Finally putting it on the road

It's nice when it works out like that. I have a few loads like that they deliver just up the road from the yard

 

I’ve got a step-deck with a real shallow pin setting. Even with the wheel shoved as far ahead as I can and 39,000+ on the drives I’m still only 11,000 to 11,200 on the front. I think I’d need the wheel up under my pillow to max the steer. My truck is only 244” and yours appears to be out around 260” or so. I can’t see that making it any easier to get weight forward.

 

On a set back axle even with 46k in the box I'm just a hair over 10 on the steer. 5th wheel about 6in or so back of center. I very rarely have more than 20k in the box tho so it doesn't bug me

 

1949 Diamond T 201 pickup. Lost in divorce settlement,,,thank you (indirectly) to trucking. She knew how much I loved that truck, and got the final "kick in the nads" by having the judge order me to sell it.

 

Uncle owned a 48 that had a R.R. Howell drilling rig on it. I should have bought it “big dummy”!!! Nice truck and he sold it for $300….

Yes that T pickup is a nice truck, I know they are like hens teeth too. Divorce brings out the true side of a person every time, been there.

Somewhere I have a pic of a Diamond T I helped a friend put together about 10 years ago, I’ll see if I can find it. It had a small block Chevy under the hood, far from stock….

 

Found it easier than I thought I would lol….

 

That’s exactly how my last 3408 got away from me.

 

Thanks, pal, I've made peace with that. I did sell it to a neighbor farmer, and unless he died, it's still on the farm. To give you an idea on value, I bought that truck from a junkyard in 1980 for $100 bucks AND, it had a rebuilt motor. I had it almost 20 years, and fixed it up, sold it for $4,000 in 2001, that truck today restored, one crossed the auction and sold for $93,000!

 

The price on original hubcaps for the T pickups will make you faint lol….