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The army used them as "air field taxis". I think I read that the Marines used them for radio jeeps?
Like yours mine is missing every thing ambulance also. I'm thinking of doing the air field taxi thing with mine not sure yet. It's on the back back bruner right now.
I bet they did all of them that way. My dad told me a story of the frist F86 his unit got in Korea. The line cheif started cussing about them forgetting to put the prop in the crate.
I gusses it depends on what you want to do with it. Do you want to show how it looked in WWII or how it looks after sitting for 70 years. I think a nice (not 20 coats of color sanded) paint job and new numbers and the like would do you proud. Plus that way in 70 more years it will still be...
Per an older TM for the M105 the axle are/were 10,000lbs load rated. The trailer house frame is a waste of time IMO. What do you plan to use for brakes?
Thank's VT for sharing this build with us. I think it's great the work you are putting into this to make it right. It means a lot. From one vet to anther thank's and keep us posted.
Well, if you had the TM and read it BEFORE the hurricane you would not have been in the dark in the frist place. That is the piont most on hear are trying to make. If the the frist guy in this post would have looked at a TM before buing some thing, he would know how to OR more importantly how...
The yellow arrow is the newer typ tie down. It's use to tie/chain down the trailer for shipment like by rail or ship. The square hole's were put there by aliens:p. And the pic of the tongue brackets is missing. Or I'd give you my $0.02 there two.
There should be two different sizes used. I know O'reily crosses them both to one part number. It's not right but some bean counter thought it would be cheaper to stock 1 instead of 2.
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