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Hahaha yea I remember your experience with frosty poop all over the place. Been a mild winter here so taking advantage of it when possible. The short PTO housing might just get completely replaced by a seal retainer and a yoke for a tractor PTO shaft since they are cheap/readily available...

Looks like might have a deal lined up for the tail roller with mounts from a m916/m920 so that should save alot of labor. While waiting for that to arrive I spent some time removing most of the crane PTO components that won't be used anymore (ad posted in the parts available section). Still...

Haven't touched the project much lately but spent a little time on it today. Cut the frame extensions (last of the m51a2 frame) to 24" long. Will trim them down if necessary as the roller gets built. Also did a bit more trimming at the front of the bed to make room for the winch.

Hahaha yea. At least a grinder cutoff wheel didn't explode into my leg again. Chopped the last few useful items off of the m51a2 frame remains today. Going to use the 2 pieces of frame rail as the mount for the tail roller. The mount will stick out just a little past the roller to help serve as...

Manual outriggers were used for the last time today. Stuffed a piece of wood between the chassis/wrecker bed sub frame along each rail to lift the bed high enough to clear the rivets. Then raised up the outriggers and used the bed winch on the pickup to drag each outrigger out of it's tube. That...

Yea the wrecker bed is so far the only planned one that requires a large amount of hydraulic oil. Most of the other planned systems will work with the lower volume dump truck pump so could get away with a smaller tank there. Setting up 2 tanks at different heights to be plumbed together and not...

That would work fine, I just don't want to spend the money for another tank when I have 2 options here already (stock hydraulic tank or the extra fuel tank). For size reference here's a couple pics. The first pic of the bed is from it's front edge to the storage boxes at a little over 16 1/2"...

Will do. And just ran into a unexpected hurdle, bent one of the stock manual outriggers (rear passenger). Not at the welded up pivots, down at the pin that attaches the manual screw mechanism. Was backing the truck up into it's spot and the outrigger foot caught a rock (head sized) and bent...

Getting closer to the bed removal. Air lines disconnected from the winch components, rear bracket bolts are removed, and Ubolts removed (2 left just hand tight). Will unbolt the power divider, linkages, and the 2 PTO shafts right before the bed gets lifted. Planning to place an order for...

Caimen wheels yes but single wheels, not dually. Lug centric pattern. Also forgot to mention on that I got the test results back on the wheel studs that failed (had 1 tested). Wheel stud was only about 1/2 the strength it was supposed to be and all 20 of those failed studs were from the same...

And, the dirty hooker is lot mobile!!! Rear tire was at 40psi in the pic, bumped it up to 50psi. Might hold more but concerned either the tube or tire could let go so not going to push it. Welded up all of the outriggers pivot points. Couple little bubbles in the weld but will be fine for...

Well a little box of wheel studs arrived yesterday and took them out to the m816 today. Knocked out the old ones on the 3rd axle that were sheered and replaced em. Then took the 4 intact bridge truck tires/wheels and mounted them onto the front and 3rd axles. Block the rear suspension and chain...

Spent today Doing some more cleanup and cutting. Got the useful scrap metal onto a pallet and removed the rear axles from the m51a2 remains. The dog bone ends on it are no good either, so looks like will have to buy some for the wreckers lower 4 bones. Then rolled the bridge truck...

Alright time for the wrecker to get some attention. Worked out a deal for some 5/8" chains from a new heavy towbar kit (the square one with 85k rating). Should work quite nicely for the winches. For now just wrapped them around the front bumper and will eventually find a good spot to store them...

Yep I used that same one. Removed a quick disconnect and plumbed in the hose for the air ride seat. Got back into town today so will get started on stuff hopefully this weekend

Just realized I hadn't posted up the pic from loading the bed haha. Then about a week later moved a deuce cab out of a friends pickup into his m35a2 bed. Tested out using the crane travel leg as a spreader bar and it worked well. Think a few minor mods and it will work even better, making...

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Old hose out and replaced with 1 4ft hose. Reused the old 2ft hose that it is attached to for now.

Getting a little bit of work done on the wrecker. The hose that runs from the valve bank to the winch in plumbing decided to start failing when the dump bed was removed from the chassis (has alot of scrap in it, heaviest lifting it's had to do probably). Drained the tank yesterday and found...

Plasma, much faster