From: D O (dohe69@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Mar 26 2004 - 19:34:56 PST
It would be nice if you could also unlatch it somehow and swing it up out of
the way to regain departure angle, without having to unbolt the whole thing.
IF you use the truck off road.
>From: "GOTaM35" <GOTaM35@joetrapp.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] M35A2 trailer hitch
>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:02:36 -0500
>
>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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