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Offline fitz

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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #45 on: June 16, 2010, 08:50:01 PM »
Hopefully he at least replaced the bolt before he fired it up and destroyed the motor.
I'd be loosing sleep over it if I was the guy you got it from. He destroyed a good motor with 17K on it which led to him selling off a rock solid CUCV.

What do you think of the 6.2 motors in general? I know that they are not the powerhouses that todays diesels are, but are there any known problems with them?
I'm just getting into these Military trucks and  plan to set one of these up for hauling my car trailer.  
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #46 on: June 16, 2010, 09:00:47 PM »
What happened was the air cleaner stud was snapped and fell inside the intake. It could very well have been an acident I suppose since the base of the stud is still screwed in there.

The 6.2L is a good engine. It's pricey to rebuild and the problems associated with them are relatively easy for any decent wrench to handle. Are they powerhouses? No way but with the gearing they do have nice low end. I don't know why they weren't turbo'd in the first place but of course all of the newer ones are which kind of gives all of the non turbo diesels the old school slug stamp. If it wasn't for this truck being what it is I would have just converted it to a BBC
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #47 on: June 17, 2010, 11:15:16 PM »
I want one of these trucks in the worst way, I sold my M1009 blazer to buy one and lost my funding for it.  This thread brought a tear to my eye.  Lucky man.
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #48 on: July 01, 2010, 06:45:31 PM »
So, the engine is built and we painted the engine camo. It looks pretty cool. Two of my students took the initiative to paint the american flag oil pan. I went to see how they did and it looked something like this:



LOL So then they realized it's a puertorican flag so they're fixing it  ;D
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #49 on: July 01, 2010, 06:58:36 PM »
They confused that with the USA flag? Or did they paint the Puerto Rico because it is a US territory?
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #50 on: July 01, 2010, 07:05:21 PM »
They painted it white, stuck a big star on the pan, painted it blue and did red stripes. I guess they didn't feel like making 50 stars lol
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #51 on: July 01, 2010, 08:50:24 PM »
Lol its the thought that counts
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #52 on: July 01, 2010, 10:12:21 PM »
At least they didnt confuse the blue for green. Viva Mexico!!! JK
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #53 on: July 05, 2010, 05:28:19 PM »
Well the engine is all rebuilt and the oil pan is painted like the american flag more now. lol




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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #54 on: July 05, 2010, 05:44:27 PM »
That motor looks great in camo. Did you use the rustoleum camo paint on it? 
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« Reply #55 on: July 05, 2010, 08:42:10 PM »
That does look VERY cool.
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #56 on: July 05, 2010, 09:15:05 PM »
I used the Krylon camo paint
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #57 on: July 06, 2010, 10:44:56 AM »
Makes me proud to be an American. ;D Seriously that was a great find.
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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #58 on: July 06, 2010, 04:20:55 PM »
Here's a few more pix





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Re: 1985 M1008
« Reply #59 on: July 06, 2010, 04:46:18 PM »
Nice. Have to see if FRAM makes a camo filter :D
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