Parts - M931A1 Cab

The start. Need parts. Of course if you ask my wife she might tell you I have a few too many parts but who's counting.

I took apart a M931A1 to acquire the needed extra cab.

 

A few days of work and the extra cab is off and ready to be modified. I will be making a cut on both sides right behind the door sill to spread the cab to the equal width of the back so it will mate properly to the rear of the other cab. 

Paint time after a few more add ons

Added some rain gutters over the windows and doors to help with those rain issues. Then started to clean it up and spray on some paint.

Finish the top it might rain!

A little metal fitting and I will be keeping it dry again.

Beds a little long

Now I'm cutting the front of the bed down and notching it around the exhaust.

Redesigning the battery box and coating the floor

The top

So I took the original top and cut the back off pulled it a part and built back the center. Learned this trick from a great uncle that decided to do this with his barn.( Lol another story for another time) 

Framing time

Cab placed where we want it. Now time for a few minor tweaks and start framing it up. Due to the very light weight design of the top and cab. I opted for some structural improvements. Box tubing floor to roof and we will cage it out. No more removable top. Small down side for having a lot more rigidity.

 

So how's this thing go on again

Mating the cabs together a little time a little duct tape it will be good as new.

A few surgical cuts with a chain saw

Time to make a few cuts to prepare the truck to except the new set up.

APart it goes

First we will remove exhaust, seats intake and slide the bed back to give us some space to work. then hard top and place it on the side for later. Going to need that. 

Ready to start taking apart the truck or almost

Just about to start taking the truck apart but before we do how about a day at rausch creek off road park! ( just in case it doesn't go back together lol)

You can't quite tell in this picture but that rock face drops straight off for about 6 feet. These trucks really are unstoppable! Seriously leave the snow tireson the shelf and buy a military truck!

A little creek craw and we are heading home for the take apart day

Project crew cab M923 A2

Picked up a pair of nice  low mileage M923A2 Military truck's from Wisconsin a few months ago. Flew in and drove them home. Exciting trip nothing like driving a 5-ton army truck 1000 miles with out ever hearing  it run.  Simple solution. Buy two in case one fails. So we landed in Chicago. Me my wife my brother and my dad. Rented a car and headed to Sparta Wisconsin. Spend the night at a hotel. Woke up the next morning and met up with a great guy to know Jeff who help us more than I can say getting these two monsters up running and sound for a trip. Then we hit the road. I made it a mile before the really nice luxury canvas top blew off. Oh did I mention it was raining and freezing cold lol. Well my buddy Jeff had a hard top laying around he was willing to part with. So we dropped off the rental car. Bolted on the hard top and started on our adventure! Would you Believe it rained almost the entire 1000 miles home! If you are familiar with military trucks, they aren't exactly water tight. Good thing we bought the rain gear lol.

So a day later with out any real problems we arrived home where these two trucks were destine to be something else. This post will be about the making of the crew cab check for the next post about the snow truck.