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Time to repack wheel bearings and grease everything that went under. Check diff fluid for water ingress, as well as crankcase and transmission.
I'd stick with a 24v winch and power it from the slave port on the front. For powering it from the rear of the truck i'd mount another slave port and...
Standard cage bolts as used on 939series trucks fit in my experience.
Nose down is going to be considerably more tongue weight than specified.
You have airbrake vehicles. I'd use one of those long before I'd pull it with a 3/4 ton truck.
My redtruck is obviously a 1ton dually and weighs...
Not really. The inadequate side support on the cable will allow it to flatten out and cause premature failure.
Probably not an issue on a rarely used SRW.
My example was intended to be worst case but still legal. Several places on I 20 in TX have 85mph speed limits and don't exclude towing. (And yes, you see the geezers with diesel pickup trucks pulling 30,000lb RVs @ >85mph.)
I'm not so sure. For rollover crashes with no ROPS and no top at all the statistics may support no seatbelts.
Consider - john deere tractors recommends seatbelts at all times *unless the rops is folded down* in which case the recommended practice is no seat belt.
I'm wearing my seatbelt in...
Futile gesture. What they tell you today will bear no resemblance to what they actually do when you walk in to title and register.
This has been my firsthand experience with more than one DMV.
Or consider....
Before the guy messed with it the door was INOP. The correct parts probably were not available.
After the guy messed with it, the door functioned adequately if not properly.
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