Towbar Question

[roger-wilco-66]

Hi,

when we were in Beltring we aquired a large towbar, see attached picture. Now, the diameter of the bar's pins is slightly smaller than those of the M35 towing-eyes (is that what you call these rings on the front bumper??), so we are not sure, if the bar is actually from or for a M35.

Any opinions?

Cheers,
Mark

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Karlsruhe Germany
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[Recovry4x4]

Need to measure the pins. There are 2 different sets of ends for that bar. The set that is for the deuce has 1" pins while the other has 3/4" pins. Perhaps your bar has these 3/4" ends which ar used for among other things, the M37. The bar looks correct in the pic.

 

[ken]

What are those round things bolted to the turn signals?

 

[Recovry4x4]

Those are turn indicators poiting backwards. Some guard trucks and lots of european theatre trucks have em. Supposedly part of a lighting upgrade.

 

[cranetruck]

Here is a close-up of the light assy.

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Bjorn
MVPA 19212

1968 M49A2C modified. 1972 HIAB 765A crane and 1960 M756 pipeline truck bed.
11.00-20 NDCC singles.
M103A3 trailer.

"Some things cannot be made better, just differently"

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Vehicle wiring, adding relays for headlights and turn signals.
Adding small fuel tank (starting and shutting down in cold weather) and installing heating coil in main tank for biodiesel/cooking oil.

 

[roger-wilco-66]

TKS for the input. Seems we have the one with the 3/4 " pins.

As for the light assy, cranetruck named it. It is the european conversion. They will go, beacuse we plan to retrograde the truck to the Vietnam-Era look. The small signal light facing outwards and the ones on the sides of the bed, btw, sit on very crude, handmade base plates made of aluminum (badly electro-corroded in the meanwhile). I always think of the poor fellow who sat there with the metal sheets and his shear cutting and fitting that stuff all day on the zillions of trucks to be converted... Sort of like Sisyphus rolling his block of stone up the hill forever...



Cheers,
Mark

 

[cranetruck]

Hmmm..It was Kenny who brought up the European connection. My pix was taken
in West Virginia and the truck most likely never left the country.
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Bjorn
MVPA 19212

1968 M49A2C modified. 1972 HIAB 765A crane and 1960 M756 pipeline truck bed.
11.00-20 NDCC singles.
M103A3 trailer.

"Some things cannot be made better, just differently"

CURRENTLY WORKING ON: Vehicle wiring, adding relays for headlights and turn signals.
Adding small fuel tank (starting and shutting down in cold weather) and installing
heating coil in main tank for biodiesel/cooking oil.