477 louey

Oh wise fellows, forgive my ignorance, but what are these 8 and 900s of which you speak? My understanding is that the 700 was a single drive, V8 (477) petrol and/or gas engine, 8000 was a light bogie drive 3208 powered lorry and the big banger 9000 6/92 Victor or real engine (Cummins 855 or 903) propelled, BIDSTBC.

Kenny, the LNT 900 had the 477 petrol, the LNT 8000 had the 3208 Caterpillar, both were available from the start. The LN 700 had the smaller V8, 360? and the narrow bonnet.
The LN just denoted that the truck was a short bonnet, the T was for tandem drive.
Single drives-
LN 700 V8 petrol 5 speed 2 speed diff
LN 7000 3208 (175 HP)5 speed 2 speed diff
LN 900 V8 477 5 speed 2 speed diff
LN 8000 3208 (175/210 HP)5 speed 2 speed diff
LN 9000 903 Cummins 10 speed road ranger

Bogie Drives
LNT 900 477 V8 petrol 13 speed RR
LNT 8000 3208 (175/210 HP) 13 speed RR
LNT 9000 903 Cummins 15 speed RR,
about 1978 350 Cummins was an option, then about 1981 VT903 (903 was discontinued) and 9 speed, and 6V92 TA and 9 speed option as well.

Ozfury, the 1st one as I remembered I thought was a subbie for Classified Concrete, that orangy/red colour and manual steering, later ones all were power steering except the LN 700's and LN 7000's.

cam ya may have missed one???

theres one on a farm near me with a v8 gm fuel pincher

and I remember a few the same as agi,s

My guess is the fuel pincher would be a repowered LNT 900, I've seen 555 Cummins in them and Telstra had LNT 8000 body trucks that they took the 3208's out of and repowered with 6V53's. If my memory is correct, they tried to put SGV exhaust brakes on the 3208's and it damaged a piston. Apart from the 3208, none of these were factory fitted. The 555 looked like it was made for it, fitted very well.
As far as I know the factory never fitted any fuel pinchers, though I think they put an 8V92 in an LTL as a trial, obviously never went into production.

cam I remember clea promoting sales of those pinchers
when fuel prices started to rise in the mid 70,s so they would be repowers ill try n get some pics of the one near me

a few years back I ran across about 8 snub nose
n 750,s lined up in a wreckers in l.a
all with pinchers and allisons

Thanks Binder and Cam, another mystery solved.

I bet Detroit (Clae) wouldn't know where to start with a re-power now. LOL.