GI-Jeepin'

Leecarr do you have a manual for your trailer? I have a Military TM in Adobe format if you need it I can send it to you. I have been looking high and low for a handle like that.

This trailer belongs to a friend of mine that built his a while back, but he has since sold it.

leecarr

That is a sweet setup. I did a quick search and found this http://www.easternsurplus.net/images...pares/5054.JPG
I have a skid steer loader and a hi lift forklift with the same handle set up so I know they can be had. I'll keep looking (now I'm on a mission) the surplus one is a bit pricey. Try a tractor or farm equipment place if there is one near by. I'd love to have a copy of the manual , thanks. I don't know how handy you are but you could make one out a cheap over center type chain binder.

GI-Jeepin'

I'd like to think i'm pretty handy, but then again, my garage and all my tools are back in VA, I am now in El Paso, TX. The best thing I have available to me right now is the Auto Shop on Fort Bliss.

PM me your email address and Ill send you the manual.

leecarr

Do a search for over center brake handle, found a couple.
http://www.cablecraft.com/products_h...rakeLever.html
http://www.tgacablemakers.com.au/ove...ake/index.html
Isn't there something on Fort Bliss that you can "liberate" one from?
Like I said you can always put a cheapo binder in the place of the turn buckle and a couple of fairly stiff springs on the cables and go with that.

leecarr

This is what I mean, now I'm obsessed, I can't stop, help me.
http://www.homedepot.com/webapp/wcs/...&Ntpc=1&Ntpr=1

GI-Jeepin'

Yeah we have those over hand brake handles on our new trailers. They are huge when compared to the little M416. I think I'll go with the mini binder you showed me from Home Depot.

GI-Jeepin'

I got bored today so i fabbed up some mounting brackets for my Hilift jack out of some steel Strong-Ties from Lowes. Then mounted it to my tool box.

Ok, now I think I'm done.

leecarr

Never done, my youngest son is in the NG, he spent a year in Afghanistan. Made it home safe (but some days I want to shoot him myself). We need more of you guys not less. When you won a war hundreds of years ago you took the other guys stuff, whatever happened to that.

xj_maniac_newb

I WANT THAT!!! like i been looking for a trailer like that FOREVER!

GI-Jeepin'

They are out there, you can find them cheap like me and Leecarr did but will require a lot of work, OR, buy someone's project, in which case it will cost you anywhere up to $6000. Google M416 and check the links, people do some wild things with these trailers.

GI-Jeepin'

What happened was that "we" started playing by the rules so as not to be viewed as a bully.

imirish268

gotta find me one of those

Detour

Nice trailer, but.......what happened to the '57? Any pic's?

GI-Jeepin'

This isnt part of the Fab but Detour wants to see.

She is still at home in VA Beach. The bottom pic is at a car show on Route 66 in Barstow, CA when I was stationed at Fort Irwin. I bought her on Ebay 6 years ago, has a 383 w/700R4 trans.

leecarr

Rules were made to be broken, and as sad as it sounds the bully usually wins.