JoeH

I always try for straight through mufflers where you can look in one end and out the other...

I think we take the driver seat out of our DM too for pulling the transmission. Only had to do a clutch once in it though in my time.

One guy here just found a baffle plate clogging the inside of his muffler. And I forget, did you pressure test your CAC?

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. 

All in all everything went about as smooth as it could have.  Everything worked right the first time it was plugged back together.  

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

You change your wiring harness?

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.

6 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

make sure you have a real good set of ear plugs . the echo chamber is challenging. had a customer running stainless milk tanks . been inside number of times= dents or crack repair. used a small 115 v wire feed with stainless wire and carry on bottle of gas. never had much luck with the flux coated wire. 

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.

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.

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. 

Link works. Too blurry to read.  I want this shifter knob though!

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....