Mark T

😳 You didn't dare call it a 285 back then. A "300" ....you were proud as could be. If you drove a Mack around here with the air cleaner with the two ducts over and under....king indeed.

15 over was popular back in the '80s in tractors. Older trucks might have a direct 15 . Like back closer to the early '70s. ( a ten speed with deep reduction ) They could have been either directs or overs. I think the last ones went up to 15-7s. I mentioned it cause I drove a 300 with one behind it. Even though it was a Maxidyne it still worked pretty good, and was nice for slowing down the truck with the engine brake. After some thought, I think an FRO ten speed might b worth looking into for Larry. ( low 1st gear and fast over gear )They're cheap and lots of CHs used them. I doubt the clutch housing is gonna be bolt for bolt though.

15s went away because axles got so much faster. (basically) That was the beginning of the end for so many of those once popular transmissions. Super 10 ? Technology outpaced them before they ever came close to catching on. Everything gets outdated at some point I guess

Yes Vlad. I believe I speak for many here, no need to explain your grammer . Not difficult understanding your point or what you're telling us . Your efforts are very much appreciated. Always interesting posts too.

I often wonder if people who believe in all the illegal migrants and redistribution of wealth they desire is well within their own reach. There's really nothing stopping them from giving their money and home to someone if that's what they really want to do. I get confused when they carry on like it's everyone else's civil duty to do the same. Something is very wrong when justice is dealt out for a turcking violation within a few days, but be here illegally and it's a minimum of months before anything can be done ? Let's make laws.....ignore. Brilliant !!!!

I remember one pushed, and one pulled on the throttle shaft. Then again, I remember when a 350 was like the greatest thing (lol)......n they kinda were at the time

Didn't the 315 and 350 use a different pump ?

FRO

4.10s and a 15 over. Used to work nice with a 300. And one of those shouldn't cost a fortune. Good luck finding an RTOO thirteen. A RTLO 13 or 18 has a high final overdrive, and some of the smaller series don't cost a whole lot. A direct 5 speed and a 1241 with 4.10s....might just as well use an RTO 13. Even a FRO 10 would be nice with 4.10s.

That truck is on Craigslist here too. Looks like an Osterlund hood on a Diamond Reo from the brief Diamond Reo period. It looks pretty good in the pictures and seems even the interior is in good shape. It's not very far from me and even closer to Joe C. Cool old truck.

Boy, that's an odd failure on a tube type. Guess anything is possible on an older tire though. From the picture , it suggests the wheel is in better shape than most of that vintage. Still might be a problem finding someone to touch it or have much selection to chose from as a replacement tire. Tubeless will go right on there, but I wouldn't get my hopes up for finding good used ones. Budds used to like to crack and often the lugs go way too far into the seats which doesn't lead to anything good either. At least if you bought two new ones though, you'd be done and have way more variety of 11/ 22.5s to chose from, as well as a lot less trouble finding someone to service them. If you're using the truck ? go tubeless. Maybe advertise those budds and someone restoring something who's familiar with them will give you something for them and help defray the costs of the update ?

Lots of those inaccurate descriptions with $1234 for the price are some type of scam.

I didn't see any bearing in the pictures. It wasn't seized apparently. Needs to mic it and see if there even is a chance the crank could be cut. (for real) From all the video and pictures, it's look'n like this engine's best years are behind it. Easy for us guys here to not totally understand how difficult it may be to repair something like that where he is. Might end up with a less than desireable repair to make it run again, and as a novelty truck ?? it might get by.

Someone marked the throw for some reason. That may have been "doctored up" already. Like cleaned up with emery cloth and a new bearing from a previous failure ? You guys claim they're not common there, who knows what someone tried on it. No simple way out now 😕 😏 unless you have lots of patience and a micrometer, start polishing and get a undersized bearing. Compared to your other options, you don't have much to lose in this situation. Although it looks like it might be already too late for attempting that too. Just a thought....and not a good one, but

Maybe something to do with why someone wrote on the throw ?

I had a couple Canadian Superliners. They started life as big tractors,and were converted to dump trucks. The one was on 20" rubber and had Hendrickson in the rear and taper leaf in the front (steer) . I changed it to 22" on the drives and put multi leaf in the front to level it out. Ended up with the same thing you have going on. I was lucky though as the two trucks were quite alike and I just ordered those arms by the VIN of the one already like I changed the other on to. Maybe something like that can simplify it if you have a VIN ? Those ones (top curved around levers to the drag links) aren't as critical as the ones on the tie rod. Big exaggerated angles will likely wear ball and socket joints fast and it may lose turning radius in weird ways (more one direction than the other) Usually they're sorta flat through the tavel of the suspension (top ones) or the drag link'll be bent in such a way to drop the level of it. I think the RWs were straight ? The ones on the tie rod ? if they're way off, it could make the truck steer lousy. (Paul may have worded it better than me) Like when you need it to turn it might be less than ideal. (loose grave, wet pavement) like when you need every drop to make a turn with a lowboy ??? Be a pain in the neck if you go through swap'n the axle to fix one problem and discover doing so created another one.

Maybe swap them side to side ??

They can put up a fight coming out. The levers for the tie rod are the ones. They make the ackerman angles according to the wheelbase. Depending if they're different and how different, the truck may not behave ideally as far as steering. It'll end up oversteering or understeering , wanting to fight you on a wet road or something fun like that. OR ??? they may be the same thing as the truck needs IDK. There's some geometry engineered into those things.

Those levers are keyed if I remember right.

Some of those tractors came with taper leaf in the front. Probably no chance your levers that came in the truck fit in the replacement axle ? or do they

Geeze.... if that's the waiting room, no wonder they were telling you your insurance was too good.

And just like that, Bob learned first hand what (equity) was.

Oh, I get the point. Those in charge prove the fact that with enough thought you can rationalize anything. Now if that's good or bad ???? whole other story.

Use them or not, the headaches they'd cause pushing their radical views on everyone with the threat of using them is more than enough reason they shouldn't have them. Problem with the bombing ???? it's around 40 years too late. Oh, and if anyone thinks there's a way the average Iranian citizen has access to information about the rest of the world ....riiiight.

🤣 yes...because congress does so much only after the people's consent.