SHTF vehicle?

[Aggar]

If you do make sure you get several glow plug controllers and have 6-8 fuel filters on hand.
Be prepared to remove the heads once a year to remove the swollen glow plugs and replace them.
These are the most common failures that we had during my 8 years as a mechanic in the army.
Off the top of my head I would say have:
2 starters
4 sets of glow plugs
3 glow plug controllers
6 fuel filters
plus the normal hoses, air filters, etc.
should keep you going for a year if your not careful, 2-3years if you are careful about how you start it.

That's why I was also thinking of an ol chevy gasser as well or a gasser blAzer.

 

[bigiron]

right now my 2006 z71 but i'm prepping a project right now to house a few horses at my dads place. keep the truck full so i can get south in a hurry and if we have to bug out from our BOL we'll have a fast, reliable means. plus its fun for the kids. i can't wait!

 

[Regionnus Rattis]

I would getthehellouta Dodge first, with my Ford F-450 King Ranch, towing my Toyota 4Runner behind it. When I run out of diesel or cannot find it, then ditch the truck and carry on in the 4Runner.

 

[G_Stines]

In case of EMP.... Ripcord power!

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Right now its our AWD Pacifica with two bicycles as backup. However, when we were downtown at Irish Fest this weekend, we noticed the 4 pax pedal-powered carts. Plenty of room for two and equipment. Might be a useful alternative to gas power...

 

[jbombelli]

Explorer Sport Trac 4x4 with a brush guard (zombie bumper), shell, and KCs.

 

[GLOCK1982]

I considered buying a sea can or freight container and planting it in a hill somewhere. Then all that would be left is to stock it with the essentials. You could even sink it deep and pour a shaft to get down to it. The only question is how deep to you have to go to avoid a nuclear fallout? Given this senario, transportation wouldn't be the issue as long as you could get there relatively fast.

 

[Regionnus Rattis]

In case of EMP.... Ripcord power!

Wow...you can get outa Dodge and have fun while your doing it!

 

[Keith_Indy]

I'll be fixing this one up to be the main bug back vehicle (meaning, get from work to home,) for winter. I'll also be getting spare electric parts for it, and storing those in a Faraday cage. Otherwise it's currently a 05 Neon getting 30MPG average. Then I've got a 93 Bronco that I'm fixing for off-roading. That one will be the get downtown to get my wife if the SHTF vehicle.

 

[Aggar]

Keep them coming. There's some good ideas in here.

 

[pinshooter45]

My 95 Grand Cherokee

As soon as I EMP proof it, or go old school in the engine compartment. And I'd also like to put those cool Trax conversion I saw on the Sportsman Channel the other day!

 

[G_Stines]

Wow...you can get outa Dodge and have fun while your doing it!

Oh heck yeah. Im working on building a rack for a heat shield over the engine so i can have a little bit of storage. It will be big enough my SHTF pack will fit and be strapped down.

 

[malern28us]

I have a 96 Mitsubishi Montero. Sorry no pics. I keep seeing write ups on a diesel Kawasaki KLX that the army uses. Supposedly 80 mpg and very quiet. If I didnt have a family, it would be my vehicle of choice.

 

[.45 Dave]

As soon as I EMP proof it, or go old school in the engine compartment. And I'd also like to put those cool Trax conversion I saw on the Sportsman Channel the other day!

I'm curious as to how you could EMP proof it. Wouldn't the starter, alternator, and other engine parts be difficult to if not impossible to protect? I could see replacing them but I'm not seeing how you could protect them initially.

 

[Arthur Dent]

My current SHTF vehicle-
2006 H3

You'll need something a lot tougher. I work for the company that makes the axles for those. The front axles are better suited for scrap. H2s aren't much better.

 

[Aggar]

I'm curious as to how you could EMP proof it. Wouldn't the starter, alternator, and other engine parts be difficult to if not impossible to protect? I could see replacing them but I'm not seeing how you could protect them initially.

Emp would fry the computers. Not sure if it would do alternators and starters.

 

[.45 Dave]

Emp would fry the computers. Not sure if it would do alternators and starters.

But how would you protect the computer? Or could you? I'm curious to see if there is something I could do to protect my truck, too.

 

[Keith_Indy]

An interesting report on EMP. Electromagnetic Pulse-From Chaos To A Manageable Solution See Appendix A for mitigation steps.

Micro circuits are the most vulnerable. The only way to really protect yourself is to get duplicates of circuits likely to fail, and put those in a Faraday cage.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

Right now its our AWD Pacifica with two bicycles as backup. However, when we were downtown at Irish Fest this weekend, we noticed the 4 pax pedal-powered carts. Plenty of room for two and equipment. Might be a useful alternative to gas power...

D,mn those bicycle carts are expensive; almost $5500 for the 4 pax types. There are other human-powered wheels options out there, though.

 

[ThePhantom86]

I don't see many Jeeps here. I have a 2004 Jeep Wrangler. No, it's not EMP proof but other than that it's good to go when tshtf.