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Since I have deep into another project I am trying to finish up, I took the M1010 down to the local gear shop and had them drain the diffs and installed the new covers and fresh fluid. Doubt these old covers had ever been off. Only 15,000 miles and the fluid wasn't as bad as I have seen but 35...

Interesting. I swear I have read that leaving that switch on for extended periods of time will drain the battery. Not a problem with daily driving. Interesting...

Yeah, I left my service light switch on the other day and didn't realize it for a couple days. Luckily batteries were not drained but they were low. Put charger on them. Gotta remember to shut of if not using for a bit.

Still working that out. Trying to get a spare bezel that I can work with without having to pull mine apart until I am ready to swap. Short term I am likely to just put an under dash mount for the oil, water and volt so I can monitor those items. They are important to know what's going on. I...

Gathering more parts. I had these gauges custom made by Speedhut. This is their Revolution line but done up to look like their HUMVEE line of gauge. Wanted to keep that military vibe but have modern gauges, since there are none in the CUCV rigs. The LED near the bottom of the gauge is a...

Excellent news. I have been weighing the pros and cons of which OD setup I want to use. Here is where I am at. 700R4 - PRO: Better 1st gear and OD ratio than other options, similar size to TH400 so no driveshaft mods, mechanical system, lockup convertor CON: Needs to be beefed up for M1010...

Cool. Yep, has the heater in the back but that is coming out too. Will likely use a Propex Heat Source unit. Thought about a diesel powered camp heater but they are a little finicky and require more maintenance than a propane unit. Still planning out everything.

Yeah, the Tiny Tach is a great unit. Worked really well and if I wasn't doing a full gauge upgrade, I would have bought another one. Yes that is an A/C unit for the rear box. Doesn't work and I'll be removing it anyways. Don't need it for my camper build that I am doing.

No, you cannot use a standard "off the shelf" gas engine tach. You have a few options. One, you can use a Dakota Digital tach interface (either using alt or a fiywheel sensor, both listed here http://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=results/category_id=694/mode=cat/cat694.htm )...

Thanks for the input. Picked up a set of stock ones last night at NAPA. Don't really want to introduce more vibes than it already has. :)

Hi all, I did a bunch of searching but really didn't get an answer I was looking for. I was working on the M1010 this weekend and noticed the original rubber trans mounts are toast and need to be replaced. Looking for replacements it seems I can put stock rubber type in or Urethane mounts. I...

Yeah, this past weekend I did the resister bypass (running a wire directly to the battery and not using the 12v tap on the firewall). Then installed a set of Kennedy Diesel Quick Heat glow plugs. It had the original Wellman plugs which luckily did not give me any removal issues but they only...

Couple more available hours so I swapped out the original glow plugs with a set of Kennedy Diesel glow plugs. It did require me to replace all of the plug ends with 1/4" connectors. On to the next project.

Finally got a little time on my "new to me" M1010. First thing was to do the "doghead" starter relay upgrade. It was nice to find it had already been done. Sweet. Next up, ditching the glow plug resister bank and moving it to 12v system. Checked that off. It was getting late so the last...

Another possibility is that the loose battery wires was causing a very bad ground and any current was trying to go up the line. I have seen some really funky things happen with bad/loose grounds.

Just Google Spare Tire Winch and there are tons of them you can buy new, if you don't want to scrounge junkyards.

Definitely something I am going to look into. With the eventual build out of the back for camping, if I am on a multi day trip and have a flat, I sure don't want to put the old tire into the back. Outside of bouncing around, it would suck to have to unload and load it every time we are using...

Nicely done. Gives me hope. :) The comment about "have fun lifting" is the one concern I was thinking about. I was thinking about if there was a way to use one of the newer truck crank up systems to raise it into place and then use the stock bar to actually tighten and hold it in place. Sure...

Definitely interested to see the pics. I would love to be able to put my spare in the stock location too, on my M1010. Running 255/85-16 Toyos and really didn't want to have to make a rear swing out rack for a spare.