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The A1R was built specifically to be field upgraded to an armored cab. It was a late running production change ordered due to the media frenzy in 2006 over troops not having body armor and armored vehicles..... Air ride was just added expense, and probably couldn't handle the weight of the A1P2...

Yeah sorta. Not calling myself a "vendor" as such. I need cab mounts for my own trucks and as such I have to buy 50 sets to get them and not pay the "vendors" a literal arm and leg for "new old stock" that's typically so old it's worthless or expensive urethane replacements that don't offer the...

GeneralDisorder: 2 Lostchain: 2 Guruman: 1 B-Dog: 1 Wingnut13: 1 INFChief: 1 coachgeo: 1 Reworked LMTV: 1 johnz: 2 WildSide: 1 Keith Knight: 1 shawnspeak: 1 Godspeed131: 1 Total: 16 Please let me know if any changes to this list.

I spoke with Pat via PM and I believe we are good to go. Moving the thread would severely limit it's visibility as this group buy is only applicable to FMTV's. He has all my contact information, etc. It's also not *really* a group buy in the strictest sense. I already paid for the goods. I'm...

There's two components to the mount. Here's some pics of my samples:

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In practice if they are installed immediately following manufacture they are good for about 15-20 years. Perhaps longer if they are cared for with some rubber protectant such as: https://www.amazon.com/303-30313-CSR-Protectant-Plastic-Fiberglass/dp/B00KN0UOEE I'm good with that personally. On...

Updated the post with expected ETA. Currently 6-8 weeks plus shipping.

Link to group buy: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/cab-mount-group-buy-new-oem-fmtv-lmtv-m1078-m1079-etc.210025/

Group Buy Is Now CLOSED. All 50 sets are spoken for. Thanks to everyone! I am having 100 each of the thicker and 100 each of the thinner cab mounts manufactured for a group buy. Anyone that wants in please post here. Right now pricing is $30 for the thicker mounts, and $24 for the thinner...

Well - here's the deal. I'm going to have 100 of each piece made. The cost is going to be $30 each for the larger mounts, and $24 each for the thinner mounts. This includes the tooling cost, etc. Estimate is about 6 weeks lead time. I'll start a new post for anyone that wants some.

Highly doubt anyone has that kind of 100,000 ft view of the situation other than the militaries and they don't likely track it in that way. It would likely take a team of accountants and auditors to figure that out. Plenty of them written off from damage, left or given to foreign nations, sent...

Yeah that's wrecked. Throw that in the f*ckit bucket. I got a used one on ebay for $100 that was in good shape - studs all cleaned up like new. Make sure there's no black stain of capacitor electrolyte leaking out of the back where it's potted. In the meantime just bolt the battery and load...

Fretting will cause them to fracture. Here's a treatise on the subject: https://aeroenginesafety.tugraz.at/doku.php?id=23:233:2331:23312:23312

Mine were also "gone" - especially the rear cab mount which just swiveled around. Previous owner swapped in a single of the thick mount but nothing else. I swapped in all the correct pieces - there's quite a few on the A1R cab latch mount. Two of the slim mounts, one of the thicker mounts...

12.6v is a fully charged battery. 10.5v is a fully discharged battery. Anything in the 11.Xv range is EXTREMELY suspect and may have essentially zero capacity with shorted cells. See chart: Disconnect each battery from the truck and LOAD TEST them. You can't continue the troubleshooting...

They make their own tooling in-house and can work from drawing or sample. And I assume this probably greatly reduces cost. These guys have been doing this and specializing in molded rubber parts for over 90 years. My guess is they have it figured out and can pass on the savings. These really...

Well I assume he knows basically what he's talking about - again this is not a small operation this is a major rubber parts manufacturer and at one point did manufacture one of the two pieces (the smaller one) - and he made no mention of the tooling wearing out for such "small" production runs...

Spoke with a gentleman from a rubber manufacturing company - he can make them once he has drawings or samples. The gist of the conversation is that it's probably going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000 to create the tooling. And then some minimum order quantity of 100 to 200 pieces...

Load test the batteries. Number one priority. Disconnect them from the truck entirely for the test. Transmission computer will be the first to complain about voltages that are out of it's range of operation. Mine did that when I had the over-voltage problem. See my thread about the OVCO issue...