Recent content by rigsales

here is what I did to mine, took some time but turned out nice. So far has held up well. Also gave me a spot to mount my license place. Hope this helps.

Hello, How much work does it need? Can you drive it to a shop or do they need to come to you? What year is it and how many miles on it? Did it come straight from the military? I own a 1088 and live in NE Ok so I might be able to help you out or point you in the right direction.

I'm new to the FMTV family and drove my 1997 M1088 home from Kentucky last week. It had a broken rear/rear driveline so I have been very cautious and also checking temps at every stop with a temperature gun. At Highway speeds yesterday in 94 degree temperature my intermediate axle was around...

Thank you for that, it was the bearing on the other side of the pinion nose (under yoke) that was loose. From the TM breakdown it looks like the nut and yoke tighten onto that outer bearing setting the load on that bearing. I used a 1" drive impact and tightened until the bearing felt tight but...

Good deal, thanks. made it home finally, when I would stop and check temps with a temp gun the transmission was about 220 degrees and I never saw the trans fan on when I would stop. I really don't think it's coming on at all so I might hook it up to a switch and install a temp gauge so I can...

Thanks for that, I sure will honk the horn for ya, that is why I'm so gun shy on this one. It actually broke on the Auction guy while he was moving it. He did include the broken one for me to show the driveline shop. Truck has 18K miles and rear end yoke is sloppy with play. I hope this caused...

Is this fan designed to stay on all of the time or does it operate off of the trans temperature somehow? I've searched the TMs and cannot seem to find the answer. (Of course not saying it isn't in there somewhere). Mine is not running all the time but does come on occasionally. When I stopped...

You want the shelter to be centered over the trailer axles with slightly more weight on the tongue than towards the back. The shelter itself will strengthen the trailer frame if you are going to permantly mount. I would set it on the open frame and weld the shelter to the frame at every cross...

Here is the side shot and back, yeah, I'm hoping it wild hold.....:driver: extra bonus, I figured out is there is enough room between the pintle and the receiver to mount my license plate. Pretty nice that it's removable so I could swap it out if I needed to. i should have it on this weekend and...

Oklahoma hitch build I'm pretty proud of this one, some 1" and some 1/2" and my pattern torch machine and some nice mig multi pass filet welds. .