JoeJrTheBarber
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Joe The Barber's 1988 M998 build thread (be aware - non stock content ! )
Been a long time coming but in December 2017 I became the owner of a 1988 M998. I have wanted one of these trucks since around 1998 when I worked at Circuit City (remember those stores ?) in the car stereo department and we had a fleet of 2 door H1 pickup trucks come in for full audio treatements as they were promo trucks for Mt. Dew. I "borrowed" one for a night and became hooked. That's a 18 year old me in the last pic..
Anyways, here is my Humvee build so far. Please feel free and ask whatever questions you might have. This truck is mine and im building it how I feel fit. To each their own.
The truck as it looked as I bought it.
The list of modifications is a large one so I will try to go front to back so I don't forget anything.
- LED spotlights used for headlights (super bright)
- 4" round LED fog lights in holes in front "bumper"
- Full LED turn signals / tail lights
- LED civilian h1 style marker lights front and back
- 1" thick 53" wide LED light bar mounted on hood
- Upgraded / larger air hooks
- Added a AM General factory slantback
- Factory AM General X doors
- Modified "rear curtain" with window delete and bottom half flip up to use truck for say moving longer 2x4's or whatever
- 2" body lift
- Hoffman 2-3" lift springs
- Flip down steps under each door to ease entry and exit
- Added grab handles to help in the above
- Dirty Boyz 700R4 kit with 4 speed shifter
- 17X9.5 Black Rhino wheels in factory / civilian H1 Offset
- 40X13.5X17 Cooper Discover STT Pro tires
(would add more pics but "im limited" to 20 per post on this site so ,,,)
Other things I can think of we did to the truck in no particular order:
- Front and rear camera system. Rear camera acts as my "rear view mirror"
- Added red LED's to act as interior / dome lights
- Above lights activated on door mounted pin switches
- 3" square LED reverse lights added to rear of truck along with 14" LED light bar mounted under truck to come on when shifter is put in Reverse
- LED third brake light
- MRAP aux heater mounted on back wall
- BOSS 700 WATT atv Bluetooth sound bar mounted to back wall (yes its loud)
- On board air system with dual 5 gallon tanks for 40" Freightliner air horn and to fill up tires and such
- Optima Red top batteries - 24/12 volt invertor - Master battery cut off switch under drivers seat
- 4" round LED fog lights mounted in bed / turned on when tail gate is opened
- Left mounted license plate frame with LED plate light
Been a long time coming but in December 2017 I became the owner of a 1988 M998. I have wanted one of these trucks since around 1998 when I worked at Circuit City (remember those stores ?) in the car stereo department and we had a fleet of 2 door H1 pickup trucks come in for full audio treatements as they were promo trucks for Mt. Dew. I "borrowed" one for a night and became hooked. That's a 18 year old me in the last pic..
Anyways, here is my Humvee build so far. Please feel free and ask whatever questions you might have. This truck is mine and im building it how I feel fit. To each their own.
The truck as it looked as I bought it.
The list of modifications is a large one so I will try to go front to back so I don't forget anything.
- LED spotlights used for headlights (super bright)
- 4" round LED fog lights in holes in front "bumper"
- Full LED turn signals / tail lights
- LED civilian h1 style marker lights front and back
- 1" thick 53" wide LED light bar mounted on hood
- Upgraded / larger air hooks
- Added a AM General factory slantback
- Factory AM General X doors
- Modified "rear curtain" with window delete and bottom half flip up to use truck for say moving longer 2x4's or whatever
- 2" body lift
- Hoffman 2-3" lift springs
- Flip down steps under each door to ease entry and exit
- Added grab handles to help in the above
- Dirty Boyz 700R4 kit with 4 speed shifter
- 17X9.5 Black Rhino wheels in factory / civilian H1 Offset
- 40X13.5X17 Cooper Discover STT Pro tires
(would add more pics but "im limited" to 20 per post on this site so ,,,)Other things I can think of we did to the truck in no particular order:
- Front and rear camera system. Rear camera acts as my "rear view mirror"
- Added red LED's to act as interior / dome lights
- Above lights activated on door mounted pin switches
- 3" square LED reverse lights added to rear of truck along with 14" LED light bar mounted under truck to come on when shifter is put in Reverse
- LED third brake light
- MRAP aux heater mounted on back wall
- BOSS 700 WATT atv Bluetooth sound bar mounted to back wall (yes its loud)
- On board air system with dual 5 gallon tanks for 40" Freightliner air horn and to fill up tires and such
- Optima Red top batteries - 24/12 volt invertor - Master battery cut off switch under drivers seat
- 4" round LED fog lights mounted in bed / turned on when tail gate is opened
- Left mounted license plate frame with LED plate light
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