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All the 17 ft expansible vans are variants of the M4 body. The design changed over the years but fundamentally they all do the same thing.

I do believe that is a M313 trailer from the Viet Nam era. It does look kinda rotten. Those do not age well. I would go over it with a fine tooth comb before buying it. I am looking for the van body as well to put on a M292A2 deuce chassis and have passed on dozens of these that are too far...

That thing is a pos. The only way to do the runflats is the YouTube method with hydraulic jack. Be careful I almost took out an eye when the jack slipped.

Wow. How difficult was it to unbolt this through the access hole in cab floor? How many labor hours in are you at this point? Do you think the rest of the plungers are at end of life as well? Thanks.

One more cool HMMWV accessory to look for.

I left the springs attached. See post 100: preventable rear suspension failure | Page 5 | SteelSoldiers

Do you see the keyhole? Stick your lock ring tool in there and pry the ring up. Once the ring is started out of the recess, use your tire tools to continue to pry the ring up and off.

Where are the nuts?? Highly unusual that the nuts are no longer threaded on.

Ugh. Show us what the #5 rod bolts look like. This looks a lot like classical "threw a rod". Motor is so clean you can eat off it :(

Welcome. That thing in your picture is the throttle servo that was used to control engine speed when the PTO generator was installed. You can remove it.

That is a good question. The manifolds that are available ($$$) were surplussed out back in the GL days, which is like 10 years ago. Already getting old for O rings. And then figure Uncle had them on the shelf for ? years. So that opens up the “R Racing” rebuild scenario which appears to be...

OMG. I don't think you have a blown head gasket initially, (might be now), I think a huge crack opened up in the cylinder wall. All the parts you want to reuse need to be checked for damage and straightness. Never heard of this failure mode on a 6.5 myself. I would be very upset after...

Rebuilding the manifold is no simple task: CAT 7155 Manifold rebuild | SteelSoldiers Mine is doing the exact same thing.

Thanks for documenting this. Talk about a lost art. At some point in this thread can you hypothesize what reduction unit components get stuck together when you have the dreaded lockup in high range.

Is your block GM or Navistar? I believe GM quit casting the 6.5 right around then.

Wanted to document this as it applies to 6.2, 6.5 engines in both CUCVs and HMMWVs. After sitting for a few months, my 6.5 TD with DB4 electronic injection would crank but not start. As we know, these IDI engines need fuel, compression, and glow to start. I knew mechanically the engine is...

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While we are on the topic of ancient Armasafes, I JUST had a 2011 battery die after around 8 years on the maintainer. It was fine until one day the maintainer said "load present" and sure enough the battery case was warm. Voltage dropped off after a day off the maintainer. Bye old friend.

Did you click on the link, go to post 8, open supplement 7, and read page 49 about the 12 and 24 volt circuitry that is needed for the TCM to come to life?

Obtain an AGM maintainer, connect it to the dead battery. The maintainer will say "Battery is flatlined". Obtain a GOOD agm battery and connect the two batteries IN PARALLEL. (positive to positive, negative to negative). Reconnect the maintainer. This time the maintainer will see voltage...