41 tonner panel pics
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From: Black Hills of SD
41 tonner panel pics
I ran across this in my internet wanderings on some forum I don't even remember and the post was several years old but the guy had his email, so I emailed him and we are now exchanging pictures. The newer picture looks like it should have duals. The old picture is supposed to be the same panel truck. I think in the original thread he said it got donated to their organization or church and they are now having it restored. He's looking for a driver's seat if anyone has a spare.
Tuned
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They took off the outer duals to get the panel on the trailer. I doubt the two trucks are the same: the rear fender width is different. But I'm just a newbie. Encourage him to join the forum and post pictures.
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Yeah, I see that now. I knew they didn't quite look the same and you can see that little running board wedge made to tie into the bigger fender. I think a dually panel is just cool.
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Great pics. I saw and read some stuff on the OD one. I haven't seen the lower picture before. Maybe you should put dually running ger under your panel. Modern Cab/ Chassis are considerably narrower than dually pickup rears. You'd need to add wide tubs inside, but outer fenders might stay the same. Cool pics, I agree. Lot's of pics of the big single and dual panels in Wagner's 'Ford Trucks Since 1905'. That book is sort of like a mix of the Bible and ****, if there is such a thing....
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Great pics. I saw and read some stuff on the OD one. I haven't seen the lower picture before. Maybe you should put dually running ger under your panel. Modern Cab/ Chassis are considerably narrower than dually pickup rears. You'd need to add wide tubs inside, but outer fenders might stay the same. Cool pics, I agree. Lot's of pics of the big single and dual panels in Wagner's 'Ford Trucks Since 1905'. That book is sort of like a mix of the Bible and ****, if there is such a thing....
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Those 17.5s wou;d fill up the tonner sized wheel wells better than a 15" scout. But no 4wd.... I'd be torn. Do they salt the roads in your area? I have had lots of 4wd vehicles that I refused to drive when it snowed. My friends thought that keeping them in the shed in bad weather was ludicrous, but I showed them when I sold my brush painted FJ 45 landcruiser pickup for 21,000.00 in 3 hours last spring. Like ice sculptures, cruisers melt quickly in salt. New trucks fare pretty well in occasional salt. We don't get snow often, but we get ice and it's very hilly here, so the county salts like a SOB.... PS, the '79 wagon towing it has almost no body left attached. Pic was taken about '95.....I'm hoping to use the running gear on a future project... The 1/2 ton bullet-holed '47 panel? pps, that's a tonner factory stakebed on far left mounted on a '32 1 1/2 ton. The Possum Lodge truck.
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Yeah, they do salt here and I probably won't use the panel on salted roads. I'll keep my ghetto Aerostar for that. The AWD Aerostars are most awesome on winter roads anyway.
Last year a friend borrowed my bigger trailer for a trip across state in a winter storm, brought it back covered in salt and bright red with rust. grrrr...
Last year a friend borrowed my bigger trailer for a trip across state in a winter storm, brought it back covered in salt and bright red with rust. grrrr...
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Oh don't get me started. Here in PA we have advanced from simple road salt to some kind of brine mixture that is sprayed on the roads. It is very corrosive and is wreaking havoc on frames, sheet metal, and brake lines.
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I think they used that same stuff when I was in Alaska. It never really dries, kinda stays gummy on your car. It isn't near as bad here because our winters tend to stay pretty open. They might only salt a few times each winter and out town is pretty lazy about getting out, mostly just sand/salt the intersections and that 2-3 days after a snow, hoping it might melt.
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In the Denver area they use a liquid brine of Magnesium Chloride because it has a lower freezing temperature below 20 degrees F. Absolutely the worst because it gets up into the cracks and builds up. I think we boast the greatest number of car washes per vehicle, too.
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