Reprinted / search courtesy of CAMO
More bullets and beans will fix it right up or moonshine.
My civilian, highway queen, with a real world, load bearing, tire saving fix...
This might not be what one want to think about...And tires are BIG BUCKS. Old trucks and old parts need a little refresh. May get away on the cheap, but I ran out of bailing wire fixes. Toe and caster are not friendly fixes on the HumV, IMO. AND it seem to be little talk about it. Run it like I bought it ???
One of the better maintenance and or upgrade to do before going after the "bling bling" stuff. All the "hangie down stuff" needs a good looking at before starting. Little room for parts that wiggle and jiggle lol. While they look heavy duty, military tough, they are in consent loading, bumping and a banging... that's HumV and my kidneys.
Hobby talk here, it's a DYI project. The minute you show up at a shop (paint, electrical, mechanical, even a oil change in your green machine it is like "OH HMMWV' must have big bucks. Well yes and mostly NO.
Story time... I changed all... ALL of anything that hangs from the frame. Control arms, springs, shocks, bushings, tie & radius rods, ball joints, etc. including 150 bucks in new bolts, nuts & washers.
When it came time to do the alignment, which was WAY wack in the beginning... I read the book a couple of times. No fancy tools. tape measure, a long and short piece of square tubing, small protractor, level and my trusty creeper, some string off the kids kite.
Working it all out, it's all shims and patience. Jack it up, pull it apart, take some out, put it back together, let it down, drive it around, measure and do it again with patience. The TM details how much and which shims adjust what, but for a first timer, I had to get the feel of it all. After the forth time camber, caster, toes in or out were in tolerance with extra parts "Uh-o" a stack of extra shims!
The reward/s are worth the experience. After all it is a hobby so it should be fun, right? The difference in rolling / coasting / off the line are day and night. Tire wear right down the center, even Steven, if that's a tire thing. Wobble, bobble, shake & shimmy NONE.
I don't see how a shop could or even would touch one on the cheap, so you got a HUMMWV $$$$
This was March 2019. Today's labor and parts... Pull up a chair or pull out a loan. LOL
Mine came with a life time guaranteed too, CAMO
Snap shots in no particular order>
the old stuff to scrap yard
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