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I had wanted to mount it in the window, but it appears that it will not fit without more modification than I care to do, plus with my luck sudden side loading would cause it to bash my glass out. For now, it's secured and out of the way. Will figure out a hard mount solution when the daily highs...

Oh, I've got desert camo webbing on the way already. Not too worried about keeping things OEM. Just generally in the spirit of milspec with a little flavor and quality of life improvements.

Scrubbed the pioneer kit rack down and decided the straps were too dried up to be trusted in the desert sun, so I cut them off. Getting replaced with ratchet straps. The rack just got a coat of Rapco 686. The retainers were attached to L-bracket adapters, so I removed them. I believe in the...

I picked up a HMMWV pioneer kit awhile ago and pulled it out recently. Axe handle was chunked out and it had a pretty good wobble, so I rehung my first axe head today. That job was a lot harder than I expected it to be and the end results are pretty ugly, but it's rock solid. Fingers crossed it...

I'm missing one of those little tabs that hold the hard lines to the manifold, and not LMC, nor Hillbilly Wizard, nor CUCVRUS has spares, so take care not to lose them. If you cut, beat, and drill them out of sheet, let me know and I'll buy some from you.

I found an aluminum silicone composite gasket from a company called Lube Locker. Ought to save me from smearing RTV all over my pretty cast iron diff cover.

No need for drama. Get the inside diameter of the rad hose, get a hard joiner with a sensor port in it, cut the hose in half, clamp it onto the joiner, and install your sensor. Sounds simple enough. Sounds like that's what you wanted to do. Go for it. They make some pretty slick gauge pods that...

If it's your truck and you're keeping it forever, I reckon it doesn't really matter where you put the sensor. You'll get an idea of what's normal for whatever you end up with and you'll know if something is going wrong. Don't worry about upsetting people with your modifications. It's your truck...

Yeah, I just noticed it dripped on the pavement where I was doing the hub. I resealed it last year and if it dripped once in a few hours, it has dripped hundreds of times. I used nothing but sealant on it last time, but evidently, I didn't get it clean and dry enough, and made a mess of the job...

Does anybody make rubberized steel 10 bolt diff gaskets?

So the hub I replaced is fine, but the one on the other side was getting so hot, it was probably just shy of glowing in the dark. Naturally, every single part was seized and I mean every single part. The big hammer did a whole lot of sweet talking. The grease was like clay and the bearings were...

I'm all for not pouring chemicals in the ground, but the vast majority of what comes out of your radiator is going to be water, after the initial draining, and it feels like an unnecessary hassle to have to haul a dozen buckets of rusty water to a disposal center.

Open the drain valve on the bottom of the radiator, stick a garden hose in the filler neck, turn the water on, and let the truck idle until you're satisfied. Shut the truck off, shut the water off, remove the hose, close the drain valve, fill the radiator with antifreeze, start the truck again...

As I understand it, the proportioning valve can give people fits when trying to bleed the brakes on the CUCVs. I had thought to delete mine, but then I was glad it was there during a catastrophic failure.

If they take it off road, they can use that bottom leaf to go spear fishing for boulders.

Put it in D and watch it turn. Practicals always beat theory. Of course if it's that bad, then dropout might still bind it. I would venture to guess that a lot of people with a lot less attention to detail have just shoved these springs under their trucks and been okay. Half the running/driving...

Rain and snow sounds wonderful. I'm just glad it's not 120 degrees every day like it was last year. I could work on the truck from about 6:30-7:00 AM last summer before my sunburn in February skin made me retreat back to my hole in the wall.

I started out a regular photojournalist on this truck, but something about handling grease in a sandpit made me lose interest in taking pics. Step 01: Take off the locker select thing and realize you need snap ring pliers. Step 02: Wait a week for the snap ring pliers you ordered to show up...

My favorite neighbor is going to be so impressed with my percussive performance, he'll probably call the police to come enjoy it too!

Alright, I needed a tool I didn't have and then another I didn't have and then another and another. I swore I would not collect up a complete suite of mechanic junk after I retired, but it looks like it's happening anyway. I'll get after it again soon, but I have a question first. Should I be...