1962 White Dump

Steve Frazier

Founder
Staff member
This is an old '62 White 4000 I believe, I haven't been able to find the model number. I bought it in 1988 to haul material for the construction of my home. Ran odd loads for a while too, but I parked it when DOT started doing roadside inspections. It has a Cummins HRF-6B non-turbo which as far as I've been able to research is 180hp, it has a knob in the dash to pull for decompression of the engine so the starter can spin it. Once it spins at speed, you release the rod and the engine fires. 10 speed Road Ranger with a T-rod going down to the tranny to shift high and low range and 10:00-20 rubber. I don't know the rear ratio, but the truck will go about 75mph. Manual steering, but the steering wheel is so big that if you're even just creeping it's not too hard to steer.

It will carry 8 to 10 yards of material easily and has plenty of power. I've climbed some of the mountains here dropping just a few gears with a full load. The thing is noisy as hell, there's absolutely NO insulation in the cab, it's a tin can and everything echoes. It's fun to drive, and still blows smoke when it's working. On my bucket list is to do a restoration one day, it's been sitting probably close to 20 years now.

White resize 3.jpg
White resize 2.jpg
White resize 1.jpg
 

Steve Frazier

Founder
Staff member
The picture you posted inspired me to go out and grab these pics. The truck is a converted tractor, there is a trolley and trailer brakes plumbed.
 

td25c

Well-known member
That will make a nice restoration project steve,Not very many of them around anymore. The White 4000 was my first big truck as well.Mine is a 1973 model with 290 cummins,10 speed with 3.70 rears on 10:00-22 rubber.It also had the compression release knob on the dash .Old truck was fairly troublefree ,pulled well and road rough when empty on the hendrixson beams:) Had it for about 20 years now and still use it some on the farm hauling dirt with a 1963 trailmobile 20 steel dump trailer .The old White must have a pretty tight fuel system as it may set for 8 or 10 months then when I need it for a small project,throw a battery in it,pull the compression release and away we go. Starts like it was shut off 5 minutes earlier,damdest thing I ever saw. www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?12603-About-time-for-some-new-stacks!
 
Last edited:

Steve Frazier

Founder
Staff member
This truck is the same way. It didn't matter how long it sat, it would start reliably. I bet even now if I dragged it that it would start within a short distance!
 

RonG

Well-known member
When I got out of the army the first job I landed was for Lane construction at their paving project putting in concrete runways at Dow AFB in Bangor.I didn't last too long there because I wouldn't join the union so they shifted me to their quarry down in Hamden and my job there was to keep their Allis Chalmers 60" Hydracone crusher clear standing on a staging that surrounded it with an hardhat and a long bar in my hand to keep the crusher feeding steadily.They could not keep help doing that job so when I did not complain I guess they liked me.I think that I would have worked for nothing just listening to that V16 Caterpiller with the two stacks exiting just above my head past one end of the staging but I didn't tell them that.That engine had a little 4 cylinder inline engine just to start it.Well,to get to my reason for commenting here,when the crusher job was done they asked me to follow the crusher to New York and I declined so they sent me to their asphalt plant as a driver.I started on an single axle F750 Super Duty Ford with a 332ci V8 in it with the 5speed tranny and electric 2 speed rear end and I graduated to a White tandem axle with an 5x4 gas job.Lane bought a fleet of them and specced them light duty enough to haul 16 ton of asphalt legally.They were a nice truck,the engine was an OHV 6 cylinder.I will enclose what few pics that I took of the trucks at least.All their trucks were red as you can imagine.crop0005.jpgcrop0001.jpgcrop0002.jpgcrop0004.jpg
 
Top