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  1. Retiredwarhorses

    Facebook Seller

    Stay away from public FB sites make contact with admins of private sites if you have a question about a seller on private sites…have common sense about the part and price, chances are you were drawn to them because the price was cheap…wake up, if It’s to good to be true? It probably is. there...
  2. Retiredwarhorses

    Electric Fan Conversion?

    This topic has been beat to death since H1’s came on the market…it’s a lesson in futility, but I’m sure some others will just attempt again anyway, in those cases, GL.
  3. Retiredwarhorses

    What have you done to your HMMWV today/lately

    all of these are M1114’s…
  4. Retiredwarhorses

    HMMWV movie sightings.

    my rental fee is my shop rate x8, so $1k per day, after 8hrs it’s still shop per hour…I charge door step to door step…. No one drives the truck but me or if required by union rules that a stunt driver “SAG” has to drive it, I’m in the truck…so it’s gener off to wardrobe dept to get suited up. my...
  5. Retiredwarhorses

    Torque converter not engaging?

    50% of the time TCC lock up not working is a bad brake switch, the other 50% is not adjusted correctly.
  6. Retiredwarhorses

    Heater Blower To Toggle Switch

    the heater is the simplest of designs you will find, you either have power at the blower end or you don’t when the truck is running and the fan switch is on high, if not? You need to start behind the instrument cluster, there is a single power wire to the center of the blower switch…
  7. Retiredwarhorses

    Water Pump Broken Bolt

    https://www.autozone.com/gaskets/water-pump-gasket/p/fel-pro-water-pump-gasket-es72674/225555_0_0?cmpid=LIA:US:EN:AD:NL:1000000:IEN:19489353538&&CATARGETID=120054150001289781&CADevice=m&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADkcoVsMCy14BG5GirwGZ2wFyl69q&gclid=Cj0KCQiAz8GuBhCxARIsAOpzk8wnu1D1davv2Eyclm7ZkAoh1M...
  8. Retiredwarhorses

    Water Pump Broken Bolt

    There is a water pump backing plate gasket made by Fel-pro, the OEM sealant is anaerobic sealant, it’s like a clear red gel...
  9. Retiredwarhorses

    Water Pump Broken Bolt

    use a sealant, Teflon tape is a no go
  10. Retiredwarhorses

    Water Pump Broken Bolt

    Quite wasting time and pull the pump back off…you only need to remove the backing plate with the pump still attached, you don’t have to remove the pump off the backing plate.
  11. Retiredwarhorses

    Water Pump Broken Bolt

    its possible you get a glycol leak in that area down the road…how did you break it? It’s a steel bolt that threads into the aluminum timing gear housing
  12. Retiredwarhorses

    Intermediate cadillac value

    you are aware that truck has a switch to deny 24v to the Cadillac valve solenoid….if the fan wasn’t engaging “meaning it had continuous power” , why didn’t you just flip the switch which is the same as unplugging the TDM or the Cadillac valve? This would have allowed you to just to just drive on.
  13. Retiredwarhorses

    Is there a way to run Optima batteries in the HMMWV?

    I have them for sale…new and used, these are the new polymer version
  14. Retiredwarhorses

    DOT3/4 vs DOT5 - Solicone vs. Glykol based brake fluid

    im an OEM shop, I’ve had many military contracts And work on and worked on pretty much every tactical vehicle in the inventory up to a few years ago…I just use DOT5.
  15. Retiredwarhorses

    Is there a way to run Optima batteries in the HMMWV?

    you need the optima battery adapters to lock them into the OEM battery trays
  16. Retiredwarhorses

    Best places to look for a reliable 6.5 TD engine? What is needed to swap from a 6.2?

    you generally won’t find a good used motor in a govt can, why? It’s not a practice to remove a good motor and replace it with a new motor, the motor was removed for a reason and the refurbished or New motor in the can was installed into the truck, the old motor is returned in the can for...
  17. Retiredwarhorses

    Lenders for HMMWV purchase?

    after buying a few hundred trucks, I’m pretty well versed in how it works…your assume the price is $7500, plenty of R1 trucks for under$6k, you don’t know where the OP lives and where he buys the truck from,Yermo and Albany aren’t the only yards now and you dont know if he owns his own trailer...
  18. Retiredwarhorses

    Lenders for HMMWV purchase?

    $10k is more than enough money to get an auction truck…just understand how the bid and fee’s work before you bid. Also…determine what truck model you want or can afford upfront
  19. Retiredwarhorses

    Folding High Back Seat

    Remove the top bolt on each side…
  20. Retiredwarhorses

    Hmmwv radiator 6.5 non turbo, best option

    yes, the radiator is longer than the shroud…I Had to align the bottom of the shroud so far down at the bottom, I used a flapper wheel to remove some shroud at the center bottom so the rubber isolator would line up correctly. If this wasn’t done, the shroud sat to to far back and the fan blade...
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