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If I seemed distracted at FF this year, it was because I was playing phone tag while I arranged the shipping for this little grocery getter.
So after a little bit of heartache it arrived from GA with a grand total of 37 miles on the odometer.
It is an 2005 M-1123 with the MAK up-armor kit installed.
So after a little bit of heartache it arrived from GA with a grand total of 37 miles on the odometer.
It is an 2005 M-1123 with the MAK up-armor kit installed.
Category Photography / All
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File Size 162.1 kB
I know how to drive one :3 I know how to fire from one, how to work on the motor, drive train, how to remove the body panels, change out the armor on the body, remove the seats..... I kind of obsessed over the humvee for a while... That and they are a total pain in the butt to dismount from while wearing a full assault rig >_<
Ahh... Ok. My time working for my rich uncle was quite some time ago. We didn't have armored HMMWV's back then and instead of assault rigs we were still wearing the old 782 gear with flack jackets and the first gen PASG helmets. On the up side we were still rocking the M-60E3's and not that god awful heavy 240G.
Well that means it's a good thing we have our own fuel pump and mechanic on staff. It really shouldn't be too bad on our budget. We don't plan on using this thing as a daily driver, it's going to be sitting there for when we have a high threat situation. I actually had us approved for an MRAP but the boss thought it was too much.
I don't know the vehicle. But a bud of mine was the truck mechanic for a national guard unit. Dual sidesaddle fuel tanks on the trucks. SOP was to fill them up when getting back to the motor pool. But most of the year, they only ever put the fuel in the driver side tank, so the other fuel tank accumulated water, and stuff would grow in that water. So when it came time for their annual training, they would all load up and drive out to wherever they were going. Sure as shit, as soon as the fuel on the driver side tank was used up and they started drawing fuel from the passenger side tank, trucks would start falling out due to fuel filters getting clogged up.
He always scrounged up a whole lot of extra fuel filters for the trip each year, and got so good at swapping the filters that he could do it in only a couple minutes. And he had a guy in the back of his mechanic truck with a setup for backflushing the dirty filters to make them usable again, since he couldn't convince the powers that be that he needed enough filters to replace every one in the fleet multiple times on that annual trip.
Once they used up the stale gunked up fuel in the passenger side tanks, they didn't have any more fuel problems for the rest of their annual training trip.
He always scrounged up a whole lot of extra fuel filters for the trip each year, and got so good at swapping the filters that he could do it in only a couple minutes. And he had a guy in the back of his mechanic truck with a setup for backflushing the dirty filters to make them usable again, since he couldn't convince the powers that be that he needed enough filters to replace every one in the fleet multiple times on that annual trip.
Once they used up the stale gunked up fuel in the passenger side tanks, they didn't have any more fuel problems for the rest of their annual training trip.
Well the HMMWV's are only equipped with a single tank, not dual saddles. Plus our M998 and this 1123 will be receiving a dose of Power Service Plus every time that we refuel them. After all we also have to be concerned with the diesel gelling up during the winter months.
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