other dog

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.

ya,,,they just started reruns,here in reno,lately.....,rawhide gunsmoke,bonanza rifleman,glad to have them back,brings me back to a happy time,when life was good,and no problems,,i guess he was just about the last one,,but i was reading an aticle about john anderson,(western star) still alive,was supprized..have a splendid weekend guys.....bob

Oh yeah,The Rifleman, Lucas McCain- forgot about that,it's a good one-liked it when I was a kid and still like it! I used to like "Palidin-Have Gun Will Travel" too,wish they'd rerun that.

Wonder what's up with all these dead snapping turtles i've seen in the road? I've seen a few over the years, but just this year I must have seen a dozen! I don't mean terrapins, but big snapping turtles that live in the water-saw 2 this week, one was probably the biggest i've ever seen, dead on the shoulder of the interstate and far from any water.

Finally got a good drive by of this B-model on rt.422 in Pa,somewhere between Butler and Kittanning.

This is also on rt. 422-the picture doesn't reflect nearly how steep this hill is!

This is a 45,000+ lb. single coil I loaded in Sharon,Pa. Friday. It's going to Emporia,Va.

Wide load I saw on I-76 in Ohio,between Akron and Youngstown Friday. Took up pretty much both lanes of the interstate.

Cooking stuff can be very dangerous! I hit my thumb with the ax while chopping a piece of oak wood to smoke some ribs last weekend-barely managed to hit the ax brakes before I chopped my thumb off.

Speaking of cooking stuff,i'm cooking these ribs now-been slow cooking them over charcoal and wood, then I wrapped them and smothered them with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce and put them over direct heat. When the bones pull loose easily they're done, so as you can see it won't be long now!

Back of my trailer

Tom loading a steerable dolly on a PGT truck at the shop

Loaded!

Token hot babe,for no particular reason except hot babes are always good-

now thats hilarious,,,mark...you see we atleast moved up to a push button job.that stand up job takes me too long 4?...you know evertime i see that dale charector,,cant spell it,,,keep meaning to ask,do they still show king of the hill in your area,they took it off here,but i dont have cable...bob.. p.s.dont know why we dont have spell check on this

don't worry,i'll chek yer spelling fer ya,i'm alsmost like Rob,borderline genious, except he's not borderline....hmmmm-yer fine,evrythings right!

whats a redneck,gonna do with all that technology??????????????hehe..im getting tired just looking at the pictures,lol..good luck bubba....bob

Yeah, people can do most anything with a phone now that you can do on a computer. Fortunately (?) for me, all I know how to do is call people, which some people probably wish I didn't know how to do, and answer it when it rings. My ring tone is the "Peter Gunn" theme by Emerson,Lake,and Palmer though so that's pretty cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUcU2ip3nF8&feature=fvwrel

Not really truck related,but i thought it was sad we lost an american icon in James Arness AKA Matt Dillon,spent many a saturday night watching Gunsmoke with my grandad. He loved this show! not many of the old time tv cowboys left anymore,which (in my opinion) is a real shame,look at the crap thats on tv now! no wonder kids don't have anyone to look up to! Matt always did the right thing,only shot the guy if he had it coming! i miss these days!...........Mark

I didn't know that-I still watch Gunsmoke and Bonanza reruns.

I remember seeing these trucks too,we went to a "big truck" race at Dover Delaware once,it was a nightmare! the track was banked WAY too steep for the trucks to run! i saw a lot of iron wrecked that day!i remember seeing a Corbitt truck,an Emeryville,and a REALLY nice W-900 KW,was orange/black ,double sleeper (flatop) with real chrome steel wheels,seems to me it was a twin-turbo KTA-600 Cummins,i can;t remember the guys name,but i think the truck was from NC,or TN was sponsered by "racoon mountain syrup" or something like that. Also remember there was a woman driver, shawna robinson??? she was running a 9500 series GMC like the one in your picture......................Mark

That might be Shawna, I don't know. The only name I remember is a Charlie Baker,I think anyway-I know it was a Baker, whether he was kin to Buck and Buddy I have no idea.

I also remember they had a terrible time trying to keep steer tires from blowing out, and the series didn't last very long at all.

Ther's several youtube videos of big truck races-

Thats some good ones right there! i always liked that long hood GMC,thought they was a neat looking truck!there was one around home when i was younger,with a 12V-71 in it,pulled a dump trailer,that sucker was LOUD!!!!!!!!!...........Mark

Found this old picture in my race album. This was taken at Rockingham, N.C. sometime in the '80s. They used to have "big rig races" then, but they decided the trucks tore the tracks up too bad and they stopped. I remember a lot of truck racers ran old Sterling trucks when they could find them.

This was not taken at a truck race, it just ran an exhibition lap before a regular NASCAR race.

heh heh,,I gree with you Rowdy,,,AC??,, I thought vehicles were DC current! randyp

You and Rowdy might be on to something. I drove those Transtars and F-models for years and never had AC and it didn't bother me. But I could stay in the hayfield all day too, once upon a time. Now I can't stand the heat, and being in air conditioned comfort probably makes it worse when I do have to be out in the heat.

I told Jeff before "if the AC quits, tha' motor might as well be blowed up, cuz I cain't drive it".

watta crew!!!!

Great pictures Randy, reminds me of my younger days- I cut a little pulpwood myself when I was still in high school, with a borrowed Ford F-600. That's hard work! Seemed like everybody and their brother had an old 2 ton truck, or a 1 ton if they were a 1 or 2 man operation, and cut pulpwood then. That's when the woodyards bought 5' billets and you could cut and load it by hand, all the equipment you really needed was a truck and a Homelite XL-12.

