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My 1123 had armor, not sure what type, but the holes were there to mount the soft door hinges. So far I've ignored the holes, they haven't been an issue in the weather. I did use some leftover 1/2" flange head bolts from when they removed the armor to attach some rubber to the inside of the...

The impression I got is that he pulled the utility meter, disconnected the lines out of it, and connected them to the gen. Should be more than large enough for this load. He can correct me if I'm wrong.

15kw generator will produce 15000 watts of power no matter the configuration, it will do 15kw total at single phase 120, 15kw split phase 120/240, or 15kw of 3 phase 208. It's my understanding the 15kw rating is at .8 power factor. If you are running a purely resistive load with no losses or...

If it's not loading down the generator, then I'd say it's likely that the bottleneck here is your charge controller only asking for 5500 watts of power, rather than the generator not producing the power. Just because the solar panels are capable of producing more than 7200 watts doesn't always...

mine came with the winch plate. I used one existing hole, and drilled one 1/4" hole for the other side. If I had your style front, I'd use zip toes, or maybe weld a small bracket onto the brush guard to bolt it to , either near the center bottom, or below one of the turn signals.

I got tired of the floor mat/insulation stuff falling down on the passenger side footwell, so put a couple of 1/2 inch bolts and washers left over from when they removed the armor through the [ad and the wheel well where there had been bolts before. Then used a few more bolts to fill holes on...

Soaking it in penetrating oil is about all you can do. I don't know if that shaft is tempered or not, so I'd be hesitant to use a lot of heat on it. A little bit might be okay, but not a whole lot. Just soaking it and giving it time.

Does your state do trip permits? I know here you pay for a 3 day permit to haul or drive pretty much anything you want as long as it's reasonably arguable to be road worthy.

on normal keys that won't come out of shafts I normally use a cold chisel at one end and tap it for a bit, trying to get it to move. If I've tapped it enough that it slides but won't come out I start using the notch cut by the cold chisel to start prying on it, unlerss it's wide enough that I...

if it's showing either nothing (all the way to the left) or charging properly, might be a bad connection somewhere. I don't really trust the stock gauge all that much except as a general reference, and I needed to add a couple USB ports (for dash camera, eventually). Found this on Amazon...

I know that there's a bill being worked on again over on this side of the mountains by one of the local guys who is in the PNW Steel Soldiers facebook page, and he's also talking with the AMVO group on Facebook.

an M1101 from 2010 just went for $1800 with bows and tarp at auction local to me, so I'd expect it to hit the civilian market here at around $3k. It looks like it is complete with the landing legs and everything looks functional.

I've been told that as well, but somehow my M1123 made it through with just that slight snag. The big thing I think is that it came from the Marines and not the Army/DLA so it never had the "off road use only" stamp on the SF-97. I know the DMV put out a guidance letter early this year...

...where everything seems to go just right. So today was a pretty good day. Backstory: I bought a truck at the start of April, picked it up at the end of May. M1123 with a serial number from 2000. Then waited 2 months, SF-97 never came. Auction listing said "Sells with clean SF-97" and...

old style slave cable before adopting the Nato standardized one. They make adapters to go from it to the Nato one and back.

yup. the rims are the limit for you. 12 bolt and 24 bolt evenly spaced rims are 50psi, the 24 bolt rims where they are paired bolts are 65psi, mainly for heavy armored trucks. Just avoid any 8 bolt rims as they're lower pressure.

I think it's just that water has a higher level of heat transfer than the ethylene glycol does. I'm not going to claim it's better to use higher water content, just that the heat transfer properties are better. That's why we won't run straight ethylene glycol in engines. But just because...

While it may work to run a tire without the bead lock on one of these, the sealing surfaces are different angles/design than your standard tire without a bead lock system, so most of us recommend at least doing the PVC insert if you're going away from the run flat. If you are going to be buying...

I hate doing the poking around trying to find the bad connection when working on customer units, because most of the time I never find anything I can point at and say "this is the problem, and now the problem is fixed, so it won't happen again" It usually ends up "I tried finding what was wrong...

Glad to hear it worked out for you.