other dog

...huh?

that's the same thing I said

I use it when I get lost too.

yep

yeah, helluva cleanup job! looks like a different truck

What I meant to say was- if all else fails, you can crack (loosen, I should say) the line where it goes into the wheel cylinder and bleed it there. However,That will only release the bulk of the air from the cylinder. The bleeder screw is placed at the highest point of the fluid cavity as to facilitate entrapped air rising to that elevation to be removed by "bleeding". As you will remember from elementary physics: A fluid medium, (liquid) cannot be compressed. A gaseous medium, (air in this case) readily compresses to many times it's atmospheric pressure/state. Hydraulic power is based upon the principal that a liquid cannot be compressed. This lack of compression allows the movement of fluid under pressure to perform mechanical work. In this case, ultimately spreading of brake shoes to provide friction against a brake drum.

I never even heard of mapp gas. Rob knows his s-...stuff, I mean

"...I do like tater tots..."- Clint Eastwood on whether or not to eat the governors t-bone steaks and tater tots, in the movie where he's after Kevin Costner, who has the little boy in the casper the ghost costume.

I saw some of these videos on the Diesel Gypsy's site, but there was no sound. This is way better with sound-too bad they didn't have a 318 vs. a 903. Probably would have taken too long for 'em to get up the hill anyway

ran across this picture a while ago. the caption said "never piss off the guy who runs the backhoe".

I haven't, but I did see this "bacon pie"...looks delicious.

That's not Dick Van Dyke-it's Rob Petrie- so that's not-you're not...never mind, back to the secret research lab Your brother Jerry is funnier anyway.

After much research I finally found out what Rob really looks like. This is his senior portrait, from the Farmington High School yearbook, class of 1978.

yep, that's what they say.Usually i'd go to Brookfield or Sharon and load right back to Roanoke or Lynchburg instead of going all the way to Butler to load.

here's what the other side of them look like

excellent point Speed

wow, great picture! You can see Mt. Rainier on the horizon!..oh, what were you talking about? I wasn't paying attention.

It was... I... never mind, I have no idea where I was on the 16th.

Tonka

Amen brother! (otherdog quoting nocluejoe quoting otherdog quoting Bulldog Man) I'd rather watch the Hokies myself!

I delivered the load from Texas to Milton, Pa. Tuesday, then rode over to Brookfield, Oh. and got a load of coils and went to Roanoke. I thought I was going to Chester, W.V. with a curtain side, or Conestoga, or whatever you call it Thursday (they won't unload a flat bed in winter, and we didn't know if we could get a return load for a van), but they got a Fremont, Oh. load so I took that instead. Ran in lots of snow (again!) all the way (well, all right, most of the way!) up and back. Had to go from Fremont over to Butler, Pa. to reload at AK Steel-I hate AK Steel by the way, have I mentioned that before? My appointment was at 3pm, got there at 3:15 and waited in the holding pen until after 6 when they finally called the 3 o'clock trucks. Didn't get out of there until 9 last night, when it was blizzarding (I just made that word up). I drove down I-79, saw a cop in the median just before exit 99 in West Virginia, I looked at my speedometer and was doing 74 mph (speed limit was 70). He didn't move but then a 4 wheeler passed me like I was tied to a stump, and he came out and pulled the car over. I stopped where you get on rt. 19 and pulled on the shoulder and took a nap until almost daylight. Then I came on down 19 to Summersville and took rt. 39 over to Nettie, stopped at the GoMart for a coffee and sausage bistit, then rt. 20 to Charmco, and rt. 60 to I-64 at Sam Black Church. 39 and 20 was pretty much snow covered, but no problems. Everything was lovely when I got on 64, and I got to the shop about 11:30. Took some good pictures along the way too... here's my truck Monday, all clean and shiny-except that hubcap ain't too shiny anymore same 'ol dirty trailer though-been to Seattle and back, and didn't get a wash job unloading in Milton,Pa.-I'm gonna back under the crane where that forklift is a frozen river in Pa.-I 80 a river not frozen in Pa, I 80 this looks like it could be in Montana or somewhere, but it's just east of Clifton Forge, Va. headed west on I-64 this looks like it could be in Wyoming or somewhere, but it's on rt. 250 in Ohio this looks like it could be in Ohio four wheeler off roading-rt. 20 in Ohio lots of snow-rt. 20 in Ohio took this this morning-approaching Nettie, W.V. GoMart at Nettie, where I stopped for a bistit and coffee rt. 20, W.V. rt. 20, W.V. here's my truck Saturday- not so clean or shiny anymore.

Gee...where to begin? Haven't posted a blog since Dec. 22nd. Lot's been going on since then, good and bad and in between, but i've forgotten most of it. The bad news is that my nephew Bo Scruggs was one of the victims of the sorry bastard who shot and killed 8 people in Appomattox recently. 8 good people, for no apparent reason, or reasons known only to him. Then Bo's dad Ronnie had a heart attack and is now recovering at home from 5-way heart bypass surgery, so he'll be out of work for a while. Fortunately the community has rallied behind them and the other victims families with benefits for them like stews, dances, and the skating rink in Appomattox- where Bo was a regular- donated money also. The Pamplin volunteer fire department made 40 gallons of chicken stew and 40 gallons of beef stew- it was all sold in 15 minutes, along with all the cakes,pies,and desserts people donated to sell. Been running pretty good lately. Went to Mobile, Al. one week. Reloaded in Shreveport for Lynchburg and it was snowing. In Shreveport. Louisiana. Then the following week I went to Mobile and back twice. Then last week I went to Eagle Pass Texas. That's about a desolate ass place, right on the Mexican border. Nothing but brush and cactus for about 50 miles or so before you get there, for as far as you can see. Had to come all the way back to Jackson, Tn. to get a load though...going to New #@*+ing Jersey. Had to go to Wilmington, De. Monday to unload a load I picked up in Blytheville, Ar. last week. I left here Sunday and while I was driving up rt. 29 I noticed the alternator wasn't charging. Figured it was probably the belt, and I had a spare, so I pulled into the truckstop at Opal to put it on...but it wasn't the belt. So I called Jeff and he told me to call road service, so I did, and left there 6 hours later with a new alternator. I left Wilmington when I got unloaded Monday morning, headed to Petersburg to load the Eagle Pass load. Went by Peterbilt in Richmond to get the engine brake fixed-it only worked 2/3's- and I had an air bag leaking on the cab. Left there with 2 new air bags and a fully operational engine brake...6 hours later. 12 hours downtime...don't tell Rob.

yes, I probably wouldn't tell the instructor to "git in, sit down, hold on, and shut up!"

Hey Paul, just a little note here-I think you need a new keyboard for your PC. Sometimes what you type doesn't show up, but oddly enough, if someone else replies to your post and quotes the post, it does show up. They're fairly inexpensive, available at your local retailer- or maybe retaler.

I don't know where that information came from, but it only took me four tries. "...yeah,everybody funny -now you funny too "- George Thorogood