other dog

if you're going with a 300 or 300 plus you could try to find a 6 speed- you'd still have 2 sticks and it would probably survive the torque load.

They do look great, I like that B-model heavy hauler- how about a Swishy calendar?

Sorry Other Dog, Senior Nuclear Physic Rhasler is correct, exposure to fizzion is destroying your underbelly, (ahem,,truck underbelly). It could snap at any load, get outta there! Is your hair thinning? Do you wear glasses? Do you crave hog parts? Sorry, you have all the symptoms, burn that truck and sink whats left of it in the river! randyp

I do indeed have all the above.

I delivered the train wheels today, and the dock was broken so they unloaded them from the rear of the trailer outside, one at a time. I had to roll all those axles to the back of the trailer, uphill. Then they reloaded me the same way- set one axle on the rear and I had to roll it to the front, uphill.

Lot of good pictures there, Swishy's second one is really good, so is ajt's, and 220 cummins, and bobo's, and...

I have a b.s. degree too ,but i'm self taught in b.s.-ing.

The only Chrysler product I ever had was a '76 3/4 ton pickup. It had a 360 engine with a bigger cam, Edelbrock intake, Holley carb. Got about 9 mpg, but I paid only $500 for it. Used to go to the woodyard and cut a load of firewood and load that old Dodge up even with the top of the cab and it didn't know it was loaded.

I sold it and bought a '71 Ford pickup with a 351, 2 bbl. carb, 3 speed. Turned out it got about 9 mpg. too, and throw 3 sticks of firewood in the back and the bumper was dragging the ground.

A kindergarten class was assigned to find out about something exciting & tell the class the next day. Little Johnny made a small white dot on the blackboard & sat back down. Puzzled, the teacher asked him just what it was. "It's a period,'' he said. "Well, I can see that,'' she said ''but what is so exciting about a period?'' ''Damned if I know,'' said little Johnny, ''but this morning my sister was missing one, Daddy had a heart attack, Mommy fainted, and the man next door shot himself"

All the Morbark chippers at the Westvaco woodyards used to have 12V-71's on them, then they started using 600hp. Cummins engines. They'd sit there and grind up sticks of pulpwood all day every day.

Don't nobody pressure wash the engine area? front axle is covered with "stuff"

jo don't eat much does she? Or get much.

Got a picnic on the low and slow as we speak. Corn fritters. Apple crisp for dessert

no, that stuff is supposed to be there- it protects the axle. actually, we're not even allowed to wash trucks at the shop. we have to go to a truck wash to get them washed, and they only hit the outside.

Well...actually that subject is too controversial...and I can't delete it...everybody expects something...oh, I know what i'll do-

I went to the shop today to leave on a routine mission delivering a load of train wheels to Sharon, Pa. This load that's back behind the other trailer!

Noticed a puddle of unknow fluid under the truck, which I later determined to be coolant.

Further investigation turned up a line from the air compressor that was leaking, which caused the puddle to form on the ground.

So I called Jeff, and he said he'd get Jimmy to fix it in the morning and to just leave tomorrow with the train wheels. That's OK with me, we left there peeling rubber in the Ford Ranger headed home- Jo was driving of course.

Stopped at the store in Rustburg on the way home and I took a picture of a Western Star with a load of pulp wood that was parked there.

I cooked a boston butt yesterday in the smoker, figured i'd have some good ol' pulled pork barbecue sammiches this week. Put some on a plate for Jo too, I took all the rest of it.

Ernie,i sure agree with sending a boy to do a mans job! LOL! i remember when i was a kid,there was a local south jersey guy who ran a "modified" at our local dirt track, 196? valiant with a slant 6 for power,wierdest sounding engine i ever heard! but he was ALWAYS in the top 5-10! do gotta admit,427 is pretty much junk!.....................Mark

reminds me of the first time I went to the dragstrip in Suffolk, Va. in the '70's. I saw 2 '66 or '67 ChevyII's running in the 11 second range- with 6 cylinder engines. Probably not a big deal now, i've heard rumors of 9 second rice burners on the street now, but I was impressed at the time.

I remember a solid black Corvette too, about the same year as the Novas, that had a big old 6 cylinder GMC truck engine in it running about a 10 flat.

