Joseph Cummings

Janka Scale Scores: Lignum Vitae =4,500 Hard Maple, Sugar Maple 1,450 Lignum Vitae is 3 times the hardest of Maple bearings and is self-lubricating. Maple bearings are currently impregnated with oil, grease, or wax that can’t match the lubricity or low friction that Lignum Vitae offers. If you are using Maple bearings as a screw, roll or conveying machinery bearing for agriculture try Lignum Vitae wood bearings and enjoy much longer life from the bearing, less downtime and better operation. I think I'm going to plant me a couple of these suckers so I can have bearings after the EMP, zombie apocalypse, collapse of the financial system

$642 Holy Chit. is it made out of gold or something? Pretty soon we are going to have to go back to hardwood bearings lubricated with possum grease

When I was doing large industrial drives and gearboxes I bought a lot of stuff from this bearing house. They always went far out of their way to find me stuff. Shipping was fast too https://jrkbearings.com/

Well at least it looks nice. I like the color combo and the stripe

Those were horrible. especially if you had trailers being pulled using this type of adapter

Even worse are these "My Mother the Car" looking ones

BTW I hate the new antique plates. They look cheap. I don't know why they changed from these

Pa Antique Plate

A set of 4.17 ratios (common in maxidyne 5 speed trucks) will give you 65MPH on like 10r20s or 11r22.5 But now you have to think if first is low enough.

If that and the 5.73 are correct you are going to end up with 392 RPM at the wheel. Depending on tire size probably a few MPH +/- of 40 A "10R20" tire typically has around 497 revolutions per mile.

Way too much flex. If I remember correctly, you are only allowed 18 inches

Looks like they are making nice dump trailer suspensions in China. I wonder how much with everything paid and delivered to my shop

You'll never get the stability and articulation from an an air ride that you can get out of a single point suspension like a Mack camelback or a Hendrickson. Same goes with the dump trailers. Everyone who works in a rough environment wants a Hutchens, or Neway single point. A bit of a rough ride beats the hell out of a dump laying on it's side

Depending on what the trans is, he might want to just change the whole cutoff. If that truck had a direct trans in it 5.73 isn't going to give much road speed. It could top out at around 40

1000 per wheel is insane. You could buy a whole cuttoff with cam brakes for less than half that. I guess to make it period correct, you'd have to use the narrow brakes with the bolt on lining. Those narrow shoes with the drums, spiders, ect is the kind of stuff that hits the scrap when you're cutting up trucks

So, where are you? And what kind of soup?

Every wedge brake tractor I converted to cams the first time anything went wrong with them. And we had a lot of ex Matlack and Chemical Leaman trucks

We could go right to this lol. But after haveing run an Autocar 9964 with the RS (Rubber Pads) and replacing the tail light bulbs every time I bobtailed more than about 20 miles, I'd say it'd be a little too rough. I used to pull a Rodgers RGN that had those walking beams that had the axles cut in the middle, and between that and the RS Hendrickson under the tractor I started to understand why women wear sports bras

We were getting a lot of imported aftermarket camelback springs in the 80's and 90's. I saw trucks with 2 supposedly matched brand new springs have a 2 inch difference from side to side. How they wore tires I really don't know, mostly all dumps, mixers, roll offs, working in the city. Most tires got destroyed before they wore out. I hauled scrap metal for years, I spent lots more on tires than fuel lol. I was seriously considering foam fills for the dump trailers

Helps to know some basic trig like the Pythagorean Theorem, or as carpenters call it "The 3 4 5 Rule"

The spec for the mack camelback used to be 3/8 difference from side to side measured at the axle centers If you drill the frame wrong and screw up the thrust angle, well you should have measured or 2 or 10 times before drilling

This isn't even that good of price for older 44s with the cones There are plenty out there. all kinds of hubs, ratios, flat flange axles