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For deep water fording, the stack needs to have a parallel tube that vents the master cylinder and air pack. That mounts next to the stack. I think you can add the axles to the pressurized system, but I'm not sure. Likely if you vent them to the same vent stack you'll be good. For the crankcase...
Its not the sort of thing you back up. I did pretty well with the maiden voyage on the Deuce with the trailer not having to back up. It'll usually be pulling into places where we've got enough room to unload full sized rigs with tanks so, a bren carrier or something is easy. The advantage would...
If you can talk them down to $3500 I'd consider it a good price. When I started looking practical considerations seemed like $6000 for a basic winch truck as reasonable. Some of these guys can talk a truck driver out of his truck with a load in the back, but I'm not that good. :-D
If I understand right, that's an engineering trailer so it should handle some pretty heavy objects. I'd doubt if those fenders would have a problem with anything up to a few tons on them. Given how they're gusseted on both sides, I should think they'd do fine.
Adding ramps, weld on some hinge...
Run that vent line into a T somewhere in the Vent tube for the fuel tank. Make sure you split out the Airpack and Master Cylinder Vents though to a new vent line per that PS magazine article while you're there.
As long as the HEMMT is, I'd think the trailer would do fine no? Or was the length of the tongue a pain and made it easy to jackknife even the long HEMMT?
Yeah. You're right. I'd somehow managed to combine the PLS components onto the Mk48, probably the LVS description. :-/
Anyhow... Emmando, what did you guys hate about the M989 trailer? Too unweildy? Seems like it's just a BIG tag trailer that's pretty short. My tag trailer seems to work just...
Here's the web page on the MK48 PLS system.
There's some very cool videos there for the Modular Fuel Farm and Engineering Modules that can be used with the truck system.
Ida, the vehicle in question is the MK 48. There's several varieties of rear units and the PLS System with host of attachments for the Palletized Load System.
The Mk48 and the HEMTT are brothers as they're made by Oshkosh and share a lot of features. The Mk48 does bend in the middle. There's...