B-62sx

[Rob]

Tonight I strapped on my elephant harness to my body and pulled the old Mack chassis from the weeds. For Knobby: (This added weight gives me more "tractive effort"). This truck is on Budd hubs front and rear, has hydraulic power steering, and a useable full double frame without breakage. There is no engine and/or transmission, nor useable sheet metal.

I was looking at the drop in carriers for the drive axles and the castings and housings are different than any I've seen before. The bolt pattern, and number of bolts that hold the carriers to the housings are less. I took photos but cannot post them until later.

The reason for this post is that the cast steel backing plates where the roto chambers mount are broken on three wheels and have been welded back together. They are not straight, or in line with where they used to be. These are at least 44000# suspension rears. I have a 64 B-61ST that has what appear to be the same type setup with minor differences, mainly the grease zerks that I can readily see. The front axle housing on this truck is cracked at the spring perch and has been scabbed, (terribly) together and leaks rather well. Will the backing plates swap over? The leaking housing has 6.34 rears, and the other housing has 5.77 which would be a little faster for this truck. A neglible difference I know, but I suspect the 6.34 in front to have the beginnings of problems.

Thanks,

Rob