So You Want To Buy A Surplus HMMWV/Humvee - A How-To Guide (And All Other Things HMMWV Too!) (Page 101 of 102)
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I took the cat off for servicing. It flows better now. Took about 75 tools and 40 trips between the creeper and the garage. I'm a little sore today and many small cuts on my hands and arms, but it's done. Attached File |
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Originally Posted By LineOfDeparture: Just ordered a whole new set of replacement hoses for the radiator and surge tank. Gonna go ahead and swap em all out and keep the ones that aren't serviceable around as a set of spares. That reminds me I have a new set I need to put on before summer. I got the blue good year ones as the black ones I got last time seem not to hold up as well. |
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Originally Posted By jake-cutter: That reminds me I have a new set I need to put on before summer. I got the blue good year ones as the black ones I got last time seem not to hold up as well. Are they silicone? Link? |
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Its just the regular ones you buy from Hummers Parts Guy or Mac Motors. The blue ones are USA made Good Year. Link to one from HPG |
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Originally Posted By jake-cutter: Its just the regular ones you buy from Hummers Parts Guy or Mac Motors. The blue ones are USA made Good Year. Link to one from HPG That's the same item I ordered earlier. |
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Originally Posted By Aguas: Tis a shame. If not for ryan id have never stuffed the ECV drivetrain into my 998a1. Or known how to get real carc paint. Or who knows how many other little things. People like him can be found at a certain telegram group . .that isnt moderated by today's arfcom jackboots. https://t.me/+KhyaExfStcc2NzQx See if that works. |
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Originally Posted By jake-cutter: Anyone have any leads on armored windshields? That's one project I would like to complete. |
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Originally Posted By stoner63a: Which type armored windshield? I have 1 pair of the fixed type armored glass for the ECV REV series trucks, I would need to pound flat the defog louvers to make it fit A2 series trucks, and I don't want to permanently alter either of my original GMVs. Is the louver in the pic below the one that needs to be flattened? Attached File |
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Bremerton WA has one of the longest running celebrations for Armed Forces Day, this year being the 77th. I was scheduled to drive the M1165 and placed in the middle of the pack of 150 participants. Last night the event organizer called me and asked if I would mind driving one of the VIPs, the SWFPAC Sailor of the Year. I said yes, happy to help. So I was assigned a spot in Section A. She still wanted me to appear in my assigned position in Section C as well so as not to mess up the grandstand announcer's script. Some Corvette club carried the admirals and commanders, I fell in behind them, and behind me was a SWFPAC Marine Security group in a fully armored HMMWV and a Bearcat. So as soon as I hit parade end I dropped my rider off and raced through the streets of Bremerton to get back to the staging area and find my other spot. Just made it too, as they were starting to roll as I arrived. On my way in I passed some other privately owned milsurp trucks but didn't have time to stop and admire them. It was overcast and misted a few times, but the rain held off until the end. Attached File Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Originally Posted By gastrap: What a great turnout at that parade! I followed the Legion leading our local parade last weekend with my M1097. I was the only military vehicle to show up except the VFD's two 5 ton grass rigs. Awesome! Always seems to get more attention during a parade than when I just drive it to home depot. Here's the video of the entire parade. My M1165 appears at around the 11:00 minute mark, then I make the second pass around the 59:40 More milsurp around the 1:31:00 time.  2024 Bremerton Armed Forces Day Parade |
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Facebook score! I was talking to my neighbor the other day about my next set of tires for my K5, wondering how large I could really go. He text me this today. Attached File I don't think I'll run them but they will sure work for a mockup. I forgot how heavy run flats are. 
