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Mocking up side mount spares using MRAP tire carrier upgrade kits. Too bad the LMTV wheels do not fit, bummer. Will have to come up with some kind of adapter for Plan B, or a Plan C ?

The pictured aftermarket with the external shock will not clear the bigger tires. I suppose I could calculate the correct rate/travel of a coil-over, then install something close to that, then take it out when it does not work and try other ones until I find one that DOES work.....

I deleted the one on my truck, along with it's three trouble-making brothers behind the driver's step.

So the roll bar got a splash of color. And I center mounted a better crane. This one I can operate from the ground, and the boom extends much farther than the HF crane that was replaced. The crane mounts to re-purposed lifting extensions from the rear, mounted between the frame rails.

Hillbilly hack : I got a set of magnetic tow lights from HF. With a coupon nearly free. Plugged into the round trailer connector= done. This works for the trail, as I can unplug + unstick the entire assembly and store out of the way.

I had performed the "Ronmar front gladhand delete" with no issues. Removed the rear gladhands a long time ago by plugging the outputs of last valve in the train. You see, I plan to tow nothing nor get towed as if it was a trailer. Anyway, I was sitting in the cab with the truck running then...

Yeah, I am a pretty romantic guy. Forty years of professional success. But I am ready to hand the torch over to you smart guys ;)

As an old-school Engineer, margin is my most favorite thing. You see, in the conflict engagement arena, future CONOPS will be more challenging, not easier. If today's design has margin, then it will accommodate future environments without redesign + requalification. The trend is to sell the...

The phrase "good enough" stratifies engineering philosophy, and generations, I believe. When I was a young Engineer (back when there were dinosaurs) I would engineer the very best solution that I could, drawing from libraries of technical literature, a university education, and mentors...

Copy that, will do.

I run two 6TAGMs in series, mounted between the frame rails above the rear axle.

Thank you Kind Sir !

Playing off of the standard 3116 starter thread: Is there a standard 3116 alternator that would be used on a 3116 in a loader excavator or dozer? A single voltage, 24 volt, maybe 50 amp or so? The availability of this part will support the reduced complexity approach I take with my build.

The install on my truck was straightforward: for some reason I did not experience the difficulties described by others ;)

I carry a cylinder of CO2 regulated to 115 psi as an aux air source. Someday I will have to experiment to see how long it can substitute for the air compressor. With a double male QD adapter it plumbs directly into the wet tank.

Complexity is a prevalent theme for this topic. There are ways to reduce the complexity of these trucks. For example, the pneumatic system is unneccessarily complex for most civilian applications. It is unlikely that we would use one FMTV to tow another one like it was a trailer, so there is...

I have given this some thought as well as I get off the graded dirt roads where a wrecker cannot go. The only answers I could come up with in the event of a catastrophic failure is that the vehicle would have to be disassembled then hauled out in pieces, like an aircraft that lands somewhere...

There is a youtube content provider who specializes in purchasing used luxury cars for about 10% of the new cost so is an analog to our purchase. In every case the car has to be "sorted out". In every case he concludes that it is best to buy the very best example you can find, not the cheapest...

I'm OK with 3 bolts. I'm OK with $100 per, since I do not have to build it myself. I do really need something more stout than 14 gauge though. That is only 5/64". I could double them up, I suppose. I give them points for actually committing a design to metal, however.

For the moment, I climb up and down the tire treads. Sooner or later I will hang a chain more or less where the step was. Am thinking of a transfer case chain: something flexible so it does not interfere when the cab is tilted, but stout. I am open to suggestions, however.