Going to Hell? (1 Viewer)

[jwalker]

Every time a bell rings someone is modifying a bantam trailer and angels weep. That's what the jeep guys tell me anyways.
Just picked up a military Bantam with almost zero rust (because it is protected by some herculean olive drab paint from the military). My projects take years due to my 16 hour work days but I see a tailgate and top in its future and possibly a frame stretch. Fun.
Anyways, to those who have converted Bantams over to adventure trailers do you find it easier to replace the axle and springs if they are functioning properly or go with the wheel adapters to Toyota lug pattern?

 

[titanpat57]

Unless you're restoring one for a military show, or to match your era military jeep...carve away

 

[cruiserjunkie]

Wheel adaptors are not much less than a new axle

 

[Living in the Past]

If the picture attached is the trailer you bought that not a bantam trailer. Bantam was the company that was the original designer of the jeep. The military awarded the contract the Willys because they didn't feel Bantam was a large enough company to may the jeep with possiblity of the US getting into WWII. They were awarded a contract to make the 1/4 ton trailer to pull behind the jeep. Just Ford also made jeeps during WWII to keep up with the demand other companies made 1/4 trailers during the war. I have a 9/43 trailer made by Willys. Bantam continue making trailers after the war and sold to the public. Those had a tailgate and made for a ball hitch. The trailer in the pictures is a M416 probably made during the sixties and not made by Bantam. I'm not doing anything to my Willys trailer. I have a 65 M416 made by Johnson Furnace that I would modify first because they are much more common.