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Family picture night! It's so wonderful having them all together under one roof...

The sales thread is in the classified section here: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?191064-Soldier-B-HubHelper-for-2-5-5-and-10-ton-trucks This is an informative / educational thread to discuss & answer questions.

Quick update on the latest batch: all the rings have been powder coated and the base pieces should be getting baked on Tuesday or Wednesday and ready to ship by the end of the week. I'm all sold out of HubHelpers at this time so those that are interested can get signed up for the next batch.

Quick update on the latest batch: all the rings (1 piece or upper piece) have been powder coated and the base pieces should be getting baked on Tuesday or Wednesday and ready to ship by the end of the week. I'm all sold out of HubHelpers at this time so those that are interested can get...

Pretty close. I will use model 25B if I can't find the 425A, but the advantage of the 425A is that they will work with a divided entry turbo which is more responsive in the low to mid range versus the single entry only usage of the 25B. Even if I find the 425A I don't believe I will repaint...

Thanks! I kinda went overboard hiding everything and making it look as close to a military option as I could.

Don't know, but the white ones are hard enough to find. All I know about unicorns is you're not supposed to play leap frog with them...

The +12 volts coming into the rotary switch will come from a relay that is controlled by the grenade; battery-->relay-->rotary switch-->jake head So the grenade will tell the relay to activate the circuit and the rotary switch will direct the power on where to go.

Here is what I'm thinking for the wiring from the switch to the jake heads. I've never worked with diodes before but they're simple and my buddy the electrical engineer says they'll work all day everyday and this is a simpler way to do it than with relays. All 4 of the wires that terminate...

Here is my 1979 M813A1

I almost gave in and went with the standard toggle switch but the data plates that would have looked the right vintage were going for $40+ on ebay for old scratched up data plates. Instead, I designed my own data plate that would look original and work with a 3-position rotary switch. I spent...

Work is continuing on making the rest of the circuit functional for the jake brakes. I'm going to use a rotary switch to select between OFF, LO (2 heads), and HI (3 heads) and I'm going to install the switch in the water fording cable location. Removing the knockout plug revealed a 5/8"+ hole...

Here are a few 2-piece HubHelpers in the white. Note; the mottled appearance is the acid etching from the zinc phosphate bath and that is how I'll send out the bare steel versions. It's a good substrate to paint on. The powder coated versions get the same treatment but they're painted over...

Once the tears over my cracked window subsided I was able to see well enough to trial fit my new jake brake switch and data plate. I'll have more details about these pieces probably in my grenade shifter thread later on. For now I have HubHelpers to work on.

I decided to tackle my cracked passenger side windshield this weekend using this thread as a guide: https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?183190-M35A2-Windshield-Rebuild&highlight=Windshield Everything went slow but OK. I bought a pneumatic caulk gun which made everything a breeze...

Thanks for the great feedback guys! I'm glad to hear that it's working so well for others. :) Did that deer show up just in time for...dinner...?

I'm sorry I don't have any pictures of this one in use since none have been delivered yet, but I will post them up if I get any photos back from customers.

Quick update on the HubHelpers: All of the 2.5, 5, and 10 ton HubHelpers have made it through all of their fabrication steps are awaiting a zinc-phosphate bath before getting powder coated.

Quick update on the HubHelpers: All of the 2.5, 5, and 10 ton HubHelpers have made it through all of their fabrication steps are awaiting a zinc-phosphate bath before getting powder coated.

There are several forces in play and as Mrgior31513 mentions, there are stresses at the 90° bend and those will be the same regardless of how many holes are engaged with lug nuts. There is a vertical shear stress from gravity pulling straight down on the hub & drum and that stress is shared by...