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You have to pay tonnage on what the truck itself weighs. Not it's gross weight (it's weight and what it can haul.) It is a one time fee though. Nothing after that for collectors plates. I paid a couple hundred for my 818. Just remember, it's only the weight of the truck itself, curb weight.

Good to see those pictures. I just won a few, and was hoping they weren't too wide to load sideways like that.

Glad, heck, we were PROUD of you!

I will definitely be there. Should have the 818, maybe a trailer with some other vehicles on it, not sure yet. I will be around for all the days. Vet.

Everyone that I know of, myself included, gets it for free.

Probably the 20th. But that is just a guess right now.

Last week I just pulled my stock one apart, flipped the contacts and disc around, put back together and it works just fine. For now at least.

Plenty of us have ran on just two 'normal' batteries. I had a pair of blue top optimas in my 818 for a while. Started it up just fine. The bigger batteries can crank for longer periods. Often recover faster. And usually last much longer due to increased plate thickness.

8D batteries work GREAT. Two of those are the same size as the four 6TL batteries. So no space savings there. But the batteries are easy to get from any industrial/agriculture type place, or battery store.

Our first trip up for the first convoy, both Danielle and I drove up the m1009 and m818, respectively. 430 ish miles each way was a lot of driving, a lot of fuel, and a bit of fun. Now, it's about 13 miles each way, MUCH BETTER!

The deuce is an air assist. Which doesn't require the air brake endorsement. But to pull a trailer with brakes, it does. As all the trailer will be air over hydraulic, which falls under the air brake portion.

If you have any reason to think you will need to cage them, go buy NEW ones! Btw, there are some larger caging bolts out there. Not common, but they are out there. A short handled 3 lb hammer is good to have. Once in a while the caging bolt will not go in all the way. A few taps/whacks with the...

A pair of 8D blemishes from the local Interstate truck. About $70 each (used to be $40 each a few years back...) The plates are very thick in these batteries, and they are STURDY!

That idea works fine for a single layer rim. But not for the double layer rims. The two rim layers are too thick and do not allow for enough thread engagement.

Maybe, but just how much thread engagement are you getting from those thimbles? And with using the thimble like that, you could have just ran the thimble and skipped the plate. Your plate adds strength for the thimble, but doesn't solve the main issue that with the double layer rims, you don't...

Although those look nice, and well made. Sure seems like a lot of extra work.

Ok, here are a couple photos. You can see that the threads on the nut do not come all the way out to the front face. But all the threads on the nut are engaged on the stud.

It just seems obvious that SOMETHING should be out there for what we need. Just seems odd that no one has found these, or at least brought them up. Well, maybe someone has, but I never read about them on SS. Now to just find a good reliable source for them. Most online places I have found them...

SUCCESS!!!!! These things are about as perfect as we can get! The snout on this extends 'almost' all the way through the double layers of the rim. I only took on thimble off, so the rim (rear rim) still has the rim slightly offset from the drum because of the shoulders on the thimbles. But even...

Btw, it looks like carquest caries, or can order the BWP. Need to check the other ones out to find a place that can get them for cheaper.