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Brush Fire apparatus.
Roscommon Equipment Center specializes in conversion of ex military vehicles into usefull wild fire equipment. ex military vehcles are given to the Forest Service.
The short wheelbase offers obvious manuverability advantages over a std pickup, in a wild fire enviroment...
The Penske trailers I've seen are SAAWEEEET!
Either Yall Haul or Penske's 26' trucks will pull their trailers just fine. and with that size tow vehicle, too much tongue weight shouldn't be an issue.
Been about 10 years since I used a 26' Yallhaul & car transport.
Have since bought my own...
S.O.P.
A requirement when a unit turns in or disposes of a vehicle.
The unit id numbers on the front and rear are to be removed or painted over.
Not much different than you or I when we remove the license plate when we sell a car.
No black outlines
I don't know the origin of the 1st two pics, they appear to have gotten carried away with the black.
3rd pic are my trucks with the std MERDC pattern
change the green to tan
Most of what I've seen for desert camo on the old 1 1/4 tons is all tan
For 3 color desert just change colors of the 3 color nato pattern
The above is MERDC pattern, which all views have been posted here somewhere.
Maybe not in desert colors, but the pattern is the same
Necking it down to 3" and extending it has restricted the air flow.
Which may or may cause a problem.
A little bracing should be added.
Mt Holly, is that Michigan?
The M880 series trucks were not made with brush guards, after delivery to the Military. some may have procured brush guards and installed them on M880's.
Many non M series Dodges were purchased by different branches, these contracts may have specified brush guards. These contract Dodges spanned...
950R16.5 is what they came with.
they will take any standard 8 lug with a 4 7/8" center hole
older chevys had only 4 3/4"
and 99 & up Fords are metric.
Very close to a 31 -10.50
15 inch rims will likely rub on the front calipers.
the truck itself is completly 12v.
the extra 2 batteries on the passerger side and the 28v generator that is mounted where a civi powersteering would go (on the driver side) are for the Radios, the M882 is a radio truck.
Some units did attach a slave port to the 24v for jumping deuces.
That...
1400-20's are 49" tall 1600's are 53" tall
The stock deuce rear axles are 48" apart, so obviously you can not put anything bigger than the 46" 395's on the stock deuce tandum setup.
A few posts above Unforgiven - explained how you can modify the deuce rears to fit the big tires, although he...
The manufacturer listed on the data plate isn't necessarily the same as the Name on the factory in the year the truck was built.
Once you know the year then you can begin to find out who "built it"
as suggested above, take a look at the vin info threads
find a close vin to figure out the...
:ditto:
Still not secure, as anyone can register here. Just keep it to general location and a means of contact.
I'm willing to help someone out, yet nobody drives anywhere close to me,
(those that do, know how to get ahold of me.)
Deleteing an ad or closing it is easy,
well at least I had no trouble doing it the last time I sold something.
I have also edited the title lines on the ads I have.
I Simply go to the ad and click "edit"
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