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You definitely need to keep us in the loop as you progress with photos!

My M1165A1 clocked in at 7340 and I imagine your two piece rims and inserts (vs my one piece steel rim and 17" tire), brush guard and flying nun roof account for the 600 pound difference in weight.

Finally completed my winch installation, the wiring. The hardest part was deciding where to hook in to tap power. Two obvious choices: under the vehicle on the starter, or back in the battery compartment under the commander's seat. I opted to run the positive lead back to the 24V post on the...

Thanks for your view. That bit on hot for the disconnect is what I would have done too but it seems a number of 4WD sites say negative. I am going to disregard that nonsense as internet stupidity. And I am in the camp of "no" on breaker or fuse. With potentially a 500 A load at peak, I feel...

Continued the winch install. As posted above, the winch plate mounting holes were significantly oversized compared to the corresponding mounting holes on the winch itself. In the photo below, the winch is yellow so you can see clearly the disparity: Got in touch with a machinist on ebay...

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Sure and I may add one of those too. Much more useful if I stick my own vehicle (vs needing to pull out another vehicle).

Hydraulic would be great but my long search for an ECV front plate failed. I will definitely not be running that winch more than 30-50 seconds at a time with a 10 minute cooldown (as per the manual).

Remove the radiator and go top down, of course! Just kidding, I know that will be with great difficulty. I haven't been able to come up with an acceptable alternative to this mounting position. A rear winch would be better in that situation.

I continued the winch install on truck #2. The winch is a 24 volt 17K Sherpa brand "Steed" model. I opted for wire rope to keep the military look as much as possible even though it's not 100% correct. The ECV-compatible winch plate is Sherpa specific and is from Military Truck Works in...

I tested my new horn with the stock horn using some alligator clips. I wasn't impressed that the stock horn added anything. I did have to remove the front bumper, that took some time, but I am putting in a winch later this week so needed to anyway.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01EG18Y8I/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Just wired up a simple harness to hook it up. HMMWV stock horn is set up with two Packard connectors. To wire the new horn, disconnected those two and then wired in two identical "Y"s - the base of...

Finally upgraded the road runner horn to something audible.

More and more reasons to junk the two piece rims and switch to civilian 17 rims, unless you need the bulletproof inserts for some reason.

Light control switch went bad somehow. A quick change out to a new one fixed the problem.

Replaced a badly corroded washer pump on the M1152A1. I thought it should take 20 minutes, and it would have if I was smarter. But I spent 30 minutes trying to reseat the self locking retaining ring inside the washer tank before I realized I could just chuck the ring and risk a leak since it...

Pics of the turret mounted MK19 that goes with these or it didn't happen.

my buddy did his with used motor oil. I just wanted to be a little more environmentally friendly.

My local lumber place didn’t have any marine or treated plywood. So it’s regular plywood but treated with oil based water sealer so it should hold up for a few seasons. And should be easy enough to change out if it rots, just transfer the rubber guides over to a new piece and bolt in.