Humvee post #5

The parts are slowly coming in. Here is a SpeedHut GPS speedometer. These are a bit pricy but they are quality. Made in the USA and with smooth accurate movement. I want to retain the factory gauge cluster and since I will be running 37" tires the dodge speedometer will not be accurate. This gauge is 2" in diameter so it will look at home next to my boost gauge.    

Oilpan continued...

We thought Eli's oil leaks were over... as it turns out the leaks were not fixed, the new gasket leaked like a sieve and the truck lost over a quart of oil in one day. Being that the paper gasket did us wrong we decided to go with RTV silicone. We purchased a new drain pan drained the new clean oil and dropped the pan. The new gasket was ridiculously hard to remove as it had seemed to have permanently attached itself to the pan. After a couple hours of prying off the gasket (being careful not to let any fall inside of the oil pan) we thoroughly cleaned the mating surfaces with lacquer thinner  we applied the RTV and put everything back together. The following day we torqued everything down and filled the motor with oil.Throughout this entire process there was a constant bombardment of filth raining down upon us from the trans cooler lines. We removed the rubber from the hard lines (it was practically falling off), cleaned everything with lacquer thinner and reassembled everything with zip ties (like it was before).

Oilpan

 Eli has had an oilpan leak for a while. we decided to tackle the leak as well as do an oil change.

The only way to remove the oil pan is to pull the motor so we spent the day under the truck pulling the stubborn bolts so we could drop the pan one inch. We then removed the old destroyed gasket and shimmied the new one in to place. We also changed the oil and filter.

 

hood

Party time! I have a real Humvee hood, like most HMMWV parts this one came off a destroyed hummer. I scored this on eBay and had it shipped from Texas. It arrived a day early, I was pretty exited so I just hauled it home on my daily driver. 

Humvee post #4

Another piece of the puzzle arrived. Passenger side front rocker/wheelwell panel, I guess this would be the front quarter panel.

Boost

The parts are slowly coming in. Nothing to spectacular here just an AutoMeter boost gauge to keep an eye on the boost levels.

Primed

I have been working on my house and moving things around so I can work on different parts of my house long story short I needed space in my garage so the partial side framework went out side. It only took two days before surface rust started to form. I cleaned up the frame with rags and lacquer thinner and hit it with a couple coats of primer to keep it from rusting.

 

Tired of tires

A month ago one of Thomas's rims cracked letting the air out of his tire. We replaced it with his spare which cracked yesterday. Luckily for him I had a spare set of wheels. Thomas dropped his truck off at McClays and after half a day they let him know they could not touch his wheels because the new(er) rims were drilled out to 5/8". Total cop-out if you as me... We took his truck back to my place and pulled the wheels. After examining the lugs we decided to hold off on the front wheels until we could pick up set heavy duty lugs that have a more defined taper and larger contact surface area. The front lugs are stock 1'' long x 1/2'' diameter and the new rims take up a half inch of treads. We didn't want to use the currant small aftermarket lug nuts, after all most of the  weight and braking  is on the front wheels. The 5/8" holes will actually work to our advantage being that the profile of the new lug nuts will allow us to grab about 5/8'' of treads.

Long story short we took two wheels in as "lose wheels" and they switched them over no problem.