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Also, I know everyone has their own pet penetrating oil, but I have gotten the best results from Kroil. It tends to do very well in any "torture test" videos/articles out there too. I put it in a tiny needle dropper bottle, and try to get it inside anything I can (e.g. washer gaps, nuts...

Wow, that's quite an adventure. When I had mine apart, I did take measurements of the sleeve, if you need to make a new one. Mine was pretty rusty and nasty, but it should be close enough to figure something out. If I remember, the bolt is almost impossible to find new, for some reason...

While it's true that you can break any tool if used incorrectly, I like to read more into the reviews than that. If you look at the reviews for the OEMTools (green) puller, there are multiple people who say it just broke. In comparison, the $300 Tiger Tool puller, which is the gold standard...

I don't think this is from anything on an LMTV. I've taken almost the entire damn truck apart, and never seen one of those on mine.

A handful of cleverly used extensions, universal joints, etc.

One of my biggest concerns has been that the LMTV is so big that if I get it stuck somewhere, who will be able to get me out? You would have to chain up a whole mule-team of Jeeps to make it budge. I installed a winch off an MTV on my LMTV, for that reason. I also almost never use Mode...

I'm just saying "go try it". Wheeling small trucks on trails and obstacles "made for" small trucks is very different than driving the LMTV on those same things. Similarly, experience wheeling Jeeps/etc. doesn't really transfer, nor do opinions about how to set up the trucks based on that...

I don't know... these trucks will go through, over, and get out of a lot of situations that would stop a Jeep/Tacoma that was all upgraded. What I find is that most of the off-road places you can go are created by Jeeps/Tacomas, and so everything is designed to "challenge" those vehicles (e.g...

To my knowledge, these are custom made Detroit-style lockers, not a modification of an existing model.

Good find. I knew the pictures weren't from an LMTV - tires aren't right, and there is a step in the picture - but I wasn't sure what it was from. Here's a PDF copy.

I don't know the ground pressure, but I can tell you that adjusting the CTIS mode drastically affects it. For example, in soft sand the tires will dig a lot (e.g. it feels like 2-3 rotations of the tire for what should be 1 rotation's worth of forward motion), and when you hit the Sand mode on...

It's a lot more common in more humid parts of the country (e.g. NE and NW USA).

I disagree. We know that the LMTV shafts slowly gain slop and become unbalanced (not because the mass of any part of the shaft has changed, but because it has physically changed shape and/or bent). So a dynamic balancing tool that is able to compensate for those changes, and keep you from...

On a civilian truck, that leaf of the spring pack is just flat, and ends before going around the shackle part. "Military wrap" springs have the leaf that also loosely goes around the shackle part (as a backup to keep you limping if something breaks?). There is no bushing or anything in between...

Not "you can't do that", rather "It's never safe to assume it's that simple." It may be that simple, or the first bracket they made might have failed testing and there is some easily-overlooked revision (e.g. a rounded corner fillet) in the final design that allowed it to survive. I'm happy to...

Realistically, no, it's not simple to build, even for a "simple A/C bracket". That's my point. The work that went into the design of the OEM bracket, with the specifications development, design meetings, stress simulation, vibration testing, prototyping, revisions, and then finally successful...

If you look at the $100 brackets in those pictures, they are little/nothing like the A/C brackets we need. They are simple, flat, laser cut parts, maybe a bend or weld. Our brackets are more complex, multipart weldments. Something to think about... There's an old Czech addage that "I'm too...

It's possible that a driveshaft assembled at the factory wouldn't need weights, but unlikely. Because they expect the assembly to be balanced, each of the individual subcomponents is not really manufactured to be overly well balanced. For example, they might use tubing with a weld seam down...

Keep in mind that there is a big difference between the military and commercial definitions of "meeting specifications". When you buy an F-150 that can "tow 17,000lb", it's essentially saying that "it's technically possible, under ideal conditions", but you know that you're really going to be...

The air is supplied to the axle at only one spot. You'd have to modify the axles (and not in a minor way).