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Old 05-08-2022, 03:42 AM   #1
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Aloha All.

You guys have been awesome so far in providing info and/or sources to diagnose problems I've had and I'm hoping all of you electrical engineers and techies can come to the rescue once again.

1St...this is not for my Bus. I have a 2008 M1123 Humvee with a Detroit Diesel 6.5l naturally aspirated V8. I went to start it the other day and there was a puff of smoke from the engine compartment and no cranking. I disconnected the batteries then dived in to inspect the damage and found this wire that I never noticed before. It's thoroughly cooked.

It comes out of the wiring harness next to the Glow Plug controller that is screwed in to the cross-over pipe. One end plugs in to the wire from the harness and the other end is grounded to a big metal bracket over the engine that holds a window washer fluid bottle.

In the wire was shrink wrapped a weird circuit board with a diode on it. There's no part number. No name on the chip. And for the life of me I have never seen a ground wire with an inline circuit board before. There is a military number tag on the wire that this wire plugs in to and it reads 54 C but there's no 54 C that I could fine in the Tech Manual. I've watched about 20 videos on Y/T of humvees with electrical or starting issues and none of them have that wire. I'm stumped.

Can you guys help? If I can't have this post on here because it's not a Bus, let me know and I'll remove it but hopefully one of you guys can at least point me in the right direction in a DM.

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Old 05-08-2022, 07:42 AM   #2
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Complete guess here...
Could that be a fusible link?

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Old 05-08-2022, 10:39 AM   #4
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Complete guess here...
Could that be a fusible link?

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=...AAAAAdAAAAABAF
That was my original thought but I never seen a fuse that was a microchip. That's why I was hoping one of the Tech Overlords that reside here would have an idea before I replace this wire with something that's incorrect and my poor vehicle goes burning to the ground on the next start up.
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Old 05-08-2022, 12:31 PM   #5
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Wild guess: This cable might be intended to reduce radio interference.

Not so wild: All your cranking amperage went thru it because the proper grounding between the starter/engine and the battery is corroded or missing.
It is all too common that an amateur mechanic fails to reconnect a ground strap. I once saw the throttle linkage on a car glow red hot while cranking.
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do you have a mil spec govt. hummer or the civillan version?
you mentioned mil spec lable on that wire.
let me know i work on a military base and can drop by the motor pool or diesel school and ask the mechanics.
i just spent 6 months rebuilding the dyno machine at the diesel school and replacing a compressed air system in one the motor pools directly across the road from another reno job i have.
so the mechanics and upper knowledge is already used to me being around and asking question especially at the school when i got into the classroom with every diesel motor they had a cut away version and a full breakdown/rebuild trainer for each.
just saying if its mil spec then i can get mil spec answers.
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Those little white triangles on the green PC board with the white line across the point of the triangle are the schematic symbol for a DIODE So you've got side by side diodes in a cable. It looks like a coaxial type cable (center conductor with a shield (based on what I can see of the plug connector.


It also looks seriously fried by an overload which wouldn't normally occur on a coaxial cable as they're generally used to carry RF energy for a radio or to shield a fairly low voltage signal in the center conductor.


Try to trace it out to a component, label with identifying numbers, etc.
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do you have a mil spec govt. hummer or the civillan version?
you mentioned mil spec lable on that wire.
let me know i work on a military base and can drop by the motor pool or diesel school and ask the mechanics.
i just spent 6 months rebuilding the dyno machine at the diesel school and replacing a compressed air system in one the motor pools directly across the road from another reno job i have.
so the mechanics and upper knowledge is already used to me being around and asking question especially at the school when i got into the classroom with every diesel motor they had a cut away version and a full breakdown/rebuild trainer for each.
just saying if its mil spec then i can get mil spec answers.
JR,

This is a decommissioned M1123 Marine Humvee. It has the armor, the fording kit and the communications array all removed then put up for auction.

54 C is on the wire this ground wire plugs in to. I pulled out a magnifying glass and spent some time gently scrubbing the wire to remove the crud on it and I found - 5961-01-180-5634 on a sticker wrapped around the wire covered in black goo.It fell apart as I was trying to get a picture of it but I did write it down before it disintegrated to join the great spirits in the afterlife.

Does this help you identify it?
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Those little white triangles on the green PC board with the white line across the point of the triangle are the schematic symbol for a DIODE So you've got side by side diodes in a cable. It looks like a coaxial type cable (center conductor with a shield (based on what I can see of the plug connector.


It also looks seriously fried by an overload which wouldn't normally occur on a coaxial cable as they're generally used to carry RF energy for a radio or to shield a fairly low voltage signal in the center conductor.


