5 ton boneyard

[grounded]

LDS,
Hardtop,
Window glass frames,
tractor fenders for the rear

if i can swindle my way into any of them or some other parts i be happy and to start off your list.

IF you can get something together and we can get some parts. Ill supply transport to the northern part. Im sure us northern guys can divide up fuel cost to "HELP" save some stuff we need and these trucks

 

[citizensoldier]

A few things I would be interested in are tool boxes, 5th wheel plates with ramps, tractor taillight brackets, fuel tanks and fuel pumps, LDS 465 1 A motors/parts, drive shafts, axle shafts and so on.. Lots of good parts still on them. I can see the grounded train chugging already.

 

[Recovry4x4]

Lane, how do you tell a lef tank from a right? I have a tank off of an M52A2 but don't know which tank it is!

 

[citizensoldier]

I don't know any Alabama loggers, but I am a Vermont logger. We don't beat our equipment to death here in the green mountain state. Right now you can go over to the deuce page and watch someone on video driving a perfectly good truck over very large rocks. And guys want to say "those loggers" ? If you work your equipment you respect it and its limitations, you take care of it--really good care--and it takes care of you. You drive around the rocks. or fire up the dozer and move them.

There. That's my defense of us northern folks who work in the woods.

A good defense and I agree true for most.. But some others will buy equipment on the cheap for one or two jobs that pay good only to abuse it and leave it in the woods when finished. I dont agree with it but have seen this before up here in Michigan. Its kind of a step in the process to getting new equipment. Some big farmers are guilty of this too.. Its great when some of us OD heads find a pile like this sitting somewhere that the guy will deal on. Parts is parts.. Here is a good quote to go along with this.. " Its my fkn truck and if I want to put gas on it and set it on fire I will. What business is it of yours?" So sayith Dave P after a old timer told him not to abuse his great white hope M37 like that.

 

[citizensoldier]

Lane, how do you tell a lef tank from a right? I have a tank off of an M52A2 but don't know which tank it is!

The drivers tank has the big hole for the in tank fuel pump. The passenger has a smaller hole for just a pick up tube and another for the gauge.

 

[Recovry4x4]

99% sure I have the one without the in tank pump. Thats what you need?

 

[citizensoldier]

Yes! It should be a 55 gallon tank.. I will take some pictures and post them..

 

[Recovry4x4]

Do you want the hangars as well? Shall I send it north on the next exchange? It might could ride along with DaveP's converter dolly. I know it came off a tractor, I got the LDS motor and all the 5th wheel stuff.

 

[citizensoldier]

Oooops! After a closer look at the tractor I have discovered they removed the passenger tank and put it on the drivers side!??? So its the drivers side that I need! So I need the one with the pump hole on it.. and the pump in it would be a bonus too.. Oh crap.. I better gather some money in pile.
The picture of the one missing a tank are of the tractor.. The others are of the proper set up on the dump truck..
I am glad I did not purchase a passenger side one and then go to put it on.. Ooops..
Hey Grounded! I need the drivers tank with a pump! lol...

 

[wbv]

Just a little info I found on fuel tanks.

This logger who owns the trucks I posted has had a great deal of experience (years) with them. He said that one of the biggest things they had trouble with when they got the trucks was air leaking into the fuel system through cracks in the lining, etc. causing low pressure in the system. He usually removes one of the tanks and re-plumbs the lines. He said that air leak would make the trucks lose power under a load - run ok when not pulling.

 

[grounded]

Lane is there much a diffrence in the driver side tank and a deuce tank? i got to really compare that tank i got and take pics. i keep thinking it might be one. aint sure I do know its off a old dump truck.

Grounded train can make a trip if we can arrange it

 

[citizensoldier]

Big difference between the 5 ton and the deuce tanks. Dave P just told me on the phone that the gasser, 800's, and multi tanks are all different..