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I'm not concerned about the lights being too bright in off-road situations; I'm more concerned about them possibly being too bright in urban situations around other vehicles. That's one of the reasons that I'm considering a location that's under the truck bed and set back from the rear edge a...

I ordered a few LED bulbs from McMaster-Carr to try out on my truck. I got a white wedge-base one for the license plate bracket, which needed a different bulb anyway since it came with a 12V bulb. I also got one each red and green bayonet base bulbs to try out in the turn signal lever, warning...

Those look like the same backup lights that I used on my HMMWV, minus a metal mounting bracket. I picked out those lights because they're the ones used on the soft-top ambulance variant of the HMMWV, so they seemed fitting. Yeah, I'll put those on my list of options if the route clearance lights...

I don't know where the plug on the transmission is yet. I remember reading about it in a thread here a while back, but I haven't gone looking for the plug yet. Do you have a picture or link for the M35A3 reverse lights? I'm not familiar with them yet. I'd like to consider my other options, too...

Those of y'all who have experience with the Truck-Lite model 07392 LED flood lights that I've seen discussed here before: Would a pair of those, mounted under the bed of my M923, be suitable as reverse lights? Or are they too large and/or bright for that application? I think that the light I'm...

I don't think my truck has that bottle. My truck has the ABS MWO, and if I remember correctly, the MWO replaces an alcohol evaporator with an air dryer which is mounted under the frame of the truck, a bit forward of the rear axles. Does your truck have the ABS MWO? If not, then maybe you still...

I'm curious about how an M936A1 wrecker drives on the highway. The -10 TM doesn't appear to indicate that it has a lower top speed than a regular M923, in contrast to my M543A2 wrecker which I think is geared lower than the cargo variants of its family. Is the M936A1 geared the same as the...

By the way: I looked over the pictures you posted above, and I didn't see anything obviously missing or broken. Good luck!

Does their 26,000 rule specify Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW, the actual weight of the vehicle at any instant in time) or Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR, the total weight of the vehicle with maximum rated load)? That makes a big difference! The unloaded weight of an M923 is around 21,500, but the...

Regarding converting the brakes, you would need to replace the entire air braking system with a hydraulic braking system, and thus would eliminate one of the biggest improvements of the M939 series over the earlier 5-tons in my opinion. I think it'd be much easier, cheaper and better to put your...

I interpreted "letting me buy the truck" to mean "grudgingly agreeing to not dump me immediately after I do it anyway". ;) The only M939-series-specific recommendation that I have is picking one that has gotten the antilock brake system (ABS) modification work order (MWO). Other than that, it's...

If I'm not mistaken, the M939 series has a spin-on transmission fluid filter and heat exchanger in the engine compartment. That makes me wonder whether there may be a good way to flush out more of the old oil in each pass compared to the drain/fill/drive/repeat method, and possibly even reduce...

I'll consider the 14x20 tires, too. I'm just going by what I've read so far. Some folks suggest that the 14x20 tires decrease the power noticeably, and I don't expect to have the truck over 55 MPH much. The 395s sound like a compromise that would give me the single-tire look that I like, a...

I still need to get off my lazy butt and get it registered, so I haven't had it up to road speed yet. :oops: My truck has the 11x20 duals, but I think I'd like to single it out with 395/85R20 tires at some point. So, I'm also interested in whether the transmission can or should be adjusted with...

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I was under the impression that mods to things like frame crossmembers were needed to retrofit a 4L80E into an older HMMWV that originally had the TH400? I don't recall whether there are also issues with using the original transfer case with the new transmission, too. I wouldn't mind having...

Front doors are the same on 2-door or 4-door trucks. Front and rear doors are not interchangeable. The non-armored "X" doors and the lightly armored doors (which are just "X" doors with thin armor plates riveted on) hang on the same hinges as the vinyl doors, but the door strikers need to be...

About the drain plugs: One of the little bits of kit that was originally supposed to be in the truck's tool bag, and was likely lost long before that tool bag parted ways with the tool-bagless truck that you would eventually buy, is a little steel bar. It'd be square in cross section, a half...

I feel your pain, but brighter days lie ahead. I have only limited experience with my M923 so far, but it seems to be the truck that I always wished my deuces were. I think you'll love your next truck even more than the one that just left the nest.

My truck is a plain M923 (not A1 or A2), and it has the ABS MWO. It went through a repair program at Red River Army Depot in 2009, which I've been told was not a full overhaul, but just an inspect/repair/repaint/reissue program. I don't know if it already had the ABS MWO when it went to RRAD, or...