I'm with you on that Mark, i've had A Dodge and several Ford pickups and cars, but all the "hotrods" in my younger days were Chevys- a '72 350 Nova, a '70 Chevelle SS with a 402 big block, and even the Scout mud bogger had a 355 small block Chevy with a turbo 350 transmission. They all ran great.

Bad thing about a fan running is the shielding gas is easily blown away from the weld zone. I did have a tube fan blowing into the cab forcing the smoke and fumes away. Really wasn't too bad. I've been down that road a few times and always have a quart of milk available when welding galvanized metal.

Rob

that's why you need a fan with the "light breeze" setting. you have to special order them. or you could rig up a stationary bike with a belt driven shop fan and have your helper run the fan while you weld.

Have a fan blowing the fumes away when you're cutting and welding galvanized steel, they can make you sick. If you're using a mig welder you might just set it on "light breeze".

She is getting ready to mix us all 7 & 7's after the Fetticinne Alfredo is done. The cook is sampling the dish now.

Think it will turn out alright?

Rob

yes, i'd certainly eat it.

LMAO Tom Diesel fuel fer Crabs huh? How bout some Marvell Mystery oil? it does wonders in crankcases & motors why not the crabs ? lol

later

I don't know from first hand experience Mack, but I did hear a truck driver say that years ago, so I assume it must be true.

Never knew you could get crabs on your grill, guess in these modern times any things possible...............

It's a new one on me too.

Hey Barry-

I can not seem to post a picture for some reason, so I e-mailed this one to other dog to forward to you.

Here's my secret symbol so you'll know it's really me Barry, and not other dog up to any stoopid tricks.

Rob

That's not a dirty truck....

I like that picture- a working truck. You can't keep 'em clean all the time!

Jo's son Billy came over today. He lives in Gloucester,Va, down near the beach. He told me he had some crabs when he got here, so I pulled him aside and told him "don't worry-that's no big deal at all! I'll tell you what to do. You don't need to go to any doctor, or go get any special creams or lotions. Just use diesel fuel."

He said "huh? wtf are you talking about?!!"

I said " there's no need to be embarassed, just get a little diesel fuel, rub it all over your junk, it'll kill them bastards right now, if not sooner, and it won't hurt ya"

He said "no, I got some crabs out of our crab pot right before I left, we can cook them on the grill".

So I said "oh...I knew that"...I've never been so embarassed.

Just do like I do-I've always posted serious and/or helpful topics, but then I get to thinking "well, maybe that's the wrong information". Then I just "edit" the post and put something stupid, usually with a hot babe picture, much like Mark does. Try it, there's no such thing as too many hot babes. I'm not saying any of Mark's posts are stupid, like this one, only that there's no such thing as too many hot babes.

uh...well, just never mind then, if you don't want to turn the truck upside down...that's the only ideer I could come up with.

Instructions? Real men don't need instructions. We're hard-wired to just know how to do stuff.

You should've seen the look on my friend's new bride's face when I went over to help him assemble a book shelf. First thing I did was wad up the instructions and toss 'em toward the trash bin. I had the thing put together before she understood what they were talking about in the first step.

Yeah!

about time you were posting more scantilly clad babes in your posts again, i've missed them!

I always liked "the perfect specimen" joke. Back before little Johnny's parents were steam rollered, little Johnny and little Debby were outside playing one day. Little Debby said "Johnny, what's a penis?"

Little Johnny said "I don't know, i'll go ask my mom"

Little Johnny runs inside and says "ma, what's a penis?"

Ma says "well, it's...uh...-go ask your dad, he can tell you better than I can"

So he goes and finds Dad- "Dad, what's a penis?"

Dad says "well son, it's- wait, I can show you better than I can tell you". So pop pulls it out and said "now THIS is a penis- and I must say, it's a perfect specimen of one too!"

Little Johnny said "OK Pop" and runs back outside.

Little Debby said "well, did you find out what a penis is?"

Little Johnny said " yeah, but I can show you better than I can tell you"

So he pulls it out and shows it to little Debby and said "now this is a penis- and if it was about 2 inches shorter it would be a perfect specimen of one too"