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Very few shops understand setting up the wheel end spider gears properly. If you guess the gear lash, they will grind and rumble and self-destruct. The wheel ends have to come apart to change the front differential. Also, lately, the surplus high speed ring and pinion gears are dried up, you...
Ouch. Here is why this happened. People have been buying Humvees (also made by AM General) that are title branded "off road use", then "washing" the titles to remove the brand. Various states have figured this out, and have flagged anything made by AM General as off road only unless the owner...
Cool plan! Looks like you have all bases covered. My only suggestion is to have Eastern find some kind of box or platform to attach behind the cab for stuff. Not much room in the cab.
Construction companies typically want those for dust control water trucks. They do not want projects, rather trucks that run and are ready to go. Collectors/enthusiasts like yourself don't get excited about fuel/water trucks because they can't carry a bed full of fun-seekers. Scrap yard will...
We call "pads" "brake shoes" over here in the colonies. It is correct that the springs will hold the shoes against the adjusters when the brake cylinders are not applied.
The stack exhaust came about in the 1970's. Trucks surplused around then could still have the factory rear exhaust. If your pump plan does not work out, pm me, I am pulling a pto driven fire pump from a deuce brush truck at the moment.
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