@@j.c.smithprojects The reason they get so Sharp... The Tire bead take a Lot of pressure on turning... On the Steering axle... I know some people may not know this...
"We're not gonna start with a bunch of chrome and tires and find out the motor is no good", Shot across the bow at Bruce Wilson and rightfully so. Plenty of people had been saying on his channel "worry about the mechanical stuff FIRST". Always follow that old saying, "Chrome don't get ya home". I can't wait to see that old Kdub wake up from it 20 yr sleep.
Tire retread technology has made great advances lately. The newest trend is a one-piece tread that is stretched over the core instead of being rolled on with the ends laced together. There are some great videos on RU-vid that show modern tire renewal methods.
I’ve loved the old “Ant Eaters” since they first came out. Since that truck is an early model it’s still has a super cool look to it. I’ve been super excited to watch both the KW as well as the cabover to see what becomes of them. I was telling my wife the “repairs” you had come across already and told her this is why we run trucks the way we do now. My truck and trailer always get anything they need. Nothing ever gets covered up or buried, which for the most part is the law of the land now.
i like these trucks. never been a fan of the front quarter fenders, side fairings or steps. it is much easier to keep up with a truck little by little than let is snowball like this one.
@@j.c.smithprojects agreed sir. I’m rooting for this truck. I hope it turns out to be a gem that’s been forgotten for a long time and worthy of your efforts. It’d be a great looking truck to see back on the road.
My dad was a trucker from the late 50’s until the late 1970’s , he swore to never run recaps up front. Once I started driving and would look in the rear view and would see 18 wheels Bering down on me I understood why. Great vid thank you
I hear it about recaps too bht it depends on the company thats capping them and the time of the year you start using them. We use to put new recapped rear tires on my tandems in the early winter and that would let them get warmed up and help it stick to the old tire before summer and they would last nearly two years without coming uncapped. I have run them freshly capped in the middle of summer and didnt get 10,000iles outta them before they came apart. They were all done by goodyear and they called them blue dot recaps.
@Hank Hildebrant It's not so much about hiding it as it is risking your own life or someone else because they're too cheap (or stupid) to buy or make a new hose.
Praise God I've never worked for someone that cheap. Now once I used 2 zip ties and a piece of catheter tubing for a fuel line as a get me to the auto parts store. But I was a broke college kid then.
@@jerrykinnin7941 Back in 65 I was a 17 year old kid just wanting so bad to drive and most outfits wouldn't hire under 35 unless well known. So after getting laughed at by other companies I went to a company outside of town and asked if there was a job open and I was going to say I will also work in the shop. It never left my mouth.... he said "Jump in and his old truck he drove was a nasty piece of junk that was bailing wired together. I get to this mans shop kinda scared of what I got myself into and there was a truck setting loaded with the engine idling so he said take it to Anacortes dump such and such... Anything else?? Yeah here's your scale slip, tires are okay so lets go! So I jump in and had to hold the air to the trailer a little longer than I thought necessary so started back to check the air lines and he tells me we are working on the trailer brakes, they are just hanging there to fool the cops... Go on, get! So I did and thought if this is what it takes... I worked for him for quite a while as he was a super nice fellow but so broke that our paydays were very seldom on time and most times were two and three back. I was a kid, I really wanted to drive and so I did, and with junk trucks that would of never ever made the road today much less then. One day on the way to the dump with a load, my suspension gave way but I managed to keep it upright and get off the road. That truck was done and I was scared. That cop told me to get in his car and I knew I was going to jail for driving crap. Instead he told me to get in upfront so I did. Then he told me about him and other cops watching me drive and doing the best I could. He turned into a shop with trucks and got out and told me to stay put for the moment. I did. He went and said some stuff to the boss guy and then motioned for me to come on up to where they were. The boss fellow stuck his hand out and said my name and his plus welcome to our little shop..... about sixty trucks full of chrome and stuff and I'm thinking small??. So I had a good job after all but that initiation was a tuff one. I was having the time of my life driving a near new truck with my name in the small letters on the edge of the door above the company name. I thought heaven came but instead it was my draft papers/LOL. There is a lot to be said about old junk but if you can keep it on the road, the new ones are a real pleasure. I don't suggest for one moment that what I did was right but it was a start for me.
Love your videos!! Your attention to detail and ability to relay and teach what you know is awesome! I always learn something when I watch. Keep up the good work man
from where these 3 trucks were to my place is about 1 1/2 each way. a wrecker would have charged me $150. per hour. that is from the time they leave their shop until they get back. the clock is running while they strap up loose items, remove the drive shaft, cage the brakes, run lights and so on. each truck could have easily cost me $600 or more to tow.
What!?!? Your telling me your not following the Bruce Wilson method to restoring this truck?? Lol jk. Always love the proper and sanity way you do things.
Some nice 24.5 aluminum wheels on that truck. Even better if they were hub pilots and not bud wheels. The repair you showed on the airline is something among many others that don't surprise me on trucks I see or buy. But you're the right guy to make it safe!
