62 d300

[hoon]

finally got the cummins sitting in the frame. Thought some of you be interested.

[712edf]

I like it. Interesting steering set-up.
Bucky

[hoon]

Steering is off a 72 dodge truck. Steering yoke was off a f600.

[Kaegi]

sweet keep the pics coming! is it a dually or SRW?

[hoon]

It's a dually, but has singles on it right now. Just hard to find the time to work on it.

[Kaegi]

I dont know if you remember my old truck but thought a finished truck pic might inspire. this truck ened up getting converted into W300 and sold for big bucks on ebay recently

[Jake66]

Steering is off a 72 dodge truck. Steering yoke was off a f600.

did you use a conversion kit for that? or any install instructions? sounds pretty stout.

[hoon]

No install pics for the steering box. I was browsing the junk yard and seen it on the truck mounted 90 degrees from what you normally see. It originally mounted on a cast iron bracket, but it wouldn't fit the 62 frame, so it made one out .250 plate. You can't see it in the pic, but I put in a D60 front axle. Suppose I should change the title to 62 W300 . The f600 steering yoke is just what i found at the junk yard that had the right spline count to fit. I used 85 Chevy truck drag links and a collapsible steering shaft out of a jeep.

[hoon]

Kaegi i do remember seeing your truck. I think i remember seeing a pic of it loaded with old barn beams or railroad ties. Eventually i would like to find a ute bed for mine, but i will use the flatbed until its up and running.

[Kaegi]

it was rail road ties. those things are so dam heavy! took 3 guys to load each one and we could barely do it. I know where there is a set of stock W300 axles for sale. on CL in WA. comes with the SRW wheels and spacers too. then you could run the Spicer 70 up front. The W300s have a different frame but no one would know. ;/)

[hoon]

That's the one a remember. That's a good looking truck. I've move some 4ft sections of ties and those were heavy as hell. I don't think i would want to mess with those ones. they look to be 10-12 ft.
I'm running newer axles, a wide d70hd from a 80's chevy dually and the d60 from a 90 w250 with chevy dually hubs. That will let me bolt up a set of 19.5 P30 wheels. Not sure if you know, but there is a company in WA that makes a kit to fit a D70 gear set into a D60 housing. You get the stronger gears with the stronger open knuckles. Jantz engineering is the company.

[Kaegi]

hOPe to have another D300 soon with those same wheels. the ties are 16 footers. I don't think open knuckles are stronger than the stock trachta joint closed knuckle with huge trunion bearings. but open does have better turning radius.

[hoon]

I've never had a d70 front, but i was always told the u joint in the closed knuckle fronts was about the same size as a d44. I assume the tracta joint is larger? Can you still find replacement axle shafts for them?

[Kaegi]

parts are not too hard to come up with. the joint is twice the size of any open 44. there is a big closed knuckle 44 that had big joint that came in Dodges and I think Fords in the 70s as well