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With spring reluctantly arriving, maybe next month, it's time to start getting the garden beds in order. One of the things I need to do is dig them out and sift the dirt back in. I remember seeing a screen frame on the beach at Keyport so I drove the M1165 out to see if it was still there...

I can't believe you all missed the significance of that photo. You captured one of the rare all-electric powered HMMWVs. The giveaway is the generator in the bed- that supplies the electricity to run the electric motor. That's some serious cutting edge technology the military is fielding.

They came out no problem. I did learn a valuable lesson driving to NAPA. Unzipping the soft-door window while traveling at 40MPH and keeping the truck on the road seem to be almost mutually exclusive tasks. I won't try that again...

I was in the garage - hey, what are these 4 quarts of gear oil for? OH! I never swapped out the gear oil in the diffs! Easy enough job so I attacked it after work. 3/8 plugs, pull the fill plug, pull the drain plug, re-tape and reinstall the drain plug. Wrote "3/8" on the diffs with a Marsh...

I didn't even know this was a law until I started noticing how often police were calling off pursuits when listening to the scanner.

RCW 10.116.060 Vehicular pursuit. (1) A peace officer may not engage in a vehicular pursuit, unless: (a)(i) There is probable cause to believe that a person in the vehicle has committed or is committing a violent offense or sex offense as defined in RCW 9.94A.030, or an escape under chapter...

Is or was?

Huh, a Marine driving an Army M1097, and I'm retired USAF driving a USMC M1165. What's the world coming to? :unsure:

My left one had a broken spring when I got the truck. I replaced the spring and now it's very loose, so it really isn't holding that side of the doghouse. The bottom snap-clip seems to be enough but I would still want to get the DZUS adjusted correctly.

^^^^ Makes me glad my commute is 15 minutes door to door.

My M1165 has the same hose shown in the second picture. The clamp should be holding some sort of plug or valve at the opening of the line. I guessed it might be a pressure relief/check valve arrangement for the fording system.

I'm always awed by people who can talk about doing this stuff like I would talk about mowing the lawn. Mad skillz - wish I had them (and the room to use them).

Think it's time for a rollcall as there have been many new additions to the mil-surp drivers club, plus others that have been around a while I never knew about. Please give a general location, what you drive or are working on, and what parts or help you need. Location: Silverdale/Poulsbo Motor...

I don't know how local you are, but there are several of us in Western WA, including Oly, Poulsbo, Bainbridge. So before you scrap, let us know please!

A Mainsail quote: "No question is too stupid, but some questions are just stupid enough."

My opinion is there are too many uncontrolled variables. The only way you can safely overcome the variability is to plan very well. Some risks to consider: Vehicle's actual condition. Those Ritchie brothers have a different motivation than yours; so the condition they report the vehicle to...

Yeah, that would be a real kick in the pants- going to sleep believing the truck is secure and someone drives it away, and gets the $400 anti-theft system to boot.

Question for you: Say my truck is in the driveway and the keyfob is hanging on the key-rack inside my house, about 30 feet away. Is the truck disabled or is that still too close? So that's my biggest worry with this product; I'm not in the truck but the fob is still close enough to allow the...

Not easy to find with no search function on their website, but here's the link.

ahem, Digital Guard Dawg actually. ;) Anyway, throw the rest of us a bone. What product did you use? How did you integrate it to the HMMWV? Did you keep the pushbutton or just use proximity and the stock ignition switch?