The future lowboy tractor is here! Like everything else I buy it needs work. Check it out and let me know what you think! Email me at 73diamondreo@gmail.com Frank
Door handles? That is one component that popped out at me....Studebaker Lark, 1959-64 and possibly others. They are bright stainless, and did not come with keyholes in them. Anybody who rescues vintage iron and puts it back to work surely has my blessing!
Just talked to a buddy of mine. He said they bought that truck new from diamond reo dealer in ash field pa (about 4 down the road). It is now a truck repair garage know as schlichers truck repair they were diamond reo,westernstar,marmon,white,he also thinks at one point brokway and autocar.
THAT IS SO FLIPPING AWESOME.... What a Diamond-in-the-RUFF as they say, a little polish, some metal and glass work and then some paint and what a save, awesome, if you ever come across one that is in Oklahoma or N TX that you hear coming up for auction or for sale, please let me know, love to make a go at one of these, What a save, congratulations. Diamond REO..!!!
I love seeing this old iron brought back to life. I recently came across an early 80s Brockway that was in really good condition and still working daily. I look forward to seeing more videos.
Diamond REO trucks are freaking cool. While everyone else just made trucks that got the job done, REO made them cool with a bunch of chrome and cool gizmos and whatnot just because they could. They really took the Oldsmobile luxury route with them. (REO was started by Ransom E. Olds whom also started Oldsmobile)
Love it brother. I hope you still have her. I always dreamed of finding an old ex coal bucket Mack DM from down home and pull low-boys. What another perfect machine for the job.
@@73DiamondReo what’s the word, no go on the Reo or ? A man needs a good roll of cash to play with these, and some room. I dream of both and have neither lol
That’s a cool truck! Seems it may have a miss but it’s hard to say with video. Cummins big cam is a great engine for sure, love the diamond trucks, not many over this way. Good luck with it.
I thought it sounded off but once it warmed up i felt like it went away. I was thinking it was a manifold leak. It idles clean with no blow by and good oil pressure. First time its been ran in 17 years too. Im going to poke around some more and run the overhead on it at some point.
Fine old rig in my book! Cummins sounds Cummins-ish and I've driven a lot worse on the road. When the floor is the top of a fuel tank and a ratchet strap is holding the brake valve and foot feed hooked to the seat and pulled back so's it'd work, then it gets interesting but still doable. 3 sets of fuel filters because of all the water in the system the 1st day so see, you got a GOOD truck! LOoks like a concrete outfit had it. Blower for the bulk powder tank and the wet line for a dump trailer. That wet line'd be handy for a drop deck and every crawler crane needs a drop deck.FINE rig! Ain't nothing that can't be fixed in time. A-PLUS!
Looks like you've got your work cut out for you. Just don't get discouraged. I wound up rebuilding or replacing almost every part of every one of the old trucks I fixed up during my years as a OTR/OO. Amazingly though I was always able to work them and then work on them on the weekends of course sometimes weekends lasted more than a couple of days. You'll make yourself a great old lowboy truck out of it.😎🇺🇸🐘
yeah it doesn't seem like i get anything thats not a complete project!. the Diamond reo was supposed to be the lowboy tractor but i guess its nice to have options haha
You mentioned in your video about repairing the floor & other cab issues, maybe you could find another cab, Diamond Reo, Western Star used Auto car cabs for some years, the cab on your DR is definitely a Autocar....just a thought
im aware. Unfortunately most of them have the same issues. I dont think mine is too far gone to fix but i guess you never really know until it started getting cut apart.
I'm sure you knew about the autocar cab scenario, just thought I would mention it, I wasn't trying to intimidate you, I think what you do is awesome, collecting old construction equipment...
Nice to see the Giant. I agree, it has some good bones. That was a real truck in it’s day. Are you following up on the Raider, if you got that you would have the trifecta of Diamond Reo.
I've got a 1988 Diamond Reo tandum dump with a 400 big cam. Needs some work to get it on the road but I can't wait for that day. Im currently lacking on funds for that project.
I like it. Had an old Kenworth that still had the little filter on the air compressor. I ran a hose from it up to the aftercooler and done away with the filter.
