Freightrain

I am not holding my breath until I get a price. It won't surprise me if it is crazy. But this is a very small radiator compared to an R model. The original has worked flawless for 25 yrs. Even on the biggest, longest grade I run it just gets to 200* and just holds it. It is a 9* grade in Pennsylvania.

Working at a machine shop, it was going to make my own puller plates. 5.25 disc for the bottom with 4.875 pilot to hold it correctly in the bore and not slip off to the side. A hydraulic jack would just be easier then strong arming a nut and all thread. I don't know exactly how easy these liners will move? And they are like 11" long!

No. I was going to purchase a puller but this friend offered to bring his hydraulic puller over and help. Basically a piece of well casing, all thread and a hollow pin hydraulic jack. Seemed a bit easier than a hand puller.

Haven't touched it. Waiting on friend to get time to press liners out. I have researched buying a cheapie hollow hydraulic jack and build my own. Be a few hundred dollars and no real use after that. But if I want to get started now I have to do something. Nothing against the friend as he is a farmer and this is busy time for him. I can wait but I just am getting antsy.

Ok, time to start getting into this teardown... I'm going to drop the radiator off and look to have it recored. It doesn't leak, now, but with the added power/heat I want it to be good for awhile longer. Need to have buddy stop over this coming week and help get the hood off(two man job). Then I can continue with fenders and unhooking stuff. 10 yrs ago I man handled the fenders alone. I'm not feeling that strong these days...😲 I need to get floorboards out and shifters off so I can pull trans with engine. I am going to start working on who can pull it for me. I have a few options so far. If I can get it out before the winter blast I can clean up the chassis some before other engine goes in.

Like the insurance commercial... I'm turning into my parents. I hate the crap they are turning the world into ....just like my parents said when I was young. I think it is much worse then 40 yrs ago.

Gold anodized to keep from rusting. Looks great!! I'm so unhappy with the way my wheels turned out when I did them. Just 5? yrs and they look like chit. Rusty and ugly. I should have just painted them with a brush.

I was going to make it look more old school with the separate range control below the knob but decided against it. I can't screw it up now by moving the wrong knob.

It's a 13 spd. 18913. (Friend got confused when I was talking to him last week thinking it was an 18 spd.) I learned from shop I got this from about what it actually takes to convert to 18 spd. It needs rear box off and rear gear changed to roller bearing design. The 13 spd version(bushing) won't take the power in the lower splits for very long. I have it figured out. Works fine. Range changes when I move shift forks, splitter works also. I was checking ratios while spinning input and it appears correct. The info I downloaded said something about range hoses needed swapped. Yes, it was backwards with this knob. I also have to plug the green line off at the transmission (air feed line).

To mate to a 18913 transmission. Seems like they weren't made to work together originally. I don't want a new style plastic knob. I found something online but it's kinda sketchy and I hope someone here might have a clue. There is supposed to be something different about the rubber lines and how it range shifts? I plumbed it one way but it didn't work right. Anyone? Bueller?? 🤔

Yup.

Spent Friday evening getting my old Spicer 6041 dropped out of the chassis. Bit of a heavy chunk of iron. I remember using 1" rachet straps to lift it into location but they don't do well lowering so luckily my larger floor jack just reached high enough. Some finesse and I was able to safely lower it to the ground. Not sure how I will get it out of there? Too heavy to carry, no room for engine crane to get around the truck while in the stall. I may be able to drag it out the passenger side, through the doorway into other stall and use crane over there to lift it out of the way. Might have to get crane mounted to rear of pickup use it as a jib crane like in the past. I have a possibility of getting a 1241C to install? Have to go look at it, it has a power tower on it and that is something I don't need but of it will fit I may get it. It will give me a third OD plus the deep under like this 6041 has. Nice for creeping along....and the slow truck race at our annual truck show. Do I really need it? Absolutely not, but if it is affordable I will do it.

I watch Tales of Wells Fargo a lot after I get home from work and relaxing.

I went to assemble the clutch housing and realized the gasket has to be behind the halo. Hmmm??? I googled some and found a video on YouTube that showed that halo just pops off and you can install the gasket and slide halo back on. It has O rings that seal it into case. Simple enough. I got the housing torqued on and cross shafts in it. All ready to go. It will sit on the back of the truck until spring.

Wow, one day shipping! It showed up at work first thing this morning. Something I can bolt together this weekend. I already have the transmission sitting on the back of the truck waiting.

Searched around for a used bell to no avail. I ended up getting a new K3672 from VanderHaags. Should be here in a few days. Saw some listed for well over $1000. Got it for $670.

I have met up with Dan a few times at national conventions through the years. He has quite the collection of trucks. Crawling into the Aussie Superliner at York was a definite highlight.

What a cool story! I've tried for 25 yrs to get the previous owner to get me pictures or some kind of history of my truck at General Towing. He just never wanted to. I do have a huge file folder of "repair orders" through the years. Every little trinket that was changed out. I would love to have pictures from its heyday but I guess he wasn't a picture taker.

I can covert to pull. I just didn't pay attention to the fact that the tube made things different. The gasket hid the machining on the original bell so I didn't take into account. The gasket is the same, the tube just breaks through the gasket as you tighten it. At least on the transmission I have. Unless they changed it and just used a std gasket? I don't know. I will make it all work.

Thanks. Guess I am on the hunt again.

I bought a Mack bell for my 18913. Only problem is the bell doesn't have provisions for the oil line around the front of transmission case. Can I remove the extra oil line without tearing into the whole transmission? I have machining possibilities for adding pockets in my new bell but since it is aluminum and not cast for the groove it may break through. I assumed this bell would work but not having any experience I didn't think about this oil line. I know it isn't really needed in my application. Any thoughts?

Looks fantastic. Nicely done.

eBay got me TONS of parts when I rebuilt my Triplex.

Valco 184 solvent. Works wonders. Found serial number on the block today after some more scraping 5393P4 979 173 1788 Not sure what that equates to?

I have some solvent that eats gaskets and sealers. Get it from my local engine shop. They use it exclusively. Just melts crap away. Can't recall name, have to look when I get home. I thought it was Malco products? I did use a carbide scraper on the gasket. I have a razor blade holder but it always gets jammed up. Just have to be careful with carbide as you don't want to gouge the surface if you get a little ever zealous.