other dog

I've liked all that's mentioned but also " The Guns of Navarone. " I must have some German in me cause I liked their equipment. Their 88's had solid tires on spoked wheels with fenders. It was separated from that truck and could be traversed onto the ground. It was a biger and more powerful high powered rifle and could knock out anything we had until we later got the 90 mm.

I just remembered a man from where I first worked in 1970. He would come into our job place and bring or pickup jobs for printing. His name was Walter and was a German Officer in WW2. He brought a photo of himself to show some of us that wanted to see it. He was in full dress uniform with boots and brimed hat. He was a very tall man with large nose like a polish man and stood straight and tall. He talked very loud with an accent and seemed a happy person. I recently read where those people finally got their country rebuilt by 1989. Too bad I cannot talk with Walter now. I'm sure we could have a very good conversation.

mike

My ancestors on both sides of the family immigrated from Germany in the 1800's.

Looks like from the Panhandle

I'm thinking sunny south Florida

Got the tranny out and on the floor. It took me longer to get the bolt out of the floor pan behind the accelerator pedal that snapped the captive nut loose than the big parts of the job. I didn't want to hurt anything; (these bolts recess in the floor panel). The nut is hidded behind a welded brace that I didn't want to cut loose so couldn't get to it. Didn't even have to remove any fuel tanks which are over 1/2 full each.

After getting the trans out from under the truck I noticed the input shaft looks good but is questionable. It has about 3/8th inch of up and down movement where the replacement is much tighter. The wear surface for the clutch brake is worn where the friction material has worn a recess into the face. The bronze bushing in the end of the throwout bearing has a groove or depression worn into it about 7/16ths wide, (rear to front) from what I think is the input shaft walking. I've not pulled the clutch out yet but will most likely replace it after seeing this. The splines areal look very good with little wear but the donor trans has a new one awaiting installation. I assume there is an oil seal in the front of the trans cause the inside of the clutch housing, (transmission 1/2) is loaded with oil. The clutch and pressure plate area(s) are dry. I'm assuming this has a 14.5" clutch setup as the flywheel is the "bowl" style. I also figger the pilot bearing must but junk to allow the input shaft to move/deflect at all.

I had to steal the "gorilla tape" from Other Dog's blow up doll he left here for repairs, but I'll put it back, "I promise". Didn't want to leave the openings uncovered. I couldn't find any other in the shop, (Sorry Tom) to use.

Gonna get the steam cleaner after both transmissions later tonight. Out of all the conversation about this job not one of you "professional" mechanics mentioned anything about possibly getting dirty. Let me tell you this is not an easy job for a guy to do and keep a white tee shift clean. Soon as "Momma" seen me, I was given a bar of lye soap and ordered to the wash tub in the back yard. She said something about "smellun funny". Might have been that green synthetic lube from the trans dripping on my skull when I was removing bolts underneath. It was running out of my right ear. She got that taken care of with a toothpick. The grease was attracted to a giant "dust ball" that was living in there. Upon spiking it out with the toothpick, we both felt better.

Rob

That's OK, I have another roll. I do not have a backup blowup doll however so i'd appreciate it if you'd quit fooling with them trucks and git 'er fixed asap!

...and next time, wear a dark green, purple, or black t-shirt- that way she won't even notice the grease for several days.

A walk in the Sun, Sgt York and The Enemy Below are good too. Paul

Haven't seen the other two, but I do like Sgt. York. Really old but really good, and a true story. My grandfather's brother was killed in WW1 in the Argonne forest shortly before the war ended.

jaysm35a2 - thanks a lot for the photos you posted - just can't get enough of them here. The truck I'm trying to depict is supposed to be pimped up a little, but not that extreme - although I wouldn't rule out someone making a model of the very truck you posted the photos of, someday.

Please remember - photos of the innards of a Superliner I are most welcome here all of the time.

About the roof - after reading the recent posts about the roof I checked it up again, and discovered Italeri moved the roof vent back some and so worked around the "bobbed" center roof light. I think I'm going to cut my roof up again (just a little bit) and try to add this interesting detail. Any photos showing this arrangement (roof vent and the "bobbed" bullet light) will be a great help for me. Thanks in advance for your great help, have a nice day

Paweł

wish i'd seen this post yesterday! I was unloading some steel beams at Banker Steel in Lynchburg yesterday and was standing on my trailer when their beat up Superliner yard dog was hooking to a trailer right beside me. I could have gotten some good pictures of the top of the cab.

reminds me of a buckwheat joke-

Buckwheat and Darla were in school and the teacher asked Darla, 'How do you spell 'dumb'?"

Darla says, "d-u-m-b, dumb."

The teacher says, "Very good. Now use it in a sentence."

She responds, "Buckwheat is dumb."

"Now spell 'stupid'."

Darla says, "s-t-u-p-i-d."

The teacher says, "Very good. Now use it in a sentence."

Darla says, "Buckwheat is stupid."

Then the teacher calls on Buckwheat and asks, "Buckwheat, spell dictate."

Buckwheat stands up and says, otay, "d-i-c-t-a-t-e, dictate."

The teacher says, "Very good. Now use it in the a sentence."

