Installation Kits & MWOs for the M151 Series of Vehicles

The base radios put in the M151 series vehicles to include the following: Brackets the radio mounts sit on, Mounts the radios sit in, Antenna Brackets, Antennas, Handsets and related, and all the cables used to connect all these components. Plus anything else that had to do with the base radio set up.

 Detailed information will go here in the future. 

 Standard Hot Water Heater kit used in all M151 series vehicles. There was a "early kit" that I do not have pictures of. This would be 1960 to 1964 ish. 

 Detailed information will go here in the future. 

Specific kits and add on items. Also some generic USMC information.

• Long Front Bumper
• Rear Lifting Brackets
• Gear Shift Lock
• Gas Cap Lock
• Markings
• Trailers
• Pre prepared for Heater, Fording, Camouflage
• Fast Attack Vehicles (Detail on different page)

 Early on, 1960 to 1964ish the M31C gun mount was used as the M4 was either not designed yet or in production. Also most pictures in Vietnam show mounts made in country. The M4 is rarely seen, until the early 1970s.

Uninstalled Kit, Installed Kit, detail pictures, ROPS kit required modification to the top door handles.

 Detector, Alarm on dash, & Installation kit

 US Army Kits are complete with every component to install a fording kit on a vehicle that did not have one.

USMC Kits are only "partial" kits, as the vehicles were already prepared with the fording cable and all components related installed. So USMC kits only include the intake and exhaust components and related brackets.

There was an official kit. But most were file modifications and installations.

Kit for mounting the M16 rifle on the drivers side of the vehicle. Information dates this kit to December of 1969 for development. So with a 1970 as earliest production

The ROPS system was the single most destructive thing done outside of the demilitarization of the M151A2. The roll over "problem" was all but rectified with the advent of the A2 and the suspension layout. With 50 plus extra holes in the vehicle and the cutting of the rear fenders & braces. My personal opinion on ROPS is it should never be installed in a vehicle by a collector. You increase the center of gravity of the vehicle, and severely devalue the vehicle for a very limited amount of increased safety.  

These vehicles were only straight M151s. A VERY limited number were made.  

Used heavily in Vietnam for base security.

Vietnam saw the introduction of a kit to install armor on an M151

Pictures of uninstalled kits and installed kits 

This kit was installed mainly in Europe to add an extra level of visibility while on maneuvers.

BII (Basic Issue Items) & Tool kits. 1960 to end of service.

Reeling Machine RL-172 and related mast wire guides, used to lay and recover telephone field wire.

Kit to upgrade lighting to "composite" style lights

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The correct Fire extinguisher as a base line. There are other pictures of vehicles in service with other styles. But... this is considered the fire extinguisher issued with the vehicle. 

Decontamination Apparatus   -   4230-00-720-1618

Brackets and related mounting