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I have a farmer friend who has some property where we've set up a shooting range. Occasionally he and other friends will get their 4x4 pickups stuck in the deep gullies that form after rains. I've always been able to get them out using the HMMWV using BTM. But I've thought about WWII fighter...

Control units are available on the auction site whose name must not be spoken. The ones I've seen on HMMWVs are 12000s, but with the military's COTS program it could be something else. It's a little difficult to identify on the truck.

I saw a set a week or two ago for ~$600... WTF? Is it made out of unobtainium and plated with gold? It's a five-foot section of corrugated aluminum, for Pete's sake. Supply and demand I guess, but I'm not paying those prices.

Cut down a two-man cargo divider (which I picked up really cheap), made my own seal out of a section of aluminum angle, repainted and applied weather stripping. I'm planning to get it into the truck later today (I hope)

Golf cart? Just drive your HMMWV onto the green!

It will depend on what your truck was in its former life. My truck had clearly been a two-man, four-man, and ambulance in its past. The loops should be easy to see if they're there.

Installed the remote controlled spotlight I got off ebay. Mounted in an antenna-mount box, but that's what I had available. Here's an animated gif of it in action Controlled by an inop turret joystick--I replaced the guts with an arcade control joystick.

I just mounted mine on the face of the AL bumper, near the outside edge. Even with the tailgate down, it's still clear and easy enough to stand on. Plus, you can get it lower down than you could on the side because of the angle at the bottom of the outside edge. My knees aren't what they used to...

I agree with Gralmk. The owning unit is likely 950th Maint, which matches the hood number. The numbers on the left follow a specific TB (43-0209) and show the owning unit. In this case, 63rd RSC of the 950th Maint. The numbers on the right are left to the discretion of the unit commander...

I solved my battery problem (with Walmart batteries no less) by installing a battery balancer and running a 24v charger through the NATO slave plug. I plug the truck in overnight about once a week when it's not being regularly driven and I haven't had a problem since I switched to this...

I've had battery problems with mine that I eventually solved with a battery balancer and 24v trickle charger. The charger is wired to a NATO slave plug so it's easy to throw on the truck if it's going to sit for an extended period of time, and the battery balancer allows the charger to charge...

Depending on price, I'd be interested in all green

If this was an Army truck, the number on the left is the owning unit and the number on the right is a unit-specific marking. The marking on the left means possibly this truck is from the 36th Infantry Division (a Texas NG unit) though looking through their TO&E I don't see a sub-unit that's...

I'm not that master of all things HMMWV, but as far as I know, there is no "easy" way to get power like a cigarette lighter or other dedicated, fuse-protected source like you might find in a passenger car. You either have to tap off an existing wire in the cabin--like thes one that feeds the...

To definitively answer the question, you need to look at the International Traffic in Arms Regulation (ITAR) and see if the truck falls under its provisions. The problem is, from my understanding the ITAR is a vast, steaming pile of bureaucratic gobbledygook and wading through it is a nightmare...

Have you checked that your military plug works? A few days back I came across something that claimed to do this... I think on fleabay. You plugged into your military plug and then it had a four-pin connector on the other end to run civilian trailer lights. As I recall, it claimed to convert 24v...

Yeah, in the PGW a lot of our trucks weren't ever painted tan. They were green when they went on the planes, green when we landed, green during the drive to Iraq, and green when we shipped back stateside. Funny thing is before we left Bragg we were issued the chocolate chip camo uniforms that we...

Yep. Fortunately I'm taking an auto-restoration paint class this semester, so I have a high-end, full-face respirator.

I still have the cheap Walmart batteries in mine and need to replace them at some point. I thought about doing it when one went bad last winter, but it was still under warranty and a free battery was better than buying one. My balancer seems to keep them balanced and as long as I plug into my...

Yesterday I started a project that I've meant to do since I bought the truck: repainting the brush guard. It was black and the paint was pretty bad, with rust and a good number of layers of paint that were flaking. So I dragged out my rotary sanding tool and started to sand. There were at...