Overload of the Day

[suladas]

Besides the Dodge wearing out axle u-joints and front track bars every few years I've never had any issues with increased maintenance on a 4wd pickup from the big 3. Only time things seem to wear out is if I put a suspension lift in.

Same. My 13 had 175km on it when stolen and the only thing I touched was the front brakes, the front end was still tight. Truck I have now has 150km on it and same thing only brakes. The 5500 I sold a few months ago had 200km on it and needed front axle u-joints but it's not really a big deal at that mileage to me.

 

[92U 3406]

Same. My 13 had 175km on it when stolen and the only thing I touched was the front brakes, the front end was still tight. Truck I have now has 150km on it and same thing only brakes. The 5500 I sold a few months ago had 200km on it and needed front axle u-joints but it's not really a big deal at that mileage to me.

I'm a little north of 200k on mine and the only front end issue to date was a front axle seal done under warranty. Just checked all my brakes and still probably 20-25% left on the factory pads, hardly a lip on the rotors. Part of that is probably due to driving habits though.

 

[Willie B]

I don't use brakes much. In drive, on level I might slow at an intersection.
Vermont is 90% hills, always going up or down. I shift manually to avoid braking too much.
We are among the worst places for salt corrosion. Probably average three years before a total brake replacement is needed. We do wheel bearings, rotors, pads & calipers.
4 years it's time for CV shafts.
My big mouth! I mentioned good luck with my current GM with Quigley 4 X 4 conversion. Next day noisy. It needs two cross joints in the front drive shaft & there is slop in the left front output shaft. Salt is so destructive!

 

[Coaldust]

Sitting at the computer doing some accounts receivable and my attention drifts,... Here is a good overload. Had a co-worker from a different terminal helping me with chores. Needed a damaged delivery hose transported across town. My guy was such a fireball, he couldn’t wait for the warehouse crew to return with the pickup. Loads 120’ of hose in his girlfriend’s new Honda. Whatever it takes!

 

[JLarson]

And that was the last time he was ever seen lol

 

[Coaldust]

Lol... The ol’e boy did disappear shortly after. I was pleasantly surprised to run into him again, a few years later, out the Aleutian chain.

 

[02SILVER]

Anyone missing a chimney?
I had to turn around and grab a picture for this thread!

 

[Truck Shop]

That's some fine masonry work there-almost as good as mine.

 

[92U 3406]

Well the half ton handled it. The trailer not so much.

 

[Shimmy1]

Those 710s are pretty stout, but I don't think it's gonna pick up 6-8 ton.

 

[OzDozer]

They don't make tires and axles like they used to! I was talking to an old prospector once, and asked him how the (assembled) Huntington centrifugal roller mills on my gold mine had been moved into place in the late 1940's, from the rail siding about 2 miles away. If you've never seen a Huntington roller mill, I can tell you they are a pile of massive castings that weigh around 6 tons when assembled.

He replied, "Oh, they used that old 1929 Ford AA (single rear wheels) tray truck, that is a now a stripped wreck over there!"

I said, "But the AA Ford truck is only a 1-ton truck! - and it has wooden-spoked wheels! You mean to tell me they put 6 ton roller mills on a 1 ton truck with wooden wheels, to haul the mills in here?!"

"Yep", he replied. "But when I saw those back tires on the AA Ford, with the roller mill on there, I was sure they was gonna bust!!! But they made it!!"

I guess the fact they only had to go 2 miles, and they probably only travelled at walking pace was the reason they made it.

Regardless, imagine sitting 6 tons on one of todays 1-tonners? The rear axle would buckle within a minute.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42220226@N07/44829708091

 

[Spud_Monkey]

Anyone missing a chimney?
I had to turn around and grab a picture for this thread!
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I can see the news headline now Florida man… damn that state gives me and wife laughs in the morning when reading the news and we start off with; Florida man/woman….
Nice truck bed you got.

 

[Nige]

I guess the fact they only had to go 2 miles, and they probably only travelled at walking pace was the reason they made it.

Way back the outfit I was working for had some ex-military tank transporter trailers that were used for moving our D9's around. From the data plate the trailers were rated at 100 tonnes maximum load up to a speed of 5mph and 50 tonnes maximum capacity above that figure. Our lot regularly used to put two D9G push cats on the back and hammer off down the road. Then they wondered why the trailers had so many tyre problems.

 

[Spud_Monkey]

We got us a winner!!!

 

[boaterri]

At least he didn't cheap out on the number and size of ratchet straps.

 

[OzDozer]

Just keep loading it up! If the tires touch the deck, it's time to stop loading!

 

[Willie B]

Just keep loading it up! If the tires touch the deck, it's time to stop loading!

I don't know.
I sold a triaxle trailer. I had adjusted the pintle ring for my truck that is pretty tall. The buyer used a 1 ton dually. His hitch lower, he did not adjust. With little load, he backed an antique farm tractor as far forward as possible, much of the weight was on the pintle hitch. Didn't take long to ruin the first two tires, rubbing on the deck.

 

[Truck Shop]

Not a over load.

https://www.wabi.tv/video/2022/11/2...ash-urge-others-be-careful-driving-icy-roads/

 

[Former Wrench]

Not a over load.

https://www.wabi.tv/video/2022/11/2...ash-urge-others-be-careful-driving-icy-roads/

Looked to me that the truck was going too fast for conditions.

 

[Truck Shop]

Looked to me that the truck was going too fast for conditions.

Which is normally the case.