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  1. Freightrain
    Ya, I think the concave cab will be a hard sell. Even my skinny butt feels squished sometimes in my regular cab.
  2. Freightrain
    Hmmmm, I see good things in the future...........................
  3. Freightrain
    I think I'm understanding this "female" friendly stuff. I think they are going to put the guage a little higher in the dash for easier viewing for some girls??
  4. Freightrain
    All I can say is...............Wow! grayhair, thanks for the link. I really like this pattern. Might think about this for replacing the back panels on my bunk? Give it a more old school look. Maybe I don't want to know how much it is per sheet LOL!
  5. Freightrain
    I'm betting back in the day, they used plenty of "Universal" kind of parts. Many manufacturers would buy a typical part from a single supplier. Kinda like those Grote lights on the roof. Same ones on the fender of an A model KW. I had a '72 1210 series pickup. 2wd, 345/4 spd. All I can say is "it was a tank". Rusty, used up piece of junk, but still a tank. Pass everything but a gas station. Lucky gas was only ..50/gal back then.
  6. Freightrain
    Nice. A friend I race with had a FL120 few years back. 430 Cat/10 SPD autoshift with same basic conversion. It was a nice outfit. He downsized after a few years and sold it again. I'm sure you will get years of use out of it.
  7. Freightrain
    Well as of today the air steering is functional! Pretty happy with it. Few loose hoses to tie up but all is well. I have the a/c bracket painted and installed. The hoses are all cut to length and I will get those crimped. Only have to get a few wires run to make it work. We're getting closer.
  8. Freightrain
    Ahhhh, I see. I have a friend that even after I crank it up tight, doesn't hold him up very well. I usually just get a smirk from him.
  9. Freightrain
    I have a brand new Talladega seat, but it is too tall for a B. It does have the tall mount and thought of cutting it down or finding a low mount for it? Just don't think there is room for the arm rests and such. I don't think my Tbar seat is all that uncomfortable? Even when the truck was short and had springs on the back. I have it set just right I guess?
  10. Freightrain
    I remember it from Syracuse Nationals, don't remember if it made South Bend? I agree mike, a little bit of frame and a Mercury would be super cool, classic piece.
  11. Freightrain
    Welcome. Brocky has it covered. Give us a bit more backround and we'll try to point you in the right direction.
  12. Freightrain
    I know they offer an R cab, is your friend going to make a B cab? That would be sweet. I would almost put the money out for that(I know they aren't cheap). I could just about make my truck then as the typical KH bunk is large and would mimic mine pretty well. Just have to remove one of the tandems(Or buy another chassis and start over?).
  13. Freightrain
    Here ya go: On the firewall, passenger side: The soft line goes to unloader on compressor. I originally pulled mine off and put a couple new o-rings on it. Seemed like it would be fine. Nope, a few weeks later the same issue. Just put a new one on it. Any big truck place will have one. I got mine at Cross truck parts.
  14. Freightrain
    These guys are NUTZ!! They do cars, van, buses. It is a free for all. Hit or be hit. Full throttle, go for broke. I found this the other day while on my Smart TV and it now brings more up on my channel to watch. cars: How no one gets killed is beyond me? Reminds me of Days of Thunder when Cruise gets told to go hit the pace car. He askes "Why". Cause you've hit everything else!!!
  15. Freightrain
    I was thinking along the same lines. Should be plenty of available air under the bunk to be able to be pushed down by the fan. If not, I'll get a BIGGER fan!! I spent yesterday building brackets to hang the additional air tank for the steering. Got some air lines run. Can't say I got real far, but little steps at a time. If I had enough brass fittings laying around I could go farther. Never seem to have the right ones. Every Saturday I walk into Cross Truck with a list a mile long.
  16. Freightrain
    Luckily you only need the clutch to start out with. Just jam'm when you find'm after that. LOL!! On a side note: Was there something special going on yesterday? I was in the garage being productive and didn't watch any TV>
  17. Freightrain
    Fellow on ATHS that is restoring a K100. The debate was going on about what is better. Even to the fact I mentioned building a special "faux" oil cap and fill it with oil to simulate ail bearing(so it looks period correct) even though it is grease packed. Again, it was a hobby truck and the thought was the oil seal might fail from lack of use.
  18. Freightrain
    Yup, figured I have $800+ in a pair. Ugh. Don't really need top of the line, the old ones are Yoko's.
  19. Freightrain
    We have a TON of city buses around here that run on NG.
  20. Freightrain
    Ya, seem to hear that a lot LOL!! I just know that the $200 I paid for them back in '02 will not be what I pay for them in 2015! These only have about 50K miles on them. Lots of tread, just don't want to trust them as steer tires anymore. Time sure does fly by.
  21. Freightrain
    If you are in a spending mood, and need another "kid", my B model could use a pair of steers!! They are dated 14 yrs old and just starting to see weather checks in the sidewalls. Time to replace them as I don't like to have to deal with it at 2am on the side of the highway. The old ones are far from used up and hope to sell them off to someones trailer.
  22. Freightrain
    Ahhh, THAT kind of motorboating. (oops)
  23. Freightrain
    Pretty cool stuff. The technology today just makes it WAYYY to easy. Just think back even 20 yrs and the early FI and all the headaches trying to get a factory computer to run. Today it is all plug/play.
  24. Freightrain
    I'm thinking the sarcasm was being laid on pretty thick.................
  25. Freightrain
    Cha ching. Looks good though. Loosing that pass. tank, likely cut your fill up distance in half! One 40 gal tank won't get you far.

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