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...with ECO Hubs should be more than capable for our planned uses. I wouldn't use ECO Hubs for deep water rescue. Though I'll cross a 30" river, once we check river bottom. Off road fire tender with a 700 gallon tank? Probably, not. But for a habitat at half the weightcapacity, all day long–
It's hard to argue that the automatic's inefficiency is insignificant, while also arguing that the hub heat is very significant. The automatic transmission generates way more heat than the hubs (or a manual transmission), so much that it has its own cooling system. Do AMTs have cooling...
Is the mog an automatic?
Remember this truck was not built for a commercial application. It was built to meet a MILSPEC. In the land of milspec, often serious compromises are acceptable, and often not even looked for/tested… A prime example of this on this same platform, is the grossly...
...speed
- Safer at higher speeds as stock tires are only rated to 68 mph
Cons:
Less clearance
- 2.6" less ground clearance
Less weightcapacity
- 6395 vs 10200
The only issue I have any concerns about is the weightcapacity of the smaller tires. I doubt I would ever utilize the tires...
The Meritor ring gear is 11.70" in diameter.
For a comparison - Meritor rates our axles at about 14,700 lbs for the front, and 15,000 lbs for the rear. About 7.5 ton's per axle. For the non-armored trucks in civilian ownership, most will be running in the range of 10,000 to 13,000 per axle...
Yea most never really study the whole winching deal your only going to get that top poundage line pull till you have all the line off the drum but the last layer so you get all the line out and then see where you can reach with other blocks and lines and chokers to come meet the winch cable and...
Sense of security is a good point.
I use my Sherpa to pull others out, and trees out of the way...I have not had to *winch self recover yet—-getting a 6x6 with lockers stuck is a bit self inflicted .. ie misjudged the terrain IMO.
I carry plenty of extra length line and snatch blocks. Beware of...
I was thinking about relocating the tire to the top and building a rack for overhead stuff. Think this would add about 800#ish.... I wonder would this strain anything?
Cant hurt to have additional capacity both in fluid and cooling......
That said - these trucks were meant for 130 degrees in the Iraqi desert fully loaded pulling their M1082 trailer or gen-set, running their AC full blast with PVT Snuffy buried to the floor mat on the accelerator.
If you...
I think the empty cab is around 1600#, so another 600 is +37%? Where that weight is located will make a large difference in lift requirements
If you are keeping tire crane: The tire lift is about a 50% increase in pressure(2100psi) over the cab lift but still well under the pump capacity and...
granted..... if one is not in the mood to wait for folk to reply...... they can always search in here...... you would be surprised how many times a similar question has been asked and answered.
will admit though.... searching is a science..... but its a learnable science with trial/error and...
The pintle on my truck is stamped 100,000 lbs.
Assuming you have working trailer brakes - the truck is designed such that any of the FMTV models is supposed to be able to flat tow any of the other FMTV models. Which puts the capacity way above 12k lbs. For flat towing with trailer brakes that...
I'm just going off the GVW listed on the passenger door data plate. Not sure on my curb weight but the weight listed on the AAR van box is "Tare Wt 3,360", "Gross Wt 8,360", and "Net Wt 5,000"
I'm sure the A1R truck weighs more than the A0 trucks by a fair bit. The high pinion rear axle, the...
...the M1079 rear leaf springs. I might be OK with the stock M1078 springs. After all, I do not plan to load the enclosure to the normal weightcapacity. The cargo bed alone weighed 1940 lbs, and the empty enclosure supposedly weighs 3360 lbs. That's a net difference of 1420 lbs, but I took the...
Then that's not really a change, right? It's a 10k capacity truck, then you take the 3k bed off now giving you a 13k capacity truck, and stick a 15k howitzer on... you're only 2k over capacity for the M1083 cargo variant. You'd have to figure out which FMTV variant weighs the most in operation...
The 6TL’s I have are 120AH(says it right on the lable).. AH capacity is only additive in parallel, just like voltage is only additive in series, so the 4 battery bank on the LMTV is 240AH... a pair in series would be 120AH...
The limiting factor for charging a battery, is the same as for...
A batteries current output capacity is determined by it’s ability to convert chemical to electrical energy. More plate surface area = more current capacity/CCA
Absorbed Glass Mat batteries accomplish the chemical to electrical transfer more efficiently than plain plates so for a given size...