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Yeah...another gritty day. Managed to excavate the dropside bed from the bottom of the barn and decided it was a nice day to wreck it. Ended up with 96-1/2" front to back in the bed. Cut 50-1/2" out of it. Had posted a time ago a couple pics of the sides that I had shortened. Not welded but...

I've decided to shorten my dropside bed and put it behind the crane on my deuce. It's going to be 8'-1/2" inside. Here's a couple pics of the first side cut down. It'll be a while as I'm just picking at it but you get the gist of it--

In process of making a deuce trailer...literally. Got donor (see pics below) and will be turning that into a trailer leaving tandems, swapping on dropside bed, and a couple other things...no winch as of yet. :) Wrenching today saw the driver's side step and storage compartment swung to...

The clutch in-out clutch in my 20K Garwood in the back of my deuce wasn't working and was frozen up solid. Having put it in over a year ago and not finished the drive feeling that I'd have to change it anyway (which I would have for the M977 crane install)...so I'm not losing any sleep about...

Bear with me on this at first- So we've got 6.72's in the axles, and overdrive around .85:1 and NDT's at 38-39". 6.72, 39" tire, 55mph, .85 OD= 2,707rpm at 55mph. Now slap on 46" XL's or XML's (for all the right reasons) and we end up here: 6.72, 46" tire, 55mph, .85 OD= 2,295rpm at 55mph...

HA-HA! THE M977 CRANE COMES TO LIFE!!! *I don't have pics tonight...but I will add a couple tomorrow I gotta say...and not just because it's mine, but that sucker looks cool as hell all spread out with the out riggers and the crane all a stood up and telescoped! It was such a rush to pull...

I can pleasantly state that I feel very good progress is being made! As of today, 02/05/06, it's been about a month. This is solid weekends and picking at little things evenings for a couple hours after a long drive up from work. On the HEMMT, this sucker mounts at the rear of the truck with...

Requested to post up some pics of the 1160 V8 CAT I swapped into my deuce truck. The 1160 is the engine that the 3208's were based on, same block, same heads, different front timing housing and injector pumps. My 1160 is a 225hp naturally aspirated (N/A) engine. The upper water line has...

Velvet, my Rockwelled and rat motored M715~ Barry, an older buddy of mine in PA~ Me, Spicergear...our hero...and king retard~ Well, we made TTC for this year and and here are some of the trial and tribulations gone through just getting there and back...it's a long read so get comfy. Oh...

Just got off the phone with Randy Ouverson and he told me he's got 90 sets of lockouts ready to go!!! $595 Boys...get'em while they last!!! Randy also worked with me on a set of double splined rear axle shafts for my Top Truck Challenge event and let me tell ya...them babies are sweet...

Yeah, so I could only take that blue and white jazz for so long then when I swapped on the OD dropside bed the blue and white cab looked...well...effin' nasty, I mean let's just call it what it was. It's funny...the truck looks smaller now BUT, all the odd stuff I've done; big-ass winch, mack...

So I take it that you're all with me and hate doing brake work...of nearly any kind? I was thinking that this may help someone not have to deal with that if they were to put in a front locker. I've done a bunch of work on Rockwells now and Deuce trucks and think I've got an idea that will make...

I'm doing some Rockwell steer rears for a guy for one of his projects and took a bunch of pics that you guys may dig. Shortside shaft was fine, longside was the worst I'd ever seen!!! Rusted, pitted, and the u-joint had 1/4" of play in it and was just flat annihilated. :skull: :freaked...

:idea: Okay fellas, we see M1075's rig with the big 46" Mich... XML's on it, I'm soon to have a set of 46" XL's on mine and had a thought so I went to Randy's Ring and Pinion and played on the RPM/MPH calculator there. (http://www.ring-pinion.com/content/calculators/RPM.asp :deal: ...if...

No, this ain't about a Ford. My other M715 is named Futura. It's named that because of the guy on GSA that outbid and ran the price on me two years ago for it when it was only 20 miles from the farm. He was 'Futura' and I hated him since, but the truck was so purdy (I had gone and looked at...

Lets just be honest here...I had wood over my wheels today. Seven, five ton, 20 bolt, beadlock wheels! Sooo nice...ahhhh. The plan is to sandwich a waterjet cut plate inbetween the back half can and the front plate. The tough decision is to decide if it will be possible to keep the 10 hole...

This is one of six of these 15.5/80R20 (15.5x46) XL's that will be going on my deuce in the near future. We've seen them on the burly white and red brush truck and they look tough, but not much for size comparison or real world comparisons. [^] XL and 'Busa- [thumbzup]

I found a deal on a-NOTHER 5 ton truck's 20,000# Garwood winch and a pile of rope. It should arrive at the shipping terminal tomorrow. Yep, you guessed it, a 20K winch on the back. It's living hell having a transfer case with a PTO and nothing to run with it. [^] Hopefully it will arrive...

Okay...so I came across this a while back and have been saving it for the opportune time. I figure we're all deuce derivative opportunists anyway...the time is now! HA! Yeah, anyway...check the 3053B transmission ratios. Another 10% overdrive but a loss of deep granny. That would change...

I decided today was the day to try out my brake bleeding idea and hopefully get the pedal pressure back. I took a small electric fuel pump (one of the square cheap little buggers) hooked one end to a half gallon container with brake fluid in it and hooked the other side of the pump to a brake...