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  1. Joseph Cummings
    Depending on what the trans is, he might want to just change the whole cutoff. If that truck had a direct trans in it 5.73 isn't going to give much road speed. It could top out at around 40
  2. Joseph Cummings
    1000 per wheel is insane. You could buy a whole cuttoff with cam brakes for less than half that. I guess to make it period correct, you'd have to use the narrow brakes with the bolt on lining. Those narrow shoes with the drums, spiders, ect is the kind of stuff that hits the scrap when you're cutting up trucks
  3. Joseph Cummings
    So, where are you? And what kind of soup?
  4. Joseph Cummings
    Every wedge brake tractor I converted to cams the first time anything went wrong with them. And we had a lot of ex Matlack and Chemical Leaman trucks
  5. Joseph Cummings
    We could go right to this lol. But after haveing run an Autocar 9964 with the RS (Rubber Pads) and replacing the tail light bulbs every time I bobtailed more than about 20 miles, I'd say it'd be a little too rough. I used to pull a Rodgers RGN that had those walking beams that had the axles cut in the middle, and between that and the RS Hendrickson under the tractor I started to understand why women wear sports bras
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    We were getting a lot of imported aftermarket camelback springs in the 80's and 90's. I saw trucks with 2 supposedly matched brand new springs have a 2 inch difference from side to side. How they wore tires I really don't know, mostly all dumps, mixers, roll offs, working in the city. Most tires got destroyed before they wore out. I hauled scrap metal for years, I spent lots more on tires than fuel lol. I was seriously considering foam fills for the dump trailers
  8. Joseph Cummings
    Helps to know some basic trig like the Pythagorean Theorem, or as carpenters call it "The 3 4 5 Rule"
  9. Joseph Cummings
    The spec for the mack camelback used to be 3/8 difference from side to side measured at the axle centers If you drill the frame wrong and screw up the thrust angle, well you should have measured or 2 or 10 times before drilling
  10. Joseph Cummings
    This isn't even that good of price for older 44s with the cones There are plenty out there. all kinds of hubs, ratios, flat flange axles
  11. Joseph Cummings
    I'm just saying that when there are cutoffs in nice shape in the 2 to 5 thousand dollar range depending on what you want, I'm not going out and buying a new suspension and converting the axle housings by cutting off old brackets and welding on new ones. Sounds like a lot more work and a lot more money to me for very little if any gain
  12. Joseph Cummings
    I've never converted axle housings. I've always bought used cutoffs and just swapped the whole thing
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  14. Joseph Cummings
    Actually what we should be asking is what kind of work does this truck do? How is it speced out?
  15. Joseph Cummings
    I say put a camelback or an RS series Hendrickson under it
  16. Joseph Cummings
    Communist activist Frank Marshall Davis, who owned the “subversive” magazines the photos were for.
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  18. Joseph Cummings
    I think this is the real reason they are letting the fires burn. LA is loaded with Raciest Trees https://www.pbs.org/video/trailer-racist-trees-cga1ky/
  19. Joseph Cummings
    No No No, the experts have spoken https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/los-angeles-wildfire-using-sea-water-fighting-fires
  20. Joseph Cummings
    Longer version. They built all their own equipment on the fly. Boots & Coots still exists as part of Haliburton
  21. Joseph Cummings
    What would Red Adair do??????
  22. Joseph Cummings
    Yeah if I set myself on fire welding, I'd really be pizzed if someone filled a bucket with seawater, ran roughly over some endangered worms, and dumped it on me
  23. Joseph Cummings
    Yeah I was thinking trailer mounted pumps on a raft and lots of soft line. But there are stories in the media of how salt is bad for the environment, and it will destroy the pumps in fire apparatus. and salt water is not as good at absorbing heat (something like 4% less by mass, or 2% by volume), so it's totally unsuitable for fire fighting
  24. Joseph Cummings
    Wonder what It'll bring
  25. Joseph Cummings
    I don't think we have to mess with the Constitution. There are NGOs helping the illegals in. We just need to form NGOs to help persuade the illegals go back where they belong. Think of it being a National Christian Organization, or something like NSF thing. If we keep the government out of it, it can be extremely effective.

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