Buying a Bobbed M923 5 Ton Military Truck NNKH (2024)

~PART 2 ON THE M923: ruclips.net/video/GabA0Xl_Jts/видео.html
~VIDEO ON SINKING THE TUNDRA: ruclips.net/video/QSXpgsWbi44/видео.html

Same exact repairs on my 5 ton. I bought mine on auction site unseen for 1,850 total with taxes. Came to pick it up at Fort Riley Kansas. I can't believe how nice it was. Thanks military. Mint m-923 with brand new tires and it looked like nobody drove it. Handle fix and 3 air leaks. I got lucky. If only I could get some of those weaponry our corrupt leaders left😜 left in CIAnistan. 👍🍺🍺

They make a valve for runaways it’s called a rota valve once installed flip a switch works like a champ I install them on all of our oilfield trucks

My brother was in the 8th Transportation Group, Vietnam. I was a helocopter pilot 155th Attack Helicopter Company, before it disbanded. His second tour he joined a gun truck crew, they modified 2.5 or 5 ton cargo trucks to a weapons platform changing out various armament. His favorite was the huge flamethrowers used on Zippo Raids.

The windshield folds down so that in combat a bullet will not shatter the windshield and spray you with glass, or at best obscure your vision at a crucial moment (which there are a lot of when you're under fire). Before you drive into the river, replace that air line that pressurizes the rear axle/differential - a cooling axle (when you're in cool water) will suck water in those little breathers, and your axle lube will be contaminated and diluted with river water. Expensive repair! Fun truck!

You have an amazing mechanical aptitude and you explain this rig with precise detail. In my case I'll have to either watch this video a dozen times or look up a video in addition to your video. My hats off to you .

I always empty my tanks after a day’s drive to prevent moisture in tanks. Also that blue “brake” button you push is not for parking brakes. It is an emergency air for combat escape when you are low on air and need to override the service brake.

I really enjoyed it. My volunteer Fire Dept and a 4x4 brush truck since we had a good amount of fires in the woods and everyone was trained on it except me. My brother Fred purchased a 5 ton but he said everytime he went to the VFW he was filling it up but that was back 26 yrs. He always wanted one but his Wifey made him sell it. I road in it and was confusing to me with all the switches but loved just going for the ride even if it was a mile or so yes he could get some speed out of it. He was in the Army and worked on everything plus he was a helicopter pilot as well as a mechanic on all the birds they had. We loved trucks more than anything else. Keep it coming.

This is a fantastic production Chris. The benefits of compressing the full experience into a longform story are miles above the standard "watch a guy fix something". Those can be great videos but I get much more when you can understand the whole story.

My guess is when they bobbed the truck they used the intermediate axle not the rear. You lost the locker when they removed the rear axle. In my experience the military didn't put locker in the intermediate axles because two rear axles with locker would negate the front tires ability to turn the truck on any surface other than dry blacktop.

Absolutely beautiful truck! You did an amazing job going over everything.

I love those older diesels with no turbos. Nice score. I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience

PAC positive air cut off. It's a spring loaded steel disk for the intake pipe... If your scared look into it. But I have never heard of a diesel engine just running off without some other serious issues like missing piston rings or a turbo seal failure. Neither of which you will get if maintenance has been done regularly and rebuilding at the appropriate intervuls

Love the “water fording valve”…could use that here in Louisiana at times!

Love the truck definitely agree a run away seems very scary!! Awesome buy!!

The fuel shut off is electrical and when it fails it fails to off. The reason you have a hand throttle shut off is that on top of the fuel shut off valve there is a thumb screw that you can turn in to start the engine if the fuel shut off fails. Then use the hand fuel shut off to kill the engine make sure you leave the switches on as you do that.

The now old Detroit two stroke diesel engines had a drop-down flap/valve on top of the blower, it was part of the intake horn. Making something similar for your truck would be a good idea.

Really enjoying your content..late to the party but by far this 5 ton is the coolest ever. Keep up the great work and continued success with your channel.😁👍🇺🇸

I remember about 35yrs ago our Township used to have auctions and at that time there were 4 big military trucks (Dual rear axles) and School buses, no one wanted them and everyone sold for under $10 each, most drove them right out of the auction, some of the school buses sold for a dollar lol. No scrap guys back then around here. Now I see they sell for quite a bit.

To stop the run away diesel (usually will consume itself, it burns the engine oil) just spray a CO2 fire extinguisher in the intake and you can quickly take away one of the three elements that is required for fire and stop the run away. That’s a awesome truck, I hope to own one myself some day.

