What model 5 ton is this? Oshkosh?

[DSD277]

The Steyr and the '90's era FMTV have a grille with large cutouts in them. I like this 'racy' grille .

I won't comment on the bad rep of the FMTV until I have a lot more info...
What I do know are Forward Control vehicles require a completely different mindset and techique to driving them. The steering wheels are under the driver and require the driver to be physically into an intersection BEFORE turning ... sounds easy? .... not if you have always driven a conventional vehicle. My 1st car 40 years ago was a VW bus and as daily driver became normal...I had to adjust to driving a pickup with the front axle forward of me. I've had many Pinzgauers, Haflinger and a 1300 Unimog (not a true FC), and they were never a problem because of my early driving experience. With the short driving time I've had the MTV, I realize it will be a lot different because of its sheer size (width and length), and it is 2' shorter than my motorhome.

A design flaw I learn right away was that the power distribution box has 12v and 24v circuits and easy to put a wrong voltage relay in the wrong spot.( Why would you ever have 2 different voltage relays be able to fit the same socket?... a problem to happen) Saw that before I got the truck... and I doublecheck each relay and socket before installing. And just to confuse you, the main 24v circuit is triggered by a 12v relay

 

[dmetalmiki]

You see there is someone somewhere (Everywhere) designing "stuff" to be UN-USER freindly and as complictaed as poss!
that truck looks like a (nato) Bedford. I prefer the old (er) stuff personally.

 

[MO MV man]

I'm assuming there aren't many (if any?) of these in private hands?

I didn't want to go climbing all over the one in my pictures to try and decipher whether it "looked" privately owned......I don't think the truck driver hauling it would have appreciate it. LOL!

My daughter and I did climb all over a NEW one at a local car show a year ago.
The National Guard were there with it.

 

[DSD277]

A Bedford ? We need a smiley with the shivers

SS made them under licence from Steyr. I had been looking for a Steyr 12M18, as used by many Euro militarys... the prices in Europe has been well over $20k for a US importable one, plus shipping, etc...
A must simplier design... manual tran/2 spd tcase, disc brakes... other than a FC, built to the"old school" standards

then, this M1094 came up and my imagination went wild
My thread in the FMTV will give a bit of insight to what I was thinking... now , I am trying to retain as much as possible and still build it up as a rendering of a War Pig... I think they're soooo cool

 

[DSD277]

MO MV Man,
I have thought to start a thread on the FMTVs privately owned. I don't know of many, and they are usually through this site. Except for my MTV M1094 LVAD, all the rest have been LMTVs. Definately a small group

 

[Castle Bravo]

A M1086 MTV with crane sold a while back on GL.

 

[K9Vic]

Here's some more pics at the factory in Oshkosh, WI at the EAA Airshow. More trucks than you could count in a day. They were parked everywhere.

Speaking of the EAA, currently Google Maps has the EAA Fly In satellite images when you look in that area from 2011. Pretty cool to see all that from the satellite view along with all the trucks that probably came back from service overseas.

 

[DSD277]

A M1086 MTV with crane sold a while back on GL.

I vaguely remember a MTV on GL. Thought it was a LWB, but don't remember a crane .. but now I have tunnel vision... looking for an elusive LVAD cab to mod and replace mine.

 

[K9Vic]

I was scanning trough some pictures and saw this one I took a few months ago near Fort Hood.

 

[bikeman]

I was scanning trough some pictures and saw this one I took a few months ago near Fort Hood.

Those have the good door handles on it. The current ones in most of our motorpool have a lift up handle... LOTS of issues with that.

Honestly, most of the problems I saw with LMTVs were door issues. I know more trucks that couldn't open one side or the other for any variety of reasons. Saw a few motorpool modified latches due to alignment issues.

 

[rronning84]

Our motorpool has a few of these trucks from when they were first released to the present Oshkosh trucks. I do not particularly like them but as stated before, this is my opinion. In my case I do not like them from a maintenance stand point. They really are maintenance hounds. You have to keep such a close eye on the electrical and air systems. Also as stated before the doors can be a nightmare. Honestly all model years of this truck seem to have door issues. I have not had one of the newer wreckers so I can not speak on its behalf but when these trucks first came out the wreckers were incredibly under powered and not very user friendly at all.

 

[bikeman]

I forgot about the MTV Wreckers, I hate those. I always got complaints on them. Much prefer the HEMMT wreckers.

 

[flighht2k5]

They look cool as heck... but every soldier I've talked to, have said they don't like them... they aren't as tough as the 939 series, and require more maintenance...

Of course you know what opinions are like... as you know...

That's not true. Im in a maintenance unit and all of out mechanics like the lmtv

 

[flighht2k5]

I'd be willing to bet the reason there is more accidents is because they are far faster than the old trucks. I know the lmtvs also out weigh the old m35s.