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Everyone,
This is going to be one of my threads documenting my fix-ups! M149A2 this time.
I usually already have the item in my possession in had before making a thread & already started doing something, but in this case am doing it before in hopes I can get some input.
Tires and everything look good from the pictures. It says it is a 1966 but it is now an A2, so it clearly went through some upgrading. My guess is new tank, wheels/tires, and the lunette ring, along with brake system & stuff.
What I was looking for input on was the lunette ring. The ones I have always seen have a castle nut and are slightly offset... you loosen the nut and get it to come out of the keyway, then can rotate it to get a little adjustment out of it. This one has an adjustable channel, but it also has some pin that looks to be bolted so it stays secured. The adjustable channel is obvious, almost all my trailers have this. But, what's the deal with that pin? Nothing in the Technical Manual goes over this and the updates to the TM I found talked about in the PS Monthly magazine don't cover it either, just some of the brake system changes & how a heater port may be present on newer tanks.
It LOOKS like you unbolt it from the top & you can flip the whole thing, then put it back in, replace the pin, the bolt it back in, so the lunette is significantly lowered.
I'm hoping this is the case! It will make it tow level much easier. I have a pretty good hitch, but it won't go that high. These are fairly light empty, so I'm no worried either way.
All this is just for the trip home with my F-250. It's going to be a good trip. I know it's going to be a little risky being that it's an older trailer and it is 7ish hours one way, but I'm up for an adventure & will be going prepared with tools, a helper, and a TM in hand.
I think this is going to clean up nice. Been waiting to get one for a fair deal that wasn't total scrap. I think the flaking paint makes it look way worse than it is. The bent lunette mount isn't a big deal to me because one of the first things will be to make new, longer adjustable channel mount. Once it is home, I don't plan to ever tow it unless it's behind my LMTV. I may just put one of the older style lunette rings on it as I can get one for next to nothing.
This is going to be one of my threads documenting my fix-ups! M149A2 this time.
I usually already have the item in my possession in had before making a thread & already started doing something, but in this case am doing it before in hopes I can get some input.
Tires and everything look good from the pictures. It says it is a 1966 but it is now an A2, so it clearly went through some upgrading. My guess is new tank, wheels/tires, and the lunette ring, along with brake system & stuff.
What I was looking for input on was the lunette ring. The ones I have always seen have a castle nut and are slightly offset... you loosen the nut and get it to come out of the keyway, then can rotate it to get a little adjustment out of it. This one has an adjustable channel, but it also has some pin that looks to be bolted so it stays secured. The adjustable channel is obvious, almost all my trailers have this. But, what's the deal with that pin? Nothing in the Technical Manual goes over this and the updates to the TM I found talked about in the PS Monthly magazine don't cover it either, just some of the brake system changes & how a heater port may be present on newer tanks.
It LOOKS like you unbolt it from the top & you can flip the whole thing, then put it back in, replace the pin, the bolt it back in, so the lunette is significantly lowered.
I'm hoping this is the case! It will make it tow level much easier. I have a pretty good hitch, but it won't go that high. These are fairly light empty, so I'm no worried either way.
All this is just for the trip home with my F-250. It's going to be a good trip. I know it's going to be a little risky being that it's an older trailer and it is 7ish hours one way, but I'm up for an adventure & will be going prepared with tools, a helper, and a TM in hand.
I think this is going to clean up nice. Been waiting to get one for a fair deal that wasn't total scrap. I think the flaking paint makes it look way worse than it is. The bent lunette mount isn't a big deal to me because one of the first things will be to make new, longer adjustable channel mount. Once it is home, I don't plan to ever tow it unless it's behind my LMTV. I may just put one of the older style lunette rings on it as I can get one for next to nothing.
