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The hook, about 42" long, made from 3/8 round stock, is standard equipment ( also a scoop shovel), on my vehicles. Its used to reach out for something, like pulling the inside chain rail between the tires, to get it hooked. Chaining up, should be practiced some. The best advise is "when in...

Mounting Super ideas all. I especially like the air operated hydraulics. I have had the idea on my list for sometime. For reinforcing the under bed though, I think consideration should be given to a 1/2" plate that is permanently to the underside, that in turn has reinforcing fixe to it. It...

OTR Fleets went to oil, because there is less maintenance. Seals today are good for at least several 100,000 miles. Little trailers like you have get little or no attention by most Folks. They don't look back. A basic Service policy will get you long maintenance free intervals. The hub caps...

I have had an M989 now, for several years, and pulled it all over with Medusa. It has a little more deck (about 18'), and has a full modern air brake system, and weighs about half what that other trailer does.A Deuce air system in good shape, will handle it well. I did put a Tractor Protection...

Building anything, like a camper box, boils down to being a whole lot of work, and expense. That Civi camper stuff will shake apart, in a couple of moves, and look just like your heading to the dump with it. The S-280 Shelter, was built for it, and fits the way it should (and has resale...

Great thread! Absolutely, if your pulled over at night by LEO, get to the safe spot with turn signal on, then flashers, along with the dome light on/hands on the wheel, window down, once you get stopped. If your on the side of the road, and have to be out, keep an eye out for traffic, but...

Pull that front valve cover 1st, and start it - see what is or is not happening there. You can do that outside, in a few minutes. It won't be that hard to fix.

You can get by quite nicely with just one of the old alchaoal snifters. The more modern air driers are over-rated, especally with little or no maintenance. In the mean time, take the discharge line loose from the compressor & pour a little air line antifreeze down it. Gas line antifreeze...

Just because Youth has passed some of us by, we shouldn't let "age", highjack a perfectly good thread! There are a lot of gearheads around, that need something to tinker on.

Chains can vary, especially by the Mfg. If they were slightly large (because they are made to fit several tire sizes), they will seat themselves farther down on the sides of the tires, where they are widest. It might be that you can shorten the a little.

If you have oversize tires, you may well have a problem. Single chains on duals are next to worthless, if not outright dangerous (not legal some places like British Columbia). The unchained tire holds up the chained tire from cutting in & a 1/2 turn, and your sliding. Does the inside rail...

When I was a Kid, I talked my Dad into letting me put a 235 chev engine (with full pressure oiling), in our 1941 Chev farm flatbed - replacing the 218 that used the splash system on the rods. I re-built the 235 - when I put it together, I missed the fact that one of the rocker shaft stancheon...

Why bother? The spray can stuff won't last 6 months. If your going to do a good job, use a sand blaster, otherwise run it through the car wash, and then get the loose stuff with a putty knife, and use a brush on the rest, unless you have a spray gun. There is plenty of comment already on the...

That is not a real common thread. I forget the pitch, but its National Extra Fine (same as a Budd lug nut). There are 2 or 3 thread files, with their various assortment of thread pitches, so best know the pitch before you go looking for one. Depends on how bad you smushed it, but a universal...

Springs Re: Extra Leaf (Gimp) Bone Yard -- match the leaf width/thickness.

On one of my trailers, I was always bumping the max load on the springs too. There was just enough U-bolts thread extra sticking out, to take the springs apart and add one extra leaf to the pack. It does the job. Just get or make a longer center bolt. Put it on top the third leaf from the...

I'm sure that you will find an adequate support group, with kind words, that you will find soothing. Good Luck

The shoes & wheel cylinders on the M796 bolster trailer, are the same as the M105. From the outside, measuring the drums, should give one a good guess about the width of the shoes - 2" or 3".

Head Gaskets Rusty says, "if I'm tooling around Alaska sometime". Yeah, well thats what I have been thinking for the last 40 some years. There are some bugs, here and there in some of this MV stuff, and its long past the time when I can just turn it in, and get another one. Try Eagle Summit...

So in following this thread closely, the only agreement so far, is that head gaskets, at least in the past, have been a problem. That, and use a copper coating. Back in the '60s & '70s, we used to use aluminum paint spray paint. Is there more for something of a summary? Use the latest style...