Dear Doc,and others
OK...I am convinced, thanks for your concise reply.
The cell phone almost broke me, but still i needed more,
I rang a fellow who is an engineer and CCKW owner, who i
knew had driven his all over the place. He said 6V
was fine, he had no trouble...but even after replacing
everything, the spark was weak..so i bunged in a
12v battery and coil, and it roared to life,
nice fat blue spark, starter spins really well,
it used to grind and smoke on 6V, even after rebuild.
6V is original and cool, but not starting is uncool.
That brings me to the fuel pump, I dont like the look of it much,
and had thought an electric would be more sensible, i have done this
before to solve old fuel pump problems.
Do u mean a generic type electric pump, such as those available
at cheapo auto parts stores?
also what do u do with the original pump, ie leave it on? blank off?
The reason i ask is that i still had starting problems, that seemed fuel
related
I would have to rebuild the fuel pump anyway, it will probably cost about
the
same, but then i know the pressure is steady with electric.
I will play with it today......are they prone to "flooding" causing failure
to start?
I adjusted the linkages etc, but was to dark and mosquitoes to continue.
I will wire in a resistor for the 12V coil, I believe from your reply that
I could have used the 6V coil, but i dont want to cook it.
The engineer has just sold his CCKW, it was totally original, complete and
perfect
$13000..ie US 7000$, he also told me that GMC engines hate to run lean, and
will
pop exhaust valves if run lean.
He does not know if i can run an extra PTO of the tranny, on the opposite
side to the winch PTO, the parts manual has this cover called the same
as LH PTO cover...he did suggest to remove the PTO drive shaft and put a
keyway
on the back end, if i wanted to rear drive my hydraulic setup, he said this
was how the dual drive PTO worked, but it does not look like that to me in
the
parts manual.
One more question....how smokey should a GMC engine be, mine is a bit smokey
and smelly, the neighbours dont like it.It is gray smoke.
tony
----Original Message-----
From: Jeanne Lacourse [mailto:cckw@mediaone.net]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 7:36 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List; tonygull
Subject: Re: [MV] CCKW on the road
Importance: High
If you change to 12 volts, you will thank me later.....
It will start like summer at 10 below
Keep the starter
install an alternator
add electric fuel pump
add Ignition resistor for the coil (from 56 GMC)
add Voltage regulator for the fuel gauge (JC Whitney)
Replace light bulbs
Optionally add a mechanical brake light switch for safety
Proven with 30,000 miles where it started every time without hesitation...
Besides, you can run your stereo, CB radio, and Cell Phone!
Steve AKA Dr Deuce(s)
----- Original Message -----
From: tonygull <tonygull@ozemail.com.au>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 5:32 PM
Subject: [MV] CCKW on the road
> Greetings,
> I took my GMC for its first road run the other day,
> certainly had jaws dropping, especially with no guards, bonnet
> or engine panels, no cabin or windsheild, was a lot of fun,
> just a short run, after bleeding up the brakes.
>
> Still wont start very easily, the spark is very weak.
> The consensus is condenser is faulty, a new one is on order +
points,leads,
> rotor, cap.
>
> Is the spark on 6V machines normally OK?
> The plug lead will only jump spark visibly to earth about 1/2mm,
> the coil about 2mm
>
> voltage at coil is 5.78v, coil is new, old coil was the same.
>
> Coild there be some other reason for poor spark?
>
>
> I was given a Carter WA-1 cabie NOS and put it on.
>
> Now have Strombergs that will fit off a Inter C1100,
> 1970 282cu petrol.
>
> All the talk of winching was informative.
>
> The dude who advised small drum diameter is hell
> on wire rope is dead right, plus when ever i really
> need to winch, am in a shit spot and cant run the
> cable out straight ahead, meaning the rope bunches
> all on one side, cause the wincnch drums are flimsy a bar
> usually goes across the drum to reinforce the whole thing
> and the rope jams on this after not many wraps, neccesitating
> frequent respools, not fun in adverse circumstances,
> (on my electric winch Scout)
>
> also was good advice to run cable UNDER winch anchor point
> if possible, so that broken wire slaps ground first.
>
> A question:
>
> Does a 1962 IH Scout qualify as an MV for this list,
> I have one...i am nearly sure..yes, certain, the US army used them
> sometime...can anyone confirm ( they run slant-four 152cu engines,
> which is literally half a V392 IH truck motor).
>
> regards tony
>
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