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"Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!" (theduckduck) 06/18/2020 at 09:05 • Filed to: I am speed

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Saw this the other day. Must be a race car.

Look at all those speed holes!!!

Nibby > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 06/18/2020 at 09:13

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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 06/18/2020 at 09:16

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There's bolts through a bunch of them. I would imagine those are to make the frame modular so you can bolt or rivet stuff on where needed for the application.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/18/2020 at 09:20

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But it is an office supply box truck. Why would they need that?

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/18/2020 at 09:24

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No, by the  manufacturer of the truck. So t hey can just make one frame and have it able to accommodate different wheelbases and prop shaft supports and whatnot.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/18/2020 at 09:26

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He means that the factory might be doing that...they just make the chassis cab

A different company generally adds the back portion since it can be anything from a box truck to a roll off truck to a flat bed to a va cuum truck

Gone > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/18/2020 at 09:29

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Exactly. You either do this or spend hours digging through thousands of configurations to put a bolt hole somewhere only to find it it interferes with something else someone made 2 0 odd years ago which was never deleted from the system but then fails the frame punch rig and borks the rail. This is not the type of thing that ever happened at Navistar. Not once...

Generally small items are bolted, but impo rtant things like crossmembers, cab and suspension mounts, etc are Hucked.

https://www.afshuck.net/us/en/Huck_Technology/how-huck-works.html

Gone > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available 06/18/2020 at 09:38

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It was already mentioned, but the OEM makes the trucks then send them to a body builder to add whatever the final customer wants, be it a plain or refer box, sewer vac, flatbed, rollback, mixer, etc.

OEMs do this to ease assembly at the plants for mounting clips, propshafts (and mounts), wheelbases, suspension designs and axle spreads, xmembers, axle config s (pusher/tag), etc.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Gone 06/18/2020 at 10:12

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Ah. I don't think I've ever seen quite so many holes spaced so close together on so many rows.

M.T. Blake > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 06/18/2020 at 10:37

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That headline is also how a drug dealer might motivate lesser dealers to move more product. 

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/18/2020 at 11:20

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Lol I know it was just surprising  to see that many holes. Especially here in Minnesota, that bitch is gonna rust.

4B11tFTW! > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 06/18/2020 at 11:29

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A fellow Rochester Opponaut!  Noice!

arl > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! 06/18/2020 at 12:59

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I don’t know about the box truck, but there’s a big red pickup about to run you off the road.....

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > 4B11tFTW! 06/19/2020 at 08:25

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Holy shit!!! I'm not alone!!!