I'm buying this rig.

[Clayton]

Yeah I have too, The zf5's are definitely better than the nv4500 IMO.

The body was rougher than I expected. Lotsa floor rust, mold and everything else. Doesn't matter though I could easily double my money on selling the parts if I wanted.

I'll post pics of it tomorrow, It's pretty bad.

 

[19jackal90]

It's most likely an old ZF-5, not worth much in my book after we had a few grenade themselves in front of big goose-necks.

if thats happening its gotta be way the f$%^ over its towing cap. my bro towed a 23k pound backhoe on a gooseneck 12 miles up and down side roads and hills with his '79 monster before he put the utility bed in the pics on.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

if thats happening its gotta be way the f$%^ over its towing cap. my bro towed a 23k pound backhoe on a gooseneck 12 miles up and down side roads and hills with his '79 monster before he put the utility bed in the pics on.

No real big weight; just 28 x 8 and 32 x 8 gooseneck cattle-trailers; fifteen or sixteen cows averaging between 1500 and 1800 apiece.

Average trip one way of around five- to seven-hundred miles, mostly interstate.

My old T-19 stood it for years with the same oil in it today that Ford put in it new.

 

[GOOSE]

I do not believe a zf can handle the same abuse a t19 can. Its good to hear props about the zf as I went through great pains to get a crew cab 4x4 with a zf. I tow a Ford 555 4x4 around locally on a 9 ton tag. the zf has been good to me despite it needing 3rd and 4th syncros. I really want a brownie auxillary trans for my rig. Maybe you can take the '85 cab off of its frame, fix it up and F-superduty it.

 

[Clayton]

Here it is.

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[GOOSE]

That doesn't look as bad as I expected. Floorpans and stuff from LMC and you'll be in buisness!!