Il start my thread now, showing my

- 85 m1009 ( came to sweden in -88) and has obviously been rebuilt trying to look like a civvy one.
- 6.2L Diesel V8 J-Engine

I really dont know much about this truck, so feel free to post your thoughts and share your knowledge
Im glad for anything that can/is usefull in information way for these trucks, parts knowledgebase etc..
books / guides / websites you name it

 

Doesn't look like a military version unless someone changed a bunch of stuff. Military version didn't have air vents, carpet, or cloth seats. Also the bumpers and grill are different. BUT there's one running around out here that was changed over to look more like a civilian model. There is a website devoted to old military trucks. www.stealsoldiers.com maybe see if they can figure out by the vin. Also I might be wrong but I think the american military only built these from 84-86

 

Yep, i thought there must have been to much stuff changed from the military one too... i guess this is a normal k5 then,

Your requested host "www.stealsoldiers.com" could not be resolved by DNS. is this the correct url ?

Il take in the VIN tonight

 

VIN : EK18C8CF111153
Just drove it some in the dark, and it was really dark
No light in the gauges and the windshield wipers are dead

Wich repair manual would be a good start ? Ive seen 2 talked about, Chilton and Hays but i have no exp of any of them..
I just ordered http://www.amazon.com/Blazer-1969-82.../dp/0801990777

 

sorry i misspelled steel http://www.steelsoldiers.com/

like i said it is possible. theres a guy at my work that has a show quality old military blazer. only thing that gave it away was it still had the tow points on it.

it really wouldnt be that hard to fix it up. the military ones were just gutted, no a/c, no carpet, no chrome, etc so if someone had a parts truck laying around they could have easily just took everything off and swapped it over

hers a old 85 i used to own

 

That was a nice looking truck

Thats from wikipedia, i dont know how reliable it is... i know i got the 12/24 electric system tho.. but i though all diesel K5s had this?

http://coloradok5.com/specs.shtml#1982

The specs the ck5.com makes me a bit confused..

 

oKAY its a K10.

Found the correct VIN.

 

one way to see if your vehicle is 24 volt is pop the hood. right in the middle of the firewall above the distributor you will see this giant electrical capacitor. also your wiper motor will have these three little battery looking things the wires run through. thats what knocks down the 24 volts to 12 volts. actually i think the only thing 24 volt is the starter everything is else is 12

 

Yep its a 24volt starter 2x batteries and as you said, the rest runs on 12v.

Last night me and the old man started tearing down the inside of the truck, starting with the trunk.

Removiong the side panels revealed a wood structure inside the walls....
Speakers had no cables to them, theres an 12V electrical output with no wires drawn to it...

The leather and cloth on the panels are in quite good condition with some minor scratches. The wood on the other hand are a bit more trashed. Inside the walls were spiders net, dirt, mud and all sorts of old stuff.

The metal inside is olive green, most tried to be overpainted with black spraypaint. The dash has also been green at one time.

Were there any civilian olive green trucks from the factory?
As proven above this should not be a military vehicle but now im not sure again... In the roof where there was supposed to be a lamp, there is nothing

The bolts holding the hardtop were round and had to be drilled out, out of like 15 bolts, 5 were present.

What is the weight of the hardtop? im taking it off tonight, and last night it fel like it was a couple of 100 kgs...

Whats the size of the torx holding on the the belt thingie ? Its hughe and I have to get a tool just for that today..

Pics are coming of the teardown

 

Ok, dont mind if i use this as my worklog then x(