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Yup, I leave my main in gear and it helps move the grease/paste around enough to make it easier to shift LOL!!

Good looking project. I remember it way back....

I think mine is way beyond worn out? LOL!! Running down the road it's not bad, but let it pull against it down a long grade and it sounds pretty nasty...clunk'n and bang'n and rattl'n. Lucas kinda took up some of the slack...but it still rattles pretty bad after a long road trip(idle in neutral). It doesn't pop out of gears(except 2nd on coast side) but don't use it often enough to worry about it. Like to replace it...but just haven't got my hands on the right one yet.

GREAT job!!! Green...or RED with envy!!!

I put some Lucas in my triplex. In hopes that it might quiet it down? Been in there 4 yrs now. 1/2 and 1/2 with some gear lube. I think it helped some...it really used to rattle hard after a long drive. Does make it a bit stiff on winter days...not that it happens very often.

I put all new flex lines on my truck from the get go. Most looked pretty old and I didn't want the same demise somewhere on a dark road! I did miss an oil line and it blew on the way to track one day. Lordy what a mess that was....all down the sides of the truck and trailer..>YUK! Borrowed some line from track owner to patch it up and then put new on it when I got home. I've already put a separate fuel/water separator on truck to help out(screw on type). I've always wondered about my inj pump also. Everything looks pretty original, including all the steel lines and I've wondered about doing a PM on it and just get it all redone to eliminate chances? But it runs so well, I hate to screw with it.

A triplex(single overdrive) and 4.62 gears. With 22" rubber it runs about ~65 mph down hill/off a cliff on the govenor!! LOL!!!

I'd place a guess around 3/4" slack in the middle of belt? Something like that. I replaced mine and snugged it up, just like on a car. Not too tight, not too loose. Don't want to wipe out water pump bearings. I don't think motor can rev quick enough to actually slip the belt? I've never had any issues.

I put a few thousand on mine every year. I change the oil and filters every spring, do a grease job and make sure everything looks good. I've put over 10K miles on it so far and not any major breakdown issues yet. A few simple snafu's, but always made it to my destination which could be 50 to 600 miles away. Note to self: When parking on an side incline, ALWAYS shut the fuel balance tube valve OFF so fuel does not drain to passenger tank and thus leaving NONE to run on LOL!!! Live and learn....it takes near 1/2 hour for fuel to slowlyyyyyy drain back over to drivers tank where pickup is located.

I had my spring pack rebushed, no big problem. Cheap if I recall now and came with pin.

Love the color!! Nice outfit!

Alrighty then. That clears that up.

I still have most of my Tonka trucks. I was not the type to destroy them, so they are used and a bit rusty, but still there. Some were Nylint also. I have the large twin boom wrecker, the hook/ladder fire truck, clam shell bucket, excavator, I have the 60's or 70's Ford dumptruck, plus a few others .Need to get them out and clean them up someday. A local pizza joint had a display out front that included a B model ladder truck! Couldn't get the owner to give it up though. It was his growing up(still really nice shape).

I have to laugh at some of the guys/kids at work. I show up in one of my numerous hotrods and such. They bitch and complain and then wonder why they don't have squat. Well, since you drink or smoke your paycheck away....it don't leave much else! My mom always complained when I was young about my habits(car related). She always gave up when I told her I could be drinking my money away and have nothing to show for it. Keep a clear head, find friends with similiar interests(or a club) and like said...get a hobby. Even if it's collecting truck pictures, it's a start. Work towards a goal! It will be much more satisfying then seeing if you can finish a 12 pack and still walk?

I can see him/wife going OUT to eat alot more often now.>LOL!! "No dear, thanks....let's go out to eat tonight" "Again?" "Ya, sure, why not"

If you put radials tires on your B, it will steer like a dream!! I changed over from bias ply and it can go lock-to-lock sitting still. Not with one finger, but can be done. With ol bias tires, it couldn't be moved without moving truck forward/backwards. I have thought about air set up, since I don't want to go thru the hassle of converting steering over. Don't want to spend the money either way actually LOL!! Guess I'll just keep with my portable exercise machine..LOL!!

Got that right!! LOL!! I've always heard the center of rears. Guess if you're asking someone, you need to clarify or you might end up with something completely different than you think.

Whew...it ain't me!! LOL!! Bummer about this one. I've had lots of good dealings with most people I've met thru the internet. Had guys send me stuff, tell me if that's what I need to send them some money. There is always a bad apple somewhere. Hope things work out in the end.

Just glad Jim T isn't around...............LOL!!!

Gets done alot with trucks. OTR trucks that are retired get converted to dumps all the time. No reason you can't take dump off and add fifth wheel. Some plumbing to add air lines and your ready.

I would bet the air flow thru an oil bath is not enough to produce the power in the bigger engines. Now that the engines are 900 ci, not 600 the amount of air needed, plus a turbo is probably way beyond the capabilities of an oil bath. It would proabably suck the oil right out of the pan!

You can still get a jacobs style brake. 'Bout 1500 bucks!! Barry looked into it a few years ago for me for my 673.

I am just in the process of converting my B back to a fifth plate again. I converted it back in the begining so I could pull my gooseneck trailer(with ball style hitch). I bought the insert from Putnam hitches and it slides in where the ball insert was. Now I can hook up to my plate. Much easier to deal with too!! No screwing around trying to line up on a ball anymore.

I think ALOT of water would have to be sucked thru to get thru the entire filter element and create any kind of trouble....or help. I think the moisture would drip thru the element, then drop out the weep hole in bottom of housing. If I remember right, most of the newer trucks have a rubber one way that allows water out, and keeps from sucking air in.

I found that GVW thing out a couple years ago. I had plated mine for 33K since I knewn I was at 27K and you could choose, 22, 33, 4?, etc. I then got Hist. Plates and I thought the GVW was null/void. WRONG. I got questioned once at a scales and was told that the rating was still there and it was to be followed. Whew! I don't have to really worry about going over it, but luckily I now know that. I had "chauffer license" way back in mid 80's. I let it laps when I quit driving for company I still work for. I wish I had kept it, since I then had to take the whole freak'n test over. The original test was just multiple guess! The CDL is not much harder, but you do have to drive for it now. As for what trailer you use in test. Not an issue, as long as truck has air brakes that is what is important. I was going to use my B, but I would have had to have someone that could drive it home with me(that also had a CDL). In Ohio, you can't drive a comm. vehicle UNTIL you get your printed license. If I drove my B, someone would have to drive it home(or at least out of site). Plus the twin stick routine...that would have been a trip getting them to let me two hand it LOL!! I know Stan took his test in his Pete. He was allowed some "latittude" with shifting and passed. Not sure how the lady would have taken it in my truck. Might have passed, might have failed me. That is why I used there little truck.