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What have you done to your HMMWV today/lately

HUNvee

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I managed to get a spare tire carrier with three bent pins and no bracket. I looked at all the photos on the internet and drew the bracket in Solidedge, cut it out, and welded it together. I straightened the least bent pin.
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I just need to get the squared locking pins.
Can someone tell me what the original dimensions are?
We're in Miami for the holidays, so I already have a long list of things to get.
My wife has no idea that we will be a little overweight on the way home! :cool:
 

TNDRIVER

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I managed to get a spare tire carrier with three bent pins and no bracket. I looked at all the photos on the internet and drew the bracket in Solidedge, cut it out, and welded it together. I straightened the least bent pin.
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I just need to get the squared locking pins.
Can someone tell me what the original dimensions are?
We're in Miami for the holidays, so I already have a long list of things to get.
My wife has no idea that we will be a little overweight on the way home! :cool:
[/QUOTEAbout 3 inches ( 2 x3/4 would work) from head shoulder to tip, 1 and 1/2 inch between the wire to pin. 2 different diameters, the smallest available at tractor supply for the wrench handle (1/4 inch) The bracket appears to be 5/16 or 3/8 dia. It's pouring rain here or I would be more precise. Any farm implement dealer stocks this stuff. If I remember correctly these shops are congregated out north of the airport.
 

juanprado

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The pins with built in keeper can also be the half moon or square variety. They can be found at tractor Supply, NAPA, farm implement dealers etc. I seem to recall their 1/4 diameter by 3 inch long. OE usually has them tied with piano wire also to keep them from getting lost & easy to make with hardware stores selling the wire rope and ferrules.

There is also another of the same pin that goes through the handle to the bracket. I think you can order the handle directly at Rhino if you need one.
 

Milcommoguy

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I managed to get a spare tire carrier with three bent pins and no bracket. I looked at all the photos on the internet and drew the bracket in Solidedge, cut it out, and welded it together. I straightened the least bent pin.
View attachment 886243
I just need to get the squared locking pins.
Can someone tell me what the original dimensions are?
We're in Miami for the holidays, so I already have a long list of things to get.
My wife has no idea that we will be a little overweight on the way home! :cool:
Is this the doo hickey for the Rhino.

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Nose ring for the Rhino, CAMO
 

TOBASH

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What is the name for part number 4? The wrench tool doohickey. I need one.
 

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Front driveshaft center bearing. Easy procedure but broke my puller in the effort.

Nice article on the procedure:







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TOBASH

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Added a NOCO dual battery charger and inlet on the battery box (so you dont have to remove the passenger seat to charge it).

As a bonus, I wired in the block heater to the inlet, and added a switch to turn the block heater on and off.

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Does the Noco put off enough heat to require venting? Have you placed a thermometer. A guy with a rare hummer H1 just burned to the ground due to a trickle charger of all things.
 
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Thumper580

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Added a NOCO dual battery charger and inlet on the battery box (so you dont have to remove the passenger seat to charge it).

As a bonus, I wired in the block heater to the inlet, and added a switch to turn the block heater on and off.

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What model NOCO did you get? Since I don't know....this will work OK if the batteries are hooked up in series?
 

Autonomy_Lost

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Does the No I put off enough heat to require venting? Have you placed a thermometer. A guy with a rare hummer H1 just burned to the ground due to a trickle charger of all things.
Something must have gone way wrong for a fire to happen IMO. Something probably short circuited. I have not measured any temperatures but this is the same charger that I used on my last humvee, and I left that one plugged in 24/7 for about a year with no issues.

The charger is fully automatic and designed to be left plugged in. I suspect that people probably buy cheap generic "battery chargers" that don't have any sort of over voltage or over current protection and use them like a trickle charger, ultimately cooking the electrolite out their batteries and possibly having an unsafe condition.
 

Mainsail

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i just personally haven’t seen AC15G’s in years, maybe they are back in production, the Govt doesn’t use them, OEM plugs are made by Wellman.
There is a new plug out now made in Germany for GEP, HPG sells them, part no. GEP18002668-8
The GEP18002668 plugs went in today after yesterday's no-start.

The left (easy) side was low drama with only one slightly swollen.

Right side was a nightmare. The first one (working rear to front from the doghouse) was ugly. I couldn't pull it out and it was looking like I was going to need to borrow an extraction tool. I moved to the next one and it didn't want to come out immediately, but did after some coaxing. The next one (the hardest to reach) was the same as the previous. The most forward right side one came out without drama.

Going back to the aft one I wiggled and pried and finally got it out.

The new ones started the truck easily.

EDIT to add: Of the bad ones I removed, only one tested high resistance, the rest tested open circuit. So 7 of 8 were no longer passing current, which is good in a way because it probably prevented them from swelling up even more.

The one standing proud is a new one for comparison. The swollen ones were the ones I got from Erik's.

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Mogman

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The GEP18002668 plugs went in today after yesterday's no-start.

The left (easy) side was low drama with only one slightly swollen.

Right side was a nightmare. The first one (working rear to front from the doghouse) was ugly. I couldn't pull it out and it was looking like I was going to need to borrow an extraction tool. I moved to the next one and it didn't want to come out immediately, but did after some coaxing. The next one (the hardest to reach) was the same as the previous. The most forward right side one came out without drama.

Going back to the aft one I wiggled and pried and finally got it out.

The new ones started the truck easily.

The one standing proud is a new one for comparison. The swollen ones were the ones I got from Erik's.

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The GEP plug is smaller on the end, looks like a great idea as even if it swells a little bit as the other ones did it still should come out OK!!
 
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