A couple ford l9000 design questions

[redneckchevy9]

1. Who on earth designed these tanks? You might as well cut that bottom step off because it is worthless. Also, looks like they could've put a bigger tanks there to, lots of room between tank and fender, which does come in handy when greasing the truck.
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2. I only seen a few extended front bumpers on L's. Is this something the factory would've done because of a customer order, or something aftermarket? The only reasoning to do this that makes any sense would be to bring it away from the truck so if something hits the bumper, it doesn't explode the radiator, grille, hood, etc...

 

[Old Doug]

Cement truck? The front bumper protected a HYD pump.

 

[redneckchevy9]

Cement truck? The front bumper protected a HYD pump.

Hard to tell what this truck started its life as. I know it was manufactured as a 382" WB.

 

[YEC1998]

All of my old L series trucks have a big luberfiner oil filter mounted on drivers side frame in front of fuel tank.

 

[redneckchevy9]

All of my old L series trucks have a big luberfiner oil filter mounted on drivers side frame in front of fuel tank.

What is the purpose of those? I am not familiar with those.

 

[YEC1998]

I don't know for sure but all of mine have them. The only thing i can figure is it is for extra filtration.

 

[YEC1998]

It is a externally mounted canister filter system.

 

[redneckchevy9]

It is a externally mounted canister filter system.

I seen that when I googled it, but I wasn't sure what the advantages were or if they were only run in certain areas of the US where working conditions demanded extra filters

 

[YEC1998]

Could be All the truck I have all have them. My trucks range from 1974-1987 models your truck is newer maybe they changed the way they did them.

 

[redneckchevy9]

I have seen several tractors with a 3 air tank setup in that empty space, not sure what was on the other side though. Not many L9000's around here, but a lot of 8's with driver side tank & steps on passenger side. Glad I have 2 tanks at least.

 

[Old Doug]

I havent seen a luberfiner filter in a long time but years ago it seems like they all had them. When i was 18 i work for a guy that had several trucks. When he retiered he gave me some big boxes of luberfiner filters. I had them in one of my dads buildings. Some one took them out of the big boxes they were in and set them up in the rafters. Back then they were not wraped up by the time i found them they were junk.