So cool! Reminds me of the old '44 Dodge Army Ambulance (like on MASH) I had in the early 70s. Kind of speed limited but 4x4 and great granny range. Only one date refused to ride in it. Yup, she was done on the spot.

This exact one was one of my fav mods on snowrunner. What a beauty, those axels are super beefy.

What an absolutely wonderful truck, you definitely buy the coolest stuff

Getting into that cab brought back a lot of memories!

We now live in Upstate NY and we miss WAWA Their subs are the best.
Great video

Super Nice Find....I'm Starting to See the Usefulness of It Being "Bobbed" and "Singled".....Very Nice and Thank You.!!!

Great explanation of the truck. Awesome vide!!!

This M923 is so cool, and such good shape. Thats awesome !

My dream truck goals!!!!

That's the first bobbed 923 I've seen. Looks like they did a good job on it.

I'd love one of those 5 ton trucks they make great camper conversions.

Dude. Awesome video. I learned some stuff about mine and I've had it for months.

Thanks Chris for another amazing video have a great day

THANKS CHRIS FOR THE VIDEO!! YOU KNOW YOUR MILITARY TRUCKS ALSO THERES ALOT TO LEARN ABOUT THEM .. WE DROVE THESE KIND OF TRUCKS AND JEEPS ALSO IN THE MILITARY AND IF YOU SCREWED UP AND DIDNT KNOW WHAT WAS WHAT,,, THE SGT. OR COMMANDING OFFICER WOULD BE ON YOUR A-- --.. I WATCHED PART 2 FIRST AND LEFT A COMMENT ,, DAM WHAT A VIDEO!!!! STAYING UP LATE WAS GREAT ,, LIKE I SAID THIS TRUCK IS ALL AIR .. AND ITS A KEEPER... THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really nice 5 ton, always wanted a m151 jeep, after seeing your vid now really want one, thx. Matt

That truck looks in great condition!

That motor sound s like a 220 Cummins I heard that's the motor they put i. These trucks real nice military truck 🚛 thanks for the upload and look forward to some more uploads have a nice weekend and take care.

Great Truck. Good Find. Have Fun.

probably already know by now but those colored over lights in your dash are lights for the guages. Very nice truck.

I should have known that you are acquainted with Andrew C. You and his friend Jesse all seem to have the same kind of mentality and zest for life. I'm glad that RUclips brought me here.

I drove military 5 ton ft benning ga 86-1990 one amazing vehicle

great job man ! You are one talented mechanic! Very impressive

I've never used the emergency shut off, turn the run/stop off, then the battery after it stops. Do it in that order or it can make the generator over volt and cause havoc. Battery switch first on, last off

Love these surplus military trucks very mint I am retired from the military I was in the Marine corps for 20 years

Spent many many hours and miles in a 5 ton. Army 13B towed howitzer . One quick story- we were on the high line in Montana and jumped the truck and the M198 howitzer over a dead deer on the road at 55 mph

I am hooked on your videos thanks for them.

My new favorite channel

Oh man, this is a bucket list item for me, congrats to you!

I dont know if anyone has mentioned this yet but for runaway protection the intake flapper is a great option but can be expensive and may not be viable for going underwater if you wanna do that but another option is a co2 fire extinguisher. You just shoot it down the intake or snorkel in your case and hope it dies. Not a sure fire method but knowing the chance of that engine running away is very slim and you need a fire extinguisher anyway I’d rely on it.

Love the video. I'm very curious because I've been thinking of getting one.

Badass truck I've been looking for one hard to find one in that good of shape

Awesome video, learned 👌 more in this video than I would on my own lol 😆 brilliant 👏 😀

That thing is badass... I'm with you on the lack of three pedals. Everything I drive is a manual and has been since I learned to drive. Maybe when I become and old fart I'll want an auto lol

Back in the 2000 we would pack a clipboard around when we would cold start the yeard. If one ran on us we would pull the cap off of the top of the intake and put the clipboard over the intake.

love those old trucks

I put a 3in ball valve inline on my intake on a Detroit I have you would have to be quick to shut it of but it works. If your to slow getting to it might be better letting it go.

New to your channel. Just watched the Trashliner vid now this one. This puppy would pull that Trashliner like it wasn’t even there. Oh wait, most of it isn’ there LOL!

Nice audio! The sound is sweeeeeeeet!!!

