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sweet, couple vehicles so far then. One of my roommates might be joining us to take pics/video.

Good idea, didn't have any issues with the last trip but only went on a few trails there. In the 'Black Gap Trail' video at the 1:00-1:40 mark that is the turn that gave me ****. Weather will change pretty quick out there. I slept in the m105 and had no issues (slept like a rock according to...

Understandable with all the heavy haul work you do, but still sad to see it go. Like your Cam lock setup for swapping the beds. Planning to a similar setup with a trailer and my wrecker. Any movement issues with the different platforms while driving? What camper setup are you planning to build?

Just had a 'light bulb' moment. Since the m816 has 4 PTO options, why not add a hydraulic wet kit. 2 on the trans and 2 from the transfercase PTO. The 2 from the transfercase are occupied by the crane and 45k winch, but only the front output from the transmission PTO is used, the rear is...

Haha that would be a fun but expensive trip in the wrecker.

Went on a trip there a few years ago with the deuce and a half. Met up with VPED and picked up a m105 trailer. Drove Black Gap Trail at night with the deuce and 105 in tow, 395's and stock manual steering. The first turn kicked my ass but after that it was easy. With power steering I'd say go...

Planning a little MV get together the weekend of October 21-23. Headed out to 5 mile pass, about 10 miles west of Eagle Mountain on friday to play around in the desert and explore some of the trails. Lots of trails in the area varying from dirt roads to some rock crawling but plan to stay on the...

That's just a thread adapter. Try it with the new bushing and if it keeps leaking take both fittings to a hydraulic hose/fitting store (Such as EVCO House of hose), they will have new fittings.

Picked up a spare tire/wheel and got around to mounting it today.

Were you powering out the rear winch or just pulling on it? Straight line coming off the crane?

I just used the typical green coolant.

Hahaha I like the MRAP seat, comfortable and reclined (alot). Downside was having to slide under the steering wheel to get in/out of the truck hahahaha. Works great on the passenger side. The air ride seat has some recline to it so I'm not upright but not as laid back as the other seat. Yes...

Nice, good that a wrecker made it to be preserved. This one won't be a museum quality build, maintained and upgraded for my uses so it will be taken care of but not original. Finally got around to installing a commercial air ride seat that I picked up awhile ago. Air ride will be more smooth...

The declutch should be fine unless I'm missing something. At the point you want the rear winch you stop being pulled out you would want to stop the crane winch. Then step out of the crane box, put the winch to neutral, clutch out, release the crane winch tension and rerig the line for the next...

Hadn't thought about using the crane's winch. Likely the cheapest option and provides the benefit of being able to use the crane hoist to pick up items that are sitting far below ground level (like off the edge of a cliff for example). I think 1 person can operate both controls pretty well since...

The transmission mounted hydraulic PTO's dont move enough fluid to power the crane at full capacity. Rear winch is powered off the PTO splitter that's after the tcase, so no need to move it to a transmission PTO unless you want to get rid of that splitter. When my trans dies (not for a long...

If going for a hwy/work set of compounds I'd keep the hx40 but swap out the impeller for one with more blades, use it as the smaller turbo/spool faster. For the larger turbo a hx55 should be about perfect. Towing compounds are not a huge difference in turbo size as compared to a high...

http://www.innovativebalancing.com/chart.htm#CommercialChart This chart will get you a more accurate volume for using this type of balancing. I didn't find this chart until afterwards. For the 14x20 and 16x20 the chart calls for 16oz of weight for balancing media per tire, and 14oz for a 12.5x20.

Centrifugal force. I've done it with a few different vehicles/tires and it's always worked. Below about 20mph it has no effect, tires are not spinning fast enough for the balancing media to 'stick' to the tire through a full rotation but at those speeds it doesn't matter anyways. If you used...

How difficult/expensive would it be to relocate the hydraulic pump down to the chassis like they did on the m936? Would make it easier to add hydraulics to the m816 and get rid of the **** CV joint PTO shaft