JoeH
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Worth noting, this cab/chassis weighs about 19,000 lbs and the mixer weighs about 12,500 lbs so this trucks empty weight is 31,500 lbs. But these trucks are almost never empty. There's always unused material on board. Our RD triaxle mixer is around 29,000 empty I believe. Our cement tanker and the tractor that hauls it tare at about 28,000 lbs, lighter than our straight trucks empty.
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One guy here just found a baffle plate clogging the inside of his muffler. And I forget, did you pressure test your CAC?
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I have about 120 pictures from start to finish. I posted all the pictures worth seeing last night. Not many tasks worth taking pictures of during the process. Went through probably $150 worth of sticker tape for a label maker I bought for labeling wires and airlines etc. All in all it was a massive undertaking of "Death by 1000 Small Tasks". But somehow we got it done...
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Biden can't get anyone else to show up, so why not have a rally at a school where kids are just happy for any excuse not to sit in class? Meanwhile they can't vote....
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You can still tell it's an offset if the cab is off. Different firewall than an R model and the hood alignment ledge is different. I can't find where you're talking about in the brochure having passenger mirrors attached to doors, I can't imagine they even built one truck that way other than prototype.
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All in all everything went about as smooth as it could have. Everything worked right the first time it was plugged back together.
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A couple damaged covers on the side of the mixer. Tarp arms we managed to straighten and reuse. Rebuilt the mixing auger while we had it off the truck.
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A couple hours to set the cab on, make up several Deutch plugs, hook up air lines, etc and we had it running/driving. Drove it back into the garage & called it quits for the evening.
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Hard to put into words how tedious and endless this stage of the project was: getting the donor cab stripped down, patched up, primered/painted and reassembled.
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Lifting cab off the truck with our crane. Our crane isn't big enough to lift the mixer off, so we brought my cousin Pete "The Crane Man, Inc" to handle the mixer. We set both cabs in the garage and pushed the chassis in as well to keep it out of the weather.
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Pulled the mixer off the truck, and picked up the donor cab, a 14,000 mile gem that used to be a NYC salt truck.
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Two 60 ton rotator boom trucks were used to hoist the truck upright while a 3rd truck winched the truck forward out of the ditch, rotators holding it upright til it was in the road.
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Picked up the truck yesterday around lunchtime, worked a couple bugs out of the mixer and started running deliveries yesterday afternoon. Truck is back in action.
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You change your wiring harness?
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Power steering pump should run off the backside of the air compressor. I'm going to take a guess and say an R700 gearbox might fit your F700? Assuming you stay in the same axle weight ratings.
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I may double up on the foam plugs with the muffs, lol. I don't relish the idea of banging away inside an echo chamber.
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These cones the blow pipe runs off-center, so the cement has to slide out the side of the bottom. Fluffer pad/accesss doors are sharing the bottom of the cones. I'm contemplating welding new cones on the bottom and routing the valves and blow pipe directly out the bottom. They make these aerator fluffer/vibrators that bolt to the side of the cones. Just hard to justify the time and labor on something that is run just a couple of times a month.
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We've been getting cement from Lafarge in Whitehall the past few years. Used Keystone for 25+ years, but they were too greedy on their pricing and let Lafarge undercut them and wouldn't beat or even match them, despite our loyalty and good pay. Salesmen have been by trying to get our business back but their sales manager won't let the salesmen beat Lafarge's price/ton by even $1.
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Our trailer is a mid 1970's, I forget what year. It has some dents in the cones from hammer abuse from its previous owners. Fastest I've managed to unload it is about an hour, usually it takes an hour and 15 min to get it empty. I may go in there with my 6# sledge and ear plugs and try beating the dents out of the cones one of these days. Newer trailers are streamlined with much better piping, but this one was in the budget and it's steel, so we can weld patches in it as needed.
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Link works. Too blurry to read. I want this shifter knob though!
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I think there was an orange U model with a V8 being raffled off sometimes in the past 5 years. I'd love to own a V8, but not under this cab....
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@petehall12 how's it running, any better?
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And is this truck deleted identically to the other trucks?
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It would be nice to know what fault codes the truck has....
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