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They are currently not the top priority for me to buy and money is a bit tight

Including the corners I was quoted at about $180 each (lock and corner set) I'm looking for ones that can be tightened down, such as these. https://www.tandemloc.com/806000t-100 or https://www.tandemloc.com/t12000e Doesn't matter to me if it's a retractable lock setup, but being able to...

That's something I'll be ordering in the spring (cam locks)

Nice when parts are coming in on a project.

Ah gotcha. With it sitting 12 ft forward it will be snug but should be fine. The chassis are the same on the regular 5 tons. Wreckers and the extra long wheel base trucks got extra reinforcements.

yea that will be fine. The chassis is either 21 or 23ft long if I remember right. If your ISO is 10ft then it's the same size as the dump bed in the pics (minus the cab protector).

Yea if the stock brake components are there, I'd recommend using them. Have about $900 in fittings/hoses/valves with the air brake conversion on my m816 so far. For a parking brake with the stock hydraulic brakes you might be able to use the factory one installed on the transfercase and rig it...

I'm most of the way through with that conversion on my m816 wrecker (same brakes originally as the m51, now m939 series air brakes). By far the hardest part of the conversion is removing the rivets that hold the hydraulic brake backing plates onto the axles. There are 10 per hub, 9/16" shank...

The axles are the same but the brakes are different. The older m51 uses single circuit hydraulic brakes, m939 series has air brakes. If the stock hydraulic brake components are on the 'trailer' your m939 series will activate them using the standard glad hands, just won't have a parking brake...

Don't know how well tracks and lockers interact, they might fight each other. Personally I'd go with lockers and a good set of snow/mud chains. With true 6x6 and chains, not many snow or mud areas you can't reach.

Wouldn't count on tracks being cheaper than lockers. Lockers are about 550 to 800 each, those tracks in the last 2 pics are 15,000. Might be able to build a set for around 2000 that would work properly but would be heavy. Not concerned with rolling resistance, the weight to install and pack them...

A single tensioner wheel centered between the tandems would work for that. Familiar with the expedition rig, eventually want to make one as well.

Only seen 1 picture of the original military setup (was here on steel soldiers) that goes over both rear tandems. Heres a pic of tracks for each individual wheel that apparently came on the older trucks. A set made using the tracks from a APC (gotta be heavy and difficult to setup) And...

Large expedition camper build, plenty of room with the 20ft shipping container. The military did have a 'slip on' half track setup for these trucks with the smaller 11x20"s. Not many were made, think they were rubber tracks. Why not just install lockers into each axle instead?