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The group buy will not be the end of the supply. I'm having more than the initial sets made to cover eventualities and it will be possible to make more runs of these. They do have a shelf life so anyone with "New Old Stock" needs to be questioned on exactly how "old" they are. Their usable...

Link to group buy: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/threads/cab-mount-group-buy-new-oem-fmtv-lmtv-m1078-m1079-etc.210025/

Well - here's the deal. I'm going to have 100 of each piece made. The cost is going to be $30 each for the larger mounts, and $24 each for the thinner mounts. This includes the tooling cost, etc. Estimate is about 6 weeks lead time. I'll start a new post for anyone that wants some.

Mine were also "gone" - especially the rear cab mount which just swiveled around. Previous owner swapped in a single of the thick mount but nothing else. I swapped in all the correct pieces - there's quite a few on the A1R cab latch mount. Two of the slim mounts, one of the thicker mounts...

They make their own tooling in-house and can work from drawing or sample. And I assume this probably greatly reduces cost. These guys have been doing this and specializing in molded rubber parts for over 90 years. My guess is they have it figured out and can pass on the savings. These really...

Well I assume he knows basically what he's talking about - again this is not a small operation this is a major rubber parts manufacturer and at one point did manufacture one of the two pieces (the smaller one) - and he made no mention of the tooling wearing out for such "small" production runs...

Spoke with a gentleman from a rubber manufacturing company - he can make them once he has drawings or samples. The gist of the conversation is that it's probably going to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2,000 to create the tooling. And then some minimum order quantity of 100 to 200 pieces...

Well the word from the Hutchinson distributors I talked to is that these part numbers are marked "no bid" and can't be ordered by any distributor because the tooling is owned by whoever had them design the mounts - which is probably Stewart and Stevenson - now BAE Tactical Vehicle Systems. I...

I reached out with some emails and phone calls to both BAE and a distributor for Hutchinson Aerospace to see about purchasing the correct cab mounts. The military pays $12.02 for the big ones, and $10.47 for the skinny ones..... $78 for all of them on my A1R....... We shall see what they...

For our style of rear cab latch you actually will need 4 bottoms - 2 for the rear cab latch, and 1 each for the front cab mounts. The stock bushings indeed have a "use by date" as the material deteriorates over time. IDK why they use this stuff - it may be that the military wants them to be...