GovPlanet Humvee Question

[jake20]

Hey everyone, been sifting through pictures of a humvee I bought on govplanet.

I'm trying to figure out what a strange looking bracket is for in the pictures. Anyone know what bracket in the attached photo is? It looks like there are bolts just sticking through without any nuts on them.

 

[Hummer Guy]

Hey everyone, been sifting through pictures of a humvee I bought on govplanet.

I'm trying to figure out what a strange looking bracket is for in the pictures. Anyone know what bracket in the attached photo is? It looks like there are bolts just sticking through without any nuts on them.

Could've been armor plating that was taken off for demil. My M1123 doesn't have those two brackets around the transmission support brace

 

[jake20]

Mine does have the holes across the body that indicate there was armor on it at some point, so that could be the case. I'll see if I can do some more digging but you may be right.

 

[Sigi]

I had the same brackets just hanging there on my 1123. They are just sitting on the transmission support bracket, no bolts.

 

[Mogman]

If you buy it make sure whoever transports it removes those brackets so they do not bounce off and hit another vehicle while in-route, could put an eye out!
Obviously for some under plating that has been removed.

 

[jake20]

Alright so I lied, I actually bought two, and as I'm sifting through photos of the other one, I see it also has those brackets. I tried to google around to see if I could find pictures of other humvees with them, but I can't really find much. I'll go with the idea that it was probably supplemental armor and not something critical for now.

 

[jake20]

And @Mogman yep that's the plan, there's a tooon of loose gear floating around in them based on the pictures. So my goal is to have the shipper make sure everything's secured.

 

[Hummer Guy]

Alright so I lied, I actually bought two, and as I'm sifting through photos of the other one, I see it also has those brackets. I tried to google around to see if I could find pictures of other humvees with them, but I can't really find much. I'll go with the idea that it was probably supplemental armor and not something critical for now.

Which model did you get? Is it a m1165?

 

[Action]

I believe that is on the m1123 from MAK armor.

 

[jake20]

The two I bought are an M1123 and an M1043A2. Both seemingly show evidence of being previously up-armored per the holes on the body.

 

[Coug]

Those brackets are from the Marine Armor Kit on the M1123s and get ignored when they remove the armor. My truck had them as well.

 

[jake20]

@Coug Thank you for confirming!