Diesel fuel out of a bucket. How about a race fuel jug that has a pipe threaded cap. Rig a siphon hose inside. And a ball valve outside as your external fuel feed bottle. You probably have a bucket with a pour spout lid set up this way. Using the pour spout to fill the bucket without removing the lid either reducing. Possible spills. Just a thought.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with recap tires if done properly with good casings. Bandag recaps were always really good and Bridgestone ended up buying bandag. Michelin has their own in house recap process as well. Every study shows that recap tires are just as safe as new.
That rollback looks *SO TOUGH* driving down your driveway with that Kenworth on the back! 😎 what a beast J.C! I never knew aluminum rims did that on the steer axle! 😲 That's crazy!
people who did these "cover up" repairs knew it was wrong or they would not have tried to hide it. there is a difference between not knowing and ignoring what is safe. sometimes i am amazed at the things i find.
I had aluminum wheels on the front that could not be balanced. The fit on the hub was good and they weren't bent as we checked runout. I ended up buying new aluminum wheels and the shake went totally away and the front tire wear vastly improved. I couldn't get a year out of the steer tires. I ran recaps on the drives and ran new tires as well. There was no difference in life of tire. How you maintain your tire is everything, checking tire pressure, alignment, and not overloading. You have no control over what you run over on the highway and most of the gators you see on the highway were from picking up metal from the highway or a yard. In the years I ran on the highway, I had overall, 2 tires go on the rear and 4 on the front. All were caught at a truckstop or pull out. I have had tons of trailer tires go when going down the highway.
thanks for the quick and easy break down of the different wheels, ive wondered for a long while, but never asked my dad as it would be a 3hr explanation lol (he was a truck driver for almost 40 years, but cancer took him out of the driver seat 3 years ago, otherwise he would still be driving)
@@j.c.smithprojects he’s finally got a transplant and on the road to recovery, but won’t be driving truck again likely, 61 now and he wouldn’t be able to take the stress after how much it killed his body. Remember being 10-11 and going a whole summer all over the east side of the country (ny to Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana etc) back when he worked for a local farm hauling produce while he was waiting for a new ltl freight company to open, which is where he worked till early Jan 2018, sucks watching someone go from a person who can do just about anything, to someone who couldn’t even open a jar of pickles anymore
Hello mr and mrs JC. Your videos cheer me up during the lockdown. Best wishes from Southampton England 🏴.cant wait to see the next video of the dynahoe😃👌👍
I think the caps are best for rail/port and local salvage trucks because they always end up with a bolt or something in them. Some truck stop brands have a lifetime warranty on their caps. For OTR no but why tear up a $700 tire on a truck that you know is going to ruined and not repairable.
never know the condition of the wheel bearings, steering or whatever on these old trucks that have been sitting around....what if i was toing it from the rear and someone had started taking the front axle out an i missed it? that would have been interesting.
@@j.c.smithprojects I remember when you first took a video of it you said you would sell it. Would you still sell it? No way I could buy it just curious
Eddie schooled my on ball and seat when we got the Louisville! Witch has recaps on it now, there great for an old farm truck! Your right they will dry rot first
i have had recaps on my fl70 since i built it. they are cupped now because it is driven empty half the miles it gets driven and its only gone around 12k in 6 years! recaps have their place.
Well JC glad to see you got if out of there, dont imagine it was loads of fun getting them ready to get out and then changing everything to get it rolling but looks like you got it done. Your right about the recaps for guys who arent doing many miles, my dad and my uncle used repas on the trucks on the farm all the time because most of the time the trucks were either hauling wheat to the elevator or they were using the truck to go to town to get seed fertilizer or what not or out to the field, or getting hay or selling it, so really hard to justify new tires for that kind of usage but yes if you were sticking on tens of thousand of miles on in a few months then new are the way to go. Boy when you said the brakes were stuck you were not kidding. It will be interesting to see what happens when you start it up and if she goes and how well, people might think oh this junk, but these old truck have a lot of value if they can be road worthy and pass inspection, there are a lot of guys that are going from the new to the old because of emissions issues and the huge bills some are getting socked with when the emissions crapola goes bad, cripes even at the auctions the old trucks are bring in some pretty good money and if that doesn't say something well.... Definetly lots of things to go thru but it will be interesting to see how this all works out. Did you get the cabover home as well, I dont know if you mentioned it in the video or I missed it?
From here into the future I will never or be very cautious about pulling it from the back down the road. I had my T600 shipped on a gooseneck facing backwards. My top fin got ripped off and is laying somewhere, and my side wing is almost ripped off with many screws and bolts ripped out with it s anchors/nuts from out of the bunk.
That brake line scared me. I never knew that about the wear on front alloy rims. We had to fit some new tyres (NOS) to some narrow split rims for an early 50s Bedford bus. The owner turned up with these NOS tyres as we had trouble finding the same size tyres. We have a 4 pipe tyre cage for safely fitting truck tyres. One got up to 65 lbs and burst. The sidewall split. We phone the head office of the tyre company here in NZ. The last time they had stocked them new was 1962. They showed us where the casting numbers were and those tyres had been made in 1958. We ended getting a set of used rims that were common throughout the 60s and 70s with a whole new set of tyres.
