Wow that is great Chris the engine now has hopes of pulling the truck it has been married to for years around again. I am sure the little guy is watching dad work on this one just hope he stays warm while dad is turning wrenches in the winter air.
God bless,
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Thankfully, the starter wiring was intact. That will save me a lot of time. The alternator wiring was hacked off though along with the 8-wire connector that powers the front clip. Seriously, how hard is it to undo a connector?
The one pic shows Chad's service truck. He cam prepared with a compressor, a genset, and a torpedo heater if it got really cold!
The M548 belongs to a friend of John's. It's for sale $20k OBO. It's a sweet runner.
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1985 AMG M998 HMMWV, under the knife
1992 BMY M925A2 - TRADED!!
1991 BMY M923A2, SOLD
Does your tranny still have the PTO attached on the side. If so do you have any pictures of it so I could see how some of the lines and cables are attached.
The alternator wiring was hacked off though along with the 8-wire connector that powers the front clip. Seriously, how hard is it to undo a connector?
Thats how a lot of stuff gets demilled. Some of the tanks/halftracks we've restored it looks like all they did was unhooked the hard connections (power pack mounts/drivetrain), hooked up a crane to lift things out and just started pulling until whatever it was came free. Kind of a crappy way of doing it, but they don't care as its not theirs to deal with later.
Does your tranny still have the PTO attached on the side. If so do you have any pictures of it so I could see how some of the lines and cables are attached.
I can get some pics of it, but it will be after Thanksgiving before I am down there again.
BTW, S&S Parts aka New Star can get NOS radiators. They list them in their catalog as: 11669165 S-13860 RADIATOR, 5 TON M809, AUTO
which is the right PN even though it says M809. There is a 6-8 wk lag time, but hey, it's brand new. I am still planning repairing one though.
Dittle, yeah, I understand. The truck was residue, but dang The headlight connector was cut off too! Looks like Chad will be doing a LOT of soldering and heat-shrinking!
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Chris Stansbury, founder of Chris' CUCV Homepage in 1998 and Steel Soldiers in 1999.
1985 AMG M998 HMMWV, under the knife
1992 BMY M925A2 - TRADED!!
1991 BMY M923A2, SOLD
Took awhile but finally tracked down the source of new radiators. I spoke with the sales engineer Rick Hite at Indiana Heat Trandfer Co. who bought out McCord Heat Transfer Co. from Cummins. They are currently filling orders for the Military (they also provide the radiators for the Humves) and could sell new radiators for the M939A2 trucks for $702.80. Lead time would be 8 weeks though but he said that is just a standard time and they would most likely just take one off the line to fill a individual order. Their part number for the radiator is PN# 11235 in case anyone wants to know for future reference. He said (as Chris stated before) that the shrouds are super rare and hard to find.
Here's my little video from Sunday. I wish I could have taped it when it started on starting fluid, but no dice. Hopefully the next video will have it running on diesel.
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Chris Stansbury, founder of Chris' CUCV Homepage in 1998 and Steel Soldiers in 1999.
1985 AMG M998 HMMWV, under the knife
1992 BMY M925A2 - TRADED!!
1991 BMY M923A2, SOLD
Man, I can't believe that the starter that I sent you actually worked! Just kidding.
Funny The ground lug was a little on the loose side so it didn't work the first time I hooked it up. LOL! I fiddled with it a little and it cranked. I am going to drop it by the starter shop to let them go through it just in case. It's fun to wrestle it into place, huh? FYI, my spacer was still in place. It was stuck to the block with the gasket.
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Chris Stansbury, founder of Chris' CUCV Homepage in 1998 and Steel Soldiers in 1999.
1985 AMG M998 HMMWV, under the knife
1992 BMY M925A2 - TRADED!!
1991 BMY M923A2, SOLD
The headlight connector was cut off too! Looks like Chad will be doing a LOT of soldering and heat-shrinking!