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Originally Posted By ARHank: Facebook score! I was talking to my neighbor the other day about my next set of tires for my K5, wondering how large I could really go. He text me this today. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/155324/1000013027_jpg-3222681.JPG I don't think I'll run them but they will sure work for a mockup. I forgot how heavy run flats are. Those are heavy |
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Originally Posted By ARHank: They are. I want to weigh one but am afraid I would break my bathroom scale. I hope my old dealership still has the run flat removal tool. Somewhere between 150-170 lbs I think. |
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Originally Posted By wookie1562: Great showing, looks like a fun parade. The first time I rode an MRAP after years of HMMWV it was like a spaceship. Pneumatic doors, reasonably comfy seats, air conditioning. They like to tip right over into the ditch though. They always seem to find the water. In the middle of Iraq, we had one rollover and it was in a water filled ditch. Every time... |
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Originally Posted By Aguas: I know Ryan Ruck used the official runflat tool and it just bent out of spec and wouldnt accomplish anything. Id try the bottlejack method There's the strap method to, hold the tire to a tree or something sturdy using a strap, turn the RF sideways and pull it out with something motorized, truck, tractor, etc |
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Originally Posted By jake-cutter: Anybody taking their HMMWV out for the 4th? I wanted to but I'm trying to R&D a thing for the roof that likely also won't sell. lol |
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This thread has died lately - has everyone finished their projects and are now enjoying riding around in the fall weather? Here's my M1044 project that I've been working on. I was hoping to have it wrapped up before my son went back to school in August, but that never happened. We've got it painted up and we finished turret installation this weekend. I'm hoping that next weekend we can get the rear hatch fitted, then it's just a matter of buttoning up the little stuff. 
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Originally Posted By MaverickH1: I'll try to post an update later today with pictures. I've been making a lot of things and shipping HMMWV parts out to customers. I'll need to pick up one of your key conversion kits for the M1044 when I get things wrapped up. I'm just not quite there to worry about it yet though..... |
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Back when my M1009 was menacing the streets, it was nasty loud with a Whelen 2x100watt siren air horn. It was also apocalyptic bright with two 450 watt aircraft landing lights on the grille. Got all that uninstalled from the M1009 and installed on the HMMWV. Attached File Attached File Attached File |
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Long time reader, first time posting. This thread was quite helpful in the years leading up to my purchase and knowing what to look for and what to avoid. It started with buying a non-running 2003 M1097A2 that was missing its radiator.  I Bought a SURPLUS HUMVEE at a GovPlanet Auction and Here's What I Found After replacing the injection pump and getting it up and running, I finally panted it.  PAINT Your HUMVEE for Under $125? It's Easier Than You Think! This thing is awesome. |
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Originally Posted By Dr_Fixit: Long time reader, first time posting. This thread was quite helpful in the years leading up to my purchase and knowing what to look for and what to avoid. This thing is awesome. I just finished watching your videos - very well done. Where are ya in AL? I'm also impressed by the rattle-can paintjob. I'm curious to know what it looks like in 3 or 6 months. It seems like with the rattle-cans, you can just tell that's how they were painted, especially as time goes on. It looks terrific now. I've always liked the look of a soft top with a wagon-top. That was actually the first one I purchased back when the trucks were first getting auctioned - good ol' reliable 3L80 in this one.  I'm currently wrapping up this project for what is now going to be an unplanned sale, lol.     I just picked up a project for building out a GMV-Heavy. It needs a lot of work, but all of the really hard to get stuff is there. I can deal with the rest. 
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Originally Posted By Lawman734: I just finished watching your videos - very well done. Where are ya in AL? I'm also impressed by the rattle-can paintjob. I'm curious to know what it looks like in 3 or 6 months. It seems like with the rattle-cans, you can just tell that's how they were painted, especially as time goes on. It looks terrific now. I've always liked the look of a soft top with a wagon-top. That was actually the first one I purchased back when the trucks were first getting auctioned - good ol' reliable 3L80 in this one. Thanks for watching and the comment on the videos. Before I started working on my truck I noticed that while there were lots of "I'm Joe Blow Influencer Guy and I just bought a HMMWV. Watch me break it by trying to drive it 1 million miles without even checking the oil" style of videos, there weren't many that actually dealt with the nitty-gritty of working on one or explaining things in detail. I'm in northern AL, not too far from TN. The paint went on really well. I was worried after reading the number of people who had tried the Rapco spray cans and wound up with spattered paint and only being able to use half the can before the nozzles and tips gummed up...hence the sawzall paint shaker and doing it on a warmer day to get the paint flowing. With the truck being kept indoors, I hope that helps the paint job last longer. Before I painted it I had gone back and forth on if I wanted to chase down an actual hard top, make a H1 style wagon hard top, or just go with the soft-top that came with it from GovPlanet and replace the cargo cover. Once I had the cargo cover in place it gave me the flashback of seeing HMMWV's for the first time rolling across the desert in 1991 when I was a kid, which was also when I decided that some day I was going to own one. The comment I made to my friends was "This thing looks like it is ready to liberate Kuwait." That's a sweet looking GMV project. |
