Mark T

I didn't see any bearing in the pictures. It wasn't seized apparently. Needs to mic it and see if there even is a chance the crank could be cut. (for real) From all the video and pictures, it's look'n like this engine's best years are behind it. Easy for us guys here to not totally understand how difficult it may be to repair something like that where he is. Might end up with a less than desireable repair to make it run again, and as a novelty truck ?? it might get by.

Someone marked the throw for some reason. That may have been "doctored up" already. Like cleaned up with emery cloth and a new bearing from a previous failure ? You guys claim they're not common there, who knows what someone tried on it. No simple way out now 😕 😏 unless you have lots of patience and a micrometer, start polishing and get a undersized bearing. Compared to your other options, you don't have much to lose in this situation. Although it looks like it might be already too late for attempting that too. Just a thought....and not a good one, but

Maybe something to do with why someone wrote on the throw ?

I had a couple Canadian Superliners. They started life as big tractors,and were converted to dump trucks. The one was on 20" rubber and had Hendrickson in the rear and taper leaf in the front (steer) . I changed it to 22" on the drives and put multi leaf in the front to level it out. Ended up with the same thing you have going on. I was lucky though as the two trucks were quite alike and I just ordered those arms by the VIN of the one already like I changed the other on to. Maybe something like that can simplify it if you have a VIN ? Those ones (top curved around levers to the drag links) aren't as critical as the ones on the tie rod. Big exaggerated angles will likely wear ball and socket joints fast and it may lose turning radius in weird ways (more one direction than the other) Usually they're sorta flat through the tavel of the suspension (top ones) or the drag link'll be bent in such a way to drop the level of it. I think the RWs were straight ? The ones on the tie rod ? if they're way off, it could make the truck steer lousy. (Paul may have worded it better than me) Like when you need it to turn it might be less than ideal. (loose grave, wet pavement) like when you need every drop to make a turn with a lowboy ??? Be a pain in the neck if you go through swap'n the axle to fix one problem and discover doing so created another one.

Maybe swap them side to side ??

They can put up a fight coming out. The levers for the tie rod are the ones. They make the ackerman angles according to the wheelbase. Depending if they're different and how different, the truck may not behave ideally as far as steering. It'll end up oversteering or understeering , wanting to fight you on a wet road or something fun like that. OR ??? they may be the same thing as the truck needs IDK. There's some geometry engineered into those things.

Those levers are keyed if I remember right.

Some of those tractors came with taper leaf in the front. Probably no chance your levers that came in the truck fit in the replacement axle ? or do they

Geeze.... if that's the waiting room, no wonder they were telling you your insurance was too good.

And just like that, Bob learned first hand what (equity) was.

Oh, I get the point. Those in charge prove the fact that with enough thought you can rationalize anything. Now if that's good or bad ???? whole other story.

Use them or not, the headaches they'd cause pushing their radical views on everyone with the threat of using them is more than enough reason they shouldn't have them. Problem with the bombing ???? it's around 40 years too late. Oh, and if anyone thinks there's a way the average Iranian citizen has access to information about the rest of the world ....riiiight.

🤣 yes...because congress does so much only after the people's consent.

I had a couple smaller ones like that. I did mine with a cordless drill. So don't beat yourself up too much.

If they do bust, better not waste any time dressing them. on a side note....... TJC is laugh'n about it ( most are think'n it's too early ) 😇