From: Chance Wolf (bigbadwolf@telus.net)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 09:16:44 PST
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From: "Mark B. Anderson" <mark@aasurplus.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 7:32 AM
Subject: [MV] M1009 CUCV problem
> Hi all,
>
> went to start my M1009 this morning.
> ok manual glowed plugs truck turned over but never started tried again and
> then there was smoke. lifted hood both batteries were melting and the
wires
> were on fire.
>
> ok what happened anyone else ever had this happen? to me seems like
> something stuck with shorting the 24 volt?
> any ideas on what to look for or replace first??
Starter would be the only thing you'd figure would draw that much current.
I had one similar failure when my starter was loose and jammed itself up
while in the midst of a start. Maybe the main hot lead going to the
starter's gone and chafed itself bare against some of the metal down there?
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