From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 09:15:21 PST
I would say direct to ground to smoke the cables. Look ofr a contact point.
Jon
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From: "Chance Wolf" <bigbadwolf@telus.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 CUCV problem
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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
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>> 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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