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Hello I just purchased a neat USMC Ground Expedient Refueling System from a collector locally. I'd always thought they looked neat but shipping it would have been expensive. It's the medium size system that originally came with 4 155 gallon fuel bladders, 2 dual 24v air compressors, 3 fuel...

Does anyone know where I could find some of the electrical panels that went in this? I'd like to get it setup for 24v and 120v again. I wish it had the electrical racks still, I'd like to use it for some comms equipment. I got the lights working. They did a real hack wiring job on it. The...

I just got back. I decided to try the small trailer. The shelter hangs off the back of the trailer about 6 inches. This puts too much weight at the back. I had to get clever and get a few more military toys from him to stick towards the front of the shelter to put some more weight on the...

I'm planning on a recovery trip to pick up a S-250 shelter tomorrow. I was planning on putting it on a M-101 trailer but I think it's an A2 model because it has surge brakes and CUCV wheels. Is it true that those are too narrow? My backup plan was to take our tilt deck car hauler down there, it...

The HMMWV was down for over a month this summer. I was having problems with the power steering that I thought was air in the system from when I removed the cooling stack. It was hard to turn but even the brakes stopped working right. Back when I put the cooler back in I filled up the power...

I finally had some time to work on the HMMWV again. I really want to be able to pull our 17' camper with the HMMWV. The tow capacity listed for the M998A1 is pretty small. I would have liked to put on a receiver hitch but the air drop bumper it requires has gone way up in price lately. I found...

Older ICE interconnect box- I found some pictures of the older style interconnect box to show everyone the differences. Like Wire Fox mentioned, the old interconnect box has a toggle switch to select the power input source, in the picture it has a guard around the switch and is on the same side...

I've been playing with these Miltope laptops for a couple years now. If you carefully open the hard drive canister it just uses a 2.5" ATA ide hard drive. Those are the older ones, not the SATA. I had an old maxtor 150 GB external USB drive kicking around and found it actually had a standard...

I've finished up all the upgrades under the hood for now. It occurred to me that the alternator setup just changes the quantity of belts required. With the 60 amp you have two power steering and two alternator belts. With the 200 amp alternator you have one power steering and 3 alternator...

I decided to go for it and put in anything that requires me to pull the cooling stack. I'm glad I pulled the stack because it would have been a pain or impossible with out it. I pulled all the coolers then decided to take the hood off to get the radiator out, probably should have done that...

That is a sweet truck Gunzy, ironically I couldn't stop and let the kids look at that little car show because we were on the way to get the hard top. Hopefully the wife will get used to the HMMWV and I'll be able to talk her into something larger someday. I debated what to do about that fan I...

I was very excited to get this- Summer is finally here and it would help when I'm not moving. It's a signal two speed 24v fan. I went to figure out how I could mount it and noticed that the fan just flops around, it won't stay in any position you put it. There's no knob to tighten, it appears...

Hi Gunzy, Thank you for the welcome. Was your truck over at the advance auto a month or two ago? I think I've seen it around a couple times. I've heard of the UMV group from another member with a nice deuce down in Kaysville, but neither the wife or I have facebook (very proud of her for that)...

I finally got some time to work on the HMMWV again. I wanted to be able to tow regular trailers so I bought one of those add on receiver hitches that bolt behind the pintle hitch. Has anyone tried those? When I put it back on, the bolt on the pintle wouldn't screw on far enough for the cotter...

I finally remembered to take some pictures of the battery disconnect. I wanted something that was lockable, but also something heavy duty. The Pollak clones I have seen around town seem to be rated for only 150 amps, which for most things might be ok, but I wanted something that could...

I've just thought of some more questions about the helmet tops. Mine didn't come with any gas struts to hold the back door open. Do they normally open that far? I just measured the distance between the two mounts and ordered ones for that length. Has anyone mounted jerry can brackets on the...

Hello I never thought I'd end up posting about a HMMWV, but that changed a couple months ago. I was surprised how just how much they had come down in price from the initial offering last spring. I ended up with this 1995 M998A1. I wanted something that I could take the family out in, but the...

Hello I just scored my first HMMWV a few weeks ago and am trying to make it a little more comfortable for the family. The 4 door ones were going for quite a bit more money, so I ended up getting this two door model. I've found a helmet hardtop locally to put on it. It gets pretty hot out...

Hello I've had a few minutes to work on my contact truck this fall. I decided to put two Betts work lights on the back of mine. They are about even with the roof and rotate all over, even towards the sides of the truck. The are par36 bulbs, so I just bought some LED replacements for the...

Thanks for the hint about checking the switches, those are always a pain. I'm still fighting the Drive selector switch, right now I removed it and taped the switch in the right position. I'll also hook up the actuator to 12v and check the current to see if it is getting choked through all the...