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What have you done to your HMMWV today/lately

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Coug

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Mainsail said:
Pulled the wheel after work, soaped the valve, the bead on both sides, and bubbles appeared in the hole there, whatever that's called. I tried to re-torque the bolts but it didn't change. I popped the small half off and the o-ring looked OK, but replaced it with my spare (ordered five just in case). No bubbles now. I put exactly 35psi in and I'll check it tomorrow to be sure.

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The tire guy said he had a lot of trouble with two of the wheels, and he put those two on the rear. This is the weights on that wheel - 46 1/4 oz weights. I'll keep my eyes out for one or two more 12-bolt wheels locally. The other back wheel looks to be the same.

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I first read that as 46.25 oz of weights not 46 x 1/4oz weight and thought something was seriously wrong.
12 oz out of balance is a lot, but still within realistic amounts.
As I said in my recent post, one of mine was 9 1/2 oz out of balance.
Still, yikes.
 
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12oz is not ideal but not "out of bounds" for a tire that size, tell those guys to man up and get some bigger weights!
IIRC the max for the Centramatics was about 12-15oz so I could be running close to that without any wheel weights.
Does not matter how you get there, if you are running down the highway smoothly (this of course is a relative term) you are good!!
 
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Mainsail said:
Pulled the wheel after work, soaped the valve, the bead on both sides, and bubbles appeared in the hole there, whatever that's called. I tried to re-torque the bolts but it didn't change. I popped the small half off and the o-ring looked OK, but replaced it with my spare (ordered five just in case). No bubbles now. I put exactly 35psi in and I'll check it tomorrow to be sure.

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The tire guy said he had a lot of trouble with two of the wheels, and he put those two on the rear. This is the weights on that wheel - 46 1/4 oz weights. I'll keep my eyes out for one or two more 12-bolt wheels locally. The other back wheel looks to be the same.

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If you were in Florida i could give you 2 ok wheels. Find a way and they are yours.
 
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Mainsail said:
Pulled the wheel after work, soaped the valve, the bead on both sides, and bubbles appeared in the hole there, whatever that's called. I tried to re-torque the bolts but it didn't change. I popped the small half off and the o-ring looked OK, but replaced it with my spare (ordered five just in case). No bubbles now. I put exactly 35psi in and I'll check it tomorrow to be sure.

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The tire guy said he had a lot of trouble with two of the wheels, and he put those two on the rear. This is the weights on that wheel - 46 1/4 oz weights. I'll keep my eyes out for one or two more 12-bolt wheels locally. The other back wheel looks to be the same.

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Jeez that shop need to buy some 1oz weights.
 
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Cooling stack all done
Headlight assembly back on with missing oil cooler brackets.
Hood hinges were a bear . Corrosion around SS pin almost seized. Galvalytic corrosion between hinges and aluminum headlight housing. All fixed up now and with corrosion prevention tape between dissimilar metals.






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Replaced a badly corroded washer pump on the M1152A1. I thought it should take 20 minutes, and it would have if I was smarter. But I spent 30 minutes trying to reseat the self locking retaining ring inside the washer tank before I realized I could just chuck the ring and risk a leak since it would not be a big deal.

If I need to replace one of these again I will buy the pre-assembled tank/pump combo.

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m715mike

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rcamacho said:
Interesting beam pattern. I’d like to see what it looks like projected on a wall at proper adjustment height


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I had the high beams on for that picture.

Ok…. Call me the slow one in the family…. What do you mean by “proper adjustment height”?
 
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