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Yep. With these trucks you MUST re-do every ground point if you don't want to be chasing electrical gremlins forever. And while you're at that clean all the power connections as well. #1 task for a new FMTV owner IMO is to spend a week addressing every electrical connection and checking/changing every fluid and filter.
THEN we can talk about the state of everything rubber on your new truck.....
If you really want to find every problem. AFTER you do all that - daily drive the truck for ~10,000 miles. Not only will you find more shit you didn't know you needed to fix, you will also be the expert that some of us are. I'm just about up to 20,000 miles of daily driving. I dare say I have one of the best running LMTV's out there...... civilian or military..... have worked on multiple trucks that are still "in service" with the boys down at the local base. I get phone calls because it's easier to just ask me than try to find some problems with the TM.
THEN we can talk about the state of everything rubber on your new truck.....
If you really want to find every problem. AFTER you do all that - daily drive the truck for ~10,000 miles. Not only will you find more shit you didn't know you needed to fix, you will also be the expert that some of us are. I'm just about up to 20,000 miles of daily driving. I dare say I have one of the best running LMTV's out there...... civilian or military..... have worked on multiple trucks that are still "in service" with the boys down at the local base. I get phone calls because it's easier to just ask me than try to find some problems with the TM.