Truckers, lets see your rigs!

biggy238 said:
That doesn't fix worn valve guides though. Some people can live with the fumes and oil, some can't.

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I catch my blow by in a tank under the truck. Can do like the Paccar’s and route it back in the intake.

I’ll take worn guides vs the broken valves Cummins gives us. SDP trucks can usually be bought cheap enough that blowby is trivial.
 
Anybody ever have a tire do this. It was a Michelin trailer tire with less than 5000 miles on it and never been ran low.
 

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hotfarm1066 said:
Anybody ever have a tire do this. It was a Michelin trailer tire with less than 5000 miles on it and never been ran low.
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I had a Continental steer tire do it, only about an 8” piece came off and did about $4000 damage to my hood. Had it been on a trailer I probably wouldn’t have noticed before it came completely apart. Had the exact same tire do it on a trailer.

Buddy had one on a trailer do the same.

Here’s the before pic.
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And here is the after.
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I had 2 more come apart over the summer so I sent them in for x-ray. Both had cuts so I must have hit something on the road.
 
jfaulkner said:
I had a Continental steer tire do it, only about an 8” piece came off and did about $4000 damage to my hood. Had it been on a trailer I probably wouldn’t have noticed before it came completely apart. Had the exact same tire do it on a trailer.

Buddy had one on a trailer do the same.

Here’s the before pic.
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And here is the after.
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I had 2 more come apart over the summer so I sent them in for x-ray. Both had cuts so I must have hit something on the road.
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How does that kind of combo work? Looks pricey.
 
jfaulkner said:
I had a Continental steer tire do it, only about an 8” piece came off and did about $4000 damage to my hood. Had it been on a trailer I probably wouldn’t have noticed before it came completely apart. Had the exact same tire do it on a trailer.

Buddy had one on a trailer do the same.

Here’s the before pic.
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And here is the after.
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I had 2 more come apart over the summer so I sent them in for x-ray. Both had cuts so I must have hit something on the road.
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Some sorta sharp in the before picture, enough to make you cry in the after picture.
What’s the tow rig?
 
bracker8040 said:
Some sorta sharp in the before picture, enough to make you cry in the after picture.

What’s the tow rig?
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Gay Pete.
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Rig Wrench said:
How does that kind of combo work? Looks pricey.
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I priced a new set last year after I sold mine and they were almost $110,000 for the trailers and $24,000 for QuickDraw’s on each. That set has all 5 axles 3 bagged, and all but the rear axle on the lead lifts.
 
jfaulkner said:
Gay Pete.
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I priced a new set last year after I sold mine and they were almost $110,000 for the trailers and $24,000 for QuickDraw’s on each. That set has all 5 axles 3 bagged, and all but the rear axle on the lead lifts.
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That thing is beautiful.
 
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jfaulkner said:
I had a Continental steer tire do it, only about an 8” piece came off and did about $4000 damage to my hood. Had it been on a trailer I probably wouldn’t have noticed before it came completely apart. Had the exact same tire do it on a trailer.

Buddy had one on a trailer do the same.

Here’s the before pic.
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And here is the after.
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I had 2 more come apart over the summer so I sent them in for x-ray. Both had cuts so I must have hit something on the road.
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Lucky it was on the bucket so everything is pretty solid on the back. If it would have been on one of the hoppers it would of looked worse than that trailer you showed. I had just never seen a virgin throw a cap like that.
 
hotfarm1066 said:
Lucky it was on the bucket so everything is pretty solid on the back. If it would have been on one of the hoppers it would of looked worse than that trailer you showed. I had just never seen a virgin throw a cap like that.
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Seen one grab the ladder on a hopper and almost rip the entire back off the trailer. Hoppers are extremely flimsy.
 
I used to pull a 3 axle timpte hopper quite a bit. Timpte claimed it would handle whatever we put in it. I know with 40 ton or do in it it looked like the sides were gonna blow out
 
Idk I've been around quite a few hoppers, timptes and Wilson may give some but I don't know what it would actually take to break one, except the aluminum subframe. Cornhuskers on the other hand seem to be more tig beads than trailer by the time they're 10 years old.
 
BRE said:
The cornhusker scares me worse than the super single.


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we had a 43x78 and if you turned right the trailer would bend and stay bent until you over corrected. You could see it in the mirror, if you made a right turn you couldn’t see the left tires as much. Lol



Rig Wrench said:
I used to pull a 3 axle timpte hopper quite a bit. Timpte claimed it would handle whatever we put in it. I know with 40 ton or do in it it looked like the sides were gonna blow out
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Timpte wouldn’t quote the last 2 we bought. Aluminum I beam subframe, 3 hopper, 48x78 all aluminum kingpin frame and Hendrickson 250 suspension. Dumb asses use that C channel subframe and they wonder why they crack. Flatbeds figured it out (other than Reitnouer) but it blows the hopper companies minds. When you tell them you are loading 92k+ net legal the “super hopper” isn’t so super anymore.
 
jfaulkner said:
Seen one grab the ladder on a hopper and almost rip the entire back off the trailer. Hoppers are extremely flimsy.
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I've seen and fixed many that put the cap through the back of the trailer. Mainly because Farmers think recaps are a good idea then don't drive enough to wear them out and 5 years later (if not sooner) they start throwing caps. Rewireing the whole trailer on a timpte because the back light wiring is destroyed sucks.
 
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