Forgive me, but it seems ridiculous that I have to pay between $4000.00 and
$10,000.00 for a vehicle that was built for less than $500.00 because the
general public can't figure out that a short wheelbase vehicle designed to
be driven at speeds less than fourty-five miles an hour might flip when
driven stupidly. It makes matters worse that I have a licence to drive
military 1/4 ton trucks (jeeps) as well as Humm-Vees, but because some
idiot decided that he was going to hot rod around and roll himself into a
little jeep colored ball, those of us with a passion for the green painted
beasts have to jump through flaming hoops to aquire the object of our
affections (both military trained operators, and those who have enough
horse sense to drive within the safety parameters of our MVs).
Okay, I vented, I feel better now. My apologies if I offended.
Now, can any of you who have restored M274 Mules provide me with the
secrets you may have learned along the way? For instance, to remove the
left handed interlinked dumaflitchit, you need to turn it a quarter turn to
the left, tap your foot four times, and say, "I wish I were back at Padia
Beach.", (a procedure not covered in any of the shop manuals).
Is there anything I need to keep an eye out for? (For instance, when you
remove the trigger assembly of an M-16A2, if you're not careful, there's
this really neat explsion of springs and detent pins that occurs, which
isn't half as funny as when your buddy does it because you're not supposed
to take that part out in the first place.)
===
To unsubscribe from the mil-veh mailing list, send the single word
UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of a message to <mil-veh-request@skylee.com>.