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Imperial Entanglements (This one will be slightly less interesting for you Steel Soldiers, as most of you will already know all of this stuff, but I thought I would re-post it anyways, as a completionist... Thanks for bearing with me!)...

Let there be light! Now that the interior of the van body was starting to take shape, it was time to figure out how the **** the thing was wired. I knew the batteries were good, because I had already started the beast up on more than one occasion, and had that memorable inaugural drive down to...

New Floor, and a Bunk Bed! Greetings and Salutations loyal citizens of the Empire! Last time I left us at a freshly painted interior to the koffer (van body), and ready to put in the linoleum. So, that's exactly where I will pick up once more. However first I needed to attend to one small...

@Danger Ranger: LOL! Awesome, no I did not know that, although in retrospect it should have been patently obvious! Thanks for the clarification. Now I am going to have to come up with a new name and acronym for him! Much appreciated. *grin* Will try to get another post out tonight...

Time for some paint! Indigo Sol (left) and Mari-Lu (right) Greetings once more! Well, with the rust in the van body (which the German speaking overlanders call a 'koffer' unless I am mistaken) and getting the new floor in, I figured it was high time for some new paint. I have a Benjamin-Moore...

No evidence of that, thank god. The vehicle lived out at Nellis Airforce Base for most of its life, so it should have been fairly dry out there. Crawling under the vehicle, there is very little signs of rust, etc. Mostly layers upon layers of old paint and dust. I would guess that moisture...

(Second blog post, reposted here. Formatting may be a little odd, since its a copy and paste job, but it should work, more or less... *grin*) _______________________________________________________________ So, where to begin working on a 7-1/2 ton forty-seven year old military truck you may...

(repost of my initial blog post, for those that don't want to go offsite. Will try to do this with the b log posts as I write them...) _______________________________________________________________ Hello everyone! First off, let me welcome you to the Blog. I am relatively new to blogging...

Hello all, I am relatively new to Steel Soldiers, and have only a month or so ago bought my first MV, an old 1965 M109A3 that lived out on Nellis Airforce Base all of its life. I am in the process of restoring it, and converting it into an offroad RV for my family. I plan on dragging their...

Okay, here are some quick pix snapped off this morning of the outside of the vehicle. Overall she is in pretty good shape I would say. Had the kids crawling all over it talking about where their bunk beds will go. That seemed to endear the wife, so that certainly helped. *grin* My first...

Hello all, Earlier today the fine folks at Hamner Towing pulled up in front of my house laden down with my new (to me) M109A3! She had lived out at Nelis AFB for all of her life, and is settling in at her new home in Santa Cruz, CA. Barely fits in my driveway (hangs onto the sidewalk a bit)...

lol! I would kill to have all three of those - and a driveway big enough to fit them all! I'm going to try and get an air compressor off of Craigslist, as the new 20 to 30 gallon ones are pretty dang expensive. With air I can grind, sand, and paint the rig as well, which is fairly attractive...

Awesome, great replies! So, it sounds like if I get an air compressor my life would be nice, impact wrench is definitely the way to go (especially if you want to swap the hubs and put on super singles, like I want to), and I should make sure I get a 6 point socket set. Don't know what a geared...

Hello all, I am currently bidding on an M109A3 I hope to win in the next few days. In the meantime, I am trying to prepare my tool collection to work on her. I have your average collection of tools a guy in his 30s who is not a mechanic might collect over the years. I worked on my own...

Yeah - figured that out after about four or five more posts. Total n00b mistake, sry. Now that I have started reading the service manuals I am (starting) to get clue enabled. Slowly, but surely...

@1 Patriot-of-Many: I am using your list of 21 things (plus a tow bar, if I can find one in time) as the base template for my (potential) recovery. Thank you very much for the list, and having thought through several of the potential troubles. I managed to think of a couple of them ahead of...

Hello all, I'm hoping to win a bid on a M109A3 in a couple of weeks. I have started compiling a list of what I will need to bring with me, in order to be prepared. This thread was extremely helpful, thank you! About 600 miles for my (potential) recovery, so I want to have everything I will...

Awesome, well met everyone! Just finished reading through the guidelines for submitting EUCs for winning bids using GL, and starting to get excited! Looks like even if I win a bid on a M109A3, I will have to go through up to two more months of checks before I can pick the thing up! Definitely...

Hehe, working on it FireFireFire90! Was just digging through the various threads on this (awesome!) forum looking into whether or not I will need to get a Class B CDL, as well as any issues smogging the vehicle. From what I can tell, it looks like if you convert an M109A3 to be an RV (as I...

Just a quick clarification - is it true that it is peoples experience that M109A3s which have been converted (or are in the process of being converted) into RVs don't suffer from the need for a Class B license? I ask this because I am trying to be clear on the laws before I purchase. This...