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At least you have a tractor, it's fairly short. My dump truck is the same wheelbase and you can tell it's teetered at least once.

Have you had a chance to give it a good looking over? Do you think it's feasible to shorten the wheelbase any further?

The guys on here were all but certain that a regular truck couldn't do it on a tow bar. No mention of trailer ever happened.

Yeah, that's hotshotable. There are guys with the 4500 and 5500 truck towing up around 25,000. WO/W M52A2 is only 17840#

Can these transfer cases be swapped into the M39 series of 5 tons without too much difficulty? Assuming they are air shaft rather than sprag type?

It's not going to matter where you drive or if you are in 2WD 4x4 or 6x6, that pesky steering geometry is going to be an issue.....but only if you turn. Let me add this though, GM didn't compensate for ackerman angles on the 73-87 trucks. They were the same for blazers at 106" WB all the way to...

I just went back and checked out the pic of your truck from the towbar thread. It's got a drivers side tank. It's an M51 without bed or M52. It's got the same WB as the 818 I posted a pic of.

Here is an M818. Tractor wheelbase, 1600 tires. I don't see anything shorter getting you much. How do you plan on fixing the Ackerman angle?

You can certainly get a foot out of the middle, that would get you tractor wheelbase. You would have to carefully measure from there. You would also need to lose or relocate the 78 gallon fuel tank.

Not sure what kind of truck you're wanting to shorten but here are 2 considerations. Ackerman angle. If you move the rear bogie assy up too far, you will be fighting to get it to turn. I can say this about a deuce but not so much on 5 tons. The rear driveshaft on a deuce tractor is fairly...