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Goes to show your still a kid at heart Mike. There is nothing wrong with that at all!

yeah, I was even going to make a wisecrack about you just trying to get her upstairs, but I can't now, due to my conscience..

Man them tomaters are looking mighty good! The best tomatoes are home grown ones especially out in Virginia! You wouldn't happen to have any corn liquor in there would ya?

no corn liquor, but the wine was-I mean is-delicious! Probably the last home grown tomatoes for the year, mine have been gone but they still had a few they brought in green, before the frost got 'em. They also gave me a couple packages of short ribs out of the freezer (my brother raises a few cows and had one butchered this summer). Might put some turnips in the crock pot with some of the ribs. I'm making myself hungry-better have some leftover turkey and green beans.

I found this picture-

Went to Cumberland to see Ma and them today. I got a few turnips out of Dad's turnip patch, some broccoli, tomatoes, and 3 bottles of homemade wine. He had some nice turnips too! I've never had any luck growing them-I'd buy enough turnip seeds to plant 4,000 acres and sow them in a little garden spot and usually about 7 of them would come up. Here's what I made off with today-

With the way your Pete's been running you'd been done took up permanent residence in the poor house. All kidding aside at least you don't have to buy fuel and do maintenance to it.

Ain't broke down since Monday there Rob, when the fan belt broke. Excuse me, I mean Double L.

Geez, your luck hasn't been too good for a while. Work is slow everywhere too. Seemed like it was picking up some for a while, now i'm back to the "one paycheck away from being broke" situation.

That's why Bill Clintoon liked Monica.

She was big enough to have extra capacity, if you catch my drift.

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I did some research on the subject and this is what I found-

It's that "heat of the meat", and "angle of the dangle" thing too.

Rob

I see...I did some research on the subject, and this is what I found.

Those older engines did not have glow plugs to give them quicker heat to the cylinders for them to startup quicker so, a big tank is needed for an older engine to have enough air capacity to get it to turn over longer. I hope I made that clearer than mud. So go with a large air tank to have plenty of air reserve.

mike

so, in other words, what we're hearing you say is- regardless of what our gf's say- size really does matter, especially when we get older. Understood.

But, again- as I sit here watching this show about the Peterbilt factory in Denton, Texas on the National Geographic channel- as much trouble and down time as i've had with this Peterbilt, none of it's really been a Peterbilt issue. It's been a Caterpillar issue. I haven't taken the truck back to the dealer ever, but it's been to Carter Cat many, many times. And I don't really blame Caterpillar, it's all because of the b.s. gummint emmission restrictions all the engine makers have to meet now. I liked driving that old 5 speed Mack, when every time you changed gears you'd leave a huge cloud of black smoke in the sky!

Now that right there is funny-I don't care who ya are

yeah...it's hilarious!

fix that post-I can't resist, this one's too easy-

I know for sure that Herb means harm in what he has said to you. The people here are very hard. a few are Just Sorry. We just want to stay friendly for Herb is one of several people that are a real ass to this forum.

Thank You for your participation here!!

mike

Now Mike!..that's no way to be talking about Herb!

Nifty ol trailer for sure. I always keep my eyes open for something like that for my truck(like I really need it). Even a s/a flat or drop deck would be cool.

Speaking of hard to steer, my '69 F100 has full spool/35 spline Moser axles, 29x12 M/T tires so the little 3 1/2" front runners give little indication of turning LOL!! It has UNDERSTEER really bad, especially on highway on/off ramps. You really have to work that wheel hard to get it to go around without ending up in the ditch. Been that way for 20 yrs now and likely never get changed. Sure is fun to drive though.

So, I guess you probably don't haul a lot of hay out of the field or go in the woods after a load of firewood with it very often then, eh?

I've always been told that Pete drivers find comfort in the passenger side seat of a tow truck.

Rob

Well, after another year has gone by, I'm finally getting around to finishing this up. Rob dropped the parts off early this year and it's been sitting in a box ever since. I got out tonight and get the rear housing off the tranny and ready to machine it for the sending unit. Once it's done and back on I'll work the wiring and get speedo mounted in dash. I'm going to try to get machining done through this weekend? Hopefully.

The only big issue I would like to change is the speedo face. I'd really like to tear it apart and use my old Mack face as the numbers aren't too far off and would then look the part. One fancy new speedo in with a bunch of old gauges just doesn't fit the patina. We'll see.

wow! looks like a big suplosion!

Rob you got to watch them Virginia folk, they are good at coming up with crazy contraptions, trust me I know! As far as the Pete's go I drove one even though it was around the yard where I was working out before the economy hit the crapper, My knees kept rubbing the steering column and I'm only 5'4. I had no air in the seat and you know with being short had the seat all the way forward! These were 03-05 model years, I didn't have that problem with the old square dash Pete's but I haven't drove a newer KW or even been in one to see if my knees would hit the dash. I doubt they would on a KW cause you got more room a KW than ya do a Pete. I sat in a 90-93 T600 but it didn't have tilt steering so I couldn't tell if my knees would hit the steering column or not but I was comfortable in it, then again I've always liked Kenworth more than Pete especially the T600 and now the T660. Besides Kenworth is a better built truck and a much better laid out truck as far as interior goes and your not cramped like a Pete. I was so cramped in the Pete that I was literally right up on the dash and I didn't like that at all, plus these were day cabs if that really makes any difference. The Pete and KW debate is like a Chevy and Ford debate but KW and Chevy is gonna win every time in my book.