Get rid of that old huffer and put you a nice chrome straight pipe on it so that Cummins can let the world know it is still kicking... Really though where do you start on a project like that?
good eye. dealer that sold the truck was a diamond reo and then marmon dealer. Probably why it got marmon gauges. not sure if they were new or pulled from another truck but this Reo only had one owner.
I think I know that truck. It use to sit in Palmerton/bowmanstown pennsylvania Prince manufacturing. They made paint pigments That truck sat there when I was a kid I haven’t seen that truck in 15-20 years. Please reply and let me know if I’m right
noise went away and it has good oil pressure. i was thinking injector and the compressor is making noise. Ill probably pull the pan and check it out anyway
its running on all cylinders but it does have a noise coming from the air compressor. ill dig into it sometime this year. could have a scorched piston too but we'll figure it at when the time comes
What was that connected to the exhaust behind the cab. An exhaust grain blower? Years ago I saw something similar on an old cement tanker to blow the powder up into the silo that was not PTO driven like nowadays.
Yes it was exhaust blower the truck was from originally from East Penn trucking was bought by prince Manufacturing Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania. It was a paint mill.
@@73DiamondReo pretty good since it was sitting since 04 older trucks like that like that are collector items what is the big item to do on it? Is the engine pretty solid? It sounds pretty good! Starts very easily
i dont think thats used on this type of suspension. the cap is for a hose connection to unload trailers i believe. its an exhaust powered blower. i guess now everything is hydraulic
Well if you’re ever over this way in the summer, you should stop by The National Pike steam show. There’s a lot of old equipment to see and a large area to actually operate your equipment. It’s really something to see
@@mopargssr ive known about it for years and something always comes up to prevent me from going. Ive got videos on the channel from Kinzers, Lakeside sand and Gravel, rockbusters, and Gerharts shows. My goal for 2021 is to use the Autocar to tow a lowboy around with the insley and a few other machines i have waiting for me to pick up.
exhaust pressure spins a turbine that creates pressure to unload dry bulk trailers. it aerates and pressurizes the trailer to blow it out a discharge hose. now they are pto driven instead of off the exhaust.
I do believe that soon as I quit making a fool out of myself on a post that I shall click the subscribe button. I am seventy three so shouldn't be any harder than finding that yellow button on the dash that says something about brake. I got ahold of a bus that was of that era back in the late eighties and it was here in alaska stuck tight as a bullfrogs butt to the blacktop. I am guessing that this rig is a 73 and that is the same number as on the line that says "Age on last birthday" and that is 10/29/47 for me. SO that makes me older than the truck. I think that before that bus ever made a whole mile without a problem was about a hundred gallons of water and dirt contaminated fuel. Air lines were the same. That peddle in the middle on the floor is pretty much the same on every air system I worked on but this bus was a military medical bus and they had ran lines of redundancy and was bolted so tight that I carved the metal out and replaced all rebuilt so I could bolt a good system in. It looked like a half mile of hoses on the shop floor time i got everything out that didn't belong.
Gotta love a big cam 400 Cummins!!! Nice old rig. Be great to see it saved. Nice work.
Door handles? That is one component that popped out at me....Studebaker Lark, 1959-64 and possibly others. They are bright stainless, and did not come with keyholes in them. Anybody who rescues vintage iron and puts it back to work surely has my blessing!
yup ill check it out but someone has a set for me already
I live about 60 miles south of Harrisburg, just off 81. Used to be a Diamond Reo dealership on North Franklin Street here in Chambersburg...
this truck was bought off an old Diamond reo dealer owner
Love old diamond reos my favorite trucks from my youth.i always thought they where so classy with that bid red diamond on the grill and still do.
They are cool looking trucks. be sure to check out the orange single axle too
Just talked to a buddy of mine. He said they bought that truck new from diamond reo dealer in ash field pa (about 4 down the road). It is now a truck repair garage know as schlichers truck repair they were diamond reo,westernstar,marmon,white,he also thinks at one point brokway and autocar.
Thats the story i got as well.
