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There is a danger with any grease fitting on wheel bearings. Bearing buddies are meant to allow a slight amount of positive pressure to be maintained when dunking your hubs. Over zealous pumping of grease into a hub only serves to blow out the grease seal, thus eliminating any chance at all of...

If you decide on surge brakes, you must specify whether they are drum or disc brakes when you buy the coupler/actuator. They operate at different pressures. Also, it will mean having the original lunette and mount cut off, and the new assembly welded or bolted on. The electric conversion would...

While I have zero experience with any M-series trailers, what we like to do with civilian surge brakes is to use a backup solenoid. Adapting one would take a bit of homework, but the idea is to attach an inline solenoid that defeats the brake pressure when given voltage from the tow vehicles...

Any oil will keep wood from dry rotting. We used boiled linseed oil on our hardwood stakebed. It turns tacky for a short time, then becomes dry to the touch. Linseed oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That stuff is 3/16" thick tubing. I put a little bevel on the edge to about 1/8". Then I left a 1/16" gap before laying a root bead with TIG. I went over the root bead with a couple more passes with the TIG welder to fill the gap to just flush with the surface.

Burn, burn, burn, bbbburn, burn, burn, just keep practicing. Burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, burn, are we there yet?, burn, burn, ditto, ditto. :roll:

There are a couple of key items to swapping hubs. Not owning a military trailer, I don't know what oem gear is on them, but the brake flange and spindle size will either accept different brakes and hubs or not. New brake backing plates and hubs would be needed, if fitment is possible. A full...

It looks like you need 2 hydraulic backing plates (with 4 bolt mounting?) and 2 drums with seals and bearings. What size are the remaining drums? They look to be in the 12" diameter range, I am guessing, yes, maybe??? Edit, 29 Sep. '08:- The guys in the parts dept. asked me today if the wheel...

Wow, thank you all for the warm welcome! :o I work on trailers and RV's by day and go to school by night, mainly studying welding. I am from the Ontario area, and I am working on driveway cleanup detail as we speak! Too much junk! Virtually all civilian trailers. My one and only drab machine is...

New to this forum I am. Just wanted to make aquaintences, they call me Danny. :)