M931a1 Towing capacity

[bblanchard1118]

What is the max towing capacity on a M931a1 pintle and 5th wheel on road

 

[98G]

Post number two, here -

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?102981-How-much-can-a-5-ton-tow

 

[bblanchard1118]

What's the difference between a 931 and a 931a1

 

[98G]

Tires.

 

[bblanchard1118]

I'm looking at getting an a1 could I use my gooseneck with a 5th wheel adapter? Or does it sit to high?

 

[98G]

I've got a couple of military truck tractors. I also have a gooseneck. I think the best way to tow the gooseneck with an M931 is to tuck a gooseneck ball low between the frame rails.

I think Justin Wehring did one that way. Someone did, and it was very slick. Let me go look....

 

[98G]

Relevant, but not what I was looking for -

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?85000-Pulling-civy-gooseneck-with-M931

 

[98G]

Here you go. This is how I would do it -

 

[bblanchard1118]

Nothing shows up

 

[98G]

Here you go. This is how I would do it -

View attachment 701838

How about now?

 

[bblanchard1118]

Yea so you think towing it from the 5th wheel would be too high? Might just buy a new pintle hitch trailer, just towing my skidsteer which is 13k

 

[98G]

If your gooseneck is adjustable you may get it dialed in.

Swapping tires may also lower it enough.

Or you sure won't break the pintle....

 

[bblanchard1118]

Are you saying I won't break the pintle? Or I will?

 

[155mm]

This is the gooseneck hookup i liked.

 

[155mm]

wow, there is no lolly gagging around this place, I went to get my phone to get the pictures and yall have written a couple chapters before my slow poke fingers could get it uploaded.

 

[155mm]

no you wont break the pintle

 

[98G]

no you wont break the pintle

Not even if you try...

 

[bblanchard1118]

The skid steer is 13k and the trailer is 2k

 

[155mm]

Not even if you try...

i didnt try, but someone else tried and couldnt break it with a car at about 40mph, lol... its all that and a bucket of chicken


another green iron guy hauls a heavy skidder on a 1061 trailer behind a 5t dump and has zero issue.

 

[98G]

The skid steer is 13k and the trailer is 2k

I've towed an M925A1 with the bed full of engine blocks on towbar on the pintle. M925A1 is something like 23,500 and there was every bit of 10k in the bed of the towed truck.