THAT IS SO FLIPPING AWESOME.... What a Diamond-in-the-RUFF as they say, a little polish, some metal and glass work and then some paint and what a save, awesome, if you ever come across one that is in Oklahoma or N TX that you hear coming up for auction or for sale, please let me know, love to make a go at one of these, What a save, congratulations. Diamond REO..!!!
thanks and i will if i do
I love seeing this old iron brought back to life. I recently came across an early 80s Brockway that was in really good condition and still working daily. I look forward to seeing more videos.
thanks for watching. ill post any progress
Thanks you for come to the life again the Diamond T.
Awesome project , truck is cool , that Cummins sounds NICE !!
thanks check out the autocar thats coming home soon too with a cummins
Not a bad old looking truck that needs some love
Diamond REO trucks are freaking cool. While everyone else just made trucks that got the job done, REO made them cool with a bunch of chrome and cool gizmos and whatnot just because they could. They really took the Oldsmobile luxury route with them. (REO was started by Ransom E. Olds whom also started Oldsmobile)
i like them too. check out my 73 as well
I love it , that's gonna make a fine truck for you ! I hear a Detroit at 4:18 , "wink" . Pretty nice looking wrecker with 750 Holmes bed !
thanks. I hope it does. Wrecker is a friend of a friend
I've never seen a Diamond Reo truck in person that I know of. Congratulations on your new rusty gold!
Thanks hopefully I will make it a little less rusty
Love it brother. I hope you still have her. I always dreamed of finding an old ex coal bucket Mack DM from down home and pull low-boys. What another perfect machine for the job.
yes still here. having a setback with this one
@@73DiamondReo what’s the word, no go on the Reo or ? A man needs a good roll of cash to play with these, and some room. I dream of both and have neither lol
@@deborahchesser7375 finally got the title straightened out after almost a year. have to finish the autocar first
I work for Cummins building the engines, good company to work for.
nice what's your favorite engine to put together?
I like it ! NTC 400 awesome engine. A little tlc ,she be road ready . Congratulations on this find ,very rare
thanks. see what i can do with it
Nice score 👍 that truck is a beauty. I really like that body style. The old Cummins sounds great 🙂👍 it was just taking a long nap
Yeah a long nap and probably would have ended up in a scrap yard if it slept any longer. thanks for the comment.
Best engine ever made hands down
Im a cummins fan as well
Lol CAT WILL DESTROY
That’s a cool truck! Seems it may have a miss but it’s hard to say with video. Cummins big cam is a great engine for sure, love the diamond trucks, not many over this way. Good luck with it.
I thought it sounded off but once it warmed up i felt like it went away. I was thinking it was a manifold leak. It idles clean with no blow by and good oil pressure. First time its been ran in 17 years too. Im going to poke around some more and run the overhead on it at some point.
73DiamondReo very well could be manifold, the air compressor makes them sound off a bit too, exhaust did look good.
Fine old rig in my book! Cummins sounds Cummins-ish and I've driven a lot worse on the road. When the floor is the top of a fuel tank and a ratchet strap is holding the brake valve and foot feed hooked to the seat and pulled back so's it'd work, then it gets interesting but still doable. 3 sets of fuel filters because of all the water in the system the 1st day so see, you got a GOOD truck! LOoks like a concrete outfit had it. Blower for the bulk powder tank and the wet line for a dump trailer. That wet line'd be handy for a drop deck and every crawler crane needs a drop deck.FINE rig! Ain't nothing that can't be fixed in time. A-PLUS!
not sure what the company did with it but i bought it off the lot where the business used to be.
@@73DiamondReo I've seen the same setup here for concrete outfits but who knows. Any dry goods tanker and a dump trailer.
Looks like you've got your work cut out for you. Just don't get discouraged. I wound up rebuilding or replacing almost every part of every one of the old trucks I fixed up during my years as a OTR/OO. Amazingly though I was always able to work them and then work on them on the weekends of course sometimes weekends lasted more than a couple of days. You'll make yourself a great old lowboy truck out of it.😎🇺🇸🐘
yeah it doesn't seem like i get anything thats not a complete project!. the Diamond reo was supposed to be the lowboy tractor but i guess its nice to have options haha
So cool! Glad you got this truck!!!! I look forward to many more videos of this truck! Thanks for posting!!!
ill try not to disappoint. thanks for the comment
You mentioned in your video about repairing the floor & other cab issues, maybe you could find another cab, Diamond Reo, Western Star used Auto car cabs for some years, the cab on your DR is definitely a Autocar....just a thought
im aware. Unfortunately most of them have the same issues. I dont think mine is too far gone to fix but i guess you never really know until it started getting cut apart.
