Front view of truck.
12/25/99
Left view of truck.
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Right rear view of truck.
12/25/99
Dashboard, driver's side.
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Engine, with 100A alternator. Front of truck is towards the left.
12/25/99
Rear of engine, through access cover in passenger compartment.
12/25/99
Brandon, the guy who rents me hangar space for my 2.5-ton shop van, liked my HMMWV so much that he bought one, too! Like mine, his truck has some problems to be fixed, but I don't think he'll have any more trouble than I had. We think that his glow plug controller is dead, and his fan is stuck on, but his fuel injection pump doesn't seem to have the problems that mine did.
2/3/00
Left side view, with 4-door soft top, cargo area cover and deep-water fording exhaust stack installed. I have not found a fording intake snorkel yet.
2/5/00
Left front view, with 4-door soft top and cargo area cover.
2/5/00
Left rear view, with 4-door soft top and cargo area cover.
2/5/00
Right side view, with 4-door soft top and cargo area cover. If I had the engine air intake snorkel, the intake mushroom cap, visible in front of the right side mirror, would be raised to about the top of the windshield.
2/5/00
A worn-out HMMWV wheel gets a new life as a portable antenna base for an AS-1729 antenna. Later, I painted the plywood part flat black.
4/17/00
Left front view, with antennas and intake snorkel installed.
4/22/00
My truck poses for a picture at Camp San Luis Obispo, at the 2000 Military Radio Collector's Group meeting... right before going to the truck hospital for head gasket surgery.
5/5/00
My truck's friends at the Santa Maria airport throw it a party after it comes out of the truck hospital with its new cylinder heads and gaskets! I couldn't be there for the party, unfortunately, but I'll pick it up next week. My truck is on the left. Photo courtesy of Damon, who belongs to the third truck from the left, if I'm not mistaken.
6/25/00
Here are some pictures of the AN/VRC-47 radio set that I installed in my truck. The large radio on the left is an RT-524A transceiver. The small radio on the right is an R-442A receiver. The lower shelf is for mounting a pair of KY-57 communications security devices (scramblers). I have the mounts and most of the cables for installing those, but I don't have the devices themselves (yet...). I don't yet know if KY-57 units are available on the surplus market, either intact or demilitarized.
8/12/00
One of the differences between early military HMMWVs like mine and civilian Hummers is that the military trucks have a separate parking brake between the rear driveshaft and the rear differential. No special tools are necessary to change the rear service brake pads in these trucks. Civilian Hummers, as well as later or upgraded military trucks, do not have the separate parking brake, and instead apply the rear service brakes through a mechanical linkage when the parking brake lever is set. They require a special tool which rotates the brake pistons while compressing them to make room for new pads.
8/12/00
A 32 foot string of Christmas lights is just right for the brush guard, but a 14 inch wreath is a bit small!
12/5/00
Here is an action shot of a HMMWV (not mine) rescuing a Mule that strayed onto deep water. The driver of the Mule, Dan Solis, made it out to the sandbar OK, but when he tried to drive back, he went into a hole and the bow wave went down the air intake and snuffed out the engine. To Dan's credit, he had the Mule running within 45 minutes of being pulled out of the river. He said he had to do three oil changes to get all of the water out of the crankcase.
Photo courtesy of Matt Tait
A while ago, I converted my HMMWV to a 2-door cargo/troop carrier. Here it is at a military vehicle club meet in Glendale, where I bought this 3/4-ton trailer.
Photo courtesy of Brandon Kunicki
Here's another view of the new 3/4-ton trailer.
11/7/03
Now, I'm converting my truck to an M1037 communications shelter. I plan to install a generator set in the 3/4-ton trailer I bought recently, and use it to power the shelter. More details about this conversion are on the modifications page.
1/25/04