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There were about 23k miles on mine, but age can be a factor too (e.g. seals fail, rust in the bearings wears them faster, etc.). You should read the military's driveline studies. Shortly after the trucks came out, they were having issues with driveline vibrations ripping the back off the...

I cracked my block, because of the aforementioned driveline vibration. I swapped the engine myself too (just another 3116). The swap is straightforward, and completely documented in the manual, but took like 40 hours of work. You can get engines out of other scrapped FMTVs.

Wow, that really is beefy.

Or just make a post titled "Anyone with an LMTV in the XXXXX, WA area that I could come check out?"?

Hard to gauge thickness without something to reference in the picture (e.g. a coin). About 1/8" thick?

I printed this on my personal Prusa i3 MK3, in my home prototyping shop. Honestly though, depending on what kinds of printers you have at work, they are often good at creating finer details but the materials are not as robust. For example the Objet brand printers use a UV curable resin that is...

If you really want to drive one, there's surely a member near you that might let you.

What is the advantage of doing that? ATF is a lot more expensive than diesel, so I'm assuming it's something good?

On your truck, is 55-60 MPH just after the shift into 7th, at the minimum RPM?

I would have to go look, but I don't think there is anything structural mounted to it. There are a lot of non-structural things (e.g. air cleaner, hydraulic reservoir, trasmission controller, hydraulic control box, spare tire lift, etc.) though, I think.

3.90 to 3.07 is a 27% increase. So 58 MPH becomes 73.7 MPH. 50 MPH becomes 63 MPH. 45 MPH (about where mine shifts to 7th) becomes 57 MPH.

Yes, that is my understanding as well. A diesel cycle engine will run on just about anything, but I don't think our engines are designed to accommodate those other fuels.

To run the engine on? I know the Deuce guys do that, in their multifuel engines, but I think the FMTV engines are all diesel-only.

I would think yes, you need it as warm as you can get it in there. I turn my bed up to 110C, inside the popup tent, to try to reduce warping as much as possible.

While poor quality or humidity infused filament can be a problem, my first guess would be it's the lack of enclosure causing you problems. I printed these on my Prusa i3 MK3, and it prints ABS quite poorly because of the lack of enclosure. I had an older, much less innovative, and lower...

What strength problems are you having? Polyethylene is not stronger than ABS. It's close to the mechanical properties of ABS, and way better than PLA, but prints with the quality of PLA and without the warping problems of ABS. So it's close to the best of both worlds... strong, functional...

It's quite strong. I printed this one in polyethylene, for the mechanical properties and heat tolerance. I designed it with a healthy 0.120" wall thickness, which makes it about as strong as an injection molded part with maybe a 0.080" wall thickness. 3D printed parts are weakest in the...

I suppose that depends on what you think "reasonable" is, and it seems like there are a lot of definitions around here. It's about 50 hours of printing, $15 in plastic material, and $10 in fasteners. So the housing would probably be a bit more than the tach and power outlets cost. This one is...

Just something I've been working on. I still have to sand and paint it (this is straight off my printer), and then finish making the wiring harness. But the mock up looks good. The tach faces the driver, instead of straight back like the winch trucks' tachs do. I also plan to make some nice...

I don't have one to measure, but I can tell you that the bed on an M1078 LMTV is 12.5' long, and on the an M1083 MTV it's 14.5'. I'm guessing the M1088 will be shorter.