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I hope that 13'-6" was applied after it was attached to a 6x6 5-ton :LOL:

Going way back when these trucks were new / near-new, i never felt confident the intake preheater system amounted to anything when temps were 25F and lower.. These engines were the non-starters in very cold weather compared to everything else in the motor pool.. Seemed like the preheater just...

I'm not a rubber engineer and am certainly unqualified to say this, but IMO the tire industry created the "steer", "drive", "trailer", and "all-position" labels in an attempt to dummy-proof the issue of "what tires to use where." Then again, there are commercial drivers out there who seem to...

supposedly not supposed to run today's "drive" tires on the front nowadays, but it's never stopped me and i've not had any issues, but I no longer run thru daily DOT areas anymore .. You have a 4x4 and are not a big rig commercial carrier, they shouldn't bother you about it

1: Measured at narrowest portion between the inner bead flanges .. you are correct it's not outside-outside 2: Since your truck apparently is a 1600, yes, 900's are as wide as you should go.. in comparison, 8.25x20's were standard on the 160's of the 1950's , and 900's are a bit too big on...

from what i understand, 22.5 is 22.5 and shouldn't matter , the bead design should be same, there were bias tubeless tires 50+ years ago.. But i am not the expert on bead design .. Your commercial tire man would have the scoop.. I personally have not needed to put a bias 22.5 on a rim that...

I don't have any experience with the BG265's , but the BD264's are an excellent engine. I had even seen the BD's in 1960's road rollers still going strong in the 1990's.. Not a powerhouse for sure but they do the job well , especially with a lot of gears behind it I can tell you first-hand...

wow with the inline-6 it sure is an oddball !! I've never seen a 60's-70's Loadstar truck, military or otherwise, that didn't have a V345 or V390 under the hood.. But I certainly remember the howl of 1960's Loadstar school busses with inline-6's :ROFLMAO: , no mistaking the screaming coming...

looks like a SP howitzer to me , or perhaps a cherrypicker of pre-M578 vintage, or ww2-korea era pioneer wrecker bed .. but then again, they never taught us vehicle recognition from the air :ROFLMAO:

1: I have run tubes in tubeless radial & bias 22.5's with no issue .. They still make 22.5 bias tires, and 22.5 tubes rated for radial and bias 2: when i mentioned "dish depth" i meant the backspace as you call it , aka "offset" 3: Correct, 2wd Loadstar rear springs are mounted on outside...

I Fold.. Too far .. 4-1/2 hrs southbound in a M39-series or M809-series 5-ton at our age ? :ROFLMAO: nuff said. or 3-1/2hrs in FLD120 w/stepdeck and a couple 5-tons on its back? Do-able, but i don't need to see if (so-called gov) hochul's DOT in Albany/Rensselaer counties is as...

Yikes ! Run ! Some people have no issue with them if the locking surface isn't rusted/compromised.. But as "brave" as i have been over the years with the other true style of split rim as seen in my pic above, as well as split lockrings and 3-piece open-center rims, i would probably be...

I don't think I've seen a seal deal looking like that on any of the 855 cummins' I have or had :unsure: .. Now I'm curious ! .. And ,,, has anyone mentioned checking the oh-oh ring underneath the filter can bolt? I've had trouble with that little bugger on that truck and on one of my M818's

One would be really handy for filling the filter cans on these things and priming that hose to the PT pump .. A feed-thru bypass type of pump might work okay for that , if they make one with a large-enough bypass volume while deenergized .. Another one of these M809-series I got from a...

Hi Will, here's perhaps some pertinent backstory of the truck to help solve the mystery.. I was the PO of this truck and it came from a town hwy dept.. I have no idea what they did to it except I discovered an open solenoid fuel shutoff bypass knob and there was a minor chip in the fuel filter...

The interior of the little screen is the intake side , which is unusual but that's how those are.. if I understand these engines correctly, it's the injectors themselves that open to release the high pressure fuel and create return flow, not the PT pump... The PT only draws from the tank and...

question #1 = No next situation , there should be a constant trickle on the return line while engine is running.. There will be no trickle when engine is off , even if your test pump is making pressure on the inlet . Will Wagner is the cummins expert, and i don't have enough time to read all...

first of all, your truck should've come with split-lockring rims or the later 3-piece rims, not actual widowmakers .. When i was at FLW in the late-70's, that's what the 1960's-70's Loadstars were wearing... I don't recall ever seeing either of the 2 styles of actual widowmaker on a...

you would get away with what you are doing if you have a gooseneck trailer , but the ball height will come into play of course

i am visiting my 2 boys in VA and NC sometime in the next few weeks depending their schedules, both are about 2hrs from the show.. Neither of them would be interested in going although the youngest is still active army nearing 20 years service .. Perhaps my oldest boy's (younger) half-brothers...