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Awesome.
"The Cowboys" with John Wayne is on right now. I think they're running a marathon of "The Rifleman" on AMC tomorrow.
I liked "The Rifleman" when I was a kid and still watch it on weekends. Another TV show I liked was "Combat" but i've never seen it on reruns.
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beautiful paint job on that impostor Killer B! Yeah, she's pretty beatuful herself. What a smile in that last picture!
There can only be one real Killer B,and that's Randyp's!
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If you fill with helium, she'll be lighter riding "cowboy".
Rob
baaaaaa...
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Link does not work
actually, I didn't post a link. Try this one-
http://kickfiends.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-pictures-of-hot-girls-in-jordans.html
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Old trucks, a pretty women, and YOU look at her shoes. No other comment
love those shoes!
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Once again, excellent story and pictures by John MacFarlane in the latest issue of "Old Time Trucks".
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I bet it was hard to get any!
ha-ha, yeah she's pretty hot-love those old style tennis shoes! But, seriously, it's great to see any kind of news coverage for a truck show. It's a first for me...love those shoes...dammit- think i'll go inflate my sheep now. I must be off.
Man, I could really have at it with captions on those pictures- got one in the chamber, ready to go. But since Doug has rock-star status, i'd better restrain myself. I must be off.
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Hauled the brake drums and spokes into the machine shop today to have them turned and boiled/cleaned. Gonna be really bright red when they are done. I had them sitting outside under a tarp for over a year so they have flash rust on the friction surface that I don't want to drive into the freshly relined brake shoes. The guy says they are right at the wear limit. He thinks they will polish up nicely but it will be the last time they're able to be worked with. This is a hobby truck only, (of course) and will probably never need brakes again so I'm not worried. They are going to do the drums for $20.00 each so this is a right fair deal that includes the hot tank after turning. After finally getting all the brake hardware, bushings, seals, felts, pins, and retainers rounded up over the last 1.5 years the truck is finally starting to see the light of day. I really want to reclaim the real estate this thing on jack stands takes. After I get it rolling again another buddy is gonna let me use his 25,000# truck lift to get it raised above my head so I can pressure wash the living shit out of the underside before stripping down and blasting clean. I've had enough of this grease shit to last me for awhile.
I also ordered new front casters for my OTC "Back Buddy" brake drum cart. The old casters are broken down from age and use and do not roll easily. I'm not about to start lifting brake drums again. Too many trips to the chiropractor in the past that I'd rather leave in the past. When I removed the drums from this truck it was over a month, (literally) before I could stand up straight again without wincing from the pain.
Rob
I have built up s-cams before by welding a row of beads across them and then grinding them smooth.I don't know if there are any regulations against doing that, but it worked fine. Just a thought...(Paul Van Scott)
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I was glad to discover that these also come in Large sizes,do they come with a "tire patch" kit in case of over-use,or going flat? radial or tube-type? where is the valve stem? recommended PSI? can they be "capped" in case of premature failure?....Mark
wow, that's way better than what I had to hold me over until the repairs are done!
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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.
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Looks like from the Panhandle
I'm thinking sunny south Florida
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!"
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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!"
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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?
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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!
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Indeed, thanks for the great pictures!
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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.
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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!
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probably had a tachograph at one time. Most of the big companies did.
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That Diamond Reo is a clean machine too, good pictures!
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I know exactly what you mean. I jumped down off the trailer when I was untarping a load of steel in Marshall last week and the guy standing there said "you're a little old for that aren't you?" Thought I must look pretty bad, and I was soaked with sweat. I just said "yeah, I am"
Jo said last week "why don't we go somewhere when you take your vacation this year, maybe Cape Hatteras and you can fish or something"
I said "rooms in Cape Hatteras are prolly $10,000 a night this time of year,so we could only stay about 5 minutes-besides, I go somewhere all the time so when i'm off I ain't going nowhere!"
('cept maybe to Lincolnton,N.C. to the ATHS show)