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If you copy this please mail one cold bud light to my address. Thanks! I could use it after working on the truck and trailer out in the sun. It is insanely humid and hot for May in SWPA. Blah!
The dexterity of a Chinese weight lifter is not required. I am 6'2" and able to sit Indian-style under the trailer. Plenty of room to work.
Since this might be a once in a blue moon kind of thing, I'm not worried about getting down and dirty under the trailer to get the tire off and out.
The photo is misleading regarding the landing gear proximity. I should of took a picture from the side. The tire is probably 12" back from the front of the trailer bed. No where close to the landing gear.
On another note it is annoying the landing gear has to be lowered all the way to swing...
Just throwing this out for the trailer experts who might look at this: why does my 68 M105A2 have a rear landing leg / stabilizor but my 67 M103A2 that used to have a genset on it does not? I would think the genset trailer would need it more...
Yup, the M35A2 spare tire bracket and incorporated hoist that came off my 67 M35A2 (now with dual tanks!) is what I used and the hoist mechanism worked just the way it would on the deuce. No problems at all.
Like I said in the OP, this has been done before using the same equipment to mount the...
I was looking at different ways to mount a full size 9.00 x 20 NDT spare tire on an M105A2.
I saw the one field mod where it was mounted over the tongue and said forget that!
Then I saw several trailers where the tire was mounted under a corner of the trailer used an M35A2 bracket but it kind...