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Any update to a cheaper source on these?

Yea the wrecker bed is so far the only planned one that requires a large amount of hydraulic oil. Most of the other planned systems will work with the lower volume dump truck pump so could get away with a smaller tank there. Setting up 2 tanks at different heights to be plumbed together and not...

That would work fine, I just don't want to spend the money for another tank when I have 2 options here already (stock hydraulic tank or the extra fuel tank). For size reference here's a couple pics. The first pic of the bed is from it's front edge to the storage boxes at a little over 16 1/2"...

Gunzy will be the best option then, he lives near Hill and recovers stuff from there pretty often.

Will do. And just ran into a unexpected hurdle, bent one of the stock manual outriggers (rear passenger). Not at the welded up pivots, down at the pin that attaches the manual screw mechanism. Was backing the truck up into it's spot and the outrigger foot caught a rock (head sized) and bent...

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Getting closer to the bed removal. Air lines disconnected from the winch components, rear bracket bolts are removed, and Ubolts removed (2 left just hand tight). Will unbolt the power divider, linkages, and the 2 PTO shafts right before the bed gets lifted. Planning to place an order for...

Contact Meritor (the manufacturer) for the official information. The AT4000 non steering axle is 22k pounds, Rockwell is 44k pounds.

Won't know until air is applied. With no air the sprags default to neutral (no front wheel drive).

Without air pressure the sprag can't engage. Since you're only going a short distance on dirt. If you can't find a plug take some cloth (shop rag, paper towels, etc) and duct tape. Plug that line and tape it up. Should hold well enough to get it through the field.

His initial statements were suggesting this was on a 5 ton wrecker, about 40k compared to the 23k ish of a 5 ton cargo like yours. So what would take a 2 line pull with a 20k PTO winch is going to require a 3 line pull with the 18k (again, figuring the wrecker as initially suggested). No one...

Yea, it does make a big difference learning that the truck weighs less than 1/6th of the weight. Roughly 6k pound m715 vs 40k pound wrecker.

Not sure why you stepped down in winch size and power but ok.... With the loss of the level wind it's going to take more stand off distance between the rollers and the winch to get it too spool onto the winch right, a few feet of distance. Figure on the new bigger rollers (or that first pivot...

Got pics of their design? and do they rotate? There was a video I saw on youtube of a gooseneck trailer with it's axles powered by driveshaft (went up through the gooseneck on the trailer) so with the right design it's certainly possible.

If running it as a driveshaft connection (no hydraulics) then yes the trailer axles would spin at the same speed as the truck axles always. Hard part of that idea though is designing the truck/trailer driveshaft to allow enough movement to not limit the trailer hitch movement. Side-side...

Check out the wrecker operation TM's, it gives the specifics. Might be just 160-170 degree fleet angle on the rear winch but it is very wide.

The rear winch on the wreckers is setup for 90 degree pulls from either side. Could build a similar sized roller setup on the front bumper combined with a level wind

Eventually I'd like to get one of the trailers

Raising the idle rpm doesn't really help with wet stacking, all it's really doing is increasing the wear on the cylinders and using a little more fuel. That's just diesel engines in general. Put a load on it, or let it sit. It's only a couple months, worst case scenario just have to reprime the...

On the m939a2's theres no reason to pull the drum and hub off at the same time. The older model m39's, m809's, m939, m939a1's are all inboard drums where the drum and hub must come off together but on the m939a2's the drum comes off first. If you really want to handle about 160 pounds of...