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Prices for everything are a rollercoster when it comes to military surplus, and even more so right now with 2020/inflation/nonsense. A few months ago I bought like 10 packs of 5-6/ea for $3/ea, I think.

If you keep an eye out on eBay, they go up for sale randomly/periodically. They're not usually very expensive, like $10 for a bag of 5, or something.

I'm not sure if there is a separate A1R controller, but there are A0 (green) and A1 (black) controllers. The black ones are programmed differently (PSI), and did not work in my A0 (for whatever reason... it could have been bad, or just not liked the A0, but it just blinked "CTIS Overspeed" all...

It's not clear if any of the above replies have actually seen or used a MaxAxe. They are ok. I've used them a bunch of times, up to digging fighting positions, and they get the job done decently, and are fairly compact. If you are only carrying one MaxAxe set, and have to do a lot of work, it...

You're saying the same thing as me. What the siping is giving you is biting edges, and paths to channel water. So cutting a large block into smaller blocks is just turning 1 biting edge into more, and creating more passages for water instead of a big block that just hydroplanes. That picture...

What you're looking for is biting edges, and channels to flow water out from under the contact surfaces. So anything you do that cuts large tread blocks into smaller ones will help.

The auto-chains in the video look like they are on arms that swing up, out of the way, when not in use. Is that how yours were?

You don't need them in deep snow/mud... the tires will do just fine by themselves there. The chains are for slick, wet, icy, or compacted roads.

You need to sacrifice more knuckle skin while wrenching on the truck. The LMTV gods favor that.

I added a few things to my post above, after you replied.

You don't "need" to run it all night. If you turn it on even just 30-60 minutes before you start the truck, the truck will start quickly, but smoke for 15-30 seconds while everything gets going. I would just put it on an extension cord to the house, and step outside to plug it in, then go back...

You can use an @ symbol to mention... @Keith Knight I don't have any experience with the films. I don't think I would want to install film... it doesn't seem like window tint film has ever been pretty, or come off easily, after a few years. The biggest issues I've had inside cab hasn't been...

The little gasket that seals against the bottle, like one inside a garden hose? When I bought the bottle, it came in a cardboard box, with the gasket included. The later trucks start a lot easier than the 3116's.

The part number for the ether cylinder is in the spreadsheet (here in my signature). It costs like $30. NOTE: The ether system will not work unless it's a decent bit below freezing. You can press the button, but it has an internal thermostat that won't actually do anything unless it's below...

Lockers always make things worse on slippery roads. By locking the differential (which is doing the exact opposite of why they put a differential there in the first place, remember?), on low-traction surfaces, one wheel is ALWAYS slipping. So you're always breaking the one tire loose (per...

You pretty much answered your own question. Follow the logic here... Wet/icy roads have less friction. Normally you stop the truck by creating friction at the brakes, assuming that the tires will stay stuck to the road, and thus aren't a factor. But when the driving surface is slick, the...

There have been threads on it in here before, I believe. That's all that "snow tires" for a car are... very soft rubber compound and a zillion siping cuts. You can't change the rubber compound of these, but you can sipe them if you want.

What exactly are the problems you're having in the snow? My truck is a god in the snow... the deeper the better. It sucks on wet/icy roads, because it's a heavy truck driving on tires that are essentially rubber bricks with no siping, but that's not "driving in snow"...

Did this ever get done?

Military still puts oil in them.