WORKSHOP WEDNESDAY: How to service your US Military Humvee
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- Mechanics Ryan and Rob are hard at work getting our ride vehicles ready for AusArmourfest 2023. This week, they service our US military Humvee!
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I was a mechanic and recovery vehicle operator in the US Army for 20 years, spent thousands of hours doing this service. Don't forget to check the oil in the geared hubs, the small reduction gearboxes at each wheel. They do not hold much oil, so even a small leak can lead to a catastrophic failure. Love your channel, keep up the great work!!!
I hope they read your advice.
I wonder if they have the -10, -20, and -20p manual's
Yeah I caught that too. They did pretty good, but missed the hubs. I’d probably of checked the fuel filter on the firewall for water too. Army 63b and recovery, 12 years👍🏼
Also gear hub spindle nuts....they are notorious for coming loose making the wheels fall off.
@@gaboonviper85 Depends on if the previous owner put in the updated locking ring. I still have my special socket for doing those hubs!!!
Kurt's fascination with everything is so cute. I imagine i was the exact same way when i used to work on stuff with my uncle. Also, the guys explaining everything so nice and clear as well, all nice!
Great to see you guys running RYCO on the vehicle. 🤙
That brings back memories. Days upon days spent in the motor pool under a scumvee taking a nap because we had already pulled daily, weekly, and monthly PMCS. All you are missing is a drip pan, a chock block, and the pioneer tools and rack.
Never realized that native Aussie critters play some great music! Thanks all ❤
Brilliant as usual, Kurt is a natural narrator and the quality of the filming, editing, sound etc... as good as anything done on TV or CZcams.
I came home from working on heavy equipment all day. To watch my dose of workshop Wednesday to see you doing what I just did all day. 😂
Allways pleasure to see professionals working. And not need to get dirty, just drink coffee and relax😊
The new chap Rob, reminds me of the vintage Action Man sailor with realistic hair and beard ....
Appreciate you asking questions that might seem like they have obvious answers to others, Kurt. 👍
I've owned one of these for years so I know how to service it, but imma still watch this
Just fix it with flex tape
Spray paint over all dirt and rust!
What a job, park an 80 year old panzer in the morning and perform detailed maintenance on an old battle wagon, then take it for a ride. Great video. Thanks!
I can watch you guys drive your panzers all day.
That´s a very early Humvee. Hints are the remnants of the early one-armed mirrors in front of the windshield, and the vehicle data plate on the outside rear left fender. Only very early Humvees (say ´85 or ´86) had those plates.
I´m pretty sure the gunner protection kit on the turret was later added on, as it was usually only used on later M111x or M115x Humvees.
Great episode, as always. I just posted a link into our Humvee owners group.
It`s nice to see a different kind and era of vehicle. Keep up the good work and the diversity in showing different types and ages of vehicles!
I chuckled when the Humvee wouldn't start on the first try. Did someone forget to wait until the _"Glow Plug"_ instrument panel light shut off? 😮
Sat so long, that fuel system had drained back? Had to crank it over for little bit for the fuel pumps to get fuel to cylinders?
I was thinking the same
No glow no go 😂😂
Great to hear the kookaburras 😃
Takes me back to 2001 when i spent 9 months doing nothing but drink beer and eat pies, happy days.
A Day in the Life of a Tourist visiting "The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum", and the sign at the door states we have a new Tour - Kurt will lead you around all exhibits and discuss the maintenance of each vehicle, his 'specialty' is the HumVee.
I love how you maintain the vehicles,and am a mechanic and still find that soothing to watch.Find your channel very informing,keep up the great work that you do...
5:22 a pretty simple and effective way to clean those is to make an adapter (basically a piece of round wood with a hole for an air hose in the center) and put some pressure on it outside (not much, you don't wan't to rip them open tho). You can do an even better cleaner if you have vibrating base to sit the whole thing on. Dust just falls out of the stuff.
Its amazing that the museum staff just happen to have all these spares ready to hand and know what substitutes can safely be used. Most impressive - as usual.
A Humvee's drivetrain is basically a mid 1980's one ton Chevrolet Diesel truck.
