Lookwhat I found !
 

Since I bought this place, I have found all sorts of really, really old car parts, some hidden in the studs of the building, and every time I dig, I come up with something interesting .
We took out some trees last year, and I was filling in the holes, and grading off the ground behind my parking lot last weekend, and this came out of the earth .
Super heavy, I mean , heavier than a big Dana 60. I can only get the thing a few inches off the ground. Huge brake drums, has to be from a truck, but it is narrow .
A quick google search shows it to be 40's or earlier .
I am going to load it in my truck and pressure wash it . see if there are any marking s. I wonder what gear oil I should run ?


Any ideas of its age ?

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Hey, maybe it would be interesting to borrow/buy/rent a metal detector to see if there are other chunks like this in the yard. Hope it doesn't turn out to be a biohazard.

Get a metal detector out, hell you may have the rest of the truck! 🤣🤣🤣

Is that a worm drive rear end?

Nothin' worse than worms in your rear end, or so I've heard...

Some model T TT had these and some heavy model A trucks.

My buddy's model T TT has a ruxtel rear end and so do his other 3 model T cars.

Those are some big brakes. Truck for certain.

Bead blast it, stand it up and weld a mailbox to the top.

Reminds me of a Ford Model AA (heavy duty Model A truck) worm drive rear axle. Age would be late 1920's-early 1930's.


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Definitely a worm drive rear end from a heavy truck. There were dozens of truck manufacturers in the 20s that assembled trucks from off the shelf components. Foote was a big transmission and rear axle manufacturer. That one is probably off something of 2 to 3 ton capacity. Smaller than that wouldn't have such huge brakes. Larger would have some kind of indirect drive. The really big trucks didn't have live axles.

Very cool. I can't wait to see what it's like cleaned up.

On second thought, that might be an axle from a Ford TT. With no front brakes owners would put big Bennett or Rocky Mountain brakes on it. Statistically, if you guess Ford for any mystery car or truck part from the 20s, you have about a 50% chance of being right