Recent content by Goliath P. Jones

I was checking out my local area C-list ads and ran across a gentleman selling a very cool looking 1988 HMMWV with a helmet top. Non turbo engine said he swapped in a newer 6.2 diesel into it. Said it runs drives well, has played in the snow and mud with it. He’s recently put it on 49” super...

Grundy covered me, full coverage for like $230+\- a year. Though I did have to send in pics of it sitting in my shop. They told me they cover all MV with the exception of tanks. Hagerty didn’t require any pics or proof of it parked in a shop when I had them, but they were quite a bit more...

Yes, the club is called Military Vehicle Collectors club of Oregon. It is at the Antiques Powerland. The president of the club is Clint, I will p.m you his contact information.

I don’t know if any Memorial Day events or parades for that area. If you haven’t attended the annual Steam up event in Brooks Oregon, about a forty five minute drive from Portland area (depending on what part you are in, how fast your vehicle travels and traffic) the event happens the last...

The kubota swap definitely gives it some tough reliability. I have seen that same swap in some old Allis Chalmers G tractors, very cool unique old tractors (we do tractor restoration and shows every year for our local steam up) hopefully the person selling it will bring it out to the annual...

I shopped around for insurance on my M939 after being overcharged by Hagerty initially. I found a great price through Grundy for $248 a year if paid in full upfront. Of course the usual “it has to be parked in a secured shop/garage” which I am able to do. Then out of curiosity I did an online...

Looking through the local listings of military vehicles for sale in my area on the local C-list page and ran across a listing for a 1960 mighty mite for sale. Out of my price range right now. But figured I’d screenshot a few pics of it with the ad. I’m not savvy enough to put up a link, my...

I called every company I could think of to get insurance on my M939 and the only place that would touch it was Hagerty. I had initially worked with Don Filer insurance broker, they are the ones that told me they went through Hagerty for those types of rigs. With them they really recommend of...

Yeah, fortunately my son works for a parts supply house and gets a pretty good discount on most things. The batteries that would have normally cost me $380 I got for a little over $200. The starter had I ordered it online from a military parts supplier was going for $450, but the local guy had...

Well I know it’s been a bit since I last updated my progress on the starting issue. It was a combination of a couple things wrong with it. The batteries were bad, I replaced them, I charged them and load tested and they were shown to be dead, so with all the heavy rain, snow, etc it took a bit...

Count me in, thanks for the chance.

Every other vehicle I’ve had to check if it wasn’t locked up I’ve used the harmonic balancer bolt with a socket and two foot breaker bar, and with the exception of some very large bore diesel tractor engines they all were able to be hand turned. I was unsure about the 8.1 as it’s a large engine...

No, I haven’t tried turning it over by hand with a socket and ratchet yet. The starter isn’t turning over at all, it just makes a clinking sound when you engage the start switch. I hadn’t initially given any thought to a possible hydro lock situation until my brother in law mentioned the...

Finally got a load tester for the truck batteries and even after over eight hours of charging they are both still very weak. So I’m going to pull them out and take them to a battery shop and see if they can do a very deep charge on them or verify if they are just no good at which point I will...

I’m still trying to get it to turn over, batteries are deep charged. I have not had a chance to get a load test done yet or pick up a testing unit as I have not been able to get into town yet. Been waiting for a freight company to show up to deliver my new hay spear attachments. I was talking...