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I tried the spray lube and working it back and forth, is it worth doing this more, i.e sit out there for an hour, first?

Interesting. Maybe just go out there for an hour and shift and shift and shift and shift and it might go away on its own? Would actually driving it (at slow speed, on private property) around a bunch make any difference as opposed to firing her up and shifting a couple dozen times?

These trucks don't enjoy sitting well at all. They love to just RUN. It's also a well-documented fact that they run better when in close proximity to military installations or once they know they're in good hands. I know a well-documented case of an M925A2 that was rescued from certain death...

Started the process of acquiring one, if that counts?

I've read so many posts like this other than even my own here. He is actually helping me with a couple other things as we speak. Great, top-notch guy.

Working on a truck for someone else, although I did just actually sort of score my own: Loud air leak in an M813. Only happens in neutral and forward, not reverse. Upon pulling the trans doghouse in the cab, there is what appears to be a female threaded plug fitting with nothing there. I...

That moment when you get a sitting MV running cannot be paralleled.

Funny that I should come across this thread a couple years later, that I started, while searching for M809 related things, while working on none other than an M813. I've been learning to drive stick shift in 813s...how ironic!

FYI- non-classified sale posts are frowned upon...just FYI...

BeardedWarrior, what area of AK are you working out of?

Video or it didn't happen! I'd like to get an M1070 myself, literally for reasons like this!

I cannot tell you how many times John/98G has helped me. Yesterday his texting pointers and items to check resulted in me making smoke and noise on an M813A1 dump conversion (not mine, a friend's I volunteered to work on) that had been sitting. Not only that, he even texted me later in the...

That's my thoughts as well. I want some 5 ton axles for another idea I have but I'd have kind of a hard time chopping a 5 ton. Just to prove a point myself I got scrap yard quotes for a 923 (not that I'd ever do it obviously) and at $1300 I'm keeping one whole for sure.

That's pretty darn cool you know the guy who drove it over there. I've gotten to talk to someone (Via Facebook) who worked on building M939A2s.

Literally, the guy who drove THAT actual truck? Wow...the small world stories in the SS world never end.

One thing I would have to say I appreciate about the way SS is set up is the redundancy of the Facebook group for situations like the above; updates on when the site would be back online were posted there and updated as they transpired. It also provides another way of reaching out to members...

Interesting. I feel like I envision some situations where the G177s wouldn't be tall enough to overcome whatever obstacle? (Rock, stump, disabled Prius)? Granted, I realize that's a completely independent or at least quasi-independent variable...

Anyone have any photos of such a setup?

I still learn new things about these trucks every day. So it's from the same makers as the ever-popular Tyvek, found in everthing from structural vapor barriers to mailing envelopes to HazMat suits? I NEVER knew that...

In this scenario you're describing, would that limit off-road performance? It really never ceases to amaze me how far these trucks will flex off-road.