That is seriously messed up dude... I mean, everyone knows you should close the back windows on dusty roads. LOL
me too .... i really enjoy driving it was working on the stacks & turbo conversion today ... ... so hopefully she will be a little faster soon
almost finished with the turbo conversion here is a video of the first startup with the turbo and straight 5" stacks ;
Still not a COE truck. Its is a COoliE looking truck.... Then mine is not a COE either but I hang out here because the truck Guys are cool.
thank you, vintage got really tired of the ugly paint (some called it cool patina ... but there have been too many bad spots that i was sick of looking at ) so i started painting ... but unfortunately could not finish the doors and fenders for our Colorado roadtrip last weekend anyway, here is the unfinished old girl camping in Dolores ; i finally managed to bang the badly damaged 6th stainless grille bar back into shape (at least kinda .... it looks ok from 15+ feet away ) also lowered and finished the cab visor for colors i used semi-gloss black and cl***ic IHC tractor satin red (very close to cl***ic Peterbilt red) re-painting the 3 <T> emblems was a pain ... hopefully i can paint the fenders & doors for my next roadtrip in 4 weeks ...
daddio so i guess your in St George ?!? ... your welcome to stop by and check it out anytime (especially if you bring a couple beers lol ) vintage yeah, paint turned out surprisingly good for an outdoor rattlecan job prepped in the evening and painted early in the morning before the almost ever present wind kicked in here are a couple more pics from "on the road" ; i really like the low glare of the semi-gloss black boondocking along the I-70 ...
I just noticed, it appears you're only running the outers on the rear. Do my eyes fool me? Any particular reason? Form follows function they say... And that landscape looks all the better over that hood and with that big old diamond in the foreground!
Vintage yes, i run single rear tires the two main reasons are comfort and offroad ability by replacing the bowlingball stiff little 245/70R19.5 highway rib duals with huge 295/75R22.5 single traction tires i gained a large amount of rolling comfort ; the tall sidewalls allow more flex and a large tire rolls smoother over rough stuff (and by replacing two steel rims with one aluminum one i also significantly reduced the un-suspended m*** of the rear end) here are the two tires side by side; the large diameter also corrected the too short axle gearing of the truck (ch***is was spec`ed way back when the national speed limit was still 55 ... engine was screaming at 65 ) now i have a 85 @ 3000 rpm max speed and quiet 2300rpms @ 65 cruising speed the other reason is that duals pick up rocks when offroad (prying rocks out of in between them with a crowbar on the side of the road is no fun) i also prefer the better traction of one fairly large single tire over duals on soft ground & snow/ice my rear axle is a fairly "light duty" MDT unit at iirc ~14500 lbs (on a 16500 lbs max capacity air suspension) so the single 22.5 er tires (7100 lbs max capacity each) and Alcoa rims (7500 lbs each) are a good match for it ... not that i ever get close to that capacity with my "light" rig anyway edit; another plus is that the rear brake disc`s are fully exposed to the slipstream ... i dont think they will ever overheat this way
That's all in line to what I was guessing. I'm going for a more traditional appearance for mine. It would seem the air rear would drastically improve ride over a simple leaf sprung axle? I tracked down an '89 IH similar to yours a couple hours drive from me. It's on the short list of options for my donor ch***is, but my fun money is as thin as graphene right now. Which reminds me, could you pull a tape across your front track for me? Trying to figure out what I'm going to have to do to keep rims under the skirts of my front fenders.
Vintage the dimensions with standard 22.5 x 8.25 rim and 11R front tires are roughly; - track 77.5" - outside thread to outside thread 86" - outside tire bulk to tire bulk 89.5" - rim outside flange to rim outside flange 91.5" i was lucky with the <T>; they used the same fenders for all the trucks, so adjusting from the stock narrow axle to the wider IH axles was as simple as adding 2" spacers under the fender mounts Truck air suspensions are definitely better then leaf springs, but if your light they are still rough ... one part is also the huge un-suspended m*** of the beefy rear axle ... btw here is a pic of the steering box layout ; i think re-drilling the frame to rotate the box into a COE friendlier up position would be fairly simple (the black parts are the mounts for the <T> fenders)
Awesome. Thanks! So if I get your fender explanation, the narrower configuration just slides the fenders in under the hood sides?
today the old girl was working again ; this time dragging a somewhat ugly but rare 32+ foot Airstream trailer out of a field the trailer was made in 1963 for the Southern Pacific RR for railroad maintenance crews at one time somebody painted with silver over the aluminum dont really know what to do with it (besides using it as a shed) ...but hey, it was free and even included the ***le btw i`m glad i didnt lower the truck too low ...
I just noticed we are running the same steering box, oriented a little differently. I guess it shouldn't be a surprise, mine came from a fire truck that used an IH ch***is.
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