I think by putting the bag over the air intake, cutting off the air supply caused the engine to try and drawl more fuel. It's a old trick I was taught long time ago. It helps unclog a clogged fuel filter

That is my dream truck. Very happy for you 🤗

you may already know, but the brake button is not a parking brake but a brake over ride. In the event that there was a sudden loss of air pressure, pressing that is supposed to release the spring brakes inorder to get to safety. the hand brake between the seats is the parking brake. Atleast that is the way they were when the Army version came out in 1988 ish when I was in. the button used to be black an would say on it not for parking. and spring brake over ride.

Nice!!!! I wanted to have one of this since I was a kid.

BRO this is literally my DREAM TRUCK

Pretty cool truck. Great video.

The reason why the green valve doesn't apply the brakes while pulling the parking brake lever is because the green knob is for emergency use only. The handbrake lever controls both the cable operated parking brake and spring emergency brakes. The green knob uses an emergency supply of air to release the spring brakes in the event your air pressure is very low or out completely and you need to move your truck out of a dangerous situation. Many buses have a green emergency override knob as well, but the difference is you have to continuously hold the green button down on buses that have them whereas with this truck, you push in for emergency and pull for normal.

Beautiful truck!

The reason for the automatic trans isn’t ease of use but it makes them a beast of road in soft conditions like sand desert warfare

That is nice that you don't require a license plate to drive on public roads. Great job sir.

For your air leak check your valve stem that is usually what gets hit when changing tires and see if that does it.

Pretty decent truck under the PIP Program. Cummins engine and Allison transmission were were good. The only bad thing was that the transfer case could not handle the torque in low range reverse. The transfer case would crack. The initial fuel tank venting system was connected to the MT654 transmission vent and sometimes diesel fuel would get into transmission, but that problem was corrected with an field fix.

the light covers on your dash are not warning lights they are the actual dash lights. good find

I love it, its got everything i wish moden cars had

I want one so bad, nice truck. I have a friend who has one and he injects propane into the intake when on the highway and he has increased his mpg to almost 16mpg from the 6 he was getting. He also has been tinkering with a browns gas or HHO asperated into the system as well and it seems to also increase his mpg and doesn't have the heating issue he gets with the propane. the motor runs warmer not much more .
anyway have a wonderful day
Semper Fi

Love military trucks so cool looking

I have driven both that model and the older M35A2 deuce when I was in the Army. That one is in excellent shape. We used to try to tear them a new one out in the field. Both models are a blast drive in the field.

Fantastic video !
Very interesting & formative.
What a great truck to have as yout daily driver, other drivers would certainly keep out of your way ! 🤣

Always wanted one of these..

I have an old Bedford RL, it’s a former British military do almost anything lorry and built solid walls and a roof with a bed and table and for cooking and heating I managed through a lot of trial and error to fit stove too. Yes it looks awful but it should come as no surprise to you that when rvs get stuck or they brake down they mostly come to ask for my help with their tails between their legs but apart from all that it’s nice set of wheels there

I like watching your videos because you don't act silly and joke a lot like some channels (donut media or whistlindiesel for example). And you have a good voice so I just turn on one of your videos and play it in the background while web browsing.

Another good vid. Keep a CO2 fire extinguisher handy in the truck. If it becomes a runaway shoot the CO2 into the air intake. (Of course, this is the internet, so do your own research LOL)

The 'rattle-can' paint job right after a major re-con would have me a bit concerned.Good such with the 5T.

What a sweet truck...

That first shot over water looked like the Susquehanna Dam crossing from Port Deposit (Cecil County) to Harford County Maryland traveling southbound on US Route 1.

Beautiful truck.

I used to work on these truck, fun fun
RET(SSG)

A truly interesting vehicle that would be great fun to drive..Thanks...

Wow, retrofitted ABS. That's cool.

Wow!! Gotta love that war machine action!

Bro that's insane 😮😮😮

Put an aluminum blast gate for a dust collection system into the intake system. You can even rig it to a linear actuator so u can flip a switch to have the battery close it off.

Now there is a daily driver! If some clown is looking at his phone and rear ends you at a stop light…if you notice…not good for them. That’s what was great about my 72 Olds 88!

if it helps the air tanks are not divided by brakes, just simply primary and auxilury. they're are sort of daisy chained. i know the comercial rigs at work have a 90 psi cut off valve for auxiluries. and yes the brake valbe should pop out and not go in below 60 psi.

Man!! Great truck , I’ll bet is fun

The dash "warning light covers" you said were painted over...are not warning lights, they are lights for the gages.

Good stuff brother

Always wanted a 5 ton military truck

Back in my days when I was in the military Drive in those trucks at the end of the day when we parked and we had to drain the air tanks due to condensation and water

Awesome can always tell a man by the size of his truck

That truck seems to be a different then the ones we had in the Marine Corps in the late 1980's.

Love your video