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Check your charging voltage. If something's wrong with the voltage regulator or the alternatorr and gives out over 30 volts that will overheat your coil

I very much doubt that the LEDs are 12 volt only. Usually they have a voltage range of 12 to 32 volts or more.

As for Pinzgauers in 12 volt, there were several made in the late 80s/ early 90s, usually for municipal purposes. My old P80 716K was one of them

Why did you replace the battery relay? It is only a safety feature in case someone opens the main battery switch while the truck is running, it keeps the circuit closed automatically. That is the only reason it is there. Make sure you have the batteries hooked in series and not parallel.

You have two things that play here, voltage and amperage. Typically under 21.5 volts, your Pinz will not start. Usually meaning that you have a bad cell or more in one of the batteries or a short. Cranking amps are what is needed to start the vehicle. The three most power hungry parts on your truck ...

If the heater is off and the engine is off, that relay should be open and no parasitic draw. Look for a power drain on the positive side. That is one thing I hated about the gas Pinzes, the negative disconnect. Basically it means that you cannot run any cables directly back to the battery on the neg...

What that circuit is for is the same as for the engine.
It maintain the ground if the battery switch is open while the heater is being operated.

Unless you plan to use rocky off-road, on a farm, and never see a highway, the Maloyas are only "ok". They are an extremely old technology tire that went away over 40 years ago. Like NDT tires, they are hard as rocks and have little traction on wet slippery paved road. I've had 4 Pinzes in...

Those are the correct glass. Laminated for the windshield, tempered for the side.

I did locksmithing for my commercial customers for 35 years, never had locks on my gas Pinz but did for the diesels. Mr Zero has the right keys but those are Ilco numbers for 2 blanks that are the same keyway. Either google Ilco X21 or YS1. It is not uncommon to have a single keyway to be used on di...

Check the butterfly shafts for play at the bushings. Spray carburetor cleaner or WD-40 at the shafts where they go through the carburetor body. If the RPM goes up that is your leak. Remember that these trucks in many cases are 50 years old and have gone through a lot of wear. The float level would b...

Back before everybody relied on fancy computerized tools, we used ignition tester. Hold hold it up to the each cable and it would illuminate with each spark.

It's not a airspring but a airshock absorber.... :wink: And the rear springs can be switched with front springs of a 710....i have my 716k with the rooftop tent and to not have the aircompressor working every 5 minutes i swaped my rearsprings with frontsprings of a 710....now when the truck sits fo...

I may not have my nomenclature quite correct here...I was under the impression that a 716 was a diesel version of a 710 4x4 and maybe came with a heavier duty spring in the rear? I guess what I was getting at was that maybe someone swapped in a hd spring from another model or something. Are the 710...

Case in point, at the moment I have a dedicated 24V fuse block that is tapped and fused off the batteries. It is independent of the electrical system of the vehicle so to speak. If the cutoff switch is in either the on or off position this fuse block is always hot. So am I correct in my interpretat...

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It sounds like it is working correctly considering an additional leads to the batteries which can blow out electronics added.
The solenoid engauges with the engine running