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Sorry for the late reply - got back from vacation with the trailer on Sunday - Awesome! I must say though - the JK is a bit of a pig on hills pulling all that weight... even with OD off, I had to tease it to downshift on hills so I wouldn't lose all my speed... Trailer did excellent - and...

Some pics finally! In the garage unfortunately... Fabbed up the License plate bracket from some sheetmetal cut form a computer case and bedlined - also added a plate light on the bracket. New tires - STA NDT's, and DOT compatible lights at all corners.

License place light yesterday and tires installed today! Pics coming I promise!

I bit the bullet and ordered the correct military NDT tires (STA 900X16's from Unversal tire in PA)... along with tubes and flaps... that was painful, but I was very concerned with the tubeless tires wearing the tubes. Regardless - I'll have this M101-A1 back in running condition inside of a...

Thanks for the welcome! Got the corner markers installed tonight front and rear... sorry no pics! I was wiped out when I finished - long day! I think I have decided on 235/85R16 Duratrac's for the tires with radial tubes - these will be 31" diameter. I run 33" Duratracs on my Jeep. With the...

Question - was CARC used on the wood as well? That's the only thing I'm thinking about refinishing at the moment.

Is it a bad sign that I'm researching adding blackout lamps to my jeep? lol!

Thanks for the welcome! Sounds like you've been having a lot of fun with your trailers! Yeah, I've gone down the thought process of matching the tow vehicle and having common spares, etc. While that makes a LOT of sense - I really dont want to change the trailer in any way from its original...

Thanks - and thank you for the warning! So - I finished things up today. I lopped off the end of the NATO connector and used my continuity tester to trace each wire back to the junction and marked them all - then used the wiring info sticky to get my 4-flat connector going. I also had to add...

In an interesting turn of events - well maybe not surprising given my previous post... When I was telling my wife my "trailer plans" (all the while she was chanting something about me being obsessed with the trailer.. no idea why??)... She said "wait, you need to buy a new cover, and paint...

Thanks - I'm not quite ready yet, but possibly in a few weeks. Wife is still having palpitations over the purchase of the trailer... if I tell her it'll be almost as much for tires I'll need to seriously consider sleeping in it.

Dug out some info on Garbee's site - included here for future reference: "Mike (who is an tire guy with many years experience) sent me the following information from his Michelin truck & off the road tire data books (1971 Michelin technical data book): 9.00R16 - Michelin tube 16N9, with a 1-16...

Ok - School me on tires! I found a place nearby that will replace my tires. Its a Fleet service company that deals with Semi's. They will do it for $45 per tire. So - I need to know what all I will need. Is it mandatory to replace tubes and flaps (not sure what those are?) with the tire...

Thanks for the advice - I had planned on it, but I'll move it up the list. Also - thanks for the info on the socket!

WOOHOO!!!! Got it flipped!!! I bought the Walmart trailer ball wrench and a 10lb sledge. I WD40'd everything this morning before work and re-applied when I got home. It took about an hour of putting the wrench on - hitting the wrench to move the nut 1/8 of a turn at a time and then taking the...

I wish! Nope - My jeep is a bit lower than the lunette... I think it will be perfect once flipped... kindof dreading the process.

Hey!!! You sir are the reason I started this!!! I read your build thread and decided to go for it! LOL!! Great work by the way!

HAHA!!! That'd be my preference! I said I was considering painting the jeep sand tan and she about lost it. My preference would be the jeep and trailer tan, both tops black.. not gonna happen!

Oh and by the way, my apologies. I was reading through some other threads and it looks like you folks don't care for ellipsis (...) or texting abbreviations. I'm just going to get my aplogies started now because in my informal writing, i use ellipses and dashes ( - ) a LOT. Generally as a tie...

Nope - no spare at the moment... going to have to hunt one up..