Really enjoy the Knowledge you give really is impressive and always fun to watch the videos been watching for a awhile now keep ok going man because you are going to blow up soon.. mark my words
Hey brother I just live in Akron Ohio. Not far from you. ILove your videos and your dedication. Would love to pick your brain about some projects. I’m very Small scale compared the work you do but I have 2 Internationals with DT 466e. I am rebuilding the box on one and trying to solve a hot no start issue on another. Ready to maybe give them both up LOL. One has 55,000 miles with the PTO and the other has 78,000 miles. Not sure what to do both are 1997‘s.
Hello J.C. ..i dont miss the days of budd wheels..seen more than my share..that and split ring rims . I'm sure you are aware they have inner nut extractors..i got mine from snap on years ago..they all sell them..most likely made by lisle anyways . I wanted to comment on your mention on recap tires..how guys say they are junk . The technology on recaps is far greater today than lets say 20 years ago . They exray the casings..and do a much better inspection on them . There are also many more advancements on the cap..at least from companies such as Marangoni..they produce a superior recap..the casings arent scuffef flat to accept a flat cap..the casings are actually scuffed contour as well as the cap..making a much tighter bond . There is also different procedures than can be utilized..there is a precure recap and a mold cure recap..mold cure being a cap applied in a mold..a much bettet process . Marangoni retreads dont have a one width size fits all either..they produce several widths to accomodate many different sizes . I'm not promoting any one company..just pointing out there tires are flawless as far as recaps go . I prefer virgin tires..but caps have come a long ways...it's improper maintenance that promotes cap failure
if i were running over the road i would want virgins. however, some of the same people that complain about recaps being junk will buy the bottom of the line china tires!
Technically they are both Budd wheels. One IS as you explained a "HUB Piloted Budd" and the other is a "STUD Piloted Budd". A Budd wheel means it is a solid or non-spoke (Dayton) wheel. Tomato - Tomato. It's good to see you save this old iron. Now go head and give me all the backlash you want! lol wink wink.
technically speaking, neither are a "budd" wheels. the "budd corporation" was the manufacturer that first introduced a stud mounted wheel instead of the open center spoke wheel commonly referred to as "dayton". really a "spoke" wheel. again, "dayton" was the manufacturer not a type. i doubt this matters to anyone. just pointless info i guess.
@@j.c.smithprojects Not pointless to me. You have said in videos you are trying to teach or help one learn. I'm 54 and still like to learn, it's why I watch videos and not TV. Maybe "technically" was not the correct term and I apologize. There are a few things in life that... let's say gets my OCD spun up. You know, kinda like content creators who will pretty a truck before they make it mechanically sound, and then use the term "jakes". You know as well as I do that it's singular not plural. Anyway, keep up the good work. Just an old fireman that takes pride in detail.
the same guys that say recaps are bad are the same guys who never pay any attention to there tire pressure. or there just repeating what other have told them. I don't run them however because they wear faster. i was getting my steers re capped to trailer tires for a while but was getting half the miles out of the tread life i was getting from virgins. so now I just sell my casings back to the tire dealer. its very rare to have a tire separation on a modern recap unless the casing itself fails from being run low on air that can happen to a virgin as well.
i agree with that. they have their place. for me they make good sense. i have had the same set of recaps on my fl70 flatbed for 6 years now. it has gone 12k miles since i built the truck. the casings are starting to get some fine line cracks now but the cap is holding welll.
You're very lucky man to have a good woman by your side when I farted around in my property with trucks my lady hated me everything I did she hated you got to get rid of this you got to get rid of that when are you going to get this done when are you going to get that done dude you're living my dream but I'm on the downside now I'm getting rid of my crap but dude whatever you're doing you got it you do right man and make sure you tell your wife that you love her every morning every night cuz that's a good thing right there
I had a small fleet of local trucks . I ran caps on all the drive tires . but with those flat spotted tire it's going to make for a shitty ride singled out
I recall a comment I made months ago when you were towing home a heavy rollback on a old tandem truck and somebody poo poo - ed the idea. They spoil you hauling dead junk.
Why run 11R24.5 tires ? I'm a container hauler. Rule is virgins on steers. caps everywhere else. We still run allot of 10x20 tube tires And bias 11.22.5 tires as well. My pretrips are fun.
@@j.c.smithprojects i am just glad to find out she is and has been having an affair, she had me believing at one point in my grief everything was 100% my fault, I am a loyalist If I get behind you I am with ya 100% it can be a downfall I am figuring out just a little to late
What's scary is that you just know there are a LOT of trucks running around with shoddy repairs like this pulling 80k lbs that are just an accident waiting to happen.
Won't changing from, what I'm guessing, is 11x24.5 to a lo-pro 22.5 play hell with your 5th wheel height? IMHO, a properly recapped tire on drives or a trailer is just fine.
it would if you were going to run a 5th wheel. there are many 5th wheels with different height risers on the pivots to accommodate that. however, just wait until this truck is finished. it will make much more sense then.
Those Alcoa aluminum wheels are worth 3 times as much as steel wheels and can shave up to 500 pounds off a loaded truck, too bad you couldn't save them
