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mattb73lt

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  1. When I was building my B42 and converting it to diesel I parted out a B61SX dump truck. I bought it mainly for the transmission. I didn't know a lot about B models back then. The transmission ended up being a TRDX-72. Which was a direct gear Duplex with a deep reduction in low range. You didn't split it. Five in low range, then five in high range. What some call a "dead stick" duplex. It did have a normal H pattern five speed for the main. Your transmission sounds like it works similarly, just with that odd gear pattern. That transmission was the only thing I didn't use from that part out.

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  2. I deleted the brackets on my B73 and put the exhaust on a late model support arm. The later L cabs only seem to have had two brackets, one near the top below the louvers. The lower one was mounted to the lower internal cab frame in the corner. There were spacers inside the lower mount to make up the gap between the skin and the frame. I saved my two brackets, but they were pretty rusty and had been modified by previous owners. Let me see if I can locate them. Here's a picture on the corner of the cab with the skin removed. The upper bracket is still in place on mine. The two lower, short brackets below are for the grab handle. Then the lower frame of the cab. Second picture is after I painted it, but before I put two polished stainless bolts in the threaded holes as place holders. I left the bracket as it stiffens the area and if someone in the future wanted to add the bracket back. 

    I've seen the schematic you posted before. The four bracket arrangement may have been for the heavier LJ-X versions like yours. I don't think regular LJ's had that type of arrangement. 

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  3. I believe the main feed comes off the firewall mounted foot starter switch. Reason is I left the switch in place on my B42 when I converted it to diesel and ran a feed from the 12V starter to power it. Used it like a terminal block.

    The 6V trucks were early production and were the lighter gas jobs. A friend has an early B42 that is 6V. It was a pristine oil truck out of New Haven when he got it years ago. Kept inside during it's working time. The factory paint was literally like new. Now it's a rusted, faded truck laying in his yard. What a waste. He's one of those, "I'm going to fix it one day." guys

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  4. Wow LOOOOONG wheelbase on that truck. I always loved the look of that B series. I grew up around the Weston, CT VFD and was a member for 9 years. That dep't had a 1934 BG pumper they bought new and they still own. In the 80's I was a member of the Muster Team and we drove all over the area to muster in CT, NY, MA and over to Long Island. Great truck and we won a lot of trophies with it. The dep't had Matt Pfahl do a complete restoration to it several years ago and it's better than new, now

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  5. 23 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

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    I recall seeing this particular B81 on probably one of it's last jobs before being sold. Mid to late '90s in Hartford at the Riverfront Recapture Project, when O&G took over the project after George Tomasso Constr. crashed and burned on it financially. The state fired Tomasso and O&G finished it. The truck sat around the site with a lowboy attached to it, I'm not sure if it was that trailer or another.

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