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  2. Wow, that’s pretty much what I was going to do …. Similar for temporary spraying… bob
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  4. yup, pedo joe went over that bridge many times in a train....
  5. https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30224-your-mack-off-highway-truck-line/
  6. Zina wants to paint it to "make it our own". She really likes these colors, and so do I. Not something you see every day, which is what she wants. But then I showed her this picture and she liked this color too, and the wood body.
  7. I had told him when I picked it up I wanted him to tell me everything I needed to know about it. And he said today the best way to do that was face to face, and I agreed. So he said he would deliver the truck here and when he backed it off the trailer in our driveway he would be as happy as we were. I doubt that, but anyway, he seems to be a class act.
  8. So, Stevie called me today, like he said he would, to talk about picking this truck up. He had already told me that he would be out of town this weekend. He had to fly- in an airplane, he can't really fly himself- to Iowa and drive a firetruck back to Maryland. I could not go to Maryland next weekend because we had plans that we made months ago. And he called today and said he had gotten the check and as far as he was concerned it was my truck. So he offered to bring that truck here on a trailer with his pickup for expense money. I had a good friend, also a BMT member, tell me the truck load rate would be $1250, but he would do it for $500 and a Hamm's. He also said he was pretty well covered up now and it would probably be about 3 weeks before he could do it. Then Stevie called and it was almost like he was reading my mind. He had already figured the mileage, his approximate gas mileage, and expenses and said he would deliver that truck next week for $790 as soon as he got back from Iowa. So I told him to bring it.
  9. Can't say as I've ever seen a tachograph that only registered to 35 mph. 🙂
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  11. Not sure what dents this cab has, I can't see any. If you know a good body guy that could moonlight a couple hours for you filling them in/sanding them down after work then you'd be well on your way to paint. *Dewaxing should happen right before primer and paint! Then don't touch it, the oils from your hands will transfer and cause fisheyes.
  12. A 1933 Mack BG fire truck ready to be finished. The engine does run and we have a video. Everything is there with the exception of onebucket seat. Only serious inquiries. $8000
  13. A 1933 Mack BG fire truck ready to be finished. The engine does run and we have a video. Everything is there with the exception of one bucket seat. Only serious inquiries. $8000
  14. You can UTECH epoxy primer that thing and stick it outside in the rain for 10 years and you want have a spot of rust on it so long as you dewaxed everything so you dont have any fisheyes in the primer, and you managed to get every bit of metal covered.
  15. The UTECH primer can be followed up shortly with paint, but if you wait more than I think a week it gets too hard for the paint to bond, so you'd have to scuff the primer down to give the paint something to stick to.
  16. Build a paint booth out of poly plastic around that thing and get a painter in there and get some primer on that cab! Needs to be wiped down with a wax/degreaser removing solvent before priming. I use 2 coats of UTECH epoxy primer, and follow it up an hour later with UTECH single stage paint. Here's the booth I made in February in my shop to prep/paint a cab for a truck that rolled over in November. There's a cardboard filter box attached to a ventilator fan, blowing air through poly stapled to a 2x4. I put more filters at the discharge end of poly tube, and that caught some paint. No idea how much paint made it into the atmosphere, I was busy inside the booth while the filters were working! The old cab is on the left, it caught a tree on its way into the ditch.
  17. Sleepy Joe said he has travelled across that bridge many times both by car and train….🤔🤣
  18. ok !! now what the heck is a potetchiometer??? don't be using these big words on us old people. LOL
  19. as stated by one of the BMT master Techs :: the sender must be clocked right . have seen gauges which stopped mid way due to sender installed at wrong position, larger barrel tanks were good for this. float will go to empty spot= float up to just above 1/2, higher then 1/2the float gets stuck internally on inside barrel . adjustable senders were made too long to reach bottom then install with float angle side to side not front to back.
  20. J.B. say's that We, the U.S. taxpayers are going to pay for this, as well as the immediate statements about the impact on our economy, and so on.... Where was he when the train crashed in East Palastine Ohio??????? it wasn't in hour '1'...
  21. Just watched a TimBatsea video that he spoke about this incident from his point of view. Very good information. https://youtu.be/IsdZVp0opsQ?si=Fvs_v5fuYMBh6B_m
  22. I looked at this again,, forgive me, but I am not sure what the questions pertains too. which engine are you trying to fix? looks like a CCRS or ASET parts in the picture.
  23. your heads have the pinless intake bridges and no engine brake, based on the picture. what holes are you asking about?
  24. Another cool channel I didn't know about. Thanks Hippy!
  25. When you can’t work construction due to rain you can always tell the boss you won’t be in have some real work to be done.Here’s a couple of before and after shot.
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