I'm sure you knew about the autocar cab scenario, just thought I would mention it, I wasn't trying to intimidate you, I think what you do is awesome, collecting old construction equipment...
@@73DiamondReo
I think making new parts for sheet metal isn't too difficult, plus you will know it's new.
Just like the battery boxes, great job.
Nice to see the Giant. I agree, it has some good bones. That was a real truck in it’s day. Are you following up on the Raider, if you got that you would have the trifecta of Diamond Reo.
Diamond Reo truck are so rare today
there's a few still poking around and making money
@@73DiamondReo cool
Great find ! Looks like a Reyco rear suspension.
It does!
One step at time, little by little. Dont strip truck down, but you do want to inspect everything . Nice project.
yeah breaking it up into smaller projects helps keep the motivation up
She sounds healthy!
Nice find always liked the D.R one of my fav something you don't see any more looking forward to up co.ing video s
she's a little rough but ill make it work
I've got a 1988 Diamond Reo tandum dump with a 400 big cam. Needs some work to get it on the road but I can't wait for that day. Im currently lacking on funds for that project.
yes i know the feeling
I like it. Had an old Kenworth that still had the little filter on the air compressor. I ran a hose from it up to the aftercooler and done away with the filter.
That little filter is caked with oil from the leaking steering box.
@@73DiamondReo Mine was like that too. Gets that way no matter what.
Thanks for sharing cool truck really makes me miss the one I sold.
hope you subscribe to see more of this truck as i work on putting it back on the road. right now the Autocar will be the priority though
Get rid of that old huffer and put you a nice chrome straight pipe on it so that Cummins can let the world know it is still kicking... Really though where do you start on a project like that?
i agree and i guess anywhere because it needs everything! haha
Be a good one to do i miss runnin over the road
Sweet buy!!! More sweeter a H 4300 with a Jimmy. what's up with the Marmon Gauges & The Fan not spinning? Clutch bad?
good eye. dealer that sold the truck was a diamond reo and then marmon dealer. Probably why it got marmon gauges. not sure if they were new or pulled from another truck but this Reo only had one owner.
I think I know that truck. It use to sit in Palmerton/bowmanstown pennsylvania Prince manufacturing. They made paint pigments That truck sat there when I was a kid I haven’t seen that truck in 15-20 years. Please reply and let me know if I’m right
you're right
Where did u find the truck sitting. And is it still
In pa
@@JamesGoop50 my buddy told me about it and put me in contact with the owner. It was sitting at Prince still. Its over near Hamburg now
Wow, very cool. Pin this post!
big Detroit sound real good in the wrecker
its going to be moving the autocar this weekend
What would that blower setup on the exhaust been used for?
Dry Bulk Tanker
Sounds like it needs new rod bearings
noise went away and it has good oil pressure. i was thinking injector and the compressor is making noise. Ill probably pull the pan and check it out anyway
Máquina top clássica e tem pressão 😁👍🏽
I don't see the radiator fan turning, why is that?
im not sure yet. its pneumatic and im not familiar with them. ill make it part of a video when i get to it.
Are you going to restore the diamond reo
yes i want to make it into a lowboy truck to move my old equipment
Lots work an lots money good luck will make a nice ride tho
yes it will be a lot of work
Hey man nice truck how do you find them
Once people know you're into something the stuff finds you
What up
Hi
The fan was not working on cummins Motor
no its not right now
If u don’t mind me asking. Where did u find that truck hiding
Cummins!!!
Sounds like she not running on all cylinders
its running on all cylinders but it does have a noise coming from the air compressor. ill dig into it sometime this year. could have a scorched piston too but we'll figure it at when the time comes
JEREMIAS
What was that connected to the exhaust behind the cab. An exhaust grain blower? Years ago I saw something similar on an old cement tanker to blow the powder up into the silo that was not PTO driven like nowadays.
yup dont remember what the company actually did but it was something to do with dry bulk powder.