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Originally Posted By Dr_Fixit: Thanks for watching and the comment on the videos. Before I started working on my truck I noticed that while there were lots of "I'm Joe Blow Influencer Guy and I just bought a HMMWV. Watch me break it by trying to drive it 1 million miles without even checking the oil" style of videos, there weren't many that actually dealt with the nitty-gritty of working on one or explaining things in detail. I'm in northern AL, not too far from TN. The paint went on really well. I was worried after reading the number of people who had tried the Rapco spray cans and wound up with spattered paint and only being able to use half the can before the nozzles and tips gummed up...hence the sawzall paint shaker and doing it on a warmer day to get the paint flowing. With the truck being kept indoors, I hope that helps the paint job last longer. Before I painted it I had gone back and forth on if I wanted to chase down an actual hard top, make a H1 style wagon hard top, or just go with the soft-top that came with it from GovPlanet and replace the cargo cover. Once I had the cargo cover in place it gave me the flashback of seeing HMMWV's for the first time rolling across the desert in 1991 when I was a kid, which was also when I decided that some day I was going to own one. The comment I made to my friends was "This thing looks like it is ready to liberate Kuwait." That's a sweet looking GMV project. You in Huntsville? My son is a rocket scientist (ok aerospace engineer  ) and we visit him a couple times a month, sometimes I roll into town with my H1.there are a couple people making alum tops for H1, but there really pricey, sometimes a wagon owner will convert his truck to a OT and he'll list the top/barn doors, etc on the HML or ebay, those are pricey as well. |
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Finally got the GMV home. Overall, it's in terrific shape but there are a few obvious things that need to be addressed. - The glow plugs and likely the start box needs to be replaced - I get a flashing wait light and plenty of smoke when starting up. The smoke goes away after 3-5 seconds once started. - The air compressor starts and runs for 2-3 seconds and then shuts off. Once started, the truck runs good with no funny sounds and accelerates/shifts great when I took it for a ride up the road. The fuel tank transfer works like it's supposed to, the AC blows ice cold. I've got most everything to finish the truck out, to include the armor and doors but will need to try and track down one of the rear enclosure doors. They also removed the drop-down hatch from the cab into the enclosure and I'm sure that'll be even harder to find, but most of the trucks have those removed anyway.   
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Originally Posted By GUNDSLINGER: What did the use the GMVs for? They seem to bring big money at the auctions. The GMV's are SOCOM specific vehicles and there were very few of them in the grand scheme of things. Combine scarcity plus cool-guy factor and the prices are notably higher. |
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I've been doing a lot of making parts and trying to keep the business afloat. I finally took a chunk of time to work on the truck. First up was trying to revitalize the 1045 Tow Missile roof (I think). It was painted white over the original CARC and left upside down near the ocean. The rust on it was pretty rough. I had to grind spot welds to separate panels to make sure there was no rust between them where the metal had separated. Just removing the paint on some areas caused holes to open up that needed to be patched.   Some areas had to be cut out completely and welded back in.   I also had to find a way to secure the roof to the A-pillar since I wanted no part of welding or bolting on new platforms. I ended up just deciding to use the riv nuts that were in place on the windshield already with some rubber spacers to give it some roof to flex. I made the following brackets to mount to the A-pillar and some winged nuts to essentially slide into the circular holes on the bottom of the roof to hold it down. This was stronger than a helmet top mounting system, for example. So I felt comfortable with it.  This is some of the hardware and rubber components that were used on the A pillar and the C-pillar I had to make.  At the same time I finished a rack system for a customer that missed seeing the HMMWV, so I loaded the rack onto the HMMWV for a delivery.  Then I made latch seatbelt kits to strap in our car seats and surprised the kids by picking them up in the HMMWV for the first time. We parked on our Lion King "pride rock" in our front yard only to have the lift pump fail at exactly that moment. Fixing the lift pump also made the fuel pressure strong enough to show a pinhole in the return fuel line off the fuel filter... which just blows me away how problems can get hidden.   I mounted a remote control spotlight to the top that the kids LOVE to mess around with. I plan on mounting some 24v IR lighting on it so I can utilize NV at longer distances for... no real reason other than it'd be cool. I'll probably buy some of the Ibis-Tek light bars and pull the IR lights out of them for that purpose.  Now messing with the angle of the windshield seems to have made it so the electrical connections aren't happening at the base of the windshield for the operation of the windshield wipers. So another thing to fix. |
