Towing A M105 Trailer?

[Ripcord01]

Guess I cheated when I brought mine home, 560 miles.

How did you get the trailer out of the truck?

 

[gunboy1656]

Friend runs a construction company so I called him up and asked him if he had something, he asked about the weight. He said yeah the backhoe should be able to lift it out, bring it over. I got there and 10 minutes later it was on the ground. Another 2 hours of talking and I was home.

 

[45FMJoe]

if it helps, I loosened the nut all the way until it hit the crossmember in the back, and then turned it a bit more to put pressure on the bolt. Then I took two chisels, and started at the point behind the lunette ring using the chisels to lever against the connection point. Hammered them, turned nut. Little of both until the ring/bolt worked free. Good Luck!

I tried the loosen the nut trick and use it for pressure, got nowhere! I might have to try your chisel idea.

 

[WAZ44]

heating up the castle nut and respraying with penatrating oil worked for me also used antisieze on the threads

 

[MilChevyguy]

Here was my solution...I didn't feel comfortable making the pintle hitch so high without good support so I dropped the lunette ring on the trailer.
Mine is Canadian so the ring is not the same it seems.

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?105870-Finally-Usable-!-!-!-M104-ready-for-use

 

[DesertDog1991]

Towing M105 with F150 Super crew 4x2

Any info would be much appreciated on this. Would it be ok to tow M105 with a Ford F150 Supercrew 4x2, would there be any issue?

Yes you can tow with no air.... Although without air you will have no trailer brakes - assuming they'd even work.

Same lunette / pintle.

You should be good to go.

 

[swbradley1]

Any info would be much appreciated on this. Would it be ok to tow M105 with a Ford F150 Supercrew 4x2, would there be any issue?

I tow mine with a Dodge 1500 4x4. The trailer is heavy, won't tow level without modifications to hitch or trailer and the biggie, no brakes at all. I can run 70 but not anywhere there is a lot of traffic to cut you off.

Short tow would be fine with a 150.

 

[DesertDog1991]

Thanks for the info. Tow hitch will be elevated to somewhat level out? Did you see the pictures of the guy who towed one with a bronco? That cracked me up.

 

[swbradley1]

You will have to raise the truck hitch a lot.

 

[SCSG-G4]

I towed a 105 from Montgomery, Al to Columbia, SC with an F-150. Trailer was nose down the whole way, with the magnetic lights sitting on the lowered tailgate (which would have been level if the front would let it). 60 mph on the interstate all the way.

 

[4x4 Forever]

Just leave yourself plenty of room when stopping and for idjits in front of you. You should be fine.

Good Luck and post pics for the recovery!

 

[gargabri]

Jim, I am going to try this with 2 I won from GL on the 19th..... Did you put something in the rack holes to join the 2 trailers?
I have seen this done before but they took the tires off to keep the center of gravity lower.
Thanks for the post..... I thought I was crazy to try this after reading some of the other post......

Gary

 

[wsmith350]

I picked my m105a2 today and drove about 60 miles home with absolutely no issues. I have a 2011 silverado 4.3 v6. I spun the lunnette and only sat about 4 inches too low. with bows and canvas in place, and no brakes i didn't even know it was behind me...save for the vibration from the **** near brand new 9x20 military treads on it. Tires still have the mold marks on them.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Here's how I hauled two from Ok. to Mo.

 

[Flyingvan911]

Very creative!

 

[mdeane]

I just bought one last weekend, I'm able to lift it myself so plan on stripping off the landing gear and air brakes to cut weight

 

[porkysplace]

I just bought one last weekend, I'm able to lift it myself so plan on stripping off the landing gear and air brakes to cut weight

So what are your plans to replace the air brakes ?

 

[drivebymashing]

I never hooked up the air brakes. The trailer isn't that heavy as long as you have a f250 or bigger.

 

[porkysplace]

I never hooked up the air brakes. The trailer isn't that heavy as long as you have a f250 or bigger.

He lives in South Carolina which requires trailer brakes on trailers over 3000 pounds , a M105 weighs #2750 . So even with striping the landing leg and brakes he will have a very limited cargo capcity.

http://www.towshop.com/trailer_suppl...aking_laws.htm

 

[drivebymashing]

True legally you are correct. I never pulled mine far enough to worry about tags or brakes or any of that.