[ihc] B-140 living again

["Jim Grammer" <jgrammer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:08:20 -0700
>From: "ken.dunnington" <ken.dunnington@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: [ihc] B-140 living

>It is a big truck, huh?

Just right, especially with the long bed.

>I have pondered the white top.  Would be advantageous here in the
>summer too.

Makes a big difference, considering the only insulation between hot steel
and the cab is a piece of sticky-back vinyl :(

>I sanded, sanded, and sanded some more after I got it last September,
>so that I could make it one color for the neighbors.

LOL, that's exactly the reason my B-102 pickup got painted quick and dirty
;) Prolly a good thing, or I wouldn't have any truck with a paint job..

>This truck was worked hard.  The bed is witness to that.  Also the
>front cab mounts and the crack in the frame.  The crack was welded
>which did not hold up but the large fishplate seems to be sufficing
>despite it's looks(atleast it is functional and is on the inside of
>the frame rail).

Let me guess, up front at the kickup between the spring hangers? Those front
frames flex a *lot*. It'd be very interesting to sight down the frame rails
with the truck on the official IH 'frame twister' course or facsimile
therof.

Jim