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My 2cents worth of opinion...... One of the big factors - financial support. From the mid-30's the German government was willing to provide the money and facilities for research to pretty much anyone who came up with even slightly reasonable ideas for advancing technology, particularly in...

Physically yes, they will fit together, but functionally no. They are different lengths so you know which one goes with which lower section for the correct wavelength. So the longer upper goes with the shorter lower, and vice versa. Cheers

You should be able to access everything from the engine compartment. There is a rubber "curtain" that you'll have to pull out to get at the stuff, it's there to keep the area reasonably clean. Cheers

Seeing the pictures better, it looks shorter than the SEE (Shelter, Electrical Equipment, not the Unimog one ;)) we talked about earlier. That one is 61" tall. Cheers

They are great trailers, even if a tad on the heavy side. I plan to haul mine mostly behind the M813. I have found that with just a little work, the LMTV troop seats can be mounted in the trailer, should you so desire. A little (:roll:) yard work is small penance for being the owner of such...

I got a pair of them in a shelter I bought from the junkyard. I hadn't paid too much attention to them when I had initially looked inside the shelter (which had a lot of shelving and junk in it) but did wonder why a couple of the shelves were brown. When I got it home I looked them over and...

Very well! Thanks for the information. I have access to avgas, and run it in the mule, which does NOT like the alcohol besotted rubbish that comes out of regular gas pumps. Meanwhile, if you need info out of that manual, let me know. I can check into having it copied for you if you don't...

On the topic of heat - Back in the day, the Soviets needed to claim some accolades for their own gear, and shake up the West a bit, so they did a high speed "reconnaissance" flight over Israel with a couple of MiG-25s at altitude and speeds that were very impressive. What they kept to...

Inlet design is just as important, if not more so, than what comes out the back. Once jets started getting into the transonic region, managing the shock waves in the intakes became a major headache, and variable geometry inlets became a necessity, thus all those moving ramps and cones and...

I do. I was saying Onan because there is one of their nameplates on the engine, just visible in the first picture. Wasn't aware that they used other folks stuff. These are what I had in the computer, when I go out to the farm tomorrow I can take better ones, if you need them. The...

Here is the front of the manual that came with mine, which looks like a photocopy of a photocopy. You might try contacting the folks written in pen at the bottom to see if they can help you. Cheers

Correct. Big ol' pintle hook! I took this picture after replacing the emergency side air hose. The hose was already damaged when we picked it up at Ft Hood for mkcoen. It looks like someone had driven off with it still attached to a truck, and ripped the glad hand off the truck end. The...

Seems like a lot of your gear follows me home...in this case literally... ;) And it stays in the family, so all is good. It is now one of very few (maybe the only?) M1082 with USMC markings on it! The rear paint was a quicky for the Texas Independence Day parade last Saturday, the whole...

I absolutely applaud that! The rules are bent regularly. I have seen one truck where the painter apparently didn't want to bother with a can of green paint, so they just left a huge gap of black between the parts of the serial # they were painting with black paint. A buddy of mine got a...

These are cool little machines. I had a friend-of-a-friend say one day recently "You collect old military stuff? I've got something at my place for you". The price was "...free, if you promise to fix it up". Can't beat that, so fix it up I shall. Came with two extra wheels/tires and an...

Previous owner probably bent the hooks out to get them to fit over the clevises on some MV's. I had one set like that on an M105 trailer that would not hook onto the M813 or M185, and several on others that you have to find just the right spot/angle and think clean thoughts to get them to...

Valuable lesson learned, but not the hard way. :) It is difficult to keep a good following distance in any denser traffic, and the crazies jumping in and changing the equation don't help. Inflating your tires helps with braking. Grooved concrete has a pretty good (as in high) coefficient of...

Juanprado has a good point, check your state (and federal) laws on this. In Texas, having the hooks attached to the removable part of the receiver hitch will net you a hefty fine from a State Trooper who notices it. Cheers

Nice trailer, glad you got it home safely. [thumbzup] As an old collision reconstructionist, I can't help but start calculating this stuff, so bear with me... :wink: An average perception/reaction time for a physically fit and alert driver is approximately 1.5 seconds. That's the time from...

Yours was painted black on black? :shock: Paint manual for 383 calls for black lettering on green/brown areas, green on black areas. Cheers