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Figured I'd update. I finally got the toolbox welded on the trailer......and dented my freaking truck with it. I was used to jack knifing the trailer and watching in the mirror for the parking brake handles to come within a couple inches of the bedside and knowing to stop there. That allows me...
I removed the run flats out of one set of mine. They were a flat PITA to get out. I ended up putting BFG 33x12.50-16.5 tires on the trailer. Had a heck of a time getting them to take a bead but they have given me no issues since putting them on but I ain't let the air pressure get down low...
I've thought about taking a couple springs out of my M101A3 but didn't know how bad it would hurt the load capability. I just haul dirt bikes in it, but I kno some day I'll want to load it down with something.
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I've thought about getting my M101A3 Line-X'ed but was afraid it wouldnt take to the CARC or that the CARC would chip / peel over time and cause the liner to bubble or come off. How long have you had yours done and how is it holding up?
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Here's some pics. I'm prob one of the first ones back home.
If there's cameras around, Gimpy will bring them out, no doubt.
Trail rides were great this year. [thumbzup]
I don't get to get around and socialize as much as I'd like. I just hang out and let my boys have a big time. They are...
I am thinking of getting a spare tire mount / winch out from under a GM pickup truck at a junkyard and mounting under the front of the bed on my M101A3. The spare tire from my pickup fits it so no worry there, but the wife's Yukon is a 6-lug so I'd be SOL if I was pulling it with her truck and...
I think I am coming again this year. Gonna be me and my boys in the M35 pulling the M105 to camp in again. My Dad *may* follow me up in the pickup and hang with us too. Gonna come up Thur morning and head out Sat around noon or so maybe.
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Good looking trailer! They're nice aint they? I love mine. If you replace those huge 37" tires and runflats with some 33" tires it'll sit a bit lower and be prob 100# lighter. Search for a thread by me about lowering the landing gear, easy to do and it'll crank all the way down on your truck...
Can anyone with a M116A3 measure the mudflaps and tell me how long and wide they are, and how thick? I think I may want to add a set to my M101A3.
Thanks.
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Can someone explain to me how moving the half brackets on the bows down to the position shown in this picture will make the bow taller? It looks like the bow will still slide down into the pocket and bottom out on the notch as indicated by the arrow?
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Something to note that I found out this weekend. The fiberglass boards on the M105 series trrailers are wider than those on the M101 series. One side of my M101A3 is wood and the rest is fiberglass. I was going to swap the boards from a spare M105 side I have but they are larger. It would have...
So i took the trailer on it's maiden voyage this weekend hauling the boys dirt bikes and some gear . Worked out great!! I like having the side boards and gates on, makes it to where someone can't just walk by and snatch a pair of expensive boots or other gear.
Found that the armor dome light...
I've recently took two of these apart. After popping the insert out of the plug (sliding the plug back on the cable exposing the insert and pins) you'd have to melt the solder to remove the pins from the wires so you could remove the plug body from the cable. Then you'd put the new plug on and...