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  1. wellesleyhighway

    Kenworth 8x8 XM1074 PLS

    Merlin, This is why the site is so useful....Thanks. When we got the truck from the Army Soldiers System Command in Natick Mass they mentioned it was tested at Natick for simulated air drops from a testing crane they had there. Everything mentioned on this thread ringss true for the units...
  2. wellesleyhighway

    Kenworth 8x8 XM1074 PLS

    Thanks to all for the input on these trucks...got a local machine shop to "spray weld and recut the studs for our KW (which is in fact a Canadian C-520) Anyway we are up and running and awaiting snow. Also here are pics from a M923 We got from the State Surplus. This unit was an Air Force piece...
  3. wellesleyhighway

    Kenworth 8x8 XM1074 PLS

    Sorry for the delay, I will check with the guy who did the frame work to see if its still in his yard. Again, it was the multi lift, had a solenoid issue and wasn't going to be used anyway by us. By all accounts it must have been a Canadian made KW. Glad to have found this site, when we slow...
  4. wellesleyhighway

    Kenworth 8x8 XM1074 PLS

    My boss will try to work the disk and get what we can off it. I was wrong when I said 1984, The door plate gives a Man. date of Mar 86. Also the Motor is listed as NTC-400, tranny is HT7500DRD, and the GVW is 64,000. We didn't remove an axle, just dropped the shaft, unbolted the rears, slid them...
  5. wellesleyhighway

    Kenworth 8x8 XM1074 PLS

    Went to get the disk out and its blank. We shortened the frame by about 4 feet. It was equipped with the UK made "Mutlilift", but had several solenoid issues and didn't retract half the time. The Platform was retro-fitted to fit another small roll-off truck we have. Our first hurdle was a PTO...
  6. wellesleyhighway

    Kenworth 8x8 XM1074 PLS

    Am posting this with a little hesitation...Found this site this AM and was originally searhing for parts/info manuals for the KW PLS. Figured I would attempt to attach this photo of our KW we purchased on a State Surplus program. As you can tell we took some interest on doing it right. The truck...
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