At 01:29 PM 9/13/00 -0700, Enterprise B&B wrote:
>My "little " project today of changing from 9.00X20 tires to 9.00X16 and
>redoing the spare to a door mount has turned ugly, but then I like
>challenges (that's why I have a couple of ex wives). Anyway, I'm going to
>have to move the swing out spare carrier from the tailgate where someone
>put it (and I don't even know if it's original) to the door area and then
>take the back of the MV to original configuration. My problem here is, I
>don't have a picture of the rear of a (1965 or so) M37. All the pictures
>in the mags are of course either front or side but never read.
>
>Anyway, if anyone has a digital camera and an M37, I would appreciate a
>couple of .jpg shots to take to my local welding shop. I think this is
>going to be a "cut and paste" (via welding) job.
>
>Also, thanks to all the listers who have given me input and advice.
Forgot to mention something. When I got my ex-CDN M-37 from a farmer,
it had this sort of 10 degree list to the passenger side. I figured at the
time
that the old farmer must've left something heavy in the box on that side while
the vehicle sat, and off to the spring shop it went for a recurve job. It
still
leaned considerably after the recurve, so the spring shop added a leaf
to the passenger side to compensate for whatever was causing it.
Heh. 'Whatever was causing it' took the form of a spacer plate, about
3/4" high, which sat between the bottom of the leaf spring and the
top flat bit of the axle both front and rear. These are factory-looking
add-ons, which, if I recall, had Dodge part no.'s on them.
The purpose of them on one side of a cargo truck wasn't very obvious at
first, until I realized that the spacers were probably added to compensate for
the weight of the driver and the driver's side mounted swing-away spare
tire.
I have since seen a few more trucks with evidence of the swing-away tire
carrier long since removed by the military - yet each of these trucks still
has the spacer plate beneath the driver's side springs.
Have never seen a reference to the above anywhere, so thought I'd pass
it along.
Andy Hill
MVPA #9211
Vancouver, B.C.
(and, embarrassingly enough, I drove it for twelve or so years before I
noticed myself!)
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