jhess
usa
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I had a L7000 1976 with a 3208 Cat,that iused for my trucking business(seafood) great truck,sold it after about 100,000 miles,still in good shape.The guy I sold it too,changed the oil hiself and left the original oil filter seal on it.He drove it about 20 miles and lost oil pressure,it came out around the new filter.$7000.00 rebuild,in 1978
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GreyGrizz
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Great pictures Prince. It's amazing the longevity, farmers get out of their equipment. There is a hay farm in my town that has several Ford flatbed trucks, from the twenty's. All completely pristine with original tires, and paint. Hard to believe, with the salt use, in New England, but these trucks have never left the farm. Hope you and you're parents have continued success, with the Farm. It's hard work, but you know all to well, about that.
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Thanks for sharing those pics,ya'll got a nice collection there.
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princevaliant1975
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Well Gizz it comes with a cost. The reason we get the longevity is lots of maintenance and replacement of wear items at the correct times, especially on the tillage equipment. Some of our tillage implements are over 50 years old. We go through cases of grease and drums of oil throughout the seasons. For example each of those CATs have 3 oil reservoirs engine, transmission/drive, hydraulic system. The engine alone in those take 15 gallons, the transmission takes like 10 I think, and the Hydraulic system takes 60-70 gallon. They also have 2 filters for the engine, one for transmission, and 2 for the hydralic system. Not to mention the 2 utility tractors (JD 4020 and 3010) we have for general use like mowing, blade for grading, front end loader and just general use of pulling equipment around the farm. I guess this is where I learned all about keeping good maintenance records for each and every vehicle and piece of equipment.
BTW Jhess, the engines in the Ford and the Kenworth are V8 Detroits, and I really am not all that found of the early Ford flatheads. They seem underpowered (60HP) for what they are. I mean companies like Knight, Offenhouser, Willys, Sterns, Duesenburg, Continental, and Overland had inline 6 and 8 engines making 50+ HP using various types of head and block designs over a decade previous. For example I have seen Willys trucks from the late 20's early 30's running the Knight 6 engine putting out 56 hp from a single updraft carburator. Or Willy's own flathead 6 puts out a respectable 49hp
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jhess
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I am a fan of the '34 Ford Coupe,flathead v8 with suicide doors,your right,they didn't produce much power but ask the Moonshiners in the Carolina hills what the used in the 30-40's.It was the best for that time.
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