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  1. zebedee

    M936 New hydraulic hoses and a little paint on wrecker bed!

    Actually "they" didn't go away from this rigging - it was done to ALL the M816s that the Aussie Army had - ironically, the operators didn't really like it so it was pretty redundant other than for hanging the hook on! I understand it was supposed to be for rigid (a single straight) bar or "A"...
  2. zebedee

    M936 New hydraulic hoses and a little paint on wrecker bed!

    Like this Jeff...? Te hee
  3. zebedee

    M936 New hydraulic hoses and a little paint on wrecker bed!

    I was kidding about the trade mark - but for all readers of this post we will know you were the first one with the cool idea!
  4. zebedee

    M936 New hydraulic hoses and a little paint on wrecker bed!

    Well it looks like we are too late, you have already mounted it! BUT, it does look like a secure, simple mod so 'well done'. Get your trade mark on it quick. The only comment I would add is not to put attatch hook directlyto the shackle, but add a 'weak link' - as per the original cable...
  5. zebedee

    M936 New hydraulic hoses and a little paint on wrecker bed!

    This may help.. A very helpful S/S member recently went to a big truck breakers for a '70s part I needed, then blamed me for costing him a bunch of beer tokens when he spotted 'had to have' work lights off of municipality plough/work truck - since they were also '70s, they were steel. (No...
  6. zebedee

    M936 New hydraulic hoses and a little paint on wrecker bed!

    When i was in the UK - there was something like strip grommet, various cross section sizes, sold by the inch or foot, just fit to empty hole and cut to length, but I haven't seen anything here like that. I have used old hyd return hose or fuel hose and slit lengthways, but that is not a...
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