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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!

The bear returns!

And more-

I have found cats around here only respond to .22 training on the 4th of july,especially after trans-gressing a freshly washed and waxed pick-up truck.......Mark

I remember my grandfather telling of tying two cats' tails together and throwing them over the clothesline.

Well said! i could'nt agree more!!!!! ................................Mark

"there's nuthin' like a V8 Mack"- other dog.

Howdy!

I've got an old commie method my pops told me years ago - at the international fair in Poznań, Poland, they would mix black shoe polish and brake fluid and put that on the tires. I heard it looked beautiful. I'm not so sure though, how this method (and many others described here, for that matter) influence the tire life. While it's surely good to put some kind of pigment on the tire, so that sun rays are blocked out and don't harm the rubber, the solvents that carry that pigment might not be so healthy for them. Should anybody want to try my pops' old method, a word of warning - brake fluid is a pretty strong paint remover, so don't let it contact any painted objects. Hope that helps, have a nice day

Paweł

I've used just brake fluid on car tires to make them shine, but all the dust would stick to them. never tried the shoepolish mix.

I've used spray paint on tires many times, looks good for a while.

Speaking of snapping turtles, I once ran a trotline across a small pond and caught these 2, and these eels. All I caught, but the one eel was the biggest i've ever seen. Put the ax there for size comparison, and it's a full size ax, not a hatchet. Date on the pictures was 1986.

Looks like you got the hot exhaust manifold with the index finger. When I cut myself, I usually see bone.

Rob

I was seeing bone- that's some well done ribs!

Gotta slightly used hot rod model,with a pretty nice back bumper! cash or trade!

dammit,I like this model even better-i'd better come in and browse around your lot.

I thought it was a "moon the train" thing

Or, some nit wit was gonna jump from the roof

So that's what that is-and I thought it was a finger!

Come on down! have i got a creampuff for you!........Thats BR5-49! LOL!

How much do you want for her? Can I get anything for Jo if I trade her in?

now that i think of it,i thought paladin was the charactor on have gun will travel.lol bob

He was. He was a hired gun. Dressed in fine clothes,sipped the fine wine,stayed in the fine hotel in San Francisco. His card read "have gun will travel-wire Paladin,San Francisco". But when someone hired him he dressed in all black and was bad-ass!

Yup. Chuck Norris is so bad even his shadow is scared of getting his ass kicked.

Rob

Chuck Norris doesn't do pushups-he pushes the earth away from him.

Tom, Who did you say the first B Model in pink was? She could get me to wear a helmet anytime.

mike

I don't know who it is,i've had it saved for a while.probably got it from onequickbeer.com

That sounds like a plan but the grinding one can feel in the floor and through the steering column concerns me. Although perfectly normal in something with a Red Oval on the hood, it is found to be unacceptable when a bulldog resides up front, and his asshole in the driver's seat.

This thing sure does run fine with fresh fuel replacing the 10+ year old diesel that was in the tanks!

Rob

Oh, that's right- sorry, I was thinking Peterbilt thoughts. I had to get some of those big bass speakers and a 15,000 watt amplifier after the radio no longer got loud enough.

I do that with bashing my skull.

Rob

helmet

Today I took the winch truck out to warm the driveline prior to draining the trans oil. To my surprise, when I opened the drains, there really wasn't a lot of grit on the magnetic drain plugs. I was expecting literally "piles" stuck to them given the noise this trans makes. I'm now wondering if I should pull it apart to see what is wrong. I know these transmissions, (RTO-12513) are noisy in the overdrive portion, but this one "howls" in the direct range also. Never have had one this loud. I have a couple more with Mack bells in the shop, but this one has me puzzled. I've never pulled the rear off of one of these but assume it's not too difficult.

Anybody know the clearance between the gear teeth in the back end?

Thanks,

Rob

No. Put a straight pipe on it and turn the radio up real loud and you'll be fine.

Oh yes,she looks familiar-I like her!

And no random thoughts about Marie Breska?

never heard of Marie Breska-however,i'll google Marie and get back to you shortly.

Scientists to this day have no idea how long the big snappers live Tom. There have been some trapped or captured and have had muskets balls imbedded in their shells. They estimate 3 to 4 hundred years. If those along highway werent hit by vehicles, they could have overheated and died before they reached next water hole. They overheat easily. Speaking of overheating, me and spot were in 4 wheeler and managed to catch a big hog crossing very big hay pasture in heat of day. We gave chase and circled him all over meadow, turning every time he tried to reach woods, I swear Spot had a big ole grin on his face. It was 102 degrees at the time and after bout 10 minutes, hog fell over deader than a hammer! randyp

good deal!

(not the real Spot the wonder dog. This is a buffessional actor dog hired to portray Spot the wonder dog)

well,appreciae that fellars,,lol,,i guess if half of us cant read,the spelling wont matter......bob..enjoying gunsmoke,now woohoo!!!! also cant seem to add emoticons..dont know what im doing wrong,,,guess im still trying to figure this site out.lol

hmmmm...I can help you-when you reply just click on the smiley face at the top That shows all the emoticons,then just click on whichever one you want.