pic request - srw trucks with Drw width axles

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the double dually square was posted by CDA 455 II in the "interesting CL finds" and it's awesome. probably a bitch to turn

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these are all C&C dually axles
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and singles on the rear, drw hubs with h1s in the front. correct me if i'm wrong
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laguna said:
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the double dually square was posted by CDA 455 II in the "interesting CL finds" and it's awesome. probably a bitch to turn



and singles on the rear, drw hubs with h1s in the front. correct me if i'm wrong
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I think that might be the normal pickup dually axles front and rear and H1's front and rear with the rears flipped around. not sure but I've seen other pics of that truck and keep thinking it was H1's all around.
 
Black dually needed what I did to the yj. 14bolt srw hubs swapped in place of the drw 70hd hubs.

I recently got a 97 2500 dodge Cummins srw 70-u2 to swap with the 70hd. Brakes are redone, and tubes cleaned off. Next hurdle is finding a router bit and opening up the Chevy hd wheels to fit the dodge hubs.
 
How wide of an axle do you think it would take to get an H1 wheel running the correct direction to line up with the outside of that dually fender? It would have to be something like 80" wide I would bet, 7" backspacing is a ton when you start trying to actually use them instead of just throw spacers at them. (not that there is anything wrong with good bolt on spacers.) I know my truck used the wide pickup dually D70 rear (72" WMS IIRC?) and I would have needed some 1.5-2" spacers or srw hubs to get the wheels to sit out flush just with the bushwackers.
 
A drw 14b with srw hubs is 74-75 and puts hummer wheels in a good location for a regular bed, so you'd need another 10-14"? For drw fenders. Factory dually wheels are about 6" wide with maybe 8" backspace.

I started with a srw 14b and homemade 4" spacers before I picked up the drw 14 w/ srw hubs.
 
I thought I had loaded pics of my old K5, but that must have been in the fendercutting thread.
Drw 60 and drw 14b w/ srw hubs. 8 bolt hummer wheels and 42 IROKs.
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There was a guy back in early 2000's that did that to hi suburban. He pulled in a class that only allowed like 33x12.5 tires or so and suddenly all the pickup guys started running dual tires in back even though the trucks weren't duallies and he got pissed because they allowed it so one day he showed up with duals all around. His biggest limiting factor was the trucks could claim they can be factory offered with the D60 up front but subs only got the D44 or 10 bolt so he had high $$$ chromoly shafts billet U-joints and a 1 off billet mini spool up front back when that **** wasn't common.
 
woods said:
Is this for trolling only, or there an actual benefit to this?
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IIRC it was built because how much cheaper it was to buy skinny tires vs super wide heavy tires, but mainly as a joke. It's still alive and in washington state.
 
I like the window in the firewall.

At a trucks gone wild event, I saw I believe a 70s ford, with 8 tractor tires on it. No pics, cool story.
 
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bad zuki said:
IIRC it was built because how much cheaper it was to buy skinny tires vs super wide heavy tires, but mainly as a joke. It's still alive and in washington state.
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I love it! would be cool to have a yard tug similar to that with duals on both ends with chains around both tires on all 4 corners

when I was in the AF I worked in aircraft maintenance and there were these aircraft tugs called "colemans" that were 4wd and 4w steer, no duals but didn't need them I guess, always chained up in winter. they tugged around f22s on a snowy flightline and wiggled them into crowded hangars with no problems

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laguna said:
I love it! would be cool to have a yard tug similar to that with duals on both ends with chains around both tires on all 4 corners

when I was in the AF I worked in aircraft maintenance and there were these aircraft tugs called "colemans" that were 4wd and 4w steer, no duals but didn't need them I guess, always chained up in winter. they tugged around f22s on a snowy flightline and wiggled them into crowded hangars with no problems

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Sound like you need one of the chevy ones. Planetary, rear steer, and a 6.2 detroit

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Dont remember the "Mxxxx" but have seen them at auction on govplanet.com.


It was a spinoff of the 1980's CUCV.

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bad zuki said:
Sound like you need one of the chevy ones. Planetary, rear steer, and a 6.2 detroit

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It's only 12,000lbs empty, but it can tow 95,000lbs.

You'll have better luck locking for the "eagle Bob tail". It must have been a package thing.
 
I posted this in the cool old iron on your hood thread a could days ago.

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77fixer said:
I thought I had loaded pics of my old K5, but that must have been in the fendercutting thread.
Drw 60 and drw 14b w/ srw hubs. 8 bolt hummer wheels and 42 IROKs.
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This is how I want to do my axles but I'm using a c30 dana 70 instead of the 14b. The rear has a 78" wms
 
low buck garage on youtube did front duals on a cckw
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This is the 70hd with srw 14 bolt hubs. It has weld on disk brackets and is about 77.5 inches wide.


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The 97 dodge 2500 70-u2, which measured about 70 wide, that is replacing the hd in my yj, the hubs are too big to fit the Chevy hd pyo wheels. I used a spacer and some 5/8 wheel studs as a guide for the bearing. I had to keep moving them around to get the router in there. Worked great.

For what it’s worth, I also swapped the dodge 70u2 1410 yoke with the 1310 yoke that I had on the 70hd, which was off a front gm 60. Same seal. Same nut.
 
It really necks down at the original backing flange. I wonder how thick that part of the tube is.
 
finally got around to taking the drums off my drw 14 bolt this weekend. had to wail on one side for 20 mins to get the drum off. I did some measurements based on the instructions from busted knuckle off road's website as seen here
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I have the longer spindle / larger bearing spacing, which apparently only came on the 14 bolts with press-on drums, mostly the smooth housing variety but some overlap into the ribbed years

this axle is a ribbed housing with press on hubs so i'm in the overlap years

so now I will be looking for smooth housing SRW hubs to push this one out to 76". it would be way easier to just slap 2" spacers on it as-is but I prefer not to use spacers as it's just another thing to worry about
 
laguna said:
this axle is a ribbed housing with press on hubs so i'm in the overlap years

so now I will be looking for smooth housing SRW hubs to push this one out to 76". it would be way easier to just slap 2" spacers on it as-is but I prefer not to use spacers as it's just another thing to worry about
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You can find your correct hubs on the ribbed housing too. Like a late square-body crew or burban (thru '91); or gmt400 2500 (must have the back-mounted drums, and these are the shallow 2.5" depth).

Edit: a SRW 30/3500 van thru '95 may be a candidate also.
 
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