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I have actually reviewed your build. Awesome work. It is not so much that I do not want brakes, I was asking if the brakes on the trailer could be adapted to EoH, which I feel is an intrinsically better system, especially if you are offroading with a heavy trailer and have to back up.

Thanks... What prevents axle flip? I assume that your answer to the rest of that is "it will work but is not worth it"?

Let assume here that I have more money than sense, and I purchase an M101 and decide to mod it. Would it be possible to; 1) Do an axle flip so that it rides 3 or 4 inches lower? ( I assume yes and that I could tune ride height with slightly longer shackles.) 2)(And this is where the money more...

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=69813&d=1193627353 One of the actual USAF 5 tons that the Army let us keep because we managed to break the frame (with some help from an IED). This is the armor that they went to after SSgt Dustin Peters and A1C Carl Anderson Junior were...

I do not know how many of you remember that quote... it was in response to a lower ranking enlisted man stationed in Kuwait asking why our vehicles in Iraq had no or poor armor, and another asking why our troops had to scrounge through garbage piles looking for sheetmetal to weld to truck...

No problem. I have a bit of a soft spot for those older trucks. The first mil truck I trained on when I was an E-2 was a very dodgy M35 who's turbo had failed and simply been pulled. I remember having dificulty with the shift pattern, and lack of power steering. Those problems were massively...

That is Kuwaiti, the obvious giveaway (for me anyway) is the styalised water tower on the label, which is as much a symbol of kuwait as the Arch is to St Louis, or SPQR is to Rome.

I have done four convoy tours. The first one was in '04 where our main platform was the 923. We did have one or two deuces. I was part of the (USAF)494 LMTC, 44CSB under the 1st ID, running out of Mosul Iraq. What makes me think that this truck is not a gun truck is that we jerry rigged all our...