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Good evening folks. I'm planning on converting my M151A2 over to a USMC vehicle in the next few weeks and was hoping that someone could help with a couple of questions I have regarding the MERDC camo pattern and the unit markings on the vehicle. I'm interested in painting my truck as an early...
Much appreciated! I'm fortunate that I'll be buying it from a friend, so I don't think I'll need to take you up on the offer, but will keep you in mind if I do.
I'm finalizing a deal on an M151A2 MUTT that will need to be moved from N. Kansas City, MO to Athens, GA. The vehicle is running and can be driven onto a trailer.
I'd love to support someone here if possible.
I've got a couple of sets of GMV smoke/flare launchers. $750 per set.
I guess I need to inventory what other HMMWV stuff I have and get a list going.
PM to hold.
I've got a flag that was from the first white-side SOF ODA in Syria - it was used as an IFF panel on one of their GMV's. I've currently got it in a shadow box - still with Syrian sand on it. The pic below it is of my friend in the turret of the GMV with the flag spread on the hood. Overall, very...
Actually, it does have more than just "remove halfshaft". It's a 3 step process that tells you what exactly needs to be removed to pull a half-shafts out. Yes, if he read it, it would have told him why he was unable to remove the half-shaft from the truck while the wheel was still on the truck...
Except in this case, the TM does tell you HOW to do it. It took all of 5 minutes (I had to answer the phone) to find it in section 6.9 in TM-9-2320-280-20-2.
How thick are they? The real ones used on the GMV's are 3/8" steel, which may be overkill as a jack rail/cowl protection - but yours look a good bit thinner.
I've got 86humv's rails on my GMV and they have been outstanding as well.
Antenna mount.
Instead of reviving a dead post for something not totally relevant to it - consider starting a new thread introducing yourself and telling us about your truck. I'm sure you'll get plenty of answers there for any other questions that you might have regarding the new acquisition.
I made that comment and I agree that you certainly could make it using a old/busted shafts, but I personally look at those kits as something to get you out of a pinch or back to civilization and not as something to get you by on a road-trip until you feel like putting a new shaft in. I mean...
I've done several backwoods traverse trips with my trucks so far. It wasn't the middle of nowhere, like Moab or anything like that out west, but it was far enough removed and in difficult enough terrain that recovery by anyone other than myself or the other mil vehicles that were with me would...
- While the slantback design does allow increased visibility, it's primary purpose was to minimize the affects of backblast when shooting a TOW missile.
- The original (M1025 style) slantbacks are steel with current (M1114's, etc) being aluminum.
As mentioned elsewhere - it's obvious that you're seeking a consensus on an opinion that matches your own. Stop dancing around it and just do it if you want to use it that bad. Well respected people here and elsewhere have warned you of the potential danger, others have as well and have...
While I'll be the first one to acknowledge that the military specified tow-ratings are as low as they are so that they can account for off-highway or cross-country towing, I like to apply the 98% rule to anything over that.
98% of the time, you'll probably be just fine - it's the remaining 2%...
While I don't disagree that he should look long and hard about really wanting a slantback, it's not for the reasons you suggest. Let's face it, when most of the uninformed public thinks of a HMMWV, they tend to think of one with a slanted rear end and a machine gun on top, so for many it's just...
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