which one she hooked up?
While at the retirement home, She met a few...
A few more shots of "Easter Find".
Originally started her service in the New Mexico Guard and now semi retired in central New York.
Expertly restored By CUCVRUS in 2017
Have you checked to see if your glow plug temperature sensor switch is operational? It could be stuck in the closed position and fooling your glow plug controller that the engine is warm. I think if you just unplug it, the glow plug controller will think its a cold engine and cycle your glow...
Wrap some sheet metal around the tubing, mount it on the back of a Duce guntruck, run it down any USA city street during rush hour and see how long it takes the Mayor to call out the National Guard.
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