Yes it was exhaust blower the truck was from originally from East Penn trucking was bought by prince Manufacturing Bowmanstown, Pennsylvania. It was a paint mill.
Beats buying new...
i agree. too much electronics and emission controls now. image what its going to take to start a modern truck 45 years from now
Must be a ghost diamond reo because diamond reo went out of business in 1976.
osterlund build Diamond Reos into the early 90's
Diamond Rio didn't make trucks in 84 I believe they stop making in a 1971
not true at all. They were built all the way up into 1993ish by osterlund
What did you have to do to get it running? Bleed the injectors? A little bit of summer in a can? Fresh diesel?
this one just got a small shot of ether and i had to jump the ignition. dumped 5 gallons of fuel in the tank and that was it
@@73DiamondReo wow it started pretty easily! how long was it sitting?
@@rudycarlson8245 i think since 04
@@73DiamondReo pretty good since it was sitting since 04 older trucks like that like that are collector items what is the big item to do on it? Is the engine pretty solid? It sounds pretty good! Starts very easily
@@rudycarlson8245 the cab is the worst of it. has nice frame rails. need tires, wiring, cab and hood work.
At 7:50 there's a piece missing. That's the radius rod isn't it? What is that filler cap thing at 10:57 at the bottom of the stack?
i dont think thats used on this type of suspension. the cap is for a hose connection to unload trailers i believe. its an exhaust powered blower. i guess now everything is hydraulic
Nice diamond reo I subscribed to see more what's the plan for her?
lowboy tractor eventually. doing the autocar first
@@73DiamondReo awesome thanks for sharing with us driver
@@keepontruckinoutlawlife1248 thanks for the subscription and commenting
@@73DiamondReo thanks for sharing
Yes your fan was not spinning
Correct. ill have to look into it. i believe its air actuated
love it! sounds sweet!
whats the valve gear on the exhaust? a pump?
its a blower for unloading dry bulk trailers
@@73DiamondReo interesting, never seen an exhaust driven one before!
I see you’re in Pennsylvania as well. Are you close to Brownsville, PA?
Im a little east of Harrisburg.
Well if you’re ever over this way in the summer, you should stop by The National Pike steam show. There’s a lot of old equipment to see and a large area to actually operate your equipment. It’s really something to see
@@mopargssr ive known about it for years and something always comes up to prevent me from going. Ive got videos on the channel from Kinzers, Lakeside sand and Gravel, rockbusters, and Gerharts shows. My goal for 2021 is to use the Autocar to tow a lowboy around with the insley and a few other machines i have waiting for me to pick up.
Can you please explain the blower on the exhaust?
exhaust pressure spins a turbine that creates pressure to unload dry bulk trailers. it aerates and pressurizes the trailer to blow it out a discharge hose. now they are pto driven instead of off the exhaust.
Do u need parts???
Are you related to Duane? My email is in the description
What happened to this rig?
Sitting around moving the lowboy while I work on the autocar
@@73DiamondReo AWESOME can we get a new video of it? Thanks
Noisy piston?
air compressor is noisy
sorry never mind.
I do believe that soon as I quit making a fool out of myself on a post that I shall click the subscribe button. I am seventy three so shouldn't be any harder than finding that yellow button on the dash that says something about brake. I got ahold of a bus that was of that era back in the late eighties and it was here in alaska stuck tight as a bullfrogs butt to the blacktop. I am guessing that this rig is a 73 and that is the same number as on the line that says "Age on last birthday" and that is 10/29/47 for me. SO that makes me older than the truck. I think that before that bus ever made a whole mile without a problem was about a hundred gallons of water and dirt contaminated fuel. Air lines were the same. That peddle in the middle on the floor is pretty much the same on every air system I worked on but this bus was a military medical bus and they had ran lines of redundancy and was bolted so tight that I carved the metal out and replaced all rebuilt so I could bolt a good system in. It looked like a half mile of hoses on the shop floor time i got everything out that didn't belong.
my orange truck is a 73, this one is an 84 and the autocar in another video is a 75.
Jake bake work
it does
Looking for a hood Want to sell parts off the beast
Sorry no. took me a while to find this truck
@@73DiamondReo I know the pain of finding things for these trucks. Shoot most folks have never heard of a Diamond Reo. Thanks for the shout back