Try to trace it out to a component, label with identifying numbers, etc.
It plugs in to a wire that has a metal tag on it marked 54 C
THAT wire disappears in to a wiring harness directly behind the Glow Plug controller unit which then goes off in to a covered harness of octopus spaghetti madness.
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I misread the OP. Sorry.


GEORGE


I say we name him George and we love him and take good care of him and ..... oh wait I digress to childhood.


I was Motor T for some time in the Corps (before that Hummer was built) but have been to formal HMMWV maintenance school and "owned" a dozen of them in my motor pool. Yes MINE, I was signed for those puppies personally.



5961-01-180-5634 certainly helps. It is the National Stock Number (NSN) and if it has an NSN you can look it up.


Here's the scoop:
https://www.iso-group.com/NSN/5961-01-180-5634
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GEORGE


I say we name him George and we love him and take good care of him and ..... oh wait I digress to childhood.


I was Motor T for some time in the Corps (before that Hummer was built) but have been to formal HMMWV maintenance school and "owned" a dozen of them in my motor pool. Yes MINE, I was signed for those puppies personally.



5961-01-180-5634 certainly helps. It is the National Stock Number (NSN) and if it has an NSN you can look it up.


Here's the scoop:
https://www.iso-group.com/NSN/5961-01-180-5634

You all DOTH ROCKETH!

It took 76 hours of enduring the burning battery smell of the brains of 4 " experts " on the Humvee to get me exactly...BUPKISS on this wire.

I post here to you guys and less than 24 hours later I not only got the info on the wire but possible sources to get one from.

I'm not crying..... I have something in my eye. STOP LOOKING AT ME! I'm not crying.
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Circuit 54 is fuel cutoff circuit but I can see the fuel solenoid and it has it's cable and fuel line attached.


The C I'm not sure but I'm looking at some schematics now.


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i just saw your response and if ham cant come up with it i will try to get by motor T this week.
give me a few days? its already been a crazy week.
but i have a govt inspection across the road from motor T in the morning so i should be able to go there during my lunch minute ( break) type thing.
on it.
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i just saw your response and if ham cant come up with it i will try to get by motor T this week.
give me a few days? its already been a crazy week.
but i have a govt inspection across the road from motor T in the morning so i should be able to go there during my lunch minute ( break) type thing.
on it.

I haven't found anything other than "fill this out for a quote"
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I haven't found anything other than "fill this out for a quote"
I did some interweb searching based on the NSN number and found Riverside MFG....the company that made the wire for AM General.

They couldn't give me any technical data on it because that info belongs to AM General and the Military but they did give me the updated NSN Number AND AM General's in-house number for it.

Armed with THOSE numbers I found out that two companies still make the wire. KASCAR in the US and GLOBEWorks in Germany.

I gave KASCAR a call and should have 2 wires coming next week. Getting a spare in case this ever happens again. I guess NOW the mission is...find out what caused the wire-fry in the first place.

Ham, J/R...all of you...Thank you VERY much!!
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the young mechanics at the motor T didnt know and we looked at a hummer they already had open and couldnt find the diode but all of there stuff is newish. they didnt want to open up that wire loom to much because they were already on a schedule to get that one back in service.
havent had time this week to get over to the wiser/old wizards at the school.
but now i have 54c stuck in my head until i can at least help you figure out what voltage it should have and what would happen to fry it.
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i bank on an old school radio noise eliminator and not an am/fm radio.
back then they used the pric e7 and the singar?
they were prc 7.
true name might be classified but its so old tech.
everything i looked at today makes me want to go back to the school ever more.
even if just to ask your question.
always cools to go see the latest and greatest engine and tranny.
when i rebuilt there dyno last year i made sure i was there for there highest rpm motor and ther highest torque motor.
two different animals.
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i bank on an old school radio noise eliminator and not an am/fm radio.
back then they used the pric e7 and the singar?
they were prc 7.
true name might be classified but its so old tech.
everything i looked at today makes me want to go back to the school ever more.
even if just to ask your question.
always cools to go see the latest and greatest engine and tranny.
when i rebuilt there dyno last year i made sure i was there for there highest rpm motor and ther highest torque motor.
two different animals.

HUH? The PRC7 was THE radio when I was in. Awesome unless you had to carry it. Then it had two major drawbacks. One it was HEAVY and you got to carry it AND your gear, and of course a spare battery. Two, it somehow denied the laws of physics and magnetism and could attract non ferrous metals in great quantity. Lead and copper were the two it was best at as I remember.

Ya never wanted to be 1) the guy carrying the radio, 2) the guy not carrying the radio but talking into the handset (never look important on the battlefield), and 3) standing near the guy with the radio or the handset.
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54C should be the fuel solenoid diode according to the book.
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