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For my stock truck... On the pintle: For 600 mile round trip highway towing at 50-60mph I like to keep it to less than 4500#. Usually with surge brakes but sometimes electric. Anything over 3000# is tough in the moutains of Vermont and New Hampture. (hitting the bottom of the 10+% grade at 60...

I have only used the croft adaptor at the rental yard to pull a wood chipper. From what I experieced the big bolt is tighetened down a lot, there is a lot of friction and the adaptor does not seem likely to turn. There is also a smaller bolt on the end that you tighten down to pinch against...

pilot, yes, this was exactly what I was going to buy, the croft adaptor is about $55. The problem I had is I needed a 10 inch drop to the minivan trailer ball which was already a 6" rise hitch. Otherwise, if the toung lines up reasonably well with the ring, like when you are using a pickup...

Ratch, Thanks for your kind words. I am afflicted by 3 kids who seem to like me and a wife who wants me to fix the house so these projects only happen once in a while. I enjoy the challange of thinking through these projects but it takes me a while to make one because I don't really have any...

Pawnshop, that definatly is the way to go for a light trailer. It would be faster to build and way less money. I was going to copy one that was even more minimalist, just the hitch and the pipe, not brace extension, I saw it in a rental yard to adapt the woodchipper pintle to ball. I went...

I wanted to make an adaptor that would let an un-modified mil trailer to be pulled by my HSKC (high speed kid carrier). I used a 2" bulldog ball hitch, a Buyers 5 position adjuster and a bunch of 3/4" and 3/8" steel to make this. The idea is that the adaptor just bolts onto the unmodifed...

Still trying to find out.... For the M1008 Master Cylinder, does does anyone know if the casting number should have been 1605 or 1925? Or can someone tell me the correct Napa or other chain store part number?

I have traveled up to the MVMVC Weare NH rally a few times now with my M1008 pulling a car trailer with a M38 on it and two kids. The trip is about 3 hours but when you get to NH going 35 mph in second for 10 mins at a time going up the hills gets old fast. Going up the same hills is possible...

I added a large spin on Racor 90P filter to my M1008 and installed it between the tank and lift pump. The filter body and bowl will accept a bunch of different cartiges, small / med / large and also 30 micron / 10 micron / 2 micron. The reason for this location was that the filter would also...

M1008 CUCV Pickup... I also changed out a master cylinder and did not get great pressure. I changed the MC, calipers, wheel cylinders and hoses and one steel line. I bled it ok, dot 5, to a hard peddle but I can push through the firm peddle to the floor and the brake warning light will come on...

Upon advice of others I sprayed the wheelwells, frame, axels, spirngs, rims etc with John Deere Blitz Black which is a satin black paint made for this job. I buy this at my local John Deere dealer for $30 a gallon. It sprays easily and drys hard. JD uses it to paint undercariages of...

I took off the grill guard, bumper, all brackets and the grill. This let me paint the frame horns, brackets and backside of the bumper. I also was able to paint all the steel behind the lights and slave plug. It was not a big deal but I did just cut off the bolts because they are a real pain...

I bought the M1008 in the avitar pic from Ted about 5 years ago and drove it home to CT in a day and a half. This was a long distance deal and it went fairly smoothly. I wanted no dents, new tires and one color (Wife said...).. Ted assembled the truck, new fuel injector pump and drive shaft...

Type: M1008 NSN: 2320011236827 Reg #: 523949 Vin: 1GCGD34J4EF303598 Model: CD-30903 Mfg date: 09/83 Bumper Markings: None Mileage 29000+ Alabama area, bought 2nd hand Thanks in advance

My M1008 is not too bad up to 45mph, above that it gets very loud, I always wear ear plugs, at 60 the noise peaks, like the honk of a motorcycle wide open, then drops off again at 65. When I ripped out the floor mats and put in bed liner it sounded completley different, now it sounds like an...

I sprayed 2 part polyurathane 'Raptor' bed liner and it stunk for a few days, left the doors open. After 2 weeks it did not smell bad. Now about a month later it is not really noticiable. It dried very hard. The downside is it is very slick, the rubber floor mats slide around a lot. Alos...