HOW MUCH WILL IT HOLD??????
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john, hopefully you didn't have to slam the brakes on. you may have seen those shingles for the last time!!. i worked in a lumber yard in high school, and a guy drove out with a pile of shingles on an ranchero, he got to the end of the road, tried to stop suddenly, and bam!!, no more ranchero.
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John, I had 13 squares of 30 year dimensionals plus tar paper nails and flashings. Ok, BTW the palletwas tied off been there done that with the sliding pallet in the bed of a pickup.
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Um, billyb, if you think about it, what will slamming on the brakes do? It will only move the pallet forward in the bed of the truck. You would have to floor it to drive out from under them, which can happen. But slamming on the brakes isnt going to make you lose the shingles.
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Been there and done that with the sliding pallet syndrome. Gas down too hard and damage your tailgate. (Bent like a banana). Hit the brakes too hard and the pallet hits the headboard of the bed, bending it into the back of the cab. Trucks with bedliners are very prone to this. I have seen straps slip or break because the skid was either too heavy or not strapped properly. I have a bed liner but I also normally keep a sheet of 1/2" plywood in the bed just to keep things from sliding around. I can't tell you how many people I have seen do this to there trucks. The worse part of the head board into the bed part is the noise that you hear while driving down the road. It is a nasty grinding type rubbing noise that is caused from the bed rubbing the back of the cab. Ugly.
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astamp, the shingles weren't damaged, the ranchero was!! the pile slid forward, pushed the back in, the back window broke, the roof buckled, the doors would not work right, and the driver cussed like you can't imagine. the person in front of him stopped short, so he said he had to panic stop , causing load to slide. i just remember driving the forklift up the road to get the shingles. not a good day for that guy.
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The GVWR of 8800lbs is for a 3.55 geared axle the 4.10 geared axle is 10,000lbs.
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The Duramax has aluminum heads on a diesel engine(HIGH COMPRESSION) VERY BAD DESIGN WITH EXPECTANT LIFE OF 150,000miles,thats real good
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The Duramax has aluminum heads on a diesel engine(HIGH COMPRESSION) VERY BAD DESIGN WITH EXPECTANT LIFE OF 150,000miles,thats real good
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150000 miles sound bad? The first engine in my truck lasted 140000-150000 miles, it was used as a work truck. What is the expected life-span of a PSD? I'll bet that if that Duramax isn't used as a work truck(just like so many PSD arn't used as work trucks) then it could also last over 150000 miles.
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Logan, I don't have a PSD mine is a 6.9 international and right now it has in excess of 180,000 and still runs great I was along side a duramax the other day and for all the hoopla they have started over this engine it didn't pull away any faster than a PSD mine is normally aspirated (no turbo) and I know it will pull more than a 2500 series truck I have pulled against two different trucks with the same results Ford-2 chevy-0 bring em on John
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150,000 is TERRIBLE even for a heavily worked diesel engine,
actually diesels run and work better when they are loaded up to a point.
a good basis is that the cummins diesel is rated by cummins to last 500,000 miles and the PSD should last well into 250,000miles
the non-turboed older models should last more than that because they are not being worked into a high horsepower motor and they are very reliable.
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actually diesels run and work better when they are loaded up to a point.
a good basis is that the cummins diesel is rated by cummins to last 500,000 miles and the PSD should last well into 250,000miles
the non-turboed older models should last more than that because they are not being worked into a high horsepower motor and they are very reliable.
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75 sheets of 1/2'' osb, enter 67 chevy c-20 a.k.a. Screamin Chevy coil sprung rear end complete with rotted out trailing arms, hauled the load just fine....cant beat the ole 327 mill
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im pretty sure the psd's are rated by navistar to go 400,000 miles before a bottom end rebuild
1985 F-150/351Ho/4wd
1979 f-250 429(stout 460 on the way)/4spd/6in w/36's,Dana60/44hd,3.54 gears~4.11's comin soon
on a quiet night your can hear a chevy (lol,you can watch a dodge) rusting away
1985 F-150/351Ho/4wd
1979 f-250 429(stout 460 on the way)/4spd/6in w/36's,Dana60/44hd,3.54 gears~4.11's comin soon
on a quiet night your can hear a chevy (lol,you can watch a dodge) rusting away
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The bottom end should last a very long time.
it is the other things that matter you should NEVER break a crank on a cummins or PSD and the cummins is made to never have to be bored out you just put a new sleeve in the block(dry sleeve)different than CAT's wet sleeve.
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it is the other things that matter you should NEVER break a crank on a cummins or PSD and the cummins is made to never have to be bored out you just put a new sleeve in the block(dry sleeve)different than CAT's wet sleeve.
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