Mark T

Wasn't the original Mov'n On truck a VT903

I like the way you think 😏

Hmmm....a little bit like Swishy's spotto posts. I forgot all about the Browns

And to think.....here in 2022 I'd be dumping scrap on the concrete floors left from Dana in Reading. Never knew that's what went on there.

Seriously, looks like without a trailer it'd be dangerous if you stopped fast.

Wonder what driving one of those tall ones was like.

I'm almost positive ...if they aren't, they're Federals I'm pretty sure they're Corbitts though being where they are.

They're Corbitts

Looks like maybe a Fageol (?)

Ever think you'd like looking at a 7000 series White back when they were everywhere , and think "WOW.... that's cool" ?

Super charged large displacement 90 degree V8...... I bet it does sound awesome . Wonder if anyone ever tried putting a super charger on an E9

On the mend.... I like it 🙂

The pieces look big, which means less chance they made it through the screen.

It's a project. Point I was trying to make was the block and crank might not be compromised. That milky oil needs to come out of everything too . ( Jake's ) old engines were prone to putting, they didn't have as many products to help prevent it years back. Sitting for years then....

Might have been rotted around the groves for the O rings. This isn't looking like an easy fix by any means, but it may not turn out to be much more than basically an "in frame" Hopefully you'll get lucky.

That suspension has been around for a while . If I remember correctly it had the most articulation of anything at the time (now TufTrac is close) They were marketed as "The Gripper" or something like that. That was back when Volvos were really homely. M Ride with double reduction drive axles, pretty hard to beat in the back of something going through soggy uneven ground.

That looks like a place a guy could spend a couple hours looking at stuff and BS'n and FYI that one dog is displaying a little more than just (his) butt 😀

Gotta watch the holes in the spring like Onyx said. They can be way bigger than the dowel on the new pad if the spring is shot . The buckets too, if they're rotted enough on the inside and enough metal is missing they won't squish anything like it needs to be. Most of the better pads are colored or clear, and the top ones may be black . Tops don't get the pound'n like the bottom ones.

Sounds like someone "got it " in THE can

Anything that could cause that isn't good. Maybe you'll get lucky... hope it isn't too bad.

Just to be clear, I didn't mean to sound as if comparing which was worse ( they're both serious injuries ) Most of us on here have had some injury but those two were pretty bad. Thing with all of them is when it does happen, it's seconds. Everyone thinks when seeing pictures like those..... then a few weeks later we become complacent and back to old bad habits.

All those trucks in the pictures have the same cab. Might sound stupid, but cab shocks and the front cab mounts (which often are wiped out) mean a lot. If it gets bouncing a little then gets telegraphed through a guy's leg to the throttle pedal it just makes it all worse. There are gas shocks available for them and in my opinion are worth the effort of changing. And let's not even get into the drivers who like the most expensive air seat and then have to sit on the floor with no air in it. Believe it or not, after thinking about this I remembered the truck in my avatar used to be able to go under 8 MPH on the switch in the dash (like if it had the idle kicked up) the other ones wouldn't do it. But I remember it helped in situations like you're describing. (that truck had Hendrickson RTE)

Some of these newer things have so much off idle torque even feathering the throttle makes an impressive amount of torque.

Yikes. I don't know which picture was worse. That one or Joey's burn. Hope you recover as fast and best as possible .

Congratulations .