M818 Pics

[Armada]

OK, here are some pics of my M818 recovery from Stout Field in Indiana a couple weeks ago. Not many from the actual road trip just a couple getting the jeep hooked up to the tow bar for the return trip, a few pics once it was home and a couple of the auction pics. It was one of the depot rebuilt trucks that were recently auctioned. The rebuild date was summer of '06. It had never been put back into the system after the rebuild as no registration number had been assigned to it. It only had 5 hours on it and about 100 miles. Added another 350 miles to it on the drive home. Only trouble was the high beams did not work. I still haven't broke the seal on the tool box, but I understand it is full of goodies!

 

[Armada]

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[mangus580]

Armada... curious... how did you connect the towbar to the TJ?

 

[Armada]

Tow shackle adaptors from an M151 were added in place of the factory hooks. They work flawless. Had to move the fog lights out a bit.

 

[citizensoldier]

Steel Soldiers bible
(Oliveis Drabis) chapter : 14 verse :21
"Thow shall not covet thy neighbors OD" "Thow shall only help him fix it when fixen need be" " Now gettith thy butteth out and fixeth thy green" correction "Desert Tan"
Bring that bad boy up here! You lucky dog! Just plain beautiful dude.. I will dream of it tonight..

 

[BKubu]

ARMADA: That truck was a serious score! Good luck and congrats!

 

[mangus580]

Tow shackle adaptors from an M151 were added in place of the factory hooks. They work flawless.

Damn those look perfect!!

when I had to transport our ex-97 TJ, I used the axle clamps on the bumper... had to relocate the fog lights temporarily.

 

[citizensoldier]

Brrrrooooof!!! Brooooofffff! The hounds of OD hell are tracking a trailer for that bad boy to pull! Hmmmmm .. Damn..

 

[Armada]

LOL! Thanks Lane! Yeah, we'll definately spend a weekend wrenching on our new toys!!!!

Already got my eyes on a couple trailers coming up.

 

[Armada]

Thanks Bruce. They don't come around like that very often. All it needs is to be driven. One of the big surplus dealers got most of them.

 

[maddawg308]

Great looking M818, and nice way to "make it work" by using the M151 bumper adapters in place of the stock hooks! Those pics are great!

 

[Jimmy]

That is one great looking truck!

 

[M1075]

I really feel bad for you that the high beams didn't work. With GL you gotta take the bad with the good. Oh well, maybe next time you can get a decent truck.

 

[citizensoldier]

 

[Pappa-G]

That is one great looking truck!

Thanks, its an '04 and has the automatic This is the second time I've pushed Armadas equipment across country and it does a fair job for being just a 3k pound Jeep moving a 18k pound tractor. I should have put the hard top on but it has a good heater.
Wait you were talking about the Jeep weren't you??

 

[rosco]

That is absolutely, a beautiful piece of equipmement. I wondered too, about how you hooked the tow bar to the Jeep, till I read further. But what did you do for the lights. You have a light bar on the Jeep?

Lee in Alaska

 

[mangus580]

That is one great looking truck!

Thanks, its an '04 and has the automatic This is the second time I've pushed Armadas equipment across country and it does a fair job for being just a 3k pound Jeep moving a 18k pound tractor. I should have put the hard top on but it has a good heater.
Wait you were talking about the Jeep weren't you??

 

[m.walker]

Nice lookin tractor !!! Your a lucky dog !

 

[Armada]

That is absolutely, a beautiful piece of equipmement. I wondered too, about how you hooked the tow bar to the Jeep, till I read further. But what did you do for the lights. You have a light bar on the Jeep?

Lee in Alaska

The tow lights are magnetic mount. The front half of an M105 trailer harness is grafted to the taillight harness section. You can see part of it in this picture. The 12v bulbs were replaced with 24V. Pappa-G's Jeep has been dubbed the official chase vehicle, although the lights can be mounted on anything that a tow bar can be hooked to.

 

[mangus580]

thinking about it... how the hell.... did you fit a Medium Towbar in a TJ???