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I like the folks at Ft. Riley; that's where my M109 is from. Did you check with Ft. Riley GL about loading? Eighteen months ago they had a large fork lift and used it for customers' stuff. Seventy five is cheap!! I will remember the name. If my truck hadn't started I was going to start looking...

An M105A2 is absolutely compatible with a deuce, in fact a deuce or bigger is about the only thing you can tow it with because of its weight and brakes. It is a BIG trailer. It is worth some money if it already has a civilian title. A2s have duel air lines: a brake line and a supply line...

Are you buying or selling? That trailer goes back to the '80, by my guess. It has the old style tie-downs on the frame. It does have 2 air hoses. Check to see if the brakes work. GL often damages the relay valve with their fork lifts. The back rack that is stowed on the side is of the newer...

Here are the pic's. First, I have to apologize for the quality; apparently our 2 yr. old grandson has been playing with the camera and I didn’t check the lens until I saw the pic’s. Here is what it looks like. It is rather ugly, but functional. It tows very well behind the Bronco as long as...

Congratulations! I'm jealous! I applied for Warrant Officer’s Flight School and went for the physical. They laughed when they found out that I’m color blind. [FONT=Verdana]More power to you. I’d offer my usual piece of advice, “keep a low profile” but that’s hard to do in a Blackhawk.

I copied this off of this website some time ago. It is photo-work but I didn't keep track of whose post it was. Wouldn't that be great!

BSH, I paid $110 more for it than I paid for a newly rebuilt M105. I haven't prettied the box up at all. It still says “SCRAP” across the front. I traded the brakes from the original for a set of side boards and vinyl top. LOVE IT!! I don’t have to tarp my load anymore. I also got a set of...

Okay, I was going to shut up, but 1 more story. In ’70 I got out of the Army and went to work for my dad for a year and he agreed to pay my tuition at CU. We had a TV translator installation in SW Colorado and we borrowed a well used Ford F250 (former Forestry Service Truck) that had 1/8 turn...

I think that it was a unit-to-unit thing. South of Saigon, or at least in the 9th Inf. Div., that was verboten because that helped the enemy identify specific vehicles. We called my M37 “Methuselah” because as far as we could tell by the numbers on the hood it was the oldest truck around; it...

I disagree strongly. If you were going to mismatch ratios for the purpose of improving steering in a turn, you would put the higher (lower numbers) ratio up front because it tracks the larger circle. What has happened in the past is Ford manufactured its own rear axles and bought their front...

In '67 there was a 1954 M109 shop van with the same cab and chasis as an M211 for auction at GL just south of Washington, DC. I really, really wanted it! It was pictured with a tow bar still attached to the bumper. I researched the truck and found out about the automatic transmission and its...

If you're bidding on trucks in Texas, watch out for the phrase "All fluids drained" in the lot description.

Russ81’s answer is right on the money for the first 2 questions. To answer your last question better, if you do drive a truck (4x4 or 6x6) on a hard, dry surface with all axles locked in and assuming that you have a standard transfer case, you will increase tire wear and strain on all your...

I bought an M101 with 1 hub, no tongue and no wheels. I bought it to pull behind my '69 Ford Bronco. The Bronco has 5 on 5 1/2 bolts. I cut the military spindles off of the axle and welded on the front spindles from a '75 Ford Bronco. I put webs on the 12:00 and 6:00 positions to assist in...

Just an interesting aside, my M37 in Vietnam had right hand threads on both sides of the front and left hand threads on both sides of the rear. It seems that the brake drums on an M37 are interchangable front-to-rear and someone swapped them diagonally.

I always wanted an M715 until I bought my '83 J20. The problem with M715s is the engine. If you are not a history buff and want to keep it original, you will soon want to change it out. The engine is why few M715s went to Vietnam; the Army rebuilt M37s instead. Good luck, Arlyn

Putting a single lockout on one of your rear hubs will keep the 2 axles from fighting to go in a straight line. To make a turn without a hub, one of the 4 pairs of duels has to slip. A single hub in the back has 2 BIG advantages: 1) The original military NDT (we used to call them "tactical")...

Give the guys at GL Colo Spgs. a call and tell them what your problem is. I have picked up several lots there and they are good people to work with. I am 99.99% sure that they will give you an extension on your pickup date. I did that at Utah 18 mo. ago to make the dates on 2 different lots...

Do the 3 states have to connect?