Red Horse

Well before the CL series, Ford W's had other "cereal box" competitors- White 7000's, GMC crackerbox, White 1500's, White 6000's Flat steel, flat glass= low cost.

You have to admit though, one hell of a press release-no sugar coating whatsoever. Proud of their contributions in WW I and WW II. Continued sad state of affairs for America's manufacturing base. Talking to my son today and he mentioned that near his plant they just opened a new shopping mall. The usual tennants employing lower wage sales help, fry cooks etc while selling probably 90% imported goods-and mostly from China at that. One of his co-workers commented -" yeah, and all of the buildings that were knocked down to make room for this at one time manufactured goods". No doubt its a world economy, but we seem to always come out on the short end of the stick. My son by the way has an expensive technical education-hope he gets to finish his career without going backward.

Friends company is biting the bullet and getting rid of theirs at a huge loss. They can't afford the constant downtime.

June 28th

Nice-just out of curiosity, what is premium pricing for color "red" on a unit that size vs, "white"-which I assume is cheapest.

Well Jim thx for this- for sure I am clueless-always thought it was the outside dimension. In any case, this schematic looks nothing like my spare rim. I should take a pix and post. PS Nice article in newest ATCA mag!

Matt I remember seeing it at Brooklyn- had quite a crowd around it. They are unique-and rare- I would like to now how many were built-very low number I'm sure.

Hah- relax-being a WA! Yours IS about the most complete one I've ever seen

Well the build sheet says in 1956 it came down line with 11:00 x 24's .Doesn't give rim size just a part no. 14QJ314P3 For sure- loosen all the clamps, nuts in place and then start gradual hand tightening using star pattern Your key word Jim-"History". This truck was a B-60X with a 9.05 RAD-111. I believe original owner converted it to a 711 and the rear was changed to a 6.??. Guy I bought it from then pulled 711 and put a factory reman 237 that had 10,000 miles on it. He also had 3 or 4 heavy B's so you can imagine the rim swapping over the 50 years before I bought it. Question- proper way to measure width- I'm putting rule at start of bevel and calling it at the radius edge. Was there such a thing as an 8.25?

An outstanding success! I think all five that were built are still on the show circuit!

Thx Jim I'm sure your advice is right on-just wonder how you can bend a rim as heavy as they are. Friend of mine just bought some new 24"- $$$$$$$! By the way I did make a quick attempt at rotating- needed a good nights sleep and gave up. think a peavey would work??

Ok guys- my frustration level goes up. Screwed around with this some more and 1/2" is best I can get. have space between clamps and spoke so that is not an issue. One thing I see, when I look at inner rim, the inner bevel edge on one of the spokes does NOT make contact anywhere with the angled edge of the rim. My next move is to flip the inner with the outer wheel and see what that does. By the way I've had more than one experienced guy tell me..."1/2"? forget about it-" I do use the truck, not uncommon to hit 38,000 lbs (its a single axle) but I'm always on rural/secondary state roads.

Also construction equipment-in particular a line of scrapers-both crawler drawn as well as rubber tired self powered

Point of info, Bob West passed away at age 92-93. Went to bed last night and did not wake up. Understand he had pulled a load as little as a week or two ago. RIP-good way to go

Hah! Euc TC-12! nice handle-you must have some grey hair!

Further to this subject, replaced my spacer with a 4". Clamps now are not touching the spokes. Question-what is acceptable runout? I've had someone tell me anything up to 1/2" is acceptable.

Just out of curiosity, what percentage of Volvo's business isin construction equipment? This new guy I assume has no experience in that field. Also, I see words like.."streamline operations" and .."cutting overhead costs" and the standard "synergism" buzzword comes to mind. Hope this does not spell trouble for Mack

So Matt, you ruined my night. Took the B out today for first time to get inspection sticker and mentioned my right rear had a wobble that I could not get rid of. My buddy looks at it and says.."squashed spacer" Plus wedges are in contact with spokes. Looks like spacer is 3-3/4, one on other side is a 4"-runs true!. So I order a 4"-have to pick it up in AM. Truck is a 61X, 11:00 24 radials. If I stick my fist between tires with 4" it swallows my hand. do it with the 3-3/4 my fist is flush with top of tire (scientific huh?) so what is with your comment on .."4" screws everything up"??

Bad picture -try again

Haybag-another one: Dennis Day, Sterling MA 978-422-6694 Excellent work IMO

Well done-you should be very proud of your work.....but just where did you put the DEF tank?

Wow-is that Cobra for real or a Factory Five??

HMNN- Liquid load and winding roads- don't think you should HAVE too much speed. Better to get to the scene than end up in a ditch. Want a super clean C-8000 E-One pumper? Buddy of mine has one for sale- first line truck for a lot of departments I'm sure-but around here where big tax dollars rule?-Nah -not good enough- "we need a new $400,000 piece-the taxpayers can afford it"!

Amen! See my earlier post

Couple of shots of the cab back panels and the windshield "a" pillars will be helpful to those interested.