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get up under Killer with a pressure washer, you might already have 'em.

lots of room in it- I even had to lean over a little bit to reach the passenger seat.

excellent Swishy! I printed one but my color ink is running out...not sure if I have a dunny wall either. Maybe i'll get ink and a dunny wall at Wal-Mart today.

I have used black pepper before and it does work well. Stuck a stick through the radiator in one of my old Scouts in the woods and a handful of black pepper stopped the leak. I keep those hinges well greased.

I don't know, but I drove a '77 F-model that was positive ground and a '79 that was negative ground.

Once upon a time a Swift driver was traveling through central Illinois. He saw a man in his driveway looking into the fuel tank of an R-model Mack with a flashlight. So he stops and says "hey, are you out of fuel?" The man in the driveway says "naw, i'm from right here in Farmington, where are you outa'?"

Well I made a trip to Louisville, Ky this week and had to pick up a load in Sellersburg, In. going to Washington,D.C. Hate going to D.C. Absolutely hate it...that was another great misadventure in itself!..anyhow, when I was unloading at the jobsite in the median on 295 I saw the radiator was leaking. Not a line or hose, the radiator itself. So I went to the shop, and when aluma-seal stop leak didn't help it at all, I got to drive this unit- It was like going fron an Escalade to a Vega...or a Crown Vic to an Escort. ain't this somethin'- can't even see the hood! I must say, it was "the cat's ass" as Larry Wales would say for getting into that tight spot in Milton,W.V. to load these mill rolls though. That summich turns on a dime! You have to pull between these buildings and back in, then you have to make a left turn out of this door. Sounds easy, looks easy enough- but it's tight! only way to get out is pull up straight, then turn hard left-put the left front tire in the man door in that other building, back up once turning hard right until the trailer almost hits the far side of the doorway you're pulling out of, then ahead hard left until you clear the pipe rail by the other building then straight ahead, staying as close to the pipe rail as possible until you're clear.The guys there are great at getting you out though- if you just watch them and do what they say and don't pay any attention to anything else it's a piece of cake. But I never knew the W.V. Turnpike was rough before- couldn't feel the bumps with that low air leaf Peterbilt suspension. Ol' double nickel will be ready Monday, got the radiator fixed and back in it today.

hey, on a good note- I did score this brand new Delco Remy alternator today for $50. Came out of the parts room and doesn't fit anything we have anymore, all the newer truck alternators are side mount. I'm gonna go put it on tomorrow.

Yeah, I hope he had sense enough not to stop at the bottom and look at his brake drums smoking, that's the worst thing to do- that's when they burst into flames and blow out tires. It's level at the bottom for several miles, then you start climbing up the other side so he could have let them cool by the time he got up there. Then you stop, look around, smoke a cigarette, say "damn, that was a close one!"

that's exactly like the story i've told before- we were hauling pulpwood from a wood yard in Buckingham, Va. to the Westvaco paper mill in Covington. We'd run rt. 60 to Lexington, Va, then jump on 81 north one exit, then 64 to Covington. I don't know if you've been across that part of 60, has a 65' length restriction now, but those mountains before you get to Buena Vista are nothing to take lightly. 2 of our drivers going up loaded met a Schneider truck going east just a little ways from the top. They told him he was going kind of fast and he made a similar reply, something like "F**k you, I know what i'm doing!" When they unloaded and were on the way back he was down in the "s" curves near the bottom, turned over.

...well?..what happened?

Saw this truck coming down Sandstone Mountain Monday evening with the trailer brakes smoking like hell. The left lane is closed all the way down so you need to come off it slow enough that the engine brake does most of the work- there was a pickup pulling a trailer then a tandem log truck pulling a pup trailer going real slow in front of this truck. He had one more runaway ramp in front of him but I don't think he needed it.I was going west with about 20,000 lbs. on so I was out of radio range pretty quick. There was 2 state troopers sitting in the construction at the bottom too.

I bought one like that at Colfax last year. Those N.C. Mack guys always have good stuff at their tent. Guess I need to leave earlier and get there before you do this year!

Sounds like our luck is about the same.

Yeah, Overnite had a lot of them too.

Which one is Tommy Lee? Must be awesome to be Tommy Lee, having been with both Heather Locklear and Pamela Anderson- along with many others. What was it like to- oh...wait, that was "Motley Crue" i'm thinking of...never mind.

I can identify 3 peoples, 4 counting yourself.

Congrats on finding what you needed!

Talked to Herb this morning, he said the alternator is pretty much guaranteed to be toast.

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I've tried to call you several times there but it always went straight to the voicemail- I was starting to get worried about you. No wonder, with you getting into these physical altercations! Maybe you should have wrung his arm off at the shoulder and showed him the other end of it- self defense ya' know.

That would be me- I went over and put new batteries in the mixer today. I took the old ones out and made a mental note to myself how they were hooked up. Took them down to Carquest in Appomattox and got the new ones, went back to Concord and put them in then hooked them up backwards anyway! What a dumbass! I turned the switch on and wondered why the air buzzer wasn't buzzing. So I turned the marker lights on, and smoke started rolling from behind the dashboard. Ran around and pulled the cables off as quick as I could, fortunately I hadn't tightened them yet! I then hooked them up like they were supposed to be, and it started and ran fine and all the lights worked. I'm still gonna take the dash out and look to see if any wires were damaged. Hope it didn't hurt the alternator either, but if it did and that's all i'll still consider myself lucky for being so stupid- could have been worse. Scared the hell out me!

It's tough- they're all good pictures, David has some good ones from the ATHS show, but it's hard to narrow it down. I liked his V8 F-model best,but the top of the stack was cut off. I tried to pick at least one of each model and this is just my personal favorites, I'd still have to cut 5 pictures out- i'm still glad it's not me doing the picking! I left one out by axledent this morning, so I put it in here-