Mark T

I had a Granite with that under hood air intake. That changed the part number for the hood, even though a regular hood would go right on it ( but no vent for under hood air )

Reave spring crip roose.

One good thing, that's a fine picture of that problem. No where near enough contact to hold that fast. Seen this before with those. Sorry it cost so much in dollars and headaches.

Too far

The noise is probably the spring moving on the saddle. If it's been used with the U bolts loose , that's a great way to crack the springs outwards from the centerbolt. So......if he goes through all this and ends up with a broken spring afterwards, he's right back where he started.

Mech, this is the same dude with no torque rod. I mentioned the cracks cause I believe the truck's been used with loose u bolts. Couple questions about this one tha are unanswered, and the owner said he can't go in the work area to actually look. Kinda sucks that he's in this just trying to get his truck fixed.

where are you

Unless you have a buddy with those laying around, you're going to a dealer.

Truck definetely looks like it well worth fixing the right way, even if it is a little pricey.

From your one picture, the truck looks clean. Not likely they're shot, but ???? Springs are probably junk at this point. If you look at the hole for the center bolt when they're apart , check for little cracks from the hole going outwards. One of the effects of loose U bolts. All thesee little 16ths of an inch here and there add up.

If the boxes (buckets) are rotted they can be missing enough to not squeeze everything enough. Did anyone look at the round holes in the end of the springs ?

Sounds about right for the one it would require.

Look on the bright side, if the trunion bar is ok the most you're looking is new springs and saddles, new bolts and depending (?) maybe new buckets and isolators. Sometimes the springs hole gets egg shaped where the pin on the isolator goes. Making a trunion repair is the really expensive thing if that has to be addressed.

Not many places have a hydralic torque wrench of even more than a little 4 to 1 torque multiplier. Cuase they cost a fortune. Or ? if they don't have a pit to get a huge impact on them, then..... They gotta be tight.

The spring clip in the picture has loose U bolts. IDK what this "multimeter" is . Last I knew you'd use a torque multiplier. Anyway, they're loose and even after they're put in in the first place, they need to be retorqued shortly after that.

Lots of guys don't realize how tight those need to be. They're like 1600 ft/lbs. Then retorqued after a few miles in service.

Everything in those pictures from Paul were at one time state of the art . Impressive collection .

Those big 10.9 flange bolts and nuts. Like if it was made with it.

They came all different ways. 54" spread on camelbacks, rod on the back rear was common. I bet the truck he's asking about is one of those "county spec" trucks. Least that's what us guys around here call them. They were usually white with Ox bodies. Several of them come into the used truck marked on a regular basis. Hardly any miles and , no offence to anyone but they're cheaped out on in many ways to knock a couple thousand dollars off the price. They're actually pretty good low milage trucks. A little plain maybe. Usually well worth putting a few dollars into to upgrade a couple items here and there. Be a little tricky on this truck as it may require a reinforcement plate inside the frame channel or small plate on the outside. Well worth putting on it though in my opinion . Vinny's in NJ that's 80K. That truck very well have been made to haul 15 tons or so. 27......yeah, it's gonna get worn out pretty quick

All these clowns definitely have one goal. Proving that Albert Einstein's theory about the difference between genius and stupidity is correct.

Jojo.....you stop that 😠 that's what democracy looks like

I could be wrong, but I think a lot of those white dump trucks with the Ox bodies on them were made without torque rods. There were lots of places those trucks were cheaped out on. Most I saw up here looked like somebody glued a third axle on them to flip them as tri-axles. Then here in Pa @ 73000 pounds the rear suspension lasted about 2 weeks. Where ever they were from down south, as tandems they must not have carried much.

It almost looks like the bolts are loose.

NO that's your range cylinder. F's 13 he's talking about is under the cover on the top of the transmission and the bolt on the yolk is the one in front of the universal joint it'll be below your picture and it's like inch and five sixteenths

Yes. Often when they were misadjusted or not working right in general. Disconnecting the air would make the truck run better. All the time it's smoking like that, it's basically over fueling. (not the greatest idea) They used to take some trial and error to get them shimmed (adjusted) to a point where you had power and minimal smoke. I'd imagine it'll be hard finding parts for one of them now. Never know, might put air to it and it work like a swiss watch. Someone who'd ziptie it off like that likely was doing it from being told by someone it'd make the truck run better ????