New Direction for Hank the Truck.

Hi all,

Its been awhile, but life has been hectic here, new house, new job and so on.

Some of you may remember me as the driver of Hank the Truck, well anyway Ive bought a new truck so I can retire Hank and restore him.


The plan was to rebuild him as a 1950s era Golden Fleece tray top truck, but recently that has changed with the buying of the new truck, and purchasing the trailer below.


I now intend over the next few years to create something like this


When I restore Hank, he will loose the tray and have the rear chassis trimmed down and a turn table fitted, and then mated up with the trailer.

The Minister of Finance has approved the project, but I need to finish my XE ESP restore first...

On another note, Hank has suffered a front passenger wheel seized bearing, can anyone tell me if this is an easy fix, as I need to move him into the shed. Cheers

Good project Hank, and not the sort of combination many have. You say new truck and trailer, then talk about putting a turntable on Hank to pull the trailer. Can you clarify?
Cheers

It shouldn't really be too hard to fix that. Take wheel off, and that big nut thing from the center of the hub. Behind that there will be another nut on the end of the stub shaft that holds the whole hub on, with a split pin through it. Take that off and the hub should come off, although it might be a bit sticky because of the brakes etc. Also this hub part is considerably heavy because the brake drum is bolted to the back of it.
I would advise you find a service/workshop manual for one of these or the similar Commer model as it will give much better instructions and provide lots of other help (if you don't have one already)

JBran

Good project Hank, and not the sort of combination many have. You say new truck and trailer, then talk about putting a turntable on Hank to pull the trailer. Can you clarify?
Cheers

He bought a New Truck to drive and the trailer below to restore ... said trailer having nothing whatsoever to do with the new truck as I read it
However, I also seek clarification as to whether 'tis a new new truck, or a brand new secondhand truck .

Good project Hank, and not the sort of combination many have. You say new truck and trailer, then talk about putting a turntable on Hank to pull the trailer. Can you clarify?
Cheers

He bought a New Truck to drive and the trailer below to restore ... said trailer having nothing whatsoever to do with the new truck as I read it
However, I also seek clarification as to whether 'tis a new new truck, or a brand new secondhand truck .

You are correct Eddy, I have bought a new 2012 Hino 616 short wheel base tray truck, to take over from Hank. Why a truck you may ask? Well after using Hank and seeing how versatile he was and the stuff he could carry, a ute just simply didnt come up to the task, and believe it or not, the truck was actually cheaper than some of the utes out there.

I have also purchased the said tanker trailer, this will be restored along with Hank to give me the combination above.

I have bought a new 2012 Hino 616 short wheel base tray truck

hmmm ... have searched your other posts, and have been unable to locate any pix of said Hino.
Would you care to rectify this matter?

I have bought a new 2012 Hino 616 short wheel base tray truck

hmmm ... have searched your other posts, and have been unable to locate any pix of said Hino.
Would you care to rectify this matter?

Cause I havent put any up, it not being a historical commercial vehicle... But if you insist.

I reckon little Hank will be puffin pullin that bogie Tanker.
We had one similar at Transwest Geelong, Ex Shell..


chocs

I reckon little Hank will be puffin pullin that bogie Tanker.
We had one similar at Transwest Geelong, Ex Shell..


chocs

Will never be loaded, and driven lesiurely... Wont be needing to go anywhere in a hurry....

heh ... someday I hope to see a tanker converted to a mobile home / camper ...