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Went to dataplates.net and they only advertise an M35 set - did you have a custom set made from your old ones or are they just slow to update web site and do a whole lot more?

This is kind of what I was referring to. The pin with the split cotter pins in it - the vertical pivot connection of the draw bar. I think your best bet would be to mount another hitch on the front of the truck and watch over the backing wagon.

What are you trying to do in this pic, back to the right like alley docking or back straight? Not familiar with the (or any!) video game, the pic implies you let the error or over steer of the tractor get too far to the right when the middle pivot point (tractor hitch) departed from straight...

Can't edit this type of forum... Like Rosco said, explaining this in words is quite difficult and as I mentioned, my attempt at helping you (and silent others) may be 'too wordy'. I have hay wagons and tractors which give you a magnificent view right over the tongue of the trailer and it still...

If you have fabrication options, perhaps you can make a temporary rigid extension for the tongue. This will 'dumb down' the reaction and your over correction of each wandering - giving you more time to react correctly. Looking at the theory... Just by adding that second pivot vs a regular...

I think I'll go measure my Holmes gear (way shorter than a collapsed med tow bar) to see what geometry and stand off you get with the civi system - which will be even closer than Rons setup just by the fact that the pintle hitch on Rons big Channel adds to the clearance. Don't forget that the...

If you know someone in your local county or town Highway barn - a lot of them have their own 'sign' shops that make all the local road signs. If you "know a guy", there may be a possibility of getting some made there.. On one of the older threads (search "deliniator/delliniation plates")...

<---- These? rut roh - porky beat me to it... Used for civilian road reg compliance in Europe - size either 200 x 200 mm or 400 x 400 mm. Similarly in Australia - not that any US military vehicles have served there.

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Do a search on the UK auction or military vehicle sites - they often have that style (as well as US style like your holders) for sale. They are simple metal strap/lattice type construction with a hinge - not a formed tray and a web strap.. or rectangular boxes. Styles changed over time and from...

M816 stowage diag. What happened to this thread? I guess the phantom compartments were some how imagined by a design engineer, but a bean counter decided that that it would be too expensive to build and that was where the corners were cut for the budget.... To zoom in on pic, use "Ctrl +...

No holes from factory would explain the gas cut ones on mine - done locally by someone tired of pools of rain water rusting stuff... Though for the rectangular holes done after (namely the Aussie ones), that poses more questions since Jeff mentioned, an inplace round hole would have been easier...

...well may be in the plate when drilled, but these are on the very edge and the ones in mine look like they're gas cut - rough'ish, not at all drilled.... Rectangular ones could be simply punched or power nibbled when the plate is being cut. This I would not know - thought Garwood only made...

AM General M816 difference Round drain holes in AM General M816.

Cheers PJ. Hmmm, interesting. The Australian M816s are all listed as Kaiser Jeeps, they were procured in '73 I think.. Ill try to get pic of my AM General 'round holes' later.

Just did a search and found no threads that question any slight differences in the manufacture of 5 tons between Kaiser-Jeep and AM General. I am sure they had the exact same specs and drawings, but there are always slight manufacturing differences and liberties that are taken - call it...

No Gimp, no Croc hunting for me - Barramundi perhaps. Research is into the differences between the Aussie Army's M816's and the US issued ones...

Whilst doing research into the Australian Armys M816's, I came across a few that had been canabalised and mounted on a civi truck chassis as well as just civi use of the whole truck. Not sure if the cranes are 816 or 543's though. and yes - the first one has been put on a 'flat pack' for...

Cheers. Overhead is not my strong suit! Nope - there is some exposed steel (I impatiently moved one of the screw/handles - wiping off some damp primer), the lunette tube is 3" galv (suitably ground for the weld) and some of the primer was a black'ish....

Holleybone mounted. (Towbar) Have pics to show me lunette end, but... I had to self engineer the feet end, angled to allow for feet coming out past lip on body. Both brackets will be yellow. Adds 3" to overall width of body, but still narrower than mirrors. Also I am not sure if I want...