Mark T

17 minutes ago, mrsmackpaul said:

What's the baby powder for ?

 

Paul 

It helps reduce the itchy effect of the dust from grinding the fiberglass.  

Cut up jugs from DEF or something work good too after a nice cleaning, and they peel off for the most part.

You can use anything like cardboard or duct tape to lay some mat and resin on one side, then after a couple layers, just grind it off and mat and resin the side where the tape or cardboard was.  Need some thickness in the damaged area and then Bondo to cover the part to be painted ( like the gel coat )  then a few more layers of mat and resin behind it, where's it's not actually going to be finished like the outside.   It's time, and lots of itching.  Channel your inner child and put some baby powder on before the grinding.

I never knew that existed. What engine is in that ?   I reviewed this thread and watched the video. Thanks for posting these things, very interesting.

3 hours ago, mattb73lt said:

Age mostly. As plastic ages it becomes brittle and actually shrinks. Then add the UV's, solar heating, hot and cold cycles and someone wrenching on it all day, cracks will form. If you watch some, you'll see gaps opening up where it's cracked. Plastic is a petroleum product and "off gasses" as it dries and cures. Hence the PVC smog that forms on the inside of you cars windows and the New Car smell it has when new. Then it smells like sweaty man ass, fuel, oils and exhaust after a while.

forgot stale ciggy smell

At a glance, that truck doesn't look to be missing many of the really hard pieces to get. 

I wouldn't think a '71 would have that dash either.  No matter, pretty nice looking truck.  ( actually both are ) 

17 minutes ago, Macktruckman said:

What suspension is that? My R686 has trunion and bushings that look similar but has about 10 springs. I don’t think ive ever seen 3 springs before?

josh

That's an old "taper leaf"  they weren't very robust.  They were supposed to ride better. Have to remember back then air ride wasn't all the rage like now.  They weren't very good if you hauled any kind of weight. At best they'd be worn out fast (at best).  I'd be more woried about the holes some genius drilled in the two top flanges of the frame in the middle of the truck.

That truck's cab is in pretty good shape.

Might sound silly, but maybe a good tune up with some new injectors ?  Some good quality engine oil. Might slow the aging process a little.

Yikes.  If the rocker shaft soft plugs are the issue, and for that long ?  Safe bet everything on the overhead is galled up bad. You're gonna be looking under valve covers and likely taking the pan and pump off for a good inspection.  Any chips or filings in the oil ?   Basically what Joey already said.

Does the engine brake still work ?

Check the soft plugs didn't come out of the rocker shafts ?

That body looks kinda nice. I'd think whoever put it on that truck must have figured the truck was in good enough shape to do it.  The more I look at it, it looks to be in way more than fair shape.  I'd imagine some parts will be a challenge to locate. There wasn't a real lot of those even when they made them compared to CHs or CLs .  

1 hour ago, 70mackMB said:

The picture that is straight onto the front. What is wrong with the drivers side steer wheel? lt looks to be up and back as thou it has been hit.    .....Hippy 

Looks like someone has a brick or something in front of the tire, like a wheel chock.   That old girl don't look too bad.

39 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

I'd like to see david pacman's spin on this

This is an interesting truck. I don't ever remember seeing a floor raised in the cab like that either. 

3 hours ago, Brocky said:

In 70 when I worked for the predecessor of Matlack hauling petroleum nights, from Syracuse NY to the St Lawrence River Valley, with tag axle White coupe cab with a 220 and 10 speed, I had to chain up several times to get from the main road into the distributor and back out of his tank farm. Also learned to leave an S curve in the discharge hose so when I was still half loaded I could move the drives out of the ice pockets made by the warm tires!!!! 

(lol)  I had to read that several times before I understood what you meant.  Now I get it.... pretty clever .

2 hours ago, 70mackMB said:

This one is priceless

2 hours ago, tjc transport said:

something on that truck looks "off" .

almost looks like front axle tires are smaller than rear axle. 

They're Budds on that, maybe why they look different. 

7 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

Town of Middlebury Conn stainless polished

Wonder if that's an AirFlo body.

21 hours ago, Brocky said:

Mech,

Those big dump bodys are for soft coal, which is fairly light, not to mention those "West By God" coal truckers never knew what weight regulations were!!!

List "coal" as a hauled commodity on your liability insurance being based in Pennsylvania, then see what it does for your premiums .  It takes a sharp insurance agent to word it correctly if you just haul some prepared anthracite.  I'm told it's because of the soft coal guys.