Vladislav

Seems like one attractive offer anyway.

Just a thought, not a particular advice. Once i looked at rear engine mounting brackets of my R-model and a pair of such ones off a RD chassis. They looked almost similar to me until I noted RD's had less "meat" in the attachment area. Figured those were made to be used with a double frame so had 1/4" ground off to be set into the same position as R-model ones put to single rails.

What kind of hinge do you mean? The one which connects two halves of RD steel butterfly hood? I couldn't find the # handy but that part is NLA for a while. Watts reproduced it in brass for use in a B-model, you can find it in B-model store on their site. But cost like a dsiamond and I'm not sure it would be long enough for your particular RD.

RL/RS originally were West R-models, produced in California. 600 and 700 series differed by the length of hood, 700 were longer to accomodate V8 engines. After closing Hayward plant in Cali in 1978 or so RS/RL700 were cancelled and RS600 (and RL600?) production moved to Macungie plant on East Coast. But those trucks continued having their original style of the chassis - straight frame rails all the way front to rear. R-models which were originally produced on East Coast (Eastern R600 or R700 but not RS or RL) had almost different chassis with rails spreading at the front end and lowering down and narowing there either. Those chassis had absolutely different front crossmembers and front engine mounts. And probably rear mounts also. Telling further Eastern R's had different front mount on series 600 (shorter hood) and 700 (loger hood). Western RS/RL seemed also having different style of the front crossmembers but as an early and later styles. Unfortunately I don't have particular images or drawings of all crossmembers or front engine mounts used on all R-models of all modifications and all years of production. But what I'm sure of the thing you should start with is determining what exactly model and production year your truck is. Vlad

I agree with what was said above. Too probably basic 1/4 thick R-600 single rail frame and rear suspension of the same ballpark of capacity used. A good (and light) combo for on-highway use. If plan to offroad with sufficient loads it seems better to look either for a RD or DM which would have basically heavier chassis than many of R-models.

Better to take two! Would be really handy in a back yard.

Probably the matter was their typical loads - cabs - were not heavy.

This truck was posted on here for some reason and at some time. I don't remember the matter of the fact but suppose the pics would be of help to you. As you can see this is Western F (FL?) and has aluminium frame rails.

Best B-day wishes Al!

The widest point of the most any truck is outer sidewals of rear tyres. Bodies installed later could be a bit wider but in most cases they don't get outer much.

I think they used the same roof, back and side panels to make both cabs. Floor, windshield frame and probably cowl were different. At least they look on pics that way. In theory it could be not that if the entire length of the cabs is different and different roof panels were used. You need to take some basic measurements off both the cabs to figure. Seems the need is the question either

I would expect big differences in the floor shape either. Don't know about the sleeper cab L's but day cabs have flat floor with front panel removable.

http://www.wattstruckcenter.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=60_81&product_id=267 http://www.wattstruckcenter.com/store/index.php?route=product/product&path=60_81&product_id=268

Here you can see two pictures. Unfortunately the one showing R600 has some text lines cut off so no width there. The other is for R700 and that type had different hood length and slightly taller. Overall width is almost the same between both of them. Worth to note the dimentions given don't contein mirrors for some reason. So you probably should use 10 feet of width as David pointed out above. Or if you have a good quality photo taken from the front of the trucks you could try to count the actual distance between them parked. It seems interesting to learn the figures you will get doing the math. I definitely not going to try repeating that jump with my motorbike but the initial ground speed and the ramp angle would feed my couriosity. Vlad

It's written overthere " It’s a W-71. Somewhat rare, certainly rare here on the island. This one came off a farm, has the extended cab for sleeper. Cab interior pretty rough but restorable. " Croatia is definitely not an Island, it's on the mainland. If you look over the 2nd picture you can see Freigtliner parked to the left of Mack. If you zoom you can read "comoxpacific.com" on its right door. And if you go to that website you will find that's a ferry company serving Vancouver island. https://www.comoxpacific.com/ Pretty interesting anyway.

I think of 7 or 8 examples known existing 5 or 6 have integral sleepers.

Wow! I double that. Best B-day wishes!

I'm for an H. Sure any conventional basically has more attractive shape than a cabover but H-models stay apart from the most of commonly looking trucks. I think you could figure on building additional front end off an L-model you could attach to your H to make it differents at times you want

Can you protect your lungs by some quite efficient way? Looks nasty on my screen. We had smoke in the city for a month or two about 10 years ago because of swamps burning in 150 km. But dust seems as a different matter. Hope you can stay safe with what happens.

I would guess LJ. Could also be LF. Difficult to judge weight raiting by the look. LF's usually had smaller wheels of 20" but that was not a rure and the particular wheels were not installed at the factory also. Both sleeper cab and "hard nose" were factory options. It has longer hood and being accompanied by Diesel badges I would expect to find Cummins under the hood. Nice looking and rarely set up unit no doubt.

My guess is you're talking about this one. The photo was taken at Trucktoberfest as I remember but by someone else.

Looks like the video is showed faster than it was filmed, you can see a car running down the street 3-4 times quicker than it would usually do. But doesn't seem as fun anyway.

Ufff, never even thought about that. Thanks for pointing out.

Thank you Kevin. My final solution was to not install them on the truck since 1st it came off the assembly line without them and 2nd it would be one (even 2) extra parts to care about. So hood is done without them. I just had to tinker with SS plates since they were originally of that style to suite the sorrounds.

Looks well cared. Sure there must be steel dash in it.