From: Jeff Hain-Matson (flmv@flmv.net)
Date: Sun Mar 19 2006 - 07:21:42 PST
A lot quicker to reach up under the dash and pull the starter relay. (It is
> Sounds like starter solenoid. Happen to my 1009 when my wife tried to
> start
> it last summer. Mine shorted.... horn started blowing....flywheel started
> spinning faster and faster...battery cables started smoking and
> melting....sounded like doomsday with the horn going off. Of course my
> wife
> sat there with her mouth open saying "but all I did was start it". The
> horn
> stopped going off and I fought the urge to start running like it might
> explode except my wife who was still frozen behind the wheel might take a
> dim view of that choice. Finally got hood open and cut battery cables
> before fire broke out....whew.. exciting Sunday morning.
>
>
>
> "Stu" Southern, NH USA
> "Live Free Or Die; Death Is Not The Worst Of Evils"
> MVPA #14790
> 1967 M151A1 Jeep 1964 M416 Trailer
> 1985 M1008 CUCV Pickup
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Mark B. Anderson
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:33 AM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: *SPAM* [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??
>
> any help here would be great.
>
>
> Mark Anderson
> Anderson & Anderson Airsoft
> Anderson & Anderson Surplus
> Anderson & Anderson Investigations
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> '84 M1009 and '85 M1008
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worth the time ANY CUCV owner / operator to familiarize them selves with
this relay. I have seen this problem on 3 blazers, and one pickup
personally, and heard of it on about 15 more. This problem is not going
away!!)
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JEFF HAIN-MATSON
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Stu" <stuinnh@mvnut.us>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] *SPAM* [MV] M1009 CUCV problem
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