Nice change. Good to see some of the other people who look after the collection
Why do I always want to sit back and drink beer when I hear an Australian accent?
I love these videos. Australians always seem so nice and friendly. Then you see them play their football and you realize that inside they're crazed lunatics. 😲A foreign power would be nuts to invade their country. 😀
‘Expert’ Kurt mechanic tip #1 😂
GOOD JOB GUYS
Thank you for explaining everything that is going on and the "why". Have no idea about engines but love Workshop Wednesday and feel like I learn a lot. Salutations :)
It amuses me how ordinary mechanical objects and procedures excite KOERT so much 😁. Good on you for sticking your hand up, not all of spent their life crawling under and in vehicles trying to keep them running 😁
The HMMWV should start fast. You should check the smart start box and glow plugs.🍻
Tuned in tonight to see more tank bits but got a humvee oil change! Great change and although not a tank still sexy! You guys do great work!
Wow. That sound. I spent a year in Afghanistan in one of those 😛
Omg Kurt reveals his middle name: Kurt Mechanic Ausarmour
ngl, best name ever
Did you checked the hubs? Very important! Only a tiny oil reservoir.
"What did you do at work today honey?" "Oh, I drove the panzer 4 around for a bit!"
Oh I like that oil filter tool
Amazing channel! So many running vehicles!
Shoulda put a bumblebee for the thumbnail 😂👍👍👍
Thanks guys!
I own a Humvee M998.. I love these Humvees...Just to let you know... Those bushings do not use a 27 mm socket...
Every nut and bolt are ASE Sandard ... Those bushing bolts are 3/4 inch ... The oil drain plug is 9/16 ... The same that General Motors used for over 60 years ...
Wish I could be there to give you hand ...
These Humvees are very special to me.. And my business
Sincerely, Captain Ron
Naples Florida
the 27mm he was talking about was the diameter of the swaybar, not the bolt
Well that was a bit different and entertaining too - Cheers fellas.
Those red bushes have add atleast 10 bhp
This was a really great video. I remember talking to a person I knew who was in the National Guard. He told me that Humvees were simple to repair to a regular car engine. I knew he was full of it when he told me that, but this video confirmed it.
Thank you for sharing
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hiya,
Nice video; thank you all. Great seeing a bit more of a modern fighting machine. A complete walk-through of it and its capability would be good.
That 88 looked sad sitting in the middle of the parade ring, slowly rusting away. It was always my favourite Airfix kit, well, that and the British Grayhound. The SAM?
Stay safe, Steve...
British ran greyhounds? Didn't know that.
Good to see a new face there too.
11:19 casually driving pas a WW2 German 88mm FLAK
Great video!
I’ve been waiting all day!
This is a post Desert Storm era Humvee. Slant back humvees were used alot by combat support Military Police units.
Looks like an M1025? We ran the M1026 in the scout platoon in Korea exactly like this but it had a recovery winch. Pretty sure the 1025 had no winch.
The M1025 (the one in this video) was used before Desert Storm, the Humvee variants you’re thinking of are the uparmored M1113 ECV series, which was developed further during the GWOT.
Slant backs were issued far more than just to MPs as well.
@@TheRazorbackpilot has the wrong Sideview mirrors then.
Thanks again, it was a nice story and a nice video. Also saw Bo for a while
Made my Wednesday as usual. Cheers to all the crew!!!
3:01 The T-34-85 tank is awesome!
Great video, looks like the Chieftains 88 could do with a makeover 😂
Glad you got rid of the "Orange Death" oil filter, and even prefilled the new one. Good on ya.
Looking forward to a tour of the vehicle and it's equipment... don't forget the radio... thanks very much for the video
Those are great to work on. I would know cause I was a light wheel mechanic in the US Army
As a mechanic and a Qc there is few things I see here. The end of the clamps an the air filter housing should be under the air filter housing guard. The right side mirror is useless in this way you can not see anything in the mirror. Not mounted correctly. Its in the manual along with many useful information
That's the best I've ever heard sway bars explained!
Best part of restoration and maintenance is running them!
