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Not to mention many things that have no interest in eating you, that might just kill you for surprising them in the forest. After seeing several moose one fall in the valley where we lived, I was worried about someone surprising on in the back yard and getting trampled. We had 2 cows and a calf...

In my case, we used to live 106 miles from the nearest stoplight in western Montana, where there were things that go bump in the night that might actually eat someone. I bought the nvg setup after my son came home late one night and we found his Jeep parked on the front sidewalk the next...

It works well. I hardly ever use the illuminators, which would indeed cause a glare. I'd also want to keep the dash lights off and such as they would be distracting. Just keep them turned off as they are only really useful for up-close stuff. Iif you're using them at any distance, you are...

You've never seen the headlights on my lmtv then. Man those things are bad.

I have a helmet mounted binocular NVG setup using a couple of pvs-14s and a special bridge mount that aligns them and powers them both. Those things are pretty epic. It blows away anything in the way of a cheap "ir". Walking and moving around is fairly easy. The limited field of view does...

Yeah, I have no idea how flat would sit. Hoping someone can speak to that. My current thought would be to make a frame or couple of cross bars out of heavy wall 2" square tube that would allow me to slip in a shackle or some kind of jacking leg near each corner to facilitate easy removal...

So. I'm on the hunt for a shelter to drop on my m1078. the folks at Eastern are fresh out of the NOS s-280 that I think I want. But.... they do have a m109 insulated van body (see pic). Now, the shelter boxes have dedicated tie down points/system. I see this van body has a ring of some sort on...

I'm pretty sure it's still wrong for what I need, but I noticed that the pic you posted has the actuator in the 3 o'clock position and the top 12 o'clock has part of the bolt circle chopped off. The one I posted seems to be round, without the chopped off flange. ??

So. I found some MRAP takeout diffs, but I'm not convinced they are the correct ones to swap into a FMTV. How can one positively identify the correct ones? Here's some pics of what I found, not sure if they'd work as they have some actuator or sensor on the side (locker maybe? yes, please!)...

That's jank,... hilarious... and awesome all at the same time.

I kind of figured you'd not be sharing. I kind of get it. I don't tell everyone about my favorite fishing spots in Montana. But then again, I don't get on public forums and bust peoples' chops because they cannot catch a fat trout. While I'm making fishing analogies, I have been known to hire...

That's an option, and I still might be able to save a bit, depending on how much they would charge me for the work. Freighting those pumpkins back and forth eats into any potential savings pretty quickly. I was kind of hoping to hear about those $1200 complete axles... Ready to heat up my...

Maybe you can drop me a PM with where you are shopping? I've been looking for a month, best I've found the take out 3.07 center sections that actually has them was 4.5k for the set, plus freight, making it pretty close to 5k to my door. At half that, I'd pull the trigger today. Edit: Also...

At $1800 a pair versus $5k a pair, I can afford to screw it up twice and still be money ahead. Provided I eventually actually succeed, rather than screwing up $1800 worth of new gears, then going back to buying pulled 3rd members anyway. Finding the shims might not be an easy task though.

So.... Say I was to buy a couple new sets of 3.07 ring and pinions instead of just getting a whole center section. How hard would it be for the average Joe to get the new gears set correctly? Special tooling? Parts (shims and such) ? Would the gear pattern need to be set in the truck (pulling...

Mine was all inoperative when I first got it, thought it was a bad cylinder. It turns out it was the restrictor behind the control valve. I took it out, cleaned the orifice with a small wire, and removed some gunk from inside the hole it came out of, it's been working like a champ since. The...

Thanks @Ronmar . I definitely could not hear it doing anything. It's too freaking cold to mess with it anymore tonight. I'll try jumping the temp sensor at some point.

I did plenty of releasing too. Both before and during cranking.

I tried pressing it, then cranking, holding it for a bit then cranking. Cranking and pressing it while it was cranking, and cranking it and holding it down for several seconds while it was cranking. None of that made it fire right up.

It seems maybe my ether start system in inop. I left the block heater unplugged to test if the ether was working. Seems that's a "no". I replaced the can with a new one from NAPA. I understand the ether won't activate until it's cold, but how cold? It's in the mid teens today, and man it did...