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Better than mine looked. :mrgreen:

JWC, thanks man! The 12.5's are close enough in height to the 900x20's in tandem that there's no concern over bind or height different with front axle pulled in.

I did it very similar to this. You roll the dice on no tags or registration, which I'll take that fine, BUT it is insured so the responsible thing that will get your balls sued off or truck on the hook is taken care of.

Off topic, sorry- how long are SF-97's taking these days?

My Pop used to make those 211's and 135's into Brush trucks for Long Island Brush Truck back in the day.

I'd hide a lower profile civvy/commercial 5th wheel under the bed on my tractor if I had that. Oh, um...to qualify that so it makes sense; military double axis 5th wheel is very tall, I have a tractor, I'm putting a bed on it and the military 5th wheel is too tall to hide under the bed frame.

Now what about the people in Vaginasko? <--Cool! He fixed that one too. :mrgreen:

Also sucks when you're new to the trucks and have to remove a rear tire when the 'L' is covered by the inner nut and it's design!

Wish I was closer... :(

The A3 wheels are designed for tire marked MPT. 14.5R 20 Michelin's are this and another example is the 12.5R 20 Continental MPT's. I have a set of the Conti's on A3 wheels on the front of my crane truck for a better footprint and higher weight capacity over the 900x20 NDT's.

I like the cab over design and wonder WHY the **** it took SO long to adopt this design!? Military seems to be about packing size, alot...that said, why keep on producing long nose trucks with 12' beds when you could have gone to a short nose and same length bed years earlier. I don't...

Yep, the M931A2 has the tire on the driver's side. Literally removed it last night. Didn't know the M818's had the tire on the pass's side. At the base of the little tire jib dealie you can see where the valves and trailer air lines come up and stow above. I pulled the 1400x20 out before...

The Big Block Chevrolet marine engines I've worked on were a little different than what you described. In typical AUTOMOTIVE use, you have the small timing sprocket on the crank and the larger sprocket on the cam. The timing chain has them BOTH turning the same direction and the cam turns at...

Don't forget so it doesn't walk the back of the boat to the side if the're both spinning same direction. You can get a slight 'crab' from it. Also, on Chevrolet's V8's, only the crank turns backwards. They gear drive the cam so that the valvetrain AND OIL PUMP and distributor still turn the...

Rayzor, I just removed the spare tire rack from my 5 ton tractor last night. Is there any reason other than having the one storage compartment to the driver's side that you put it on spun 180*?

I don't remember the shop they mentioned though if someone made an adapter, we would know. Made my own jackshaft going from the 1550 or 1600 series joint on the trans to a 1410 on the input of the swapped in fine spline Dodge NP205 unit. The input and both outputs were swapped over to 1410's...

I've noticed that when driving and coming to a stop, it will downshift a little slower than the slowing speed you're traveling so it's almost like for a moment you're in too high a gear causing the engine to bog a little til it bumps down. Another thing you can do is just bump the hand throttle...

That's a steering shaft off of something. Fine spline, cross bolt for clamping and keeping from pulling off...steering shaft something or other. Definitely not deuce PTO.

FYI, you got your weight reference on the two transmissions from the JP magazine article that was ripped off from me. The weight of the 3053 is high (the only thing basically I didn't tell him) and is within 5-10lbs max of the NV4500. Something to very much keep in mind when thinking about...

Yep, I've seen the truck too first hand. Top notch fab work, very well thought out! He mentions that he would rather have the final tube welded on the truck for fitment; our frames are supposed to be a specific width (I forget...it may be 32"...but it doesn't matter for what I'm saying) but if...