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08-07-2009, 13:45
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Northern Michigan. Smelt City
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5th wheel plate info needed..
Soldier B must have been pissed because he beat the **** out of my 5th wheel plate. It would not hook up so one day Dave P was over and we investigated.. They bent the threaded rod that pushes on a fork that slides along both teeth to hold them shut. Bent the **** out of the fork too.. Does anyone have the same plate? Is the fork supposed to go straight across or did it have a slight hump in it? Anybody have a blow up of this type of plate? I have the model number and will try a web search for Holland Plates but thought I would try the good old SS crew first.. Thanks..
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08-07-2009, 15:23
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08-10-2009, 22:11
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5th wheel plates don't need to be perfectly flat. How much of a hump? If you have a 1/8" hump in the middle and you put 30K lbs on the plate it will flex anyway. Now if you have a 1/2" hump that's a different story. If that is a Holland plate you can probably still get parts for it. It sure looks like it is in good shape. Is that a double rocker setup so it rocks side to side also - or not?
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08-10-2009, 22:32
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Pity I'm so far south. I have the quarter fenders and 5th wheel from an M52A2 and they are likely to see the recycler this week. Just can't store them any longer.
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08-10-2009, 22:32
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I was not concerned with the top of the plate.. See the tuning fork looking thing in the pictures? That is supposed to be straight across with a slight angle in at the tips.. They beat the **** out of it and bent it that much! I just put it back together today after getting the piece straightened and re-enforcing it. We also straightened the rod it was bent too..
This style does rock back and forth on two big springs mounted under it.. Should take some serious strain off the pin off road.
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"The right thing at the wrong time is no longer the right thing" Grandma Mattson
MVPA#22218
1954 Canadian M37 W/W "Oliveoil"
1971 M816 "Yard Whore"
1952 Curtis Wright M44/M34 "Mo gas momma"
1952 M42 project "money pit"
1968 M109A2 "camper special"
"I don't think the United States needs super-patriots. We need patriotism honestly practiced by all of us"
Dwight Eisenhower
Avatar= "319" the scrounger hobbit finding parts at 2012 Findlay show.
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08-11-2009, 08:19
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Originally Posted by Recovry4x4
Pity I'm so far south. I have the quarter fenders and 5th wheel from an M52A2 and they are likely to see the recycler this week. Just can't store them any longer.
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I'd put that 5th wheel on Ebay. I've seen them sell there before. If yours in the double rocker type - that is worth some bucks to guys that have to go offroad once in a while.
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08-11-2009, 08:35
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There is your problem.....made in france!
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08-11-2009, 11:02
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fort Wayne, IN
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Could be worse ...... 
At least it doesn't say Made in China and have a Walmart price tag hanging off it.
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08-11-2009, 11:39
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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She is fixed, back on and hooked to a trailer.. Thanks for the help guys..
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"The right thing at the wrong time is no longer the right thing" Grandma Mattson
MVPA#22218
1954 Canadian M37 W/W "Oliveoil"
1971 M816 "Yard Whore"
1952 Curtis Wright M44/M34 "Mo gas momma"
1952 M42 project "money pit"
1968 M109A2 "camper special"
"I don't think the United States needs super-patriots. We need patriotism honestly practiced by all of us"
Dwight Eisenhower
Avatar= "319" the scrounger hobbit finding parts at 2012 Findlay show.
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