Boydstun screw truck repair troubleshooting

Don’t own one but I ran one briefly and have many friends who ran them for many years. Keep a fairly good size sledgehammer for when you top or bottom the screw out as you will have to tap while someone holds the switch. Also a portable propane torch comes in handy in cold weather. Good luck as everyone I know who ran one had them in the shop often. I imagine someone who can troubleshoot with a test light probably can fix many of the issues.

 

The Sterling has problems as well. I hope you run local and have a good mechanic that you trust.

 

Get the bolt and nut size for each end of the cross shafts that connect the screw posts under the truck, they have been known to shear off. One side screw motor should have a square drive in case you need to lower the rack manually or adjust when the sides become uneven from a sheared bolt. Try not to bottom/top out the screws as they could run past the nylon block and then you'll need the sledge.

 

If you ever get the chance and the $ id say just finish the conversion get rid of the solenoids and put a cottrell/ curtis-wright valve bank on it

 

Yea it is quite expensive. I think you might have to extend a few hoses. So they can run directly to the cylinders from the valve bank

 

I know this is a old post but is that all I needs to be change, just the curtis Wright bank the reason I'm asking I'm in the process of a convertion and I'm trying to find as much information as I can

 

How did you do with the conversion?