Dodge 700

hello harliegh are you a old fan of the wabco scraper .i remember them hooning about building a sports oval at my school in Ulladulla when i was in second class, roughly back in about 1975. there is 2 wabco s sitting in a yard in my home town here West Wyalong .. 1 is a open bowl the other is elevating ,both have 8V71 (heaven) in them. do you happen to have any picyures to share.. PAT..

Both our dodges had 6V-53 donks and we had 6 speed overdrive Commer / Dodge gearbox's in them. Get along at 110 just nice.
Barry

RE: Scraper pics

I have a few






cya

I know the 15 speed road rangers could be changed to overdrive by changing 4th & 5th gear which gave you 4th gear towards your leg & back & 5th gear straight forward.
Glen

Hi Pat,yes I am a big fan of the ol'WABCO scraper probably as I did my time as an apprentice diesel fitter with Wabco Distribution,Pty Ltd. in Brisbane.
They were a great machine , but scared a lot of fitters as the elevator drives were electrically driven instead of hydraulically as on other machines.
On the Wabco 111a even the steering was electrically driven. It was funny steering a big machine with a spring loaded toggle switch on the dash, and you had to keep the 4/71 GM above 1500 rpm or the electric contactors for the steering would over heat.
The electric things were all hangovers from RG Letourneau who designed them before Westinghouse air brakes company (WABCO) bought him out.
regards Harleigh.

Thanks Swishy , I had no photos at all , the 222G model on the top photo was probably the "best of the best"' the later 222H had transmission problems. (Allison powershift) as was the 222G. the bottom open bowl scraper is a 229 (I think IT was 30 years ago)
Ta mate.
Harleigh

Ifn U want more pix
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close to 2000 pix now on my site from many years ago

cya

I did an article for the Monitor ( with a lot of help from Lance in Adelaide ) on the various Aussie Dodge trucks. Howver it didnt print very well but I will email a copy to Andy and see if he can put it up here.

Received from Pete and will post tonight or asap. Will also feature in an upcoming issue of ACC.