Today was a very good day. I went and gave my buddy a visit at his parking lot cleaning business. They use Anthony sweeper trucks and I had noticed this summer that those trucks had the same 22.5 6lug wheels that my 56 uses. They also have big 15” disc brakes. So I crawled around the wreaked trucks that He has out back with a tape. I found that the axle beam is 4” to wide. But he gave me a bad spindle that I brought home and used to see if it would be feasible to mount those spindles to my axle beam. Bingo this is going to work great. I will have to take my beam and the new spindles to the machine shop to have the beam reamed for bigger king pins that the new spindles use. Wow heavier duty spindles with bigger bearings that are readily available. Hubs with real oil seals not just a felt wiper for grease. Really big disc brakes. But it gets better than that he is going to be scrapping those trucks and is giving me the hole works, it’s good to have friends.
I told him that it may be worth his wile to save all the spindles hubs and brakes when he scraps out the trucks. So if any of you are interested let me know.
I told him you Guys may be willing to give him a little cash for what he was going to send to the scrapper.
Then I took a trip to see the machinist that is building my motor and he thinks that it should only take him about 10 to 15 days to get it all finished up.
But wait there’s more shortly after I returned home again the UPS man shows up with the wiring kit from E-Z Wire. Man things are really rolling now.