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Originally Posted By fadedsun: This thread is making me want to kickstart my hmmwv project again. Then you could join jake and ryan and I in the coveted “humvee chat” which is pretty just us bitching about politics and the weather and maybe once a week someone mentions something humvee related |
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No pics to get any attention, but I did a couple of what I consider to be essential mods this weekend to the GMV. - I installed a supplemental ground harness. I used the Black Dog harness, which is a-ok but damn they make some of their leads really long, so I cut some back to minimize all the wire. - I removed the goofy electronic heater valve (of course it was already in-op) and installed a ball valve in its place. When it's hot out, I'll keep it closed so the AC works and open it up (such as this time of year) when I want to be able to use the heater. Fortunately for me, the front and rear AC's blow ice cold. Next tasks: I'm gonna draw up the left penalty box door in CAD, by mirroring the right one and see about getting one made. I can do the assembly/welding, but I'll need someone with a CNC plasma table to make all of the cutouts. Apparently finding a real door is near impossible. I'll also be making the drop-down door from the cabin to the penalty box. I've got some pretty good/detailed pics to work with. Making fake dyneema isn't terribly hard - I've got all the dimensions, etc. so it's just a matter of finding the time. |
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Originally Posted By Aguas: Then you could join jake and ryan and I in the coveted “humvee chat” which is pretty just us bitching about politics and the weather and maybe once a week someone mentions something humvee related I'm pretty sure I'm already in that hmmwv chat if it's the one on Telegram
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I guess I'll post a recent misadventure in case anyone runs into the same problem. I have heard of other having this issue on facebuk so it's not entirely uncommon. I was out on the freeway running about 65MPH during a steady PNW rain, and at a certain choke-point the traffic slowed to about 25MPH. So now I'm creeping long in traffic going between 20-25MPH when suddenly all the gauges died and the wipers stopped on the left side of the windshield. Of course this happened 100 yards past the last exit for another 15 miles... Up under the dash I could hear a regular clicking from an automatic circuit breaker trying to reset, finding a dead short, and tripping off again. This was a constant rhythmical clicking with the gauges bouncing due to the power - depower cycle. What I didn't know, due to the slow speed I was traveling, was the transmission was in limp-mode. As the traffic picked up speed past the choke-point, I realized the limp-mode when the RPM was close to max and traffic was angrily passing me on the left. Finally making it to the exit so I could assess things, I texted a HMMWV expert friend. He told me some of the common short-circuit points to look at, but everything on my truck looked great. I considered trying to back-road my way home in 2nd gear, but with the auto-c/b popping I decided not to risk it and called the tow. Attached File The next morning I tried to start it and as soon as the switch was turned for the GPs the circuit breaker started popping again. I started the basic troubleshooting - what was different about that trip from any other time I'd driven it? Long period of high speed, but that shouldn't cause an electrical short. Wipers running for 20 mins straight; that was different. I'd only ever run them for maybe three minutes before I either didn't need them anymore or I'd gotten to my destination. I pulled the plug out from the bottom of the wiper switch and tried to start the truck- GPs cycled and it fired right up (thankful all that electrical drama didn't kill the smart-box). Even though the switch was in the off position, the blades were not parked so it was still getting power and finding a direct path to ground. Had I thought of pulling the plug on the wipers before calling the tow truck I could have saved myself $480... 
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A new wiper motor can be very expensive, and I was gifted another one that had the threaded stud snapped off. Attached File It's supposed to look like this: Attached File I don't weld, wish I did but I don't. So I ground the stud area flat, drilled as straight a hole as I could, as deep as I dared, and tapped it the same as the stud threads. Then I epoxied a bolt into the hole. Attached File Then I just cut the head off the bolt and tried the original nut - perfect fit. Attached File Reinstall on the truck and so far it's holding up fine. There's not much load on the stud so I suspect it'll last as long as a proper repair. I did pick up a spare wiper motor from Beltfed just in case. |
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Originally Posted By MaverickH1: Not that I've noticed. Was finally putting the radiator in my truck. And the radiator support and retainercallas for a 3/8-16x 1inch hexagon screw. That shit isn't long enough to bite the threads through the grommet. Had to hunt down a 1 and 1/2 inch. |
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