Actually KWs and Petes are both PACCAR. I always heard that when they finished a KW on the assembly line they made a Peterbilt out of the leftover parts...or was it the other way around?

But you're right, it's a hard truck to get comfortable in for me too.

Chevette: I remember those things well. As kids we took a nice little two door car and stuck a 73 400 Chevy and turbo 375 from a Kingswood station wagon in it. We wound up with a driveshaft about 24 inches long when finished. I used the outer perimeter of the original hood, and a busted aftermarket "L88" corvette style hood scoop from a Camaro hood for clearance. The hood was light enough that the hinges were not used, just pins to hold it down. It was difficult to get a radiator to fit into the space due to vertical dimensions and little width. A good portion of the donor parts were from a rusted 75 Chevy "Monza" car that originally had the 262 V8. The original plans were to use it's automatic but it wasn't any good, and the station wagon was rusted badly too. When the fuel tank fell out, my neighbor quit driving it and gave it to me as it ran well.

That sucker was a lot of fun for awhile. Someone needed it more than I so I sold and it was wrecked shortly afterward. I moved to V8 Vega projects after that cause Nova cars were excellent donors at that time, and plentiful.

Rob

I bet it WAS fun. Mom and Dad bought a brand new '71 Impala 4 door with a 400 small block, 2 bbl. carb.-first brand new car we ever had- and it would go!.. and that was a LARGE car!

A guy I worked for back home said he was getting his wife a new Chevelle for Christmas one year- a snow shovel

I'm glad I wasn't taking a swallow of my drink when I read that-laughed so hard I prolly woulda ruined my keyboard!

There is time to reverse the sale. That dispenser would not soil my clean, white, starched and pressed coveralls I work in would it?

Rob

absolutely not-i'll clean and armorall it for you. been sitting in the shed for a while.

Maybe he should have been more specific when he was askin' his parents for the car

I'm pretty sure he knew what he was getting, he just wanted everyone to think he was getting a 'vette...the real 'vette that is.

Fifth time was a charm. They have not dropped over the past night and are right on the "oil level" line on the window.

I called my supplier for oil dispensing products and priced a "Graco" 5:1 air powered dispensing drum pump, digital totalizer, hose, and 16 gallon roller cart for a drum and it was nearly $800.00!! I said, "Holy Shit man, do you want to sell it or not"? They said sure, and I can have it for $625.80. I really don't need the expense this 1/4 so I went ahead and ordered the stuff, and will pay for it after the first of the year.

All the pumps are expensive so really wasn't surprised. It would be unlike me to not "razz" on em a bit however. Good people I deal with, and they've always treated me right.

Thanks again,

Rob

I wish you had contacted me first, i'd have sent you this for only $385.16, shipping included.

I got to watch a Beelman driver lay a trailer on it's side once. Painful to watch as it went over so slow. He told me, and I quote " you ain't a dump bucket driver till you put one over, doing what we do, you will put one over." I was surprised to see how little damage was done to the trailer. The yard up here is in Hammond In.(Chicago) and the equipment is tough looking. Brad

I pulled a dump bucket for a while and was always afraid of tipping over, especially with a load of lime. It was bad about sticking and wouldn't come out until the body was all the way up. Sometimes, especially if it was a little wet, it wouldn't come out at all and you had to lower the body and get in and run a shovel a bit to loosen it up then try it again. Plus you had to take it directly to a field sometimes and it was hard to find a level spot to dump it.

Larry Wales, a friend who used to live in Massachusets, said he was hauling to Logan Airport in Boston and they used to back up and dump side by side and he'd seen one tip over and hit the next one and they'd turn over like dominoes. He said there are dump trailers under the runway they were building to this day that they just cut the tractor loose from and left there.

Happy Turkey days guys!

I've ALWAYS been a BIG fan of plump, tender breast meat.

yup agree totally Id never buy a pete, Not nowhere near the truck of a KW petes are for them gear shift jockies you see on the hwy,, err well at least you can see there eyes peering over there door jamb from sitting on the floor while driving...

I have to agree. Jeff traded the 2000 W900L I was driving for the 2006 Peterbilt, and I wish he had kept it. It never broke down, ran good, had an N14 Cummins in it, and I just liked it better. Plus, a W900 is just a prettier truck in my opinion.

Also true, I can't even put any air in the seat or all i'd be able to see would be about 10 feet in front of me!

I agree with Rowdy the trucks back then were ahead of their time and had class. Now these so called areo trucks are just ugly and no class.

Me too. I love the old stuff-trucks used to have character. Now they all look alike, like cars. I can't identify most cars anymore until I see the name. You used to be able to tell at a glance what a '65 Impala was, or a Fairlane, or Roadrunner, or Chevette...I remember a guy from high school who was bragging that his parents were gonna get him a 'vette- and they did. A Chevette though, not a Corvette.