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Need Help to Identify the crane on my service truck.

So, I have found gears , shafts , bearings , and couplers needed to rebuild this gear box .

I know need to find a reversible 12volt motor with a 5/8” keyed shaft
 
I’m planning on using a lovejoy coupler , so maybe I could mix and match the coupler halves to go from 3/4 to 5/8 ?
 
they make and sell adaptor sleeves for mix match shaft pulley sizes . I saw them when I was looking for a pulley for a fan blower project.
 
Oh yeah, no problem. I've done it several times.
In fact, the driver for my 20 foot gate outside, is using two different size lovejoy halves.
The original box had a one inch shaft, and so I built the double pillow block drive unit that removes all the weight load from the gearbox with a one inch shaft.
When I had to replace it after about 20 years, the new driver has a metric shaft. So, I just ordered a new half to mate to the old half with a metric input.
Works great.
 
Actually I kinda misspoke. The lovejoy on my gate is not two different sizes, just two different size shafts. You have to stay in the same size family so the halves will match, but they came in a wide range of hole sizes and types. Splined, keyed, half "D", Double "D", that sort of thing.
 
sweetk30 said:
they make and sell adaptor sleeves for mix match shaft pulley sizes . I saw them when I was looking for a pulley for a fan blower project.
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I’m going to have to use a sleeve for one of the gears , not sure why I didn’t dawn on me to use for the love joy lol
 
12 Volt DC 8000 RPM Winch Motor | DC Motors Face Mount | DC Motors | Electrical | www.surpluscenter.com

That one has a 3/4" shaft,but as noted you can just use the correct lovejoy coupling half to connect both shafts together ,they dont have to be the same sizes..

I've seen guys use golf cart starter/generators on winches,the older 2 stroke carts simply had the starter run in reverse and run the engine "backwards" for reverse,they have three terminals like a winch motor for forward and reverse..
If you were willing to open up an old Ford starter you could re-wire the brushes to make it reversible--old late 50's and early 60's Fords had a starter with no "nose cone",just a long shaft sticking out,and the bendix drive was external,with the clutch part of it facing the transmission..the motor is very similar to ones used on snowplows and some winches..
The shaft on those starters is about 9/16",I used a few to make a hand held small engine starter,that works like the ones you see at drag strips to start engines with blowers on dragsters..a 5/8" pulley worked "close enough",but you might be able to get a lovejoy half in whatever exact size that shaft is..
 
diesel4me said:
12 Volt DC 8000 RPM Winch Motor | DC Motors Face Mount | DC Motors | Electrical | www.surpluscenter.com

That one has a 3/4" shaft,but as noted you can just use the correct lovejoy coupling half to connect both shafts together ,they dont have to be the same sizes..

I've seen guys use golf cart starter/generators on winches,the older 2 stroke carts simply had the starter run in reverse and run the engine "backwards" for reverse,they have three terminals like a winch motor for forward and reverse..
If you were willing to open up an old Ford starter you could re-wire the brushes to make it reversible--old late 50's and early 60's Fords had a starter with no "nose cone",just a long shaft sticking out,and the bendix drive was external,with the clutch part of it facing the transmission..the motor is very similar to ones used on snowplows and some winches..
The shaft on those starters is about 9/16",I used a few to make a hand held small engine starter,that works like the ones you see at drag strips to start engines with blowers on dragsters..a 5/8" pulley worked "close enough",but you might be able to get a lovejoy half in whatever exact size that shaft is..
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It will need to be one like you posted because of how it mounts . A lot of the motors I have found don’t have front face plate and wouldn’t work with out machine work
 
The old Ford starters I'm referring to look like this one..
I still have one somewhere,that I got from a junkyard for $5 before they scrapped the whole truck box full of old starters,just to have,so I can make another small engine starter...I need one more as I age!..old ford starter.jpg
 
New phone , better pictures


I have the gear box for the swing function at work . It’s gonna take me a few weeks to save up the money for the gears and bearings and shafts needed to rebuild it.

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I also plan on rebuilding and beefing up the boom and adding a different method of lifting it the come along works but it’s ghetto lol
 
didn't read the replies, but if you wanna find out the manny, #, etc go ask in the FB group Service Trucks.. those guys know everything about that stuff...
 
I need to get a couple of those contactors,I need one for the winch I put on my garden tractor's plow/scoop bucket I made for it ...
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I have a flat bed I saved off the '77 GMC K2500 I had before my current K2500 came along,I made the bed out of two pallet racks that were built with 4" C channel with the channels 11" on center,and I found a "crane" that was formerly made to raise gates at a RR crossing,that I mounted a winch to,using 4 Ford solenoids to provide power in & out..
They liked to rust up and stick if I let it sit un-used awhile,so I'd prefer the contactors instead,and those are much smaller too,I had no room on the tractor to mount 4 solenoids anywhere..
I don't have a photo handy of that crane,I can take one and post it up later..
I used a huge turnbuckle on the boom from a wire rope guard rail to raise and lower it at first,it was a slow laborious job to lift something up 3 feet with it though,so I put the winch on top of the boom and just used the turnbuckle to adjust the height of the boom..
 
There are some similar ones that aren't wireless or solid state that DB electrical sells for $16.95 last time I looked,and Walmart lists the same ones at that price online too..
I do not need a wireless remote,just a momentary toggle switch for in/out will be fine for the tractor scoop and crane for the amount I use them..
 
ryoken said:
didn't read the replies, but if you wanna find out the manny, #, etc go ask in the FB group Service Trucks.. those guys know everything about that stuff...
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sorry they weren't much help bud ;)
 
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