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How in the He!! do you clean out old pictures out of what ever so new ones can be posted, this sucks, what is the point of posting a build if you can not post pictures to go along with the post.

Yep, the mk15 trailers have the brakes caged, so they could / can be moved.

There will be more to come , I do not stop to take pictures If I think about pictures I may stop or not, my wife has taken most of what is here. This is a Three man build , ME, MYSELF, and I.

More pictures Hyd. fill rig due to a pump issue 24v change over valve First live crane op.. First live crane op First crane stretch out Flying the flag A frame live end and support First test of live A frame Rear 90% done Rear 90% done Rear 90% done

More pictures more pictures fitting winch mount mk cross member and lift brackets Test fitting A frame to winch mount Installed modded rear winch mount Install of almost finished A frame Install of almost finished A frame First rigged A frame First rigged A frame First rigged...

More pictures Fab shop, R. forward crane mount Raw L forward crane mount Crane mount bracket L forward unpunched crane mount L forward crane mount installed R forward crane mount installed R rear crane mount L rear crane mount mk rear cross member going for first fitting

Well as some of you know that I have been working on BART or Bad A$$ Recovery Truck, The owner and I worked out what the mission was, then BUILD the truck for that mission. The misson, Build a HEAVY recovery truck (heavy wrecker) that is needed by a military HEAVY transport unit, that is not...

The wedges would go between the walking beam end and the top of the spring bracket.

That small draw back is about to change, I have EVERYTHING needed to remedy that small issue except time, so then I WILL have the ONLY m819 with a 5th wheel and a rear winch.

For you younger wrecker owners, a old wrecker trick to move the pivot point to the rear on three axle wreckers was to insert a OAK wedge in the rear spring pockets, this transferred the pivot point to the rear axle, the wrecker drivers always carried a couple of sets, most had a wood screw eye...

Just a m819, the perfect wrecker

You do not need that transfer case air switch, all it does is auto engage the front end in low, take it out of the circuit, connect and plug what is needed, then use the dash air switch to engage the front drive, this WILL also take the odds way down of breaking the transfer case in in low reverse.

This is VERY simple to answer without a lot of "I think" If you want to be covered in case something happens, then do NOT go over what the TM rateing, if you CAN NOT find it in print, do not guess or think that it will be fine. We all know that a lot more can and have been loaded on, but that...

Just a word of warning, watch what you say about what you would do to a thief, OR this thread will get deleted, we need to stay focused on getting the truck back, that can not happen if the thread goes down hill and be gone. WE ALL know what a thief deserves so there is no point in voicing it in...

WRONG, tm9-2320-272-10 states, "towed load" this is OFF the pintle is 15,000 lbs.

Real nice write up.

Now the truck is one lonnnnnnnnnnnnnng truck, bet it will gross out at about 100 tons pay load, looks like EACH of the boxes would be a "normal" highway trailer.

WE gave you FACTS which you do not want to believe, You ASKED for advice, we gave the advice you asked for which you "KNOW" is wrong, so WHY waste every bodies time if you are already a expert, you think our answers are cut and paste, boy do you have a lot to learn, our answers are gathered...

Non Directional Cross Country tires are NOT really designed as road tires, hense the name, put some 1100r x 20s on, you WILL be a LOT happier.