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Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 13:58:17 :
In Reply to: 101a1 trailer posted by Dayle [205.188.116.76] on Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 13:29:38 :
An M101 or an M105? You can pull an M105 behind and M37, but the back end is way up in the air. I don't know of any easy way to change out the hubs either. The axles are completely different. I believe the drums and brakes on the M105 are the same as an M35 truck. Even if you somehow managed to put 9.00-16 rims and tires on it, you'd still have a trailer that's twice the weight of an M101, about 3000 lbs empty. That doesn't leave a lot for payload capacity. Yet another factor is that the M105 has air brakes that connect to the M35's service brake line. It's really not too important on an M35 since the truck weighs 14,000 lb empty and the trailer maxes out at 6000 lbs loaded, but with an M37 you'd be towing a 6000 lb trailer with a 6000 lb truck and no trailer brakes. Sounds kind of dicey to me. All in all, the reason M101s sell for twice as much as M105s even though they're half the size is that M101s fit M37s and M105s don't.
Another nice thing about an M101 is that when it's empty you can pick up the tongue by hand and wheel it around the yard. You can also move it by hand to hitch it up. With an M105 that's basically a two-man operation even on hard pavement.