Love your work 👍
Thanks Sooo much for your Workshop Wednesdays. I look so forward to them. Most Guys would proberly find a simple service to a vehicle BORING! but I was fascinated by the detail these guys attentend to a vehicle. Keep it up.
Australia 🇦🇺🇺🇸👍
I love my HMMWV
at last!!!!
Any video from Aus Armour is a great video, keep them coming Kurt.
This is great!
Nice, thanks! Seems like you have some beast machinery there. We would like to see more of this kind of maintanance and mechanical stuff
Great video guys hope kirt learnt something 😂😂😂😂
As a humvee owner in Brisbane, nice to see. Definitely don't forget the spindle locking nuts. What model slant back is it? It's an A0 truck as it still has the early mirror brackets and what looks like the 6.2 v belt, or could be the mid 6.5 v belt. Look forward to seeing it when I visit.
I love HMMWV !
I have HMMWV！
From 🇧🇷👍🌎
so... when will you guys take the humvee to fraser island like those aussie 4wd?
MMMMMM FRAM
I served 11 yrs in the U S Army and reported to my first unit in 1986,shortly after the army started replacing the M151's with M998's.I noticed that the example that they have is an earlier version with the brakes mounted to the differentials. Something to be aware of is the tendency for the bolts holding the calipers on to back out and start hitting the bolts holding the half shaft to the flange on the diff. I experienced this issue several times and started including checking them in my pmcs and tightening them periodically.
We call that type a hard bck or slant bck humvee in the marines
Turtle shells!
That was awesome! Learnt so much!
I really enjoy the maintenance videos.
Welcome to the team :)
Another interesting episode!! Question…..is the 88 flak gun displayed outdoors on the restoration list??
wow.... Why can`t you find out history of this humvee? Ican see Beau and work on Stug in the background :-D . At 19:19 I see 88mm will you restore them? Greetings from Poland 🙂
Nice leisure workshop Wednesday.....
BTW that old 88, out in the fields, is looking a little ratty
Little trouble starting, typical. Inside every US Army Humvee is its dispatch book, a green plastic book to keep papers for the vehicle. Almost every one of them you will find a perfect circular soot mark on it. If your Humvee has trouble starting you take that book and place it over the exhaust pipe blocking the exhaust and the Humvee will fire right up. Don't know why this works but on most the Humvees I was assigned this was the only way to start it.
We’d use the seat cushion…lol
to check the clutch fan operation you can disconect the electrical line that is near the black box on the drivers side engine bay. when the line is disconnected the fan kicks in. something i picked up from AM General back in the day. Used to start the engine with WD8 wire as a jumper on the test connector but i cant remember which spots. only used it a few times when the ignition switch went out.
Is it just me , or did Kurt just throw in a "Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures" quote at 18:02 ....."pretty soon it was time to hit the road"😉😄
No idea why I’m fascinated by changing oil. I do my own an all my vehicles.
Do you think they will restore the flak gun shown at the end of the video?
Do you have an American WW2 155MM howitzer known as a “long Tom?”
You all need to make a pit so it's easier to work on vehicles
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check the water separator dont want algae like stuff in your tank. can check that at the fuel filter
To be fair, one of the reasons I learned to work on cars is the tools are so damned cool.
They do make black neoprene bushings. Use silicone grease not oil, oil turns to glue with heat and time.
I recoiled in horror, at the sight of a Fram oil filter.
DROVE m1044/45 SERIES tow HUMMVEES AND THEN m998 tow RIGS AND FINALLY THE m1114's from 85-07 lots of hrs on them to go over the dash 10. I loved em but i would make a few improvements to them
Next weeks episode we'll watch Kurt do a major service on a T34 by himself. Stay tuned
probs a lot of work, but why not have '"mechanic monday" aswell as "fact friday" ???? more aus armour the better.
I got a question. What level of concrete do you use in your showroom it has like zero damage from steel tracks.
Great video. Please tell me that 88 is going to get restored or at least put inside
7:24 I think they are the same as my Nissan nx1600 at least they look the same
They're driving that humvee way more cautiously that most US service members would.