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I already have several "articulation test rigs" lined up. Photographic and video results of the flex-testing will be forthcoming. First I have to get everything tip-top before the carnage can commence ;)

Here's a pic from today where it stopped due to my latest small transmission challenge. By this point I have tracked down and resolved almost all the small bugs that happen when you do a major undertaking like this. Mostly air leaks and a couple crossed wires on the pto engage switch. I...

Today I installed the new shifter and transfercase cables, hooked up the electrical system to the cab, installed the cab steps, engine cover support and a few last hoses I was waiting until now to do. There is very little left before I fill it up with water and engine flush for the drive across...

Look what I did today!

Here's the reason I decided to do the grey interior- I have had 2 other military trucks, and I learned from the first two that the green, no matter how nice it looks, is so prone to scratching and scuffing that it is impossible to keep looking new. That's no problem when your goal is not to...

here's some more of the last few days, but the cab pics are coming to an end in the next few days, as I plan on putting this thing back on the truck in a week. I have almost finished installing all the insulation, and installed the passenger seat tonight. I'll put the driver's seat and...

Some new pics from today. Almost done installing the insulation - this is a very delicate enterprise, let me tell ya... This stuff costs a fortune, and you only get one shot at making it adhere.....

I have gotten out of bed and gone to the garage on my nights off before, and woken up at noon the next day to find every tool in my shop strewn across the floor and my welder still turned on.... On one of my last serious projects (a tunnel-hull race boat) I used to go out there and end up...

I have the kind of wife that if I didn't have these kind of projects to occupy my time, we'd be heading for an early divorce. (These days it's more a question of when then if) Because I work at nights, when I wake up in the middle of the day, I go out and mess around with this project, or go...

I will be pulling the gauges back off in a day or two so I can remove the little triangular panel that the ignition switch and shutdown switch is mounted on. I realized after I put it together that it would be better to powdercoat it the same matte black as the other stuff. I still need to...

That kind of talk will get you in trouble.... What if the owner of those cars were single mom's that just ran out of gas, and that was the only car they had to use to deliver meals to aging veteran's after church on Sunday... Shame...... [thumbzup]

Well - I am not truly rewiring the truck. I carefully noted where everything went and am slowly re-installing the factory harness back into the cab. I am, however, installing a second 12 vdc system that is fed from a 24vdc-12vdc power converter mounted under the passenger glovebox area. You...

Well - you got your wish. Here's a couple from today. I'm beginning to install the insulation, and finishing up the electrical system. We're getting there.... I'd like to be installing it on the truck in a week or two.

see this post here - http://www.steelsoldiers.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=19106&highlight=lamar I paid $1500 for a hemtt cargo bed $100 for a wheel $200 for a new 16-20 xzl tire $75 for the correct hemtt crane hook $75 for a hemtt air tank $100 for two rear hemtt fenders + a...

Here's a few more from today. Since my last post I've been plugging away at the electrical and air plumbing. I installed the modified MK48 roof hatch frame and slider today, and began seam sealing all the body seams before I paint. Also installed the control panel for the remote...

Incidentally - it is really handy to have at least one of the beadlocks around when you are mounting tires. They are the perfect diameter to rest a wheel on when you are mounting/airing up the tire/seating the bead. It fits perfect on the inside bead of the wheel so the wheel can't slide...

He had a warehouse full of 16-20 Goodyears that were brand new. Hundreds of them. He said he wanted $300 each for them, but when I passed on that the price went down to $200 pretty fast. He also had lots of near new 14-20 Michelin XL's. You could probably expect around $150 each for those...

My hemtt was FILLED with that talc-like sand. After a few years it sets up like cement in some spots and had to be picked out with a screwdriver when I stripped it. It gets into EVERYTHING.... Heater, electrical panel area, the openings on the sides of the sunvisors.... Everywhere...

I don't think I've ever seen or heard of a 16R21.... Anyone got any pics of what the wheel looks like?

It is pretty nasty stuff, but all the little parts in my hemtt restoration that needed de-rusting got a dip in a plastic bucket of muriatic (Hydrochloric) acid. It works great on any steel, but definitely not aluminum or pot-metal alloys, unless you want a hydrochloric acid volcano in your...