"I may be dumb and I may be stupid, but Darla says my dictate good!"

I've heard that washing your face and hair in milk is beneficial also.

Maybe the women will be interested.

Rob

reminds me of a joke Rhasler once told. I'll just tell it again-

A woman leaves a note for the milkman to leave her 6 gallons of milk. Milkman reads the note and thinks it must be a mistake so he knocks on the door.

"mornin' ma'am, I saw your note here- did you really want 6 gallons of milk, or did you mean 6 quarts?"

"oh no, I want 6 gallons. I'm gonna put it in the tub and take a bath in it, it keeps me looking young and beautiful"

"oh. do you want it pasteurized?"

"oh no, just up to my tits- I can splash it in my eyes!"

The answer is, 5,003 ft. @ 70mph with that size load if he was not on Crack Cocaine.

mike

but what if he was smoking crack?

got the truck finished recently just in time for parade season. timing was thought out as this is our fiftieth year in business. will try to get more pics posted as soon i can.

looks great!

Indeed, thanks for the great pictures!

I posted that picture a long time ago,when Rob was saying something about Peterbilt's usually being behind a wrecker. Thought i'd deleted it long ago but just happen to still have it. That's me waving from the passenger seat.

I think id take up fishin if i had someone like that to go fishin with.

There's some beautiful specimens in that video- some of the prettiest rainbow trout i've ever seen!

probably had a tachograph at one time. Most of the big companies did.

That Diamond Reo is a clean machine too, good pictures!

Little Johnny's parent's are gone for a weekend alone to take a much needed break from Johnny. They hire a babysitter from the yellow pages and take off. The babysitter arrives hours later...

And that's our babysitter tail of the day.

Saw all this yesterday- girl in mini skirt walking down the street, girl in shorts walking down the street, girl on a billboard going nowhere.

Late one evening, or either very early the next morning, as the Circus passed through Gladys Va. An Orangutan escaped from his cage, and was immediately struck by a passing automobile. The distraught driver called the sheriff, and exclaimed, come quick, I have hit and killed something, and I don't even know what it is. After his arrival, and subsequent examination, the driver asked the sheriff, well what is it. The sheriff shook his head and said, I don't rightly know. But judging by the callus's on its ass, and the furrows on its brow, it is either a long haul trucker or a domino player.

I didn't hear anything about any escaped tangarangs, but then I was gone trucking all week.

something looks familiar about that hill

Does anyone know of any junkyards in pa and nj that have firetrucks?

I saw a firetruck for sale in Pa. This is on rt. 422 about a mile or so west of I-79.

I suppose I have led a sheltered life, as I was not aware of an overdrive 10 speed prior to the FRO series. The 12513 with it's 1st generation spur cut gears has earned a well deserved rep for being noisy. All the racket is in the back box though. If you wanted to you can replace the rear box with a 12509 rear, and at the same time over drive the front box. That way you can use the transmission you already already have.

Actually, the '79 F-model I drove had a 10 speed overdrive- rto910 I believe. 4th. and 5th. gears were backwards from the norm, 4th. was towards the rear, 5th. was towards the dash.

How much of a difference is there in an RTO-14609, and a RTO-14610? Given my limited apptitude in such things I do know one has another gear.........

Really thinking about doing away with the RTO-12513 and the noise. I've looked for a decent priced RTO-14613, but I'm looking for cheap and haven't had much success.

Thanks,

Rob

I drove a T800 with a RTO-14613 and it was the worst trans. in any truck I ever drove. Might have just been a bad unit, but it had way too much slack in the counter gears even when the truck was brand new.

The 18 speeds are far and away the best I ever drove, but I would imagine they're pretty expensive too.

found more funny pictures- me at Martinsville, 1980- something,

and me eating Pringles, date unknown, but probably early '80's.

Might have posted this before, cartoonish picture featuring Jeff. I tried to print a picture of a B-model cement mixer but the ink ran out and I drew the rest of it myself. Jeff was not amused- I thought it was pretty good. He must not have the sense of humor someone like...oh, Rob for instance, has!

Ya know how Canada got it's name, don't ya?

They put all the letters of the alphabet into a hat & started drawing 'em out one by one.....

"C, eh?"...."N, eh?"...."D, eh?"....

I'm gonna send that to Bill too!..no reply on the joke yet.

You wouldn't happen to have the Feb. 1973 issue would you? This looks like boobage to me, but I can't tell for sure- I think half her tee-shirt is missing!

note both guys have their hands in their pockets!

A guy walks into a redneck bar and orders a white wine.

All the rednecks sitting around the bar look up, expecting to see some

pitiful Yankee from the north.

The bartender says, "You ain't from around here, are ya?"

The guy says, "No, I'm from Canada."

The bartender says, "What do you do in Canada?"

The guy says, "I'm a taxidermist."

The bartender says, "A taxidermist? What in tarnation is a taxidermist?

Do you drive a taxi?"

"No," says the Canadian "A taxidermist doesn't drive a taxi. I mount

animals."

The bartender grins and hollers, "It’s okay boys. He's one of us."

that's a good one, i'm gonna send that to Old Bill!