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2004 International 7300

Willie B

Willie B

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Dido Inc. in Dorset has one, a few towns have them on some loan program. They are capable of a whole lot more weight than nameplate allows. I don't know if you can legally increase the weight they are registered for.
 
DMiller

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Mil Spec is generally a Half to a quarter of actual functional capacity.
Tandem even single wheel trucks quoted at 5 ton, beds sized accordingly as that 5 yard without side rails, Never challenge the suspensions of them. Same truck commercial manufacture rated to 20t easily. Capacity charts I suspect not revised since WWII or Korea.
 
materthegreater

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DMiller said:
Found this

May be too new a series for what you have but generally are all similar
Will most likely be a Torrington Style Thrust bearing inside the bearing head, these are NOT Ball Joints. Grease worms eat these up.
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DM, I must say I didn't believe grease worms were real until today:

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The driver side thrust bearing was getting pretty loose, so I decided it was time to do it (last year I did the passenger side, driver side was still fairly tight at that point). When I pulled the upper kingpin that little guy was hiding in there, no joke.
 
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