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Near the rear winch is a control that looks just like a hand brake valve. It allows you to "depress" the clutch pneumatically from the rear position in order to operate the power divider. Something is leaking.

RE: Re: M543A2 Winner On GL While I still strongly doubt that the truck grosses 40000 lbs, unless drained there are several hundred pounds of hydraulic fluid in the crane.

The manual says the net weight of the truck is 34,600 lbs. Fluids would add at the most another ton, the OVM probably a little less than that. The truck most assuradly was not turned in with all the OVM, which included a LOT of handtools. I'd be real reluctant to be accusatory until the truck...

As Jeff Foxworthy would say - you might be a readneck...... But I believe if the step were only 18" I'd just drive it off, especially if was loaded so that it could back off. My concern about the singles isn't the weight rating of the tires - but the ground pressue exerted by the vehicle...

I've never set out to put larger than stock tires on any of my vehicles - but I am here to tell you that you need AT LEAST as much contact area as you have now. My 5 ton wrecker leaves deep ruts in places that a deuce goes without leaving a trail. A friend in the reserves tells me that on...