Tell me about Volvos

**Muleskinner** · 03.23.2008

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Originally Posted by Muleskinner

Nope,Pete's and KW I drove as company driver had plastic doors(378,379 and T800,W900B) and fact is a sleepers of this trucks built from aluminum which melted in a fire.

WOW....They must have been some kind of experimental ones on the 379 (can't say about the other ones) cause I've never seen one.You were flying top secret goodies there.In fact,I'll step out in the yard and see if you've got it right.A friends '01 is sitting here as we speak.

**D16** · 03.23.2008

[quote=Muleskinner;382015]

Originally Posted by D16

WOW....They must have been some kind of experimental ones on the 379 (can't say about the other ones) cause I've never seen one.You were flying top secret goodies there.In fact,I'll step out in the yard and see if you've got it right.A friends '01 is sitting here as we speak.

May be it's a cast aluminum,but definitely it's not a steel.

**Muleskinner** · 03.23.2008

They made that plastic look and feel just like metal...Thats amazing....Get real buddy.You should feel ashamed of yourself for making me get up and go out there and second guess my MASSIVE reserves of knowledge.lol

**Brickman** · 03.23.2008

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Originally Posted by Muleskinner

May be it's a cast aluminum,but definitely it's not a steel.

Aluminum aint plastic.

As for your "steel" ......... go TRY to stick a magnet on it. It won't stick its so cheap and thin. No better than aluminum when it comes to a fire.

You mentioned earlier about how heavy your volvo is because of the steel. Post up your empty weight of the tractor only.

My LargeCar is 20,000 lbs. just the tractor.

**Brickman** · 03.23.2008

Originally Posted by Muleskinner

They made that plastic look and feel just like metal...Thats amazing....Get real buddy.You should feel ashamed of yourself for making me get up and go out there and second guess my MASSIVE reserves of knowledge.lol

So it wasn't plastic after all was it?
I don't even have to go look at my truck sitting RIGHT BESIDE my house. I know what the doors and shell are made of.

**D16** · 03.23.2008

[quote=Brickman;382012]All the Volvos I've been around, (learned to drive on one) the entire shell was fiberglass.

Check it on Volvo site or find Volvo near you and put a magnet on sleeper.

**D16** · 03.23.2008

[quote=Brickman;382023]

Originally Posted by D16

Aluminum aint plastic.

As for your "steel" ......... go TRY to stick a magnet on it. It won't stick its so cheap and thin. No better than aluminum when it comes to a fire.

You mentioned earlier about how heavy your volvo is because of the steel. Post up your empty weight of the tractor only.

My LargeCar is 20,000 lbs. just the tractor.

My Volvo is 17,900.But I'm just curious about doors in classic Pete's and KW's.Who can check it and inform us?

**Muleskinner** · 03.23.2008

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Originally Posted by Brickman

My Volvo is 17,900.But I'm just curious about doors in classic Pete's and KW's.Who can check it and inform us?

I don't have to check....the "classic" in my pics weighed in at 18,200 fueled. I'm not sure if the Marine Cat it's running is heavier than stock or not nor if the frame stretch added much to it.Doors, hood and what not is aluminum. My Buddy's '90 w900l 007 KW special ed.is running a fiberglass hood (they all are) and aluminum doors and comes in around 19,300

**D16** · 03.23.2008

[quote=Muleskinner;382041]

Originally Posted by D16

I don't have to check....the "classic" in my pics weighed in at 18,200 fueled. I'm not sure if the Marine Cat it's running is heavier than stock or not nor if the frame stretch added much to it.Doors, hood and what not is aluminum. My Buddy's '90 w900l 007 KW special ed.is running a fiberglass hood (they all are) and aluminum doors and comes in around 19,300

Just for definition-doors from cast aluminum?

Still suspect it's heavy plastic.