KW SAR rebuild

After years of driving up north west WA heavy haulage and road trains, life took a different direction and I had to start an agricultural business based from home. My first truck, an old F10 Volvo was quite a step down from the Kenworths and Mack Titan Elite I was used to driving.We nicknamed it 'old smoky' for obvious reasons! but it had a great turning circle and perfect for our little float we carted our tractor around on.


A few years later we sold 'old smokey' and brought the 1977 SAR 6 wheel tipper. My plans were to turn it into a prime mover


So I sold the body and just happened to stumble across an air glide 400 from a truck that got burnt out. We stripped out the old bogie drive and fitted the air glide which came complete with 10 stud hubs 4.11 Meritor RT 46-160 rear end, And a 3 half inch Holland ballrace turntable







Free to good home - Hendrickson Walker Beam & Diffs - complete unit! U pick up


Finally back home as a prime mover, front hubs next


Front hubs done!


Time to replace the old mufflers with new 7" chrome mufflers


Now with extended fuel tanks her new job is carting agricultural lime & soil.

She looks Fantastic Sar77, Awesome job..

Thanks, Kenny 125

SAR
Gudday M8

Gr8 Pix
Keep m Cummin

the RSend U have fitted now, iz it a Eaton Duel range Diffs with the harbor bridge fabrication?

Cya
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that's a nice job. Even better that she still works for her keep

great looking banger
whats in the shed (what powers this rig)
cheers

Well done mate, looks clean and tidy. I like the 5 3/4" headlights too, straight out of the 70's usually the first thing someone does is put 7" ones in. Funny how the septic tanks stuck with the smaller lights.

Hi Swishy
The back end is a Meritor RT46-160GP Kenworth Airglide with aluminium pedestals - it came off a later model Kenny that caught fire

Now the outside is looking good it was time to spend some money under the bonnet. We pulled out an 8V71T and replaced it with an 8V92 430HP, replaced the 15 speed overdrive with an 18 speed Roadranger, with the bigger motor came a new bigger radiator




Running up the new motor

arrgh arrgh arrgh
a real motor, now time for youtube videos of this ripper pulling the tipper loaded up some Fbig hill with the windows down
like swishmister
cheers