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LOGANSTANFORTH · 02-09-2010, 11:55

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Originally Posted by Stalwart

Sounds like a lot of work, I have mostly small armor which gives a new meaning to tight spaces. Still, I wouldn't want to have to change out the engine and trans in my HEMTT, but I'd rather do that than the engine in one of my Stalwarts.

Thanks for your service!

they aint bad (minus the little left and right side working room) as long as you got something that can lift the 4500 pound engine and tranny...

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Originally Posted by srodocker

thanks for the pics!

no problem...

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Originally Posted by KsM715

Its not that they dont get much love here, its that not many here have them or can affoard them. (When I win the lottery I will own an M1070)

I have been looking for a HET or a M984 Wrecker HEMTT

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Originally Posted by srodocker

yea i love to see convoys...mmm a m915 or 920

got'em below...

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Originally Posted by emmado22

Do you see many of the HET trailers that have have the "super singles" kits MWO'ed on them? I havent seen one in real life.

I have never seen or even heard of it...I will ask around about it...I dont have a clue about what tires they would even use...

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Originally Posted by NDT

Tell us about the 915's. Lots of us are picking these up lately. Lonesome715 used to send us pics and ops reports of these in Iraq. We are getting the AM General ones, not the Freightliners. Everything we are hearing is that they are taking a beating and still doing the job, even being 28 years old.

The early model 915's (essentially a RWD light version of a M920) ran a 400 Big Cam Cummins engine like the 920 does, though it uses a mechanical Allison instead of the 16 Speed air over hydraulic manu-matic Caterpillar tranny, not a bad truck though the newer Freightshakers are alot nicer inside and have electronic transmissions (which can be problematic some times)...The newer ones use a Detroit Series 60 rated at 435 HP...Probably one of the best trucks ever built and can really take a beating, though if you run one empty you better expect to take a beating too, any person that drives one of them for a while will NEVER have kidney stones...

This was from the old blown engine...I was not happy...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/P2042724.jpg

This is the truck running after taking the muffler off and floating what oil I could out of it with water...This was not fun either...But boy did she roll some smoke/steam...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/P2052732.jpg

This is a M920 that got a T-case put in it...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/P1182657.jpg

Here is a top view of the 16 speed manu-matic shifter...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/P1192685.jpg

Newer 915 that got an engine swap done a while back...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/PA082240.jpg

Pulling the cab on a HET...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/P2032719.jpg

Another HET with the cab on the ground...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/PA052194.jpg

This is why the military shouldn't work on their stuff sometimes...
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x...T/PC062509.jpg