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Nice, what was the price? Any chance of more photos of that CBC?

Mike, just so you know, David Doyle has written several books on the subject of US military transport. Case in point

My WWII group needs some 5 tons to move our armoured cars around. I've been contemplating converting a couple of Multifuel 5 tons to semi-tractor configurations and hacking a cab or two so we could get around with more space in the cab for armored car crew OR kit that we don't want stored on the...

Anyone get the feeling Bjorn is gonna set up a motor home with this? One of those shop van trailers and Bjorn can go vacation where ever he wants.

How thick is that? It doesn't look like it would stop much!

I'm gonna have to say Gimpyrobb that personal attacks like that are probably outside of our ROE here.

Side of the engine block if I'm not mistaken. One of the manuals should show where.

What you want is one that's already lowered. An M514 trailer has a much lower deck and real torsion bar axles. 1 ton cargo capacity too. http://www.steelsoldiers.com/index.php?module=photoshare&func=showimages&fid=114&page=1&template=thumbnails

At Fort Indiantown Gap, I saw an ISO container that had an Air Compressor, generator, APU for hydraulics, tools, an arc welder and a K-boom crane like those found on the back of HEMMTs. It was a pretty cool piece of kit, but looked more useful sitting on the ground.

OD AND Iron....

RE: KAY... Make sure the contacts in the bulb housing are good too. Make sure the houseing for the bulb has a good solid ground as well where it goes from the shield on the bulb fitting to the bowl to the mounts and to the ground. IF it comes apart with bolts/nuts, add some star washers to make...

Talk to Ted Hils in Dothan. He might have one you could use.

There's quite a bit of fuel in the system. If you run out, (fuel runs to the back of the tank on a hill) it could, as it purges drain just enough back into get enough fuel to the IP and get the engine to start again. When I hit 1/2 tank, I start looking for a fuel stop. When I hit 1/4 I get...

So doubling up would be the best thing with the slave cable since you're going to be feeding heavy current over it. A paired connection from it to the cab sheet metal AND to the frame would be good because that'd allow for two paths (redundancy is good). The frame's probably the best ground to...

Bjorn, wouldn't all those connections to the neg terminal be a problem on the terminal? Better to build a bus bar or single ground point that has a good solid current return path to the negative terminal.

A little bit of weight in the back might have helped. Couple thousand pounds.

Why not get a longer cable and attach it to the slave plug so you can run it to the batteries? Or you could get a shorter cable and run that down to the frame to get a better connection to the bolt connecting to the ground lead you attached to the cab sheet metal. That'd give you an additional...

RE: RV I expect if you were good with woodworking or metal fab, you could come up with some furniture that would be two sided and work when it was folded up on it's side AND when the expandable side was folded out for full use. Basically think of galley tables and beds that convert. Same idea...

I had a comment from someone about "is that legal?" and I responded "why does everything have to be explicitly legal? Shouldn't things be implicitly legal in a free society unless there's an overriding need for it to be illegal?" I got a cocked head from her and then a nod of agreement. I smiled...

Bill, I get your point there's just odd differences in cops when I've been stopped. In my case usually in the ferret (the DOT guys didn't even want to look at the truck for official reasons they were into the cool factor from the start). The odd stop by the local county seat officers was...