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Looking for alittle help here.What is involved in taking the steering wheel off.I removed the horn button.I see the nut under it but I can't get a socket on it,what am I doing wrong here.If it would be easier to remove the steering box instead,I will do that.The only problem I see with me removing the steering wheel is that it is cracked in afew places and I don't want to end up with a bunch of broken pieces.I had to remove the steering box on a 1956 Ford F600 I did for the same reason that was a cracked wheel.Thanks again. Mike Durkin

Guys,looking for the wiring diagram for my B87.I'm sure that all B models would be the same.It looks like I will most likely be taking the cab off my B87.Looking up under the dash after I blew out 50 years of dust it looks like mangled spaghetti.There are wires that go nowheres.Once I get the cab off and the dash out of it I will be rewiring it also.Having the diagram would make it a whole lot easier and much quicker.You can email it to me.Thanks Mike Durkin md992@aol.com

I know that my B87 came with 12.00x24.

It is ABC that has the truck.Can anyone really afford to care for there trucks like they should be doing.Most contractors are working nowadays for nothing so the first place they cut the cost is either inamount of manpower or equipment maintence.And we all know if you want ot be running 10 trucks or equipment you can't very well do it by cutting manpower you cost maintence.

Vision 386,you say you were in the trucking business for over 100 years.Was that the dump truck business or fright business.We were a excavating company out of Philly and we used to use all of the south jersey tri-axle,dump trailers guys on the job we did around the Philly Airport.We went by the name of Thomas M Durkin.Mike

leversole,are you close to Wellsboro me and my brothers were looking into buying out a dump truck service company,but the deal fell through.No fault of either party the gas company brought in a middle man,that when it all went to hell in a handbasket.

I would have to say it was a 983,we had 2 of them beast.They would always overheat it you ran them hard.They were better suited for demo work.Loading trucks allday would really put a strain on the torq.convertor.

Hate to admit it but we owned that truck many moons ago.We had brought it used back around mid 80's.It was in good shape then and we took good care of it,considering it was used as a jobsite grease truck.I remember when I brought it back from a job we did in Altonna,PA on the lowboy and was stopped by the local police and he wanted to see my bill of lading for the oils I was carring.I told him that all the tanks were empty which they were.We had pumped them all out before I left,well there must have been about half a pint of fluid in each tank that he could see.When it was all said and done if I remember right he gave me something like a $10,000 fine.My dad told me to take the truck to the local police and leave it there for payment, which I did.The police chief told me that I couldn't do that,I just keep on listening to him say no don't do that as I unloaded it.He ended up calling our office and telling them they had some sort of a nut driving the lowboy.Our lawyer called out and settle it all over the phone.I di get a good laugh out of it.That truck is now own by another local contractor that as you can see hasn't taken very good care of the old girl.

Your right Bigdog on both comments.If all someone wants is a truck that is driveable that seems like a good deal.

How about posting your website,can't seem to be able to google it.Thanks MIke Durkin

That is a sweet looking truck,reminds me of the ones we had.Didn't go very fast but you always got to where you going.It sounds like alot of money for a truck that you aren't going to work it,and after you get done making it into a show truck you will have well over $20,000 into to it,and when was the last time you saw a b61 go for that kind of money.I'm not saying that this truck is not worth the $11,000 maybe all of the other trucks that are out there for $5,000-$6,000 are only worth say 1,000-2,000. You have to keep in mind that we are restoring these truck not for profit but out of the love we have for these trucks.If I go and take my b87 down to the bare frame and make it like new,I can't even begin to think of what that would cost to have someone else do the work,it would be in the range of $80,000-$100,000 to do the truck.Keep in mind that my truck was road worthly.Just my 2 cent worth.Mike Durkin

That a great job you did on your truck.Once you throw the floor mat down no one will be the wiser.On mine I don't know why they added the two outside bolts to hold the cab down.I will be taking them out and just putting a piece of metal over that area.Working on sanding down the passenger door today,put a lower piece of skin on it where it had rooted out.

I'm going to use Por15 on the complete floor panals,and where ever else I can get it on.That stuff is alittle $$$ but it well worth it.

It was alittle cold out today to do any work in my unheated building,so I used the time wisely and took my wife of 28 years back to her home town of Baltimore,MD to visit the gravesite of her parents.It would have been her mother's 91st birthday today.Will be picking up my passenger door from a fellow that made a lower door skin for it.The skin looks great,willpost a pic of it on Wed.

Maddog,do you really think I even need the ripples,since the truck won't be pulling anymore lowboys.I was just going to weld in something to match the orignal thickness and be done with it.Like you said it get covered up with a floor mat.

That red DM that belongs to English Paving looks to be a twin to the ones we had back in the late 70's.

Sorry first 2 are't right.I will be busy cleaning the whole area,it has 49 years worth of dirt and grease.

Here are the pic after I removed the plates that had been welded onto the floor.It appear that the orignal floor panal in both sides rusted through,so our shop foreman decided that all that was needed was to just cover up the rust with a thicker peice of metal(putting perfume on a pig) that my throught.Since the orignal panal were most likely still able to be had from Mack but weren't in stock we decided to do our own body work,it work.I will weld in a patch alittle nicer that was done some 30 years ago.Maddog I am going to remove the two back outside bolts that we added,can't tell why they were added the 2 middle bolts are still holding.

Maddog,your a great mind reader.I was thinking just the same with the plates up front.I will be checking them in the morning.Will post what I find.Thanks for the help.MIke

Maddog,your right the 2 back outer bolts were added,I can't say when but will know more when I get a good look at the 2 center bolts as to why they were added. I can remember driving the truck as far back as the mid to late 70's and the cab had no movement then,so the bolts were added before that.The truck was used as a daily lowboy tractor right up till early 80's,after that it was used as a back up to the 2 DM800's we had running.

As I have said before in other post that I was restoring my B873SX tractor that has been in the family since new.Well here are some pictures of what I have done sofar.I have removed the seats,floor mats,heater and some of the floor panals.As you can see from the pic the cab floor is not that bad.The 2 back mounts need some mig welding.I would say that by the way the floor rip in those 2 spots that it would appear that the cab was leaning forward,hard to really tell.The 2 front mount you can't even see due to the 2 plates that have been welded in there.Looking up from the bottom the 2 bolts are in place,will be leaving the plates in place. There is some rust through along the bottom of the back of cab,not nothing to major.I have throught about taking the cab off but the building and ground where I have it stored at,I may have it sold and the buyer has cash in hand,so I may be looking for anew place.Don't want to get that involved and then have to move it in pieces.Things tend to get lost when you do that.Will keep you updated as I make headway.

You are talking about the part #,that was the only part of the sticker I couldn't completely read.

What ever happen to that TV show about the family of 7-8 brother from up in Maine.My spelling won't be right but I think their name was Pelitear,they had some new MAck Titians.

here's the pic.

I ended up going to the local mall that has a sticker place,and asked the kid if he could make me one. He said no problem,will try and post a picture of it.