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I believe the M135 had "Timkens" but my three 1954's where all "Rockwell's". I sold off all the axles out of two of my trucks but I still have them in my Air-Force M35 (1954) . If you want I can take some pictures for you.
That's what I think also. You got to admit these trucks can go in crazy places and those axles are getting all twisted up this way and that way so some axle shift was bound to happen. Hence the axle locaters.
I have some early deuces (1954) and a 1988. The early models "do not" have locater pins. My 1988 deuce does. When did they start using locater pins ? I don't know, but somewhere between 1954 and 1988 they started using them probably to fix a shifting of the axle problem. For those who may say my...
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