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wesleywillis posted:Its like meat spin, but uhhhhh needle spin. So after so many spins, does it say "GM Owner Spotted", or "You are a total needle junkie"? Meatspin would pop "You're officially gay" or something like that after you watched the spin too many times.
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idk why i keep finding pics of these things but
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May 6, 2023 22:17
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Superdutydutyduty Right thread. Still can't haul poo poo
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May 6, 2023 22:22
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Is there any reason to do this besides "bigger truck than you"?
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May 6, 2023 22:23
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No because the frame is still the limit at ~14k gvr
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May 6, 2023 22:38
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is it my imagination, or is it articulating on that curb not with suspension travel but with frame flexing?
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Raluek posted:is it my imagination, or is it articulating on that curb not with suspension travel but with frame flexing? This is how I see it as well. And as our resident frame bender put it... cursedshitbox posted:No because the frame is still the limit at ~14k gvr
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Super doody.
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wesleywillis posted:Super doody.
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Raluek posted:is it my imagination, or is it articulating on that curb not with suspension travel but with frame flexing? Looks that way with the wheel gaps and wrinkled up bed. Maybe they put a hinged frame on it 
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cursedshitbox posted:No because the frame is still the limit at ~14k gvr I don't think that frame has the full factory warranted strength anymore.
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Elviscat posted:I don't think that frame has the full factory warranted strength anymore. It's 2 frames welded together end to end. That means it's double the strength.
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Powershift posted:It's 2 frames welded together end to end. That means it's double the strength. It also has twice the wheels and axles, math checks out.
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May 7, 2023 11:30
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Everything associated with towing in the US scares me to death.
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May 7, 2023 18:34
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Powershift posted:It's 2 frames welded together end to end. That means it's double the strength. This video is 25 min long. You won't need but 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ItPxPOZs08
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The Door Frame posted:I may or may not have slightly ruined a work van by putting a ton and a half of concrete bags near the doors because I was too lazy to move them further into the van where the weight is supposed to be My all time dumbest automotive act was carrying 2000 lbs of bagged gravel in a 45HP '81 rabbit pickup that weighed less than that it was fine I was just going two miles straight from the store back to my house on the same flat straight road so I just had to spend the first 1/2 mile accelerating to 25mph and the last mile and a half trying to stop shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 19:22 on May 7, 2023 |
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shame on an IGA posted:My all time dumbest automotive act was carrying 2000 lbs of bagged gravel in a 45HP '81 rabbit pickup that weighed less than that At least you didn't have to contend with hop ons.
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May 7, 2023 19:50
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madeintaipei posted:This video is 25 min long. You won't need but 5. gahhh so many lovely trailers out there
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Elviscat posted:I don't think that frame has the full factory warranted strength anymore. First gen heat treated frame. Probably welded on. Visible deflection. That poo poo is too heavy as it sits right there in the parking lot. E: madeintaipei posted:This video is 25 min long. You won't need but 5. Had a sec to watch this. What in the gently caress.  The wood is least wrong thing there. cursedshitbox fucked around with this message at 01:45 on May 8, 2023 |
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May 7, 2023 21:21
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madeintaipei posted:This video is 25 min long. You won't need but 5. some of the recommended videos that youtube's algorithm spat out at the end continued to feature this truck, so i guess he did end up working on it after all. i dare not click, because im sure i would spend my entire day watching videos about trucks, lol
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Holy poo poo the welds are some scary bunged up cheese, the suspension has multiple cracks and holes, the bumper is literally just a tacked on piece of tube stock. You keep watching and more and more comes out that makes you go what the gently caress. Including bolts that have inches of washers on them for reasons I don't comprehend
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May 7, 2023 22:34
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I really wish non commercial drivers would get the same fines as commercial drivers do whenthey're driving unsafe piles of poo poo.
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Is that a 2X4 of wood in between the frame and tank support? I know nothing about trucks like that so is that normal or something? Seems crazy but I suppose it could absorb shock or something idk
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namlosh posted:I know nothing about trucks like that so is that normal or something? No.
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Holy poo poo, If I were to have shown those welds to my instructors as a finished piece, I honestly think they would have kicked me out of the building. It strains belief that a professional diesel mechanic looked at the crime he had just committed and said, "looks right to me"
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Knowing nothing about air suspension even k could look at that lift axle and go wtf is that
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namlosh posted:Is that a 2X4 of wood in between the frame and tank support? I drive various straight trucks with enclosed boxes on the back at my work. There is wood (not 2x4s) between the frame rails of the truck and the bottom frame rails of the box. There are no gaps. between the two I don't know if thats typical or not typical for tank trucks, but based on the 10ish trucks that my company has or has had over the last several years, its normal for box trucks.
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madeintaipei posted:This video is 25 min long. You won't need but 5. I may be a liberal sissy who's never driven anything with more than two axles but that trailer is obviously hosed. Off center holes, stacks of washers taller than a roll of quarters, rust holes, gobs of weld, random wood being used for I dunno what, god almighty.
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Holy gently caress. I wouldn't accept that kind of work on a shitbox Cavalier that I planned to drive to a junkyard.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I may be a liberal sissy who's never driven anything with more than two axles but that trailer is obviously hosed. Off center holes, stacks of washers taller than a roll of quarters, rust holes, gobs of weld, random wood being used for I dunno what, god almighty. Oh. It's a truck, not a trailer. A 34,000lb capacity water tanker to be precise. The owner had a fleet mechanic do those mods who said their fleet's trucks were modified the same way. What that means, I don't want to know. It was only in J.C. Smith's place to get rear lights wired up! That channel is actually kind of neat if you're into medium-duty trucks. Him and his wife do a lot of poo poo. Double frames, stretched frames, drop frames, dually and 4x4 conversions, a bunch of stuff. The videos are rather long, but they go into detail about what they are doing and why.
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madeintaipei posted:This video is 25 min long. You won't need but 5. I have driven a vast number of really broken vehicles and done bad temporary repairs to get home or out of the woods and I wouldn't drive a Ford ranger on the road if it was repaired that way. That is fuckin horrific and whoever did that shouldn't be allowed to touch tools, let alone CMVs.  It would be simpler to swap the cab and drivetrain onto a new rolling chassis than it would be to unfuckulate that inbred fabricobbled disaster.
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madeintaipei posted:Oh. It's a truck, not a trailer. A 34,000lb capacity water tanker to be precise. The owner had a fleet mechanic do those mods who said their fleet's trucks were modified the same way. What that means, I don't want to know. It was only in J.C. Smith's place to get rear lights wired up! Oh dear Christ in heaven.
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the follow up video from last week reveals The Guy that did it spent 7 months on that abomination. The owner hadn't looked at it all that closely and OP was eventually able to convince him he was going to die if he went forward and it's back at his shop for the purpose of parting out the driveline because that frame is turbofucked
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that's some fine tenon work on that 4x4 e; I wonder how many drywall screws are holding the plywood to the outside of the tailgate?
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No cotter pin holding the 4x4 in place, totally unroadworthy.
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re: some of the previous posts, wood is extremely strong in compression and I think using it to fill space in a big truck frame isn't automatically a terrible idea, provided the condition of the wood is monitored carefully, and it's encapsulated in such a way that it can't shear along the grain lines easily. The structural wood shown in that horrific frame job and in this RV tow setup is uhhhh, not the right way to do it.
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