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Rubbish.
They were more then happy to sell me a 50$ part for 350$ when I called them last week. In fact they even gave me the NSN, and transferred me to the sales lady who took the NSN, and ordered the dam part. The sales lady had no access to the part numbers or diagrams however.
You get the...
call mile marker. They'll get you part numbers, and will sell you the parts.
Might be able to get a hydraulic shop to custom bend some hard lines for you as well.
Bulk? You can get a contract for them by the truckload.
One guy that sells them locally asks 120$ ea tire only with 75% tread.
I have been lucky to find people that buy the trailers and change the tires to something smaller. Those guys are happy to unload them at 100-120$ a pair w/12 bolt...
I don't hit the rim. Just enough to break the bead. :doh: Why fight with it when one habt the tools laying around.
$20 dollars a rim is good, especially if re-using the old beadlocks. Off road shops charge that much just to balance 1 wheel, and won't even mess with the rubber insert beadlocks...
Any o ring as it falls into spec.
It takes a good amount of time to do a set of tires correctly especially when you're beating on them with a duck bill sledge. I would be happy if a shop did the work in a day especially with 24 bolt rims. Which you haven't elaborated on yours yet.
+1 about the...
Hmm politics.
Too many middlemen. I'm curious about GB's surplus recession. I suspect more politics. It's a PITA to get american parts in EU, I don't see them as a hobby as in America. But who knows they all might end up going to Turkey, and gasp end up more south.
Look for a clean one. The pictures are more valuable then the description, and in GP case the pictures are the description. Non runners are generally non runners needing a good amount of work to get going "a lot of effort is put in by GP to get one running, may it be batteries, ether, ect". If...