Freightrain

Check the other post. Apparently he's knee deep and been too busy. He is fine.

Thanks for the update David. She was going to be my next google search, though I didn't know her married name(doh).

I was hoping you mighta seen him Kid? Did he ever pick up the Mack? I tried all the numbers I have for him> Cell goes to voice mail, work is disconnected.

I send him a text yesterday and haven't heard back. Strange. Cell phone went to voice mail this morning. The shop number I have is disconnected. I tried the listed number and it's disconnected. Something isn't right. I did some Google searching and didn't find anything in the newspapers with his name.

Oh man, guess I missed something? Welcome to the real world, women will never be understood and you'll never do anything "right" again once you get involved with them. ahhh, but the farmers daughter.............well, you get the picture............

Was at Ashland truck show this weekend. Had a name badge as I was part of the committee and was wearing an orange vest helping doing everything all weekend. Well, two different people came up and said "Gary?". I laughed and said "No, Larry". My printing is hideous and I tried, but failed and made the "L" look like a "G". I then had to explain to even complete strangers that I usually respond to more simple names LOL!!!! Gary was much to nice, even it wasn't my name either.

Wow..........can't believe you found pictures of my first love LOL!!!! NOT..................

Once again, I'll bring this up............. http://youtu.be/VG7F0ImuSUQ

I go by "Hey you", or just "asshole"...........something really simple to remember.

Any diesel can run away, but a detroit is usually more common only due to the blower, worn seals or stuck rack. Most all leaky ol detriots have an emergency shut off(a control cable hooked to a flapper in the intake tubing) that is used to help shut them down from such an ordeal. Once you shut the air off, they will die away even with all the oil. It takes both to run air and fuel to run. Later versions had a solenoid controlling it from the key. Turn the key off, it closes the flapper automatically.

Glad you got to see them> No matter how long it took ya.....

With gears, it's all about the transmission of power with little power loss and noise. Straight cut teeth are strong, but whine pretty bad at speed. Helical cut gears are quiet, but aren't as efficient or strong. You need to be somewhere in the middle. I guess that is where Mack came up with their version. Little mix of everything.

LMAO!!!

Didn't realize this was a lopsided Mack til now. Was following links after watching the U model above. I know it was posted some time back, but figured I bring it up. (video notes: detroit soundtrack, and for some reason they have interior shot of driver smashing the brake pedal when the motor revs up?? Huh?)

EEEEEEEzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz on those right turns. Man. I think I saw some air under that right front tire??? Gett'n pretty light and wondered if it might go over............................

Off brand lawn mower?? What, a $100 push mower? LOL!!

When mine was a short single axle tractor with no bunk, it was just under 12K total, so says the CAT scales at the truck stop.

How's that line from Dr. Bill video..................."you can go down the pass too slow many times, but you can only go down too fast once". That mixer picture reminds me of Smokey and the Bandit when Buford tells his son to duck or you're gunno loose your head(as they go under that bridge span sitting across the road).

Hot damn, that one is UGLY!! Reminds me of that crash test truck where they ran it into a brick wall and the engine came out the hood. 70 mph to zero in one second. Tragic.

Sounds like your air compressor is toast. Putting that much oil in the tanks in that short of time, not good.

If he don't, how is going to get woke up to see that big ol wreck????

I guess it depends on the kind of dash control? Mine would be "emergency" since it's the old flip style. I would guess the new buttons would be "out". I'd say that is one very tricky question. In all I would say "emergency" would be the correct overall answer.

Ain't life grand??

I think the story goes, the Mack "cab" they used for inside scenes was pulled with a KW with a detroit in it. Thus they used the sound from it.

Yup, same ol '70 I drove for 12 yrs after HS. Pretty sure by that pic I had put a new cab on it(doors/fenders original), bed was junked. I rolled the odometer over a few times in that truck. Put my first set of headers on it over on Kris' driveway(1985?)!! Remember driving it up to NC Jaycee fair after that. Wow, the memories. This was after I moved to 13th street and found a nice southern black bed to put back on it. Few years later I replaced it with my new '96 F350. Tom, Not too hard to run 20-22's with a big truck(with any kind of decent power). Couple hot rods trucks were running 17's. leaving on the govenor and dump'n the clutch in high range(like maybe 5th gear). Quite a show, I got some video from years back, need to get it downloaded someday.