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  1. alabamafrog

    8 weeks and still no insurance!

    I have been trying to get liability insurance for my new 5 ton M925 for over 8 weeks now. Apparently no insurance agent in the Huntsville area has any experience with military vehicles. Most just say no they can't do it immediately, the few that say they can do it mess with me for a few weeks...
  2. alabamafrog

    Finally got time to work on my new M925 today

    I spent the day working on my new M925 and found even more problems; I install 2 new 1,000 cca batteries and when I tried to hook up the last wire it arced bad. Noticed a clicking noise and traced it to what appears to be an automatic reset overload device mounted on the engine side of the...
  3. alabamafrog

    My 925 5-ton 6x6 will not shift into high range

    I finally bought some batteries for my new to me M925 cargo truck. However, now I need to figure out how to get it to shift into high range. When I picked it up at DRMO it would only drive in low range. The batteries were disconnected and DRMO jumped it off and screwed in the manual fuel valve...
  4. alabamafrog

    Will car batteries work?

    So, all 4 batteries appear to be bad in both my new 5ton trucks and the new 31' man lift came without batteries. Looks like I got to buy 8-12v batteries and 6-6v batteries next week. So what is the smallest (least expensive) battery that will reliably crank the big diesels? Of course I am in the...
  5. alabamafrog

    My axle fell off on the way home!

    Well I joined the ranks of MV owners this week with my purchase of 2 trucks and 3 trailers. However on the way home with the new 5 ton flat bed I had several bad problems. The most notable are it is stuck in low range, will not go over 20 mph, when the shifter is shoved very hard it will go down...
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