Always a good show when Peterbilt trucks participate. By the time the wreckers haul them in, and the accompanying support vehicles arrive, it''s quite a turnout.

Rob

That must be where these fellers are going!

Never seen a Cruiseliner wrecker before-it'll be there too if they can find a broke down Pete to bring along.

Tom, G/F came over the house this pm and carried me to her house to play on the computer. While seeing your scout I recall my g/f and her identical twin sister had a 1970 2 door scout they drove to school. I just now went out while she's mowing the yard to ask her what color it was. She said it was orange and white. Her dad owned a small International Truck dealership in Gallatin, TN duing that time and finally sold it to what is now Kyle International in Nashville.

I remember the glasses cause I had some of those myself. They were popular in the 60's and 70's. Everthing was rosy then. LOL

mike

identical twins,eh? did they ever try to switch and fool you?

Hey Tom, you still work for the H.H. Moore don't you? Gotta be a gold watch in your near future.

Naw, I worked there over 25 years, been gone over 6 years. PGT later bought the company, so H.H.Moore Jr. Trucking Co. Inc. no longer exists. Jeff and Todd Moore, whom I work for now-Jeff (and his lovely wife Teresa) owns the Pete I drive-are H.H.'s grandsons so i've been driving for the Moore family for 32 years. Started working for H.H. in June,1979.

Real nice pics other dog, man that F-model is real nice!!!! all of them are sharp... I love that line-up at the end.

Thank you,it's a shame my scanner quit working,some came out pretty blurry but i'm taking pictures of pictures so it's hard to get them but so good,and some aren't too good to start with!

some more old pictures from the album-

inside front cover-i'd just finished washing the black T800 with the 444 Cummins and 18 speed. Notice my T-shirt is soaked with sweat from my hard labor (for that matter,notice I had lots of hair, and it was dark- unlike today!). At this time I was driving the pride of the fleet! My old '64 Scout and my mud bogger's there too,a '71 Scout with Chevy running gear.

Had my cb handle on the door of the F-model

'79 F-model I drove

First KW,1983,350 Cummins

more KWs I drove,'84 and '85 models with 400 Cummins. The '85 was the first truck I drove with an engine brake.

Inside the back cover-I saved these when they were about to be thrown out at H.H. Moore's.

Pretty much the whole fleet. That's the other Transtar Eagle on the end of the back row, and H.H. and his wife Evelyn standing by the pickup. The IH next to it might be another Eagle-I know it had a 400 Cummins-but H.H. bought it from Montague-Betts when they went out of business.

Tom,i sure like seeing these pictures,even if sometimes their not the greatest! my dad liked the IH Transtars,he thought they were good trucks. The one in the picture was also a 903 Cummins (which my grandfather called a "9-0 Nuthin'") he had this one till 1971 when he ordered a brand new White-Freightliner C.O.E which was a 1693 TA caterpillar,13 speed road-ranger he leased on with North American van lines and stayed there for almost 30 years,he always told me the 1693 was one of the best engines he ever had. I always liked the looks of that Transtar Eagle,was a nice truck,the guy wrecked that one was sure lucky,looks bad!..........Mark

Yeah, a 903 wasn't exactly known as a powerhouse. The VT's had a little more power, but they were about the same a driving a 318 Detroit- more famous for that V8 sound than how they pulled!

But, back then it held it's own. Most of the other Transtars had 290's in them with 10 speeds, only a few had 350's.

That was one of only 2 Eagles H.H. had, they were the fancy version. The other one was the pride of the fleet, it had the two tone blue with white stripes paint job, twice pipes, and the only 400 Cummins he had.

After looking at the picture, the good thing is: The driver that wrecked this truck only lives about a mile from me now.

Yeah, he went back to driving after he recovered. He has pins, screws, bolts, nails, staples, gorilla tape, and elmers glue in his ankle but that was actually about all the damage he got. His feet were caught up in there somewhere and it took hours to free him from the truck, but looking at it you wouldn't think he survived.

I looked in my oldest photo album and found these bad pictures of Transtars. That's what H.H. Moore mostly had, with a few KW's and Macks. Later he went to mostly Kenworth K100s. These pictures are old, some are polaroids and they just don't age well at all, and I just couldn't take a decent picture then apparently.

This is the first truck I drove for H.H.Moore,a 1974 Transtar with a VT903 Cummins and 13 speed direct trans. The 13 speeds i'd driven before were overdrives, much more common, and this transmission took a little while to get used to because the splitter worked backwards- direct was in the same place but when you moved the button clockwise it went to underdrive, which was a down shift.

The first picture was taken at the old Ponderosa Truckstop at the bottom of North Mountain, near Clifton Forge, Va. I was either on the way to Covington with a load of chips or was empty and on the way back to Dillwyn.

I drove the International until I got this '77 F-model.

F-model with a chip trailer and my brother's combine.

This was a nice Transtar Eagle with a 350 Cummins and 13 speed. The driver that wrecked this truck only lives about a mile from me now.

Like an unwanted cold blooded serpent, it slithered in on it's belly.

Rob

I did have to look pretty hard to find one. I told Jo "he's got to have one in the background somewhere!"

Had a great time at the show. Met up with tons of people, and the constant rain did not put off the attendance.

Unfortunately the only picture of Rob I got was late Friday night after dinner. I think the few beers hit him a bit harder then he thought they would..............

Got home okay, but not without issues. Seems my NEW hub seals FAILED on the drivers side and it puked it guts out all the way home. I had stopped in Van Wert for fuel to find grease pouring out all over the tire. Ugh. Guess I have to pull that side down again and see what happened. I just returned that 4" socket to my buddy while at SB. Guess I need to run over to Orville and pick it up AGAIN. Geesh..............but at least it made it home(only a little messy).

Now that's just funny right there!