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Old 03-30-2014, 01:00 PM   #16
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Re: My daily driver/beater : How I turned lemons in lemonade

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Originally Posted by BRUISER View Post
Subbed. For what it's worth, I've seen an old Peterbilt converted from single axle to tandem axle with straight cuts and welds, it drug up to 46 or 47,000 loads (80,000 gross) all over the country. It did eventually burn down from an electrical fire, but the frame never broke.
I hear you. Back when I was right out of high school I helped my then future father in law shorten a frame on one of his LTL-9000 ten yard dump trucks. I later saw the driver bind that truck pulling a stuck tractor and yank the front wheel about 18 inches off the ground. The truck flexed so much the driver's door popped open. That frame is still doing stupid stuff like that to this day and it's still not fallen apart. Our method obviously worked.

It does sound like I need to be wary of electrical fires when doing it this way though.
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