MACKS

I would love to see a few pictures of the rails,chances are u could run it the way it is..

For that price you could re rail it..

17 minutes ago, david wild said:

I use a wrench and drink a coke

Maybe I'll substitute a cigar for the coke🤔😂

I need to swap out an air bag on my dump truck drop axle,any advise or tips to do it?

A little top heavy tho..

8 hours ago, j hancock said:

Seen them for $100 online but not in person.  Wonder if it is a good knock off or a bad one?  Does it break the first time used?

May be better to spend $300 to get the Esco.

 

Well time will tell,I can't see this breaking,it's very heavy duty,did three tires this morning no problem,it also came with a mounting tool that works awesome..

18 minutes ago, Ezrider said:

iv seen a number of shops using them. i have used them before and they are slick. too spendy for me though. a good set of ken-tool bars is easy to dismount with as well just takes a few times of doing it to get the feel for it. if i did tire work every day id certainly have one though. 

I don't do all that much tire work with only one truck but when the time comes for new rubber I've been buying on line to save a lot of money also like to clean up everything that's why I do it myself,I've gotten pretty good with he irons but this just way easer,this was only a hundred bucks on Amazon and it came with a mounting tool also..

Any body use one of these tools,so easy it's ridiculous,never seen them at use in tire shop tho,wonder why?

Ten wheeler or tri axle, if ten wheel I would leave the 58..

Maybe it's the right side that not working properly,collapsed air line or something..

That's a beauty..

I would start with the batteries and all connections including the ground.

2 hours ago, KKERGALL said:

Did you ever fix this ?? Local Const. Co had a new / excess trunnion tube will have to call them to see if they still have. 85QK249 ?? have to double check P/N.

Thanks, Rich

Yup all done,one day in the spring shop,thanks! 

9 hours ago, Bullheaded said:

I have looked at disc brakes, but does anyone know how well they would stand up in a high dust/dirt environment like dump trucking?

I tried a new Pete dump truck a dealer brought to my town for demo with disc brakes and it did have very nice braking feel. But no one I have talked to has given them a positive outlook in high dirt applications.

The company I work for has disc brakes on his 2016 kenworth dump with auto trans and likes them,he just bought another kenworth with the same,trucks see plenty of off road in the pits, lots of dust and mud, I'll ask him how many miles he's getting out of a set of brakes.

46 minutes ago, Bullheaded said:

No, that's what the new Canadians order. They buy the low side boxes so the truck can't be loaded as much. They also weld steel plate from the top of the front of the box, sloped down towards the back to the floor. 

Wouldn't do you any good if you had to axle weigh though. If they just quit working cheap they wouldn't have to mess with all this.

That's a long body,I'd say 18 ft but only 3 ft high,that's only 14 yd water level..

18 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Thats pretty unlucky

All the pounding my 58's have had and apart from been badly worn they have never broken a trunnion

Dunno if they are a big job to fix or not 

 

Paul 

It's a big job,best left to a spring shop,u need the big air guns and the right jacks and a damn good back,I don't have any of those items anymore..

Pricking parts,Stengel Bros list the bar for 611.59 thought it would be more,add in every thing else needed comes to 1200 plus the cost of u-bolts,have to get price to n them,I would guess 2,000 + for labor to install,I'm thinking 3500 out the door..

2 hours ago, j hancock said:

Well, that sucks.  Hopefully you have plenty of spring business coming up!

Been working all winter so far with this warm weather,glad I gave up on snow work last year..

Snapped the trunnion bar on my 58 rears like a tooth pick pounding down these piece of chit roads on Long Island NY, plus two tickets from the DOT all in the same week,Thanks Cuomo😤

Let's start a go fund me and buy out Volvo and turn it around🤔😳😂😂

Get a piece of bicycle tire tube,tie off one end clamp the end around the fuel tank neck,air it up and leave it for a while look for fuel leaks in the lines,probably just a pin hole..

That's the easy part getting them suckers out of the tube is a u no what..lol..

4 hours ago, JoeH said:

Looks like driverside fuel tank is held in place by a ratchet strap.  A magnum deserves a little more TLC than that.

I think that's holding the step on..

6 minutes ago, fjh said:

I would be checking the  air pressure at the  shift lid forward hose on the small cyl should be around 70 psi ! you could also as stated remove the end of the rev cyl and check for oil build up!

Thanks if I remove the rear cover on the cyl can I slide the cylinder out to clean it up,I'm thinking no,I gotta look in the book..

A friend of mine has the same problem with his six speed,no ideas? I was thinking maybe some oil residue in the shift cylinder making it stick when cold..