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Old 17-09-08, 20:30
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Default The haulage truck is just a movement chap

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He's taking it down to middle-England-shire for onward shipment.

The tyre pressures are deliberate, as it has 1960's tyres on it, and they are 8.25 x 18, a size now only available from China (so no probs fitting new ones in Oz if required) This is the tyre size that was an option on that generation of Fords if you wanted big singles all round as opposed to dual rears. many SnoGo owners swapped to 9.00 x 20 standard Ford rims to ease tyre replacement.

It should have 100 psig all round, but I've not put more than 50 psig in them as the last thing I wanted to do was blow one of the tyres on shipment day.

Four wheel, constant four wheel drive, and no spare wheel, of course, hence extra precautions. I did try to find one spare rim for him but with no luck.

I'm not mentioning names or final destinations deliberately, but down under contingent can probably guess who has been shipping large lumps of metal from the UK for a collection down your direction. I'm very happy to have sold to him, as most other potential buyers wanted to junk the blower gear and turn it into a cargo pickup as seen on other threads, which would be a real shame on such an intact example.
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