Another deuce roadtrip! Pics Available!

[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Hey gang, I'm preparing my M275A2 tractor for another roadtrip. I'll be departing S Fla in Saturday morning enroute to GA. I'm bobtailing up and picking up my M447C semi trailer along with a bunch of gensets and a host of other small things. For the trip up I'll be pulling one rear axle shaft and switching to desplined front drive flanges. I can get near 12MPG in this configuration so I'll save fuel <img src="speech/icon_speech_yeah.gif" border="0"> for the trip home. I'll be draging back around 20,000# which is alot for a deuce. Thankfully, there are amost no hills between here and thereand my tractor is among the best running deuces I've ever driven. I've made this trip a bunch of times but it's always fun to report on a deuce roadtrip. I encourage all of you deuce owners to take a deuce trip one day if you can. I really enjoy them and frankly, you can sure see alot cruising at 52 MPH.I'll try to take pics on this venture. </font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">

 

[Wyattearp]

Sounds great recovery, keep us posted and pics if you can also. I saw your toys, thats a good looking tractor you got. well thought i would chime in and wish you good luck and a safe trip up and back....

 

[Longhunter7]

RC4X4!

Have a safe trip and keep the green side up! <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_wink.gif" alt="Wink">

 

[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Here's a more recent pic with the winch on the tractor. Yeah, I like it!</font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">
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[fujinama]

Good luck Kenny.

 

[steelsoldiers]

Originally posted by Recovry4x4

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Here's a more recent pic with the winch on the tractor. Yeah, I like it!</font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">

Looking good Kenny. Have a safe road trip and post up some pics when you get home. I can't wait to convoy with you guys next year if we can get a SS Roundup scheduled.

 

[Monster Man]

good luck Ken, have fun!

get pics and maybe some vids <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve">

 

[Dieselsmoke]

Have fun and a safe trip. Man, I can't wait to get the M52A2 finished, all it needs now is the brakes bled and finish painting it.

 

[ironhorsethegeneral]

<img src="emoticons/icon_smile_paw.gif" alt="Paw">Hope you have a safe good trip. If in the area of Atlanta give me a call and see if I am home and we can truck talk. 770-928-8764.<img src="emoticons/icon_smile_paw.gif" alt="Paw">

 

[Loose Deuce]

Good luck on your trip. I have a question about pulling one of the rear axles, Do you have a dummy axle and flange that goes in its place, or do you just leave flange area open?????

I want to try that myself, but will there be any parts come apart inside the differential when you slide the axle out? I just want to make sure before I XXXX something up.<img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve">

 

[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Hey Dan! Absolutely no problems with pulling only one axle as long as the intermediate drive shaft is still in place. In theory, if you were to remove one axleshaft and the intermediate drive shaft, the entire rotation would be absorbed by the spiders and that could create a problem. The major reason for pulling the intermediate shaft or one rear axle is to alleviate interaxle conflict of rollout. As far as covering the hole I use one of the splined flanges that I remove from the front axle. They bolt right on with the same bolts!</font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">

 

[Loose Deuce]

Cool <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_cool.gif" alt="Cool">

 

[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Let the fun begin! When I get off this puter I'm climing in the saddle of the deuce and heading out!. I'll let you guys know when I'm back. Keep em rollin!</font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">

 

[Recovry4x4]

I'm Baaack! I'll post more in the AM but made the 780 mile trip without incident. Also got Wayne Harris' M816 runing while I was there! Pics tomorrow!

 

[Monster Man]

Originally posted by Recovry4x4

I'm Baaack! I'll post more in the AM but made the 780 mile trip without incident. Also got Wayne Harris' M816 runing while I was there! Pics tomorrow!

welcome back, can't wait for the pics <img src="emoticons/icon_smile_approve.gif" alt="Approve">

 

[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">Well gang, here's about the only pic I took thats worth posting. You can see my tractor with the M447C trailer on the back and Wayne's M816 wrecker that we used to load generators. Also back in the background you can see his M151A2. Between the mountains of HMMWV doors and troop seat, and more trailers than I can count, Wayne has quite a bit of goodies on hand. As usual I couldn't leave his place without some parting gifts. I'm pleased to announce that I'm the proud new owner of a genuine pick mattock for my pioneer tool rack. Now all I need is an axe. </font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">

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[Recovry4x4]

<font color="green">[4]<font face="Comic Sans MS">OK Folks, here's a link to some pics that Wayne took. Check the comments on the bottom of the pics. http://ImageEvent.com/wharris19/kenny</font id="Comic Sans MS">[/4]</font id="green">