A quick intro...

Matte Black · Post by **Matte Black** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:51 am

Hello All,

Just a quick intro,

After seeing my first row of HMMWV's lined up 16 years ago on a military base in Texas I have always wanted one!

I finally decided to take the plunge and dive in head first by buying an incomplete rolling shell as a project to rebuild.

I am based in Sydney Australia so I'm a little fish out of the water in some ways (However have already had the benefit of Brad and James help).

I will need lots of bits and pieces and tech help and am looking forward to getting to know you all.

David.

Post by **artificer** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:05 am

Someone else needed help on the Pacific Highway between West Burleigh and Mudgerabba last week or was it the week before. Don't see too many real ones in this neck of the woods.

Action · Post by **Action** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 7:45 am

glad to have you. it is a learning experience.

Jason

dilvoy · Post by **dilvoy** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:00 pm

Welcome, David. You have a lot of fun ahead of you. I guess the most challenging thing will be to find a economical way to ship heavy items from the U.S. I have heard from a reliable source, that you can't carry shock absorbers in your airline luggage.

Do you have any fotos of your Humvee that you can post here?

dunsbr · Post by **dunsbr** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:06 pm

dilvoy wrote: I have heard from a reliable source, that you can't carry shock absorbers in your airline luggage.

I wish you'd told me that BEFORE I tried George!!

I'm glad you made the plunge David.
I believe you bought two.
Twice the fun!

Artificer, QLD is a actually quite a Humvee enclave.
It is where most of the Aussie trucks are. I can think of 4 owners straight away and one has multiple trucks.

Cheers

Post by **Jon** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:22 pm

Corvette Conversions in Gympie, Qld. have started into the Hummer line recently, so they may have some interchangable parts for the Humvee.

This is the mob who do the LH drive to RH drive on Corvettes just as you enter Gympie from the South...

I bought in $2000.00 worth of jeep part in luggage in 2001, no tax paid...and I declared it...just got the Customs fellas into a conversation about jeeps and things, one owned a TJ or something....and they waved me through.

JR

dunsbr · Post by **dunsbr** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:36 pm

Hi Jon,

I routinely travel to the US and have brought suitcases full of Humvee parts back with me.
(It means you get to meet lots of new and interesting people!

)
Being a Silver Frequent Flyer means I get 3 32kg (72lb) suitcases for free.
Also an additional 32kg suitcase only cost US$95!
(compared to the US$77 I've just paid to have a 14lb injector pump airmailed over to Oz)

The only "issue" I've had was with QANTAS with the shocks.
I couldn't convince the bonehead in LA that they weren't gas filled.
That's despite a 15 minute engineering explanation of how dampers worked and how you could tell a gas assist damper vs a normal oil damper.

So I lost US$200 of new shocks

Worst thing was that I could have carried 10kg of other parts if I'd known!!
But I've never had an issue with customs.

Cheers

Matte Black · Post by **Matte Black** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:09 pm

I have some pics, can I upload them on this site or do I have to host them somewhere first?

I actually bought two, the sickness spreads easliy! (So my GF says)

Post by **Jon** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:40 pm

You can upload pics to Blackdogs site....

http://www.surfacezero.com/g503

then link back to here from there....

JR

dunsbr · Post by **dunsbr** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 5:46 pm

Hi Jon,

Good to see you over on the Humvee pages.
I didn't know Blackdog hosted pics.

I use Photobucket as below the pic is an automatic [img] link that you can simply copy and paste on the forum.

Cheers

Matte Black · Post by **Matte Black** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 2:02 am

Thanks for the tip Jon,

They have seen better days!

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Action · Post by **Action** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 6:15 am

DRMO on the windscreen? Those are nice starter Humvees. I don't know about the custom white rim and little tire, though. lol. A lot of guys look for those ammo can and weapon brackets in the rear floor. I would leave those in one of the Humvees.

Jason

Ted Gates · Post by **Ted Gates** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:47 am

Welcome Matte Black,

I see in the second picture there appears to be a running hummer! Nice starter hmmwvs though!

Ted

Matte Black · Post by **Matte Black** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:39 pm

Thanks Jason and Ted.

The DRMO did have me wondering.. Googled it but came up with Acronym Definition
DMRO Defense Medical Resource Office

What does it really mean?

David.

dilvoy · Post by **dilvoy** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:51 pm

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