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"Our Stewart Stevenson Truck, 10 ton trailer, and Terex PT 100 was stolen this week near Carowinds NC (Charlotte/Fort Mill) area. If anyone sees this setup please contact me. (on Facebook KS ) "
If it is not a PITA I would like to keep the support out for now and go ahead and reinstall the windshield cause have not decided what color to paint it yet. Got my windshield taken out for some repair in the area and pulled the vertical cab support while windshield out for easy access and to...
ok.... so here is how you look up your engine online.
Armed with your engine serial number in hand
. go to website https://parts.cat.com/en/catcorp/PartLookup?fbclid=IwAR0mukSHkQw8z-ivtLAwA0v4RWqsaQejwjFqnkMvjmGkzY37kBfOWkEjx7M
. input serial number of your engine in the [equipment] box
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somewhere buried inside someone's thread in here is a discussion about the U hard oil line in the area of the Governor that cracked. Includes a picture of a nice replacement (looped) to reduce vibration hardening..... if I recall right
anyone recall anything else about that thread that will...
Did lot of searching but seems folk have only done a conversion of existing bed to dump bed.
How about a truck bed dump insert installed in the trailer bed? Clean and easy.. and transferable to other trucks or trailers if sell or ??
Picking up a used insert for an 8' truck bed along with...
RE: Sticky LMTV/FMTV Quick Parts Reference Spreadsheet
its been updated ... made more readable as well. You can also PM me with suggestions. Wes is on the road a lot etc.
video posted on Facebook. with following information...
Glenn Highway, on the hayflats going TO Anchorage. Driver is ok and unharmed. 10:00pm
Have not been able to find same video on Youtube. Happened only day(s) ago? (20th?) Does not appear to be Duckworthe's. Does not appear to be...
https://www.med-eng.com/products/personalprotectiveequipment/medengeodiedd/bcs4bodycoolingsystem.aspx
since last I looked there is no TM's etc. for these cool suits and Med. Eng will not help a private person with info...... sooooo.. checking to see if any one has experience in here with them...
Intake air tube from Air Cleaner to Turbo on 3116. Part of it is plastic corrugated bendable floppy tube (Runs from outside of cab; at air cleaner to under the cab)... the other part in the engine compartment isss??? metal? Carbon fiber???
what is diameter of each?
Got to come up with...
putting out a request for anyone to shoot pics or drawings that show location of the grounds on actual truck that fall on and near the bridge behind the cab that the Polarity Protection Box/Air Cleaner/Spare Tire attaches... AND most importantly where they go to from there.
Truck working on...
Have not had chance to work on my track bar relocate in over a month. We got bracket plans but not yet at a point of no return on the brackets. Someone mentioned a FMTV expedition truck with a different track bar setup so it got me wondering what they might have done on it thus..... digging...
have not found it in TM's yet.. though it may have bit me 5 times and I still don't see it....
What is the torque rating for nuts on WET lug bolts (aka anti seize etc.) when tightening lug nuts? Dry is 400 to 450. but wet? Same question for bolts that hold two piece wheel halves together? Or...
Seths video and resulting comments brought this up (will link here)
In comments to Seth's video shown here and on Facebook of breaking bead on aluminum tire it was mentioned that steel wheels are a total different animal. Someone brought up they used a hydraulic bead breaker and showed pic of...
Use this thread as the place for your trips, adventures rescues, etc. that do not warrant a whole new thread.
For updates/fixes/repairs that do not warrant a whole special thread use- What have you done TO your FMTV
For those.... "she kicked my arse today and other mishaps; like flat...
Our FMTV cousins are participating... DAKAR 2019
best under covered motorsport event in the world.
THE DAKAR..... https://www.dakar.com/en
XXXXX' yearly seems to have the best commentary and educated discussions on trucks like ours and other 4x4's in the Rally. Adventureriders usually the...
see these on occasion but not a mention of them on here that I've seen...... what are they and where do they go? Am thinking their for a heavier up armored cab that will need stiffened?
2590015315399 FMTV MTV LMTV CAB STIFFENING BRACKET CT116
granted some MTV are longer...... but beside that...... could one cut off the hucks from one to remove the items different (rear shock tower, or mounts for inverted leaf spring for example) and then just swap everything over after drilling appropriate missing holes?
all's good for me. (for now) but another's plight made me wonder....... if you have an unknown truck delivered to you (or someone wanted to help and messed around in the Power Distribution Panel) and said truck ends up one with a no start senario (tries; but no go) there is lots of things to...
M1082 rolling trailer only.. Bed removed... been told it pulls fine. Brakes are chambered but should work. NO lights on it right now.
Not in a huge rush so as late as early this summer is fine but sooner the better when it comes to being respectful to the seller who said he can store till I...