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Sounds like you're dogma a good job keeping up with the maintenance.Sprayed some rust converter on a few rough spots to preserve them until I get home from my next work trip. Planning to cut out the rust on the fwd bulkhead and replace with new metal. Also shot the wheels with a fresh coat of semi-gloss black that I had laying around. Finally got my new pintle and pintle mount plate in so it sits more level behind my Tundra and K1500.
-j-rod
"A picture is worth a thousand words", but it doesn't always tell the whole story.I have to admit i was a bit scared, but my sisters boyfried helped me with the soldering. He has a bit more experience with wires and solder.
The drop down sides fit in the wide stowage areas. They only seem to fit with hinges on one side or the other. They are all back and forth. I marked the side of each slot that the hinge faces with an "H" to speed up the putaway for future stowings.This might be a trailer candidate or sell. Home from GL (posted more pics in Auction won).
How would the tandem HMMWV wheels on Dexter axles go together with this bed as a trailer. I was going to replace the M35A3 bed and make a dump trailer out of it, even made a sub frame, but this bed might open some other possibilities. Ideas and identifying some of the stowage boxes appreciated.
That's a smart design.The drop down sides fit in the wide stowage areas. They only seem to fit with hinges on one side or the other. They are all back and forth. I marked the side of each slot that the hinge faces with an "H" to speed up the putaway for future stowings.
They're not aluminum are they?!Thanks AA. I'm surprised at how lightweight the sides and gate are. I was shocked at how much the govt. paid for all the bells and whistles on the LMTV bed. They surely drive the cost up and it looks like it will bend easier...much easier.
Are you sure the sides aren't aluminum?No steel, with UHMW plastic .
That appears to be a stabilizer. There is one on each side that pulls out and has a pin to hold it at about that distance out. I'm hoping someone knows what the rest of it looks like.
A dime on the dollar, that's hard to beat. Sweet.I used my M1101 trailer to run and get 3/4 yard of gravel. $28 vs delivered for over $300. This thing keeps paying for itself.
There's a quote about that somewhere, I think it was from Henry Ford.I also discovered another MAJOR advantage to going to get the gravel myself; I can rake it right off the trailer and let gravity fill the cart. If I had gotten it delivered I would have had to shovel it up into the cart.