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Do you drive the truck alot with the straight pipes? How is it inside the cab? My friend keeps bugging me to do it, but I drive my truck alot and have two noisy cars already. Loud unfortunately gets anoying on long trips.

I like it. Have though about it myslef, but don't know if it would work well on the trails, and would block my planned offroad lights on the grill guard. But what about this, if you have a 2 inch reciever hitch on your truck another option would be a reciever mounted spare tire carrier. You...

I Just made it home from a 500 mile round trip to snowmobile in the adirondak mountains. It was again a succesful trip in the 1008 but this time only successful in the fact I made it home. About 50 miles or so from the camp I was staying at the truck started to stumble or bog down when traveling...

The second one is nice, as it gives you a latching mechanism as well. The tire mount themselves are not that hard to make, just time consuming. If it were me, I'd spend the extra $20 and get the second one. But the first links spindle setup is real nice too.

I'm looking into building a swingout tire carrier for my truck based off the bumper of my m1008. One of the TV truck shows showed a kit you can buy the comes with a spindle and bearing set for a "universal/build your own" spare tire mount. As said before there a few aftermarket companies that...

I have a set of 36 HMMWV tires that I also picked up new. I mounted them on a set of old Kidney Bean 16.5x10.5 aluminum wheels. They were balanced and actually rode pretty well. They do get flat spots and it can be anoying. They do make more noise on the road. But overall they're not bad...

I'm looking at the same thing. I was thinking of mounting a front receiver hitch, and a second slave cable plug at the rear of the truck and using a old slave cable to hook the winch up. I would think, that if they can handle the load of starting a dead, or nearly dead 2nd vehicle. The winch...

I have the 36 inch bias ply HMMWV tires mounted on 10.5 wide aluminum rims. Tire shop had a heck of a time getting them on in the cold weather. I was trying to find steel dodge rims for them, but haven't been able to locate any larger then 6 3/4. No one around me, even the little roadside...

so just to reassure myself that what I'm looking for actually exsists. You got a set of plain jane stamped steel rims like what the trucks came with in a 16.5 x 8.25 8 lug?

I'm not concerned with age. I'm not building a show truck or towing any heavy loads. When I spoke to Tom at alpha he said he was using Dodge rims on all the trucks. 16.5x8.something, with the 8 lug pattern. He said they came on either the M880 or any 3/4 ton W200 from 1972-1990...

You have the Hummer tires mounted on the 6 inch rims? Aren't they a little narrow for that? I was told the 3/4 ton trucks had a 8 inch wide rim and that the vans and some of the 2wd trucks had the 6 inch rims. If I can use the 6 inch rims, there's a set here locally. I'll grab them if thats...

I just got off the phone with a gentleman that told me that the original wheels on the M880 and the W200 3/4 ton civilian versions are 8 inches wide. Is this true. I am looking to install some 16.5 inch tires on my truck and rather than use some goofy looking aftermarket wheels, I'm looking...

As I said, I have a set or rims already I can mount them on. I was just hoping for a more stock looking option. I tried talking to Alpha but I haven't heard from them yet. I guess it's nothing some flat black or 383 spray paint can't fix. And for the money I couldn't pass on these tires. The...

Holly poop on a stick! this very well may be the first MV related event that I can actually attend. Baring any unforseen emergency. Count me and my Lifted 86 M1008 in.

Does anyone know where I can get my hands on a set of the 8 lug 16.5 inch plain steel wheels like the ones Alpha Heaven uses to mount the HMMWV tires on their CUCV's? They are wider than the M880 series wheel. I just picked up a set of brand new 36 inch Goodyears for a price I couldn't pass...

I've found a medium sized adjustable wrench to do just fine. As long as the plug is not jammed in there of course.

I guess it all depends on you expierences. My truck stays in the bitter cold the for 3-6 days at a time on my snowmobiling trips. Usually averaging about 20 below at night. I have no block heater, no oil heater, no battery warmers, and the cheapest undersized batteries that the previous owner...

I'd love to get one of those for my truck, but they don't fit over the trrop seats and the roof line is too low to fit my snowmobile in the bed. I really like the safari rack over the bed. I want to put one over the cab but I haven't found an option other than drilling holes in the roof. Right...

RE: Over a Year & a Half under a cover & she fired r Cool, good Luck. It'll be nice not be to be one of the only CUCV's running around Long Island.

I too am running 4inch Tuff Country HD springs up front, with 3 inch blocks in the rear. It came out great and the ride is still pretty good. I did the staggered lift to compensate for the fact that I will eventually be installing a winch up front and the srpings no matter how good the are will...