From: GOTaM35 (GOTaM35@joetrapp.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 19:02:36 PST
You know, if people were really interested and I had time (that's the big
problem) I think it would be easy enough to take a plate as wide as the
pintle hitch bracket on the back of the deuce and about a foot tall, cut the
proper holes in it to put it between the pintle and frame and weld a piece
of 2 1/2" square tubing into the lower part. Make the tubing long enough to
extend far enough under the truck to bolt it to a piece of angle iron and
into two of the rivet holes (rivets replaced with grade 8 bolts). The whole
thing would be fairly cheap and light enough to ship. There could be issues
of bolt and pintle length, but maybe not. You would use an appropriate
class what ever receiver hitch in the tubing. What think ye?
Joe Trapp
Weldin' fool
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn McCalley" <glenn@combatcatering.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 6:42 AM
Subject: [MV] M35A2 trailer hitch
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone put a regular ball-type trailer hitch on an M35A2?
>
> How, what, how much?
>
> I've got a quote from a welding shop of $450 - $500 to weld up a bracket
> for a hitch and it just sounds like too much for what seems a
> straight-forward
> job. But then again, I'm not a welder. All we want to do is tow a #2,000
> civilian
> trailer behind the deuce -- at least until I can find that MKT-xx I'd like
> to have.
>
> Thanks!
> Glenn.
>
>
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