Jeep-Fabrication Gods smiled on me!

[SavageSun4x4]

How many time have we bought a part that "supposed to fit" and we end up fabbing it and everything else trying to make it work. I must have been living right yesterday:

After getting the 35 MTR tires in-place on my M101 trailer I had about 3.75 in between the top of the 35” MTR and the bottom lip of the fender. I did some measuring and calculated I needed a 4 in bump stop to insure that a heavy load and a hard bump didn’t damage tire or fender.

Again I turned to my good friends down at 4 Wheelers www.4wheelers.com to supply me with a bump stop. I stop by to look at their selection and my most important criteria was it be 4 “ tall. I grabbed a set of Rancho Bump Stops, P/N: RAN8203 and took them home.

I slide under the trailer to see how they might fit. Thinking and KNOWING I would need to drill some new mounting holes and who knows what else to get them to fit... I could have been knocked over with a feather when I discovered they were a direct and perfect fit as if made for a M101 trailer...where the Jeep/fabrication gods smiling on me or not????

pics: http://web.mac.com/donpryor/iWeb/SavageSun%204x4/M-101%20Military%20Trailer,.html

[shocker75]

$2300:eek: !!?? You could have had a custom trailer built for that much!! Glad its your money and not mine.:p

[thedon]

Do like the trailer.

[Tom Schenk]

Don, your site states $500 for the bump stops. Is that a typo or did Cole send you home with 15 sets? :confused:

[Tom Schenk]

Oh, and also, good job - your trailer is BA! :)

[SavageSun4x4]

$2300:eek: !!?? You could have had a custom trailer built for that much!! Glad its your money and not mine.:p

I did ;)

$1,210 Total cost, gives you a solid rolling M101 that passes inspection (keep it OEM, buy plates, shocks and a pintle to pull it with)

$1,116 Goodies: Line X, paint, tires, rims new drums, shackles, bump stops etc, etc

$2,326 Grand Total for M101 and all the goodies

Don, your site states $500 for the bump stops. Is that a typo or did Cole send you home with 15 sets? :confused:
Well that was with my AZVJC DISCOUNT :eek: ;)

Thanks for the comments. :)

[GRUNT]

Why on earth are bump stops $500 bucks?!?!?!?! Ouch!

[SavageSun4x4]

Why on earth are bump stops $500 bucks?!?!?!?! Ouch!
:D I just made a typo, they were < $50 bucks for the pair ;)

[desertfabmotors]

Don,

Job well done, very nice looking trailer:D

[Steve]

Don nice job on the set up. Jeep Gods were on your side. So now that this is all set up are you going to paint it to match your Jeep.:rolleyes: ;) :D

[jast513]

Being ex military I would love to own that trailer, Nice work! Looks good!

[SavageSun4x4]

Don nice job on the set up. Jeep Gods were on your side. So now that this is all set up are you going to paint it to match your Jeep.:rolleyes: ;) :D

Painted it "hammered black" and wife wants to keep it like that so it will look good behind her Jeep and mine.

Being ex military I would love to own that trailer, Nice work! Looks good!

I must say that the Canadian military M101 is far superior to the US M416.

The M101 is a reengineered US M416, which wasbuilt in in the 40's and the M101 was built off the same general parameters beginning in the late 60's.

Thank all for the comments...;) :)

[Stu Olson]

Very nice looking, Don. You did a great job and I'm sure it will provide many years of reliable service.

[Griz]

Sweet, going to last a while IF padlocked and hidden away!

[lancetkenyon]

Looks great Don!

[SavageSun4x4]

Sweet, going to last a while IF padlocked and hidden away!
A reason why I kept the pintle/lunette hitch. Few folks have the setup which makes it a lot harder to steal ;)

[Stu Olson]

A reason why I kept the pintle/lunette hitch. Few folks have the setup which makes it a lot harder to steal ;)
Don,
If the trailer tounge has the lunette eye always mounted on it, be careful. It's pretty easy for a thieve to temporarily place the lunette eye over a regular ball hitch for a quick get away.

If the eye is removable, that would be the optimum way to store it, IMO. (not sure if that is possible for not, have not had a trailer with that type of hitch)

[shocker75]

Don,
If the trailer tounge has the lunette eye always mounted on it, be careful. It's pretty easy for a thieve to temporarily place the lunette eye over a regular ball hitch for a quick get away.

If the eye is removable, that would be the optimum way to store it, IMO. (not sure if that is possible for not, have not had a trailer with that type of hitch)
Typically they are removable. Two or four nuts and bolts is all that holds them on.

like so:
http://www.trailercanada.com/images/Parts/pintle%20ring.jpg (http://www.trailercanada.com/images/Parts/pintle%20ring.jpg)

Or the 4 bolt style:http://www.southlandtrailers.com/images/pintle.jpg

There is also a threaded shank style:http://www.g503.com/images/old-parts-page/safety-eye-f.jpg

[SavageSun4x4]

Don,
If the trailer tounge has the lunette eye always mounted on it, be careful. It's pretty easy for a thieve to temporarily place the lunette eye over a regular ball hitch for a quick get away.

If the eye is removable, that would be the optimum way to store it, IMO. (not sure if that is possible for not, have not had a trailer with that type of hitch)

Typically they are removable. Two or four nuts and bolts is all that holds them on.

like so:
http://www.trailercanada.com/images/Parts/pintle%20ring.jpg

Or the 4 bolt style:http://www.southlandtrailers.com/images/pintle.jpg

There is also a threaded shank style:http://www.g503.com/images/old-parts-page/safety-eye-f.jpg

It is actually one large nut on the end of the eye. Take that off and it would be most difficult pull at that time, guess you could always just drag it by the chains:eek:

check out the large bolt on the end of the eye in the pic:

[Stu Olson]

Removing the eye would work.

Or maybe a post sunk into the ground (with some concrete to help hold it in place) that you could slip the eye over.....then put a cross pin through the post and padlock it into position.....that would capture the trailer on its "hitching post" but yet be super easy to unlock when you needed to use the trailer.