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Sounds like you are plenty qualified to wrench on these. My FMTVs live in a mini warehouse, yes it runs into some coin, but nearly no neighborhoods will tolerate you keeping this kind of truck at your house. If you spend some time on this forum, you will discover the problem areas that you...

To perform a full set of preventative and predictive maintenance on one of these 20+ year old trucks is weeks of work. Shop labor rates are rarely under $100/hr. I would suggest that if you are not a fairly competent mechanic/electric tech, the FMTVs are not a good choice.

But we do know the answer here too, Willys engines were OD green and Ford engines were gray.

The first 1976/1977 M880s were not well regarded by the troops and had plenty of reliability issues.

McMaster Carr lists 15” O Rings. You have to measure the width also. Guessing this is for the wheel?

Doesn’t it go straight to the starter motor? You can use welding cable as a substitute, it is very similar.

Berend if you don’t have a use for the antenna mount on the cab, I have been searching for that for years now. Just the part that slides up and out. It’s missing on my 1081.

The door latch looks like there is a blank for a key lock. I would guess the latch is a civilian item that Oshkosh sourced from a supplier to the automotive market. Odds are the latch is available with a key.

Uncle didn’t bite on that one.

Yes the colors are FS and to buy any or all, just visit the Rapco.com website. All are listed.

Agree, that is the smaller grease zerk and it is not 1/8 npt like I said.

I think you are talking about grease zerk fittings and those should be 1/8 NPT.

Wow that is a super nice unit. You got the old school 100 amp alternator, nice.

Berend did that 1081 come from a European auction? What year is it? What are those triangular protrusions on the bumper? Never seen those.

If the engine is already full of rain it won’t be worth your time

Others will chime in that know exactly but as memory serves me that number is an internal Dodge factory number. Unrelated to anything.

Popping out of gear is often related to the gears not being in proper alignment due to internal spline wear on the gear.

Your transmission needs overhaul!! Driving it anywhere is begging for disaster

Aircraft paint remover will cut CARC but honestly when you put your impact on that nut, the castle will flake the paint right off.

Yes the Gillespie paint lasts forever, just have to stir the crap out of it. The 2 part paints are what go bad when moisture migrates into the can.