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This weekend was a trip up and around the Olympic Peninsula. Camped out, hit Rialto Beach, and had a good time. Nothing note worthy about the truck other than I noticed the left turn/brake wire is not functioning so I'll have to run that down with a quickness. I know it's not the light cluster...

The extinguisher was missing from my LMTV, and the bracket was broken (part of the hinged deal was missing). I am sure any extinguisher would do, but I wanted it to be original for whatever reason, so I tracked it down. The bracket is an Amerex 861H. I don't know what exact extinguisher the...

Just returned from a memorable 5-day, 1200 mile camping adventure w/ the LMTV. It did great - zero flat tires! Visited Hole-In-The-Ground, Derrick Cave, Ft. Rock, Crack-In-The-Ground, Green Mtn and made significant off-pavement miles. The heat was really something - 106 is the highest I saw -...

So I was mounting up another 395/85R20 for my LMTV, and I was doing it alone. The bead was stuck pretty good and I don't own a bead breaker. Yes, there are lots of tricks - sledges, tire irons, soap and water, swearing. Well this is what I came up with. This is a cheater method and if you have a...

So on a certain popular auction site right now there's an auction up for a FMTV style door handle. It looks just like mine - and like everyone else I need one - except the handle part is chrome. I am thinking there is no way the gov't ever ordered chrome door handles on a tactical truck, whether...

Anyone know the size for a LMTV lug nut? and bonus points the nuts that hold the wheel together? I've got to buy some sockets and my tuck is not here. Got my 2nd flat and had to leave it up in the mtns. I think it's time to get tires that were made later than 2004...

So by now we all already know that the Army and some other branches mandate their guys wear helmets / cvcs when driving tactical vehicles. And many of us will be familiar with the controversy over exactly how stupid it is to require a guy to wear kevlar to move a hmmwv six feet in the motorpool...

Installed a Harris 30-500mhz antenna, the mount, and the intercom boxes for my VIC-3 in the LMTV. I went back and forth on the location of the intercom boxes; I thought about putting them up on the dash, but I felt that space was kind of precious and I thought the cables might get annoying. I...

Traveled across the southern part of the Olympic mountains this weekend, did some camping and shooting. Would have been reeeeaaal nice if I had gotten my VIC-3 cables made by this trip, we had to keep shouting at one another. Should get them sorted out this week or next though. Come to think of...

Working on the (other) LMTV Well last night I took the LMTV out to the grocery store (ha!) and noticed in the parking lot that it was spraying a fluid on the inside pax side wheel well. I thought it was hydro or maybe a oil leak - oil level was good, coolant was good, so I drove it home. When I...

Since I got my LMTV I've wanted the proper spare tire restraint net. I'd wanted to make one, but I could never find good information about it online. On a certain popular auction site I've seen things for sale as FMTV/LMTV tire straps which are very much not the right thing. Well as luck would...

So on my LMTV if the lighting is all off (I have the digital keypad even though it is an A0) my Allison panel is bright and readable. If I turn on any of the lights, including just the stoplight configuration, the Allison dims out what I presume is "night" mode. This is not the end of the world...

My neighbor's son decided he wanted to go to his Sr. Prom in the LMTV. Who was I to say no? https://www.flickr.com/photos/adventioneering/27446119296/in/dateposted-public/ https://vimeo.com/169439203

I won the M103A3 at JBLM this afternoon. http://www.govplanet.com/for-sale/Trailers-Chassis-1988-Kasel-M105A2-S%2FA-Trailer-Chassis-Washington/728798?h=5000%2Csm|0%2Cpstart|0%2Csort|d+asc&rr=0.125&hitprm=pstart%3D0,sm%3D0&pnLink=yes# I plan to use it for the base of an antenna mast trailer...

Just like the title says. Did 854 miles this weekend with some friends. No trouble with the truck at all. We took the scenic route out from the Seattle area over HWY-20 over Rainy Pass and then out east past Colville. Camped two nights in different spots. We visited the Crawford State Park and...

So I've got a class 3 leak on my hydro manifold (the panel with the valves for cab tilt/etc) and a pile of parker o-rings. I need to get access to the cassettes to replace the o-rings on the leaky valve, but, they appear to be on the left-side of the manifold (facing the rear of the truck), so...

Figured I'd round up a couple of friends and go camping for my birthday. A mile in, scraped a rock and all the air made a break for freedom out of my front pax side tire. My first thought is I had ripped out an air hose - to my chagrin because I have a set of armor rings sitting at the shop -...

One of the early photo spy satellite programs, Corona, resulted in the construction of a (more or less) 16×16 mile grid of cement crosses. I expect few people know the real technical details but the popular story is that the satellites used the crosses in order to focus and orient their...

Took the LMTV up to Crown King to get some BBQ. Well, until they were out of BBQ anyways. Kind of a neat area. Sort of like a bunch of adults channeled their inner 13 year-old and built forts in the woods. Truck ran great. https://www.flickr.com/photos/adventioneering/albums/72157664769535229