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Here's the declassified DoD report from 1973 - interesting read. https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/529372.pdf

Dennis, thanks to you and your crew for hosting a great event! Really appreciated your hospitality and the chance to meet up in person with some great people here on SS. Looking forward to your next event! Another shot with Dan, Eric and Bryan:

Awesomeness, I agree with redman333's suggestion. I needed transmission help during our recovery trip last year - found the nearest Allison dealer through their web site. Excellent service, definitely know their stuff. I would expect they could diagnose your shifting issue.

Nice!!:ditto:

Welcome aboard!

Just talked with Dennis, we're in. (M1083A1)

Thanks, Karl! Yes, Bryan definitely helped me with the wiring. We were both splicing and soldering at the same time - made the job go a lot faster. Stay safe and warm up there!

Thanks, @awesomeness. Yours was great motivation for my installation! Our truck is an A1 which has the power cutout box attached aft of the battery box, where you have your NOCO mounted - I had to find another spot.

Definitely - there is some kind of small drain (11 W) going on, haven't been able to track it down yet. Puzzling part is that's with the master cutout switch by the battery box OPEN. Will keep looking as the build progresses, but first priority was to get it to reliably start. Decision to...

Still learning all the many electrical/electronic nuances of our M1083A1 - biggest problem we had was unreliable starting (master power switch on, all the clicks and whirs, push big red button - nothin'...). This has been with us since our recovery trip last summer, making that more...

Hi Greg, thanks! We might have the opportunity to connect in the future. We occasionally head over to your area for some amateur rocket launches - looking for some outings to take our truck on! Best Regards, Dan

Karl, thanks again for all your support, mentoring, and friendship! Could not have made this journey without you! And, all the many others here in this forum! We met so many great people through this, both in person and virtually, and look forward to contributing back to this community as we...

Thanks! It does have that new truck smell (or is it old truck smell?) - and we LOVE IT! Karl has an awesome shop there - was a great help to us!!! We will be doing an expedition build thread (or two), plus others in the FMTV forum to share what we're learning about this truck. M1081 - when I'm...

[Part 4 of 4. Really.] We took a little time to do some sightseeing in Salt Lake City (hadn't tried Uber before - worked out great). Once the part was in, the service tech was back out and promptly got us up and running. We continued on through southern Utah, a short piece of Arizona, and into...

[Part 3b of 4] Then we hit rush hour stop and go traffic on I-15 in downtown Salt Lake City. Mary Alice was driving, and we noticed the left digit on the Allison console was dark, then noticed that we were stuck in 4th gear. She was able to safely get off the freeway (again, with all of us...

[Part 3a of 4] With the sound advice from several members here to NOT shut down for anything until we were safely home, we modified our driving plans a bit. We came up with a schedule to switch drivers every hour or so, extending our driving time into the night for a few hours, and taking short...

[Part 3 of 4] We got on the road departing Fargo on time. At our first fuel and lunch stop in Jamestown, ND, we shut down (BIG mistake...), and couldn't restart. Same as previous symtoms - we had 12v lighting, but master power swicth would not bring up the dash, and starter switch had no effect...

[Part 2 of 4] We made it to Karl's shop in Fargo, and immediately got to work. Together we assessed the existing tires as roadworthy, and now had plenty of "spare" spares" for a worst-case scenario. We assembled two of the tires on wheels, and loaded them all into the back of the truck. In order...

[Part 1 of 4] Here's a recap and lessons learned from our recovery trip; hope this will be helpful to others in future recovery trips. For any troubleshooting items that carry over and aren't related to the trip itself, I'll start new threads in the FMTV forum. Planning: Lots of good...

Safe on deck, horse is in the barn. Arrived in Vista, CA - time out: 12 days. Much more to follow... Sent from my 0PJA2 using Tapatalk