----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Fikbohm" <droptt@jbntelco.com>
To: <WillysTech@egroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:13 PM
Subject: [WT] Re: [MV] EURIKA! Mystery solved (M37 spare/door mount)
> If you're going to keep the 20 in. rims check with Snake River 4x4 as they
> sell 11.00x20 NDT's for about $50 each.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Enterprise B&B" <enterprise@earthlink.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 8:29 PM
> Subject: [MV] EURIKA! Mystery solved (M37 spare/door mount)
>
>
> > First, I want to thank all the listers who took their time to respond to
> my
> > posts, send me pictures and share their experiences w/me. Having a
common
> > denominator of interest does breed good feelings of cooperation. Now on
> to
> > what I found.
> >
> > Several listers had told me they had not seen an M37 w/the spare tire
> > mounted on the rear of the unit. No surprise because after a little
> > digging (literally taking off a few pieces, I found that what someone
had
> > done is take the door mount unit off and had it welded to the back of
the
> > M37 allowing it to swing open from there. rear. So at this point what
I
> > am going to do, with the help of my little handy-dandy sawzall (and
> > probably 10 metal blades), is remove the unit from the back and simply
> bolt
> > it back where it was originally.
> >
> > The one problem I will still face is that in order for the unit to
> function
> > on the rear, the standard lock unit which held the arm from swinging but
> > could be opened from the inside, was modified so that it has to be
opened
> > from either outside the vehicle or from inside by a gorilla w/7 foot
arms.
> > I'm sure I can come up w/some creative whatever to operate the release
> from
> > the inside.
> >
> > As to changing the rims from 20" back to 16", I'm going to ponder that
one
> > for a while. I would need 5 rims and so far, the least expensive I have
> > found is $50 each however w/shipping, etc. the tab came over $500, and
> that
> > is not counting tires which will run me about $100 each for new ones. So
I
> > have to think about that one for a while unless someone here has an "in"
> > for rims at a better price. Of course I was also told that I could
> > probably trade my 20" rims straight across and maybe even make some $$
> > since the 20" rims give much better mileage. My concern is not mileage
> > (even w/gasoline pushing $2.00 p/g here) since I only intend to use the
> > unit in parades and for an occasional "Geeee, look at that thing with
the
> > machine gun" trips around town.
> >
> > I guess that's about it for now since I'm leaving tomorrow for a week or
> so
> > around Catalina (Island off So. Calif. coast).
> >
> > Again, thanks to all.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
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