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Also, when I was in the Corps, we laughed about the efficacy of the lights too... and the BO Drive light was hardly better. We almost ended up in a 1000 lb bomb crater except our driver felt something was amiss and stopped the truck.
(I was in the back with the artillery shells and powder 🤷♂️)
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I was installing the LED B.O. lights that @jeepaddict was kind enough to pay forward and ran into some head scratching questions.
The first question lead me to the next and so forth. I'll try to be as accurate as possible so answers are clear.
I was changing out the rear white LEDs in...
Basically what happens is whatever replacement value you assign to it will determine your insurance price and whether or not the company will insure it.
When I insured my 5 ton, I assigned a value of $23k even though that isn't near what I paid, but that's what I would pay to replace it if a...
I just sat down with my insurance agent (great people!) and discussed the peculiarities of the 5 ton (weight etc) and was assured that had been taken into consideration when the policy was written, so I'm covered.
P.S. to the thread:
We had a great thread on this some years back concerning bought -vs- built one man bleeding systems.
You can find it here.
Always great info in the site!
Recently removed, disassembled and cleaned up the rear sliders. They had been frozen in place from not being used... also replaced and repaired the windshield windows hardware for a true "5/50" air conditioning. 😂
Also had the cargo cover repaired at a local awning shop in preparation for camping.
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My sweet sweet girlfriend decided for my birthday/father's day she was going to buy the backup camera kit and complete overhead hardtop console for my five ton from Those Military Guys.
I had some questions, so called and spoke to them about installation of the backup kit and mounting...
Welcome to the site! Best of luck and do what Mullaney said!
A little clarification... (this confused me at first)... the -10 and -24 he speaks of are the last numbers of the tech manual.
For instance, the first one he speaks of, the "-10" is actually numbered "TM 9-2320-387-10"
Hope this helps!
When I bought my 5 ton, I couldn't get the back sliding windows open for **anything**.
Started prying and thought "that's a good way to break glass", so what I did was remove the entire assembly, took the window frames apart (4 bolts, very easy), removed the glass and gaskets from the frame...
As I stated in the nomination thread, not a whole lot done to her. Attached are before and after cleaning, after I got all the dash/marker lights changed and working, before and after recovering the seats and at a car show
I just had to set it up to start again. After it fired up, I built pressure, took a 15-20 maintenance run, got home, pulled the zip ties off and tested it and it works perfectly.
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Here's what I did, I think I messed up, and if you can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.
I was pre-tripping my M923A2 with the Cummins. I turned in the batteries, waited a moment, then turned the engine to the "run" position and waited for the "click click...
I had the same issue with my 5 ton. I found out that when my batteries were turned off at the dash I still had power going to my dash gauges. Lacking the time (at the time) to completely troubleshoot the issue (I'm flying in from offshore today so will make time over the next month off to find...
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