other dog

Maybe rob's sippin on the Jack Daniel's anit sharing could be SINCE Joe's Closer to Lynchburg than i am he's got a lil run to Lynchburg & sending Rob an endless supply of Jack & we dont know it

Ya my little garden is out @ brothers house since i dont have room @ my place (1 bed room trailer on zero zone lot IN CITY Limit of Millington ) man talk bout the walls & reral estae caving in on me ive never been closterphobic BUT i was then that 1 time

bout 3 yrs ago had to sale my family's home place 2 acres & 2500 sq ft house bout a 1/4 mile off the road &my granddad & myself had a good size garden

granddad passed & had to be sold to settle his estae (no will)

Got my Onions in My seedless tomatoes from Burpee's coming in April & Gonna buy every thing else here local usually put in Tomatoes, Carrots, Onions, Okra, Bell, Banna , Jalpeno, & Haberneo (or scottsboro) Sweet corn & pole & butter bean & some black eye peas too Brother & my self share the work & the garden in general since he got 5 acres

( granddad taught us boys & our sister too to plant a garden THEN HE HAD A 20 ACRE TRUCK PATCH too that we worked with the help of a 1066 Blackstripe I.H. ) miss the sound of that Straight piped DT414 Motor in the IH 1066 Blackstripe In a hard pull

Rob My Brother (the same 1 im talking bout here & works for the GMC / VO%% Dealer in the parts dept in Memphis) told me the same thing about going to a 4L80E Im looking for 1 now so maybe i get 1 here in bout a month since warm weather & work season is upon us he said some where round $1700.00 to $1800.00 i guess this bout right huh ? either way im getting it fixed here soon

later yall

As Delmar said "I don't mean to be talkin' 'outa school...", but Rob and Joe, AKA Larry and Curly, might be gone for 5 to 10 (maybe less,with time off for good behavior) for "conspiracy to hijack a cement mixer against the peace and dignity of the commonwealth...blah-blah-blah". The ringleader Paul, AKA "Moe", has already fled the country and is still at large. Larry and Curly are already furiously denying any involvement in the plot, but the evidence against them is overwhelming, mostly their bragging about their plan right here on BMT.

Gee, sounds like you have a pretty good size garden compared to mine. Mine is only about the size of the kitchen and living room together here in my single wide

Tom,

Ahh, looking back now.......wasn't that the time you and her was having tha time of your life. It had to be a very enjoyable moment that day with her helping you. Sorry Tom....I guess I was having one of those sentimental moments also. I guess it's because i've been couped up in the house all week off from work. I had planned to go to the Mid-American Truck Show, and attend a Irish Festival near home. None of that happened. I'll get to wait another year....again. The g/f really didn't won't to go.... so it worked out for her plans to stay in the yard. I've looked in my wish book for the most of this day wasting time. No Mack Time for several weeks. It does start very easy with no problems.

mike

you're right Mike...looking back now, any time spent with her was the highlight of my life. Just didn't realize it at the time. But, hey-time marches on, right?

I put the "Miss Becky" sign on the front of the truck shortly before she died and showed it to her. Just used stick-on letters, and i'd never put letters on so straight before or since- they were perfect. Now it's a double meaning, not just the name of the truck.

I'll take it for a restoration if you don't need it. I've got a couple of Peterbilts round here that still use them. I love me some Peterbilts.

Thanks,

Rob

Just as I suspected.

The s/p is doing fine at this time. Not going to mess with it next time it threatens. It will come off and be changed over. Then i'll decide what to do from their. My dad always said if it's not broke don't fix it. I'm going with that phylosophy also since i'm now the age when he used to tell me that.

Thanks

mike

your story reminds me of when I drove the mixer home for the first time-my wife was following me in the car. Felt like I was flying! When we got home I said "how fast was I going?" She said "about 53, but you got up to 55 once, going down rocky run hill" . It has 7.?? rears in it.

Hey Bulldog man, back... wtf is Rob talking about ?! I think his clutch might be slipping again-they say your mind is the second thing to go. Anyway, I just got done planting some cabbage plants. Gotta get some onion sets now, everything else can wait. I always plant a little garden too.

I thought my PC was a goner too, but I called Teresa Moore for free tech advice and she got online with the HP tech guy while I was on the phone and we finally got it going. It wouldn't even start at all at first.

My posts are transparent to those detectors so you'll just have to believe my words are spoken with upmost integrity and truth.

Keep the faith my friend.

Rob will show you the way.

Rob

my detector ain't working right anyway. goes crazy whenever I say anything, and that can't be right...must need recalibrating.

I like an occasional cold one...but that's just wrong right there.

there's something familiar about that guy though.

His head looks too big for his body too.

Eye for an eye. That's the way it should be. Bravo Granny!

AMEN Brother! (Bulldogman)- Absolutely!

Why did Baker close? I remember that all their trucks were ultra-light units. Aluminum frames, fuel tanks, air tanks, wheels, and on and on. They even had air start so the truck only had one battery instead of four. They spec'd their East flatbeds light. Fewer crossmembers in some areas, super single tires, no spare, you get the idea. Sad to not see the green Baker Highway trucks on the road.

I don't know why they shut down. Jeff and Todd went to the sale when they auctioned their equipment and Jeff said it sold really cheap. They bought 2 of the Conestogas for less than they paid for one when they bought it new.

I never lie,

about some things.........

Rob

oh no,I know you don't lie. But sometimes my new B.S. detector I installed on here indicates a high level of B.S. on this site.

the old one's too depressing. How about this weather, eh? (Canadian)

...This girl has aged VERY graceful to say the least.

Now you've done it-next time you ask your GF to bring you a sammich and a rootbeer she'll say "s#@% you, why don't you call 'what's her name',who's aged so gracefully, to bring you a rootbeer and make you a sammich".

That's what I always say about "Momma". She still looks close to her senior picture in the high school yearbook to me.

I've heard others say things like, "Yeah, Right", "you must be blind", "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "She needs to tuck that third chin under", etc.....

I let it roll like water off a ducks' back.

Rob

I commend you for that Rob-even though I don't believe everything you say-that's the way I felt about my wife. After she passed my Ma told me "I'll tell you one thing, in her eyes you could do no wrong". Now I seldom seem to do anything right.

My scanner still doesn't work, but someday i'll post a picture of her here-when Jo's gone to the store or something

Will be praying for you. My 15 year old son died 4/22/08. Life wont ever be the same.

So true. I think it's also true that time heals all wounds. I lost my wife, whom I loved more than anything, almost 4 years ago to cancer, but "Life won't ever be the same".

There is another pic of her in my gallery. I couldn't get it to resize, to quote Larry "damn computers!"

no, it was "stupid computers" wasn't it? I hope so, or i've been misquoting him all this time!

IF it is an econodyne it should have a radiator intercooler. if it is a 237 you could ad an intercooler but you need re calibrate the pump

different injectors re do the timing and match a turbo ect . it goes on and on to do it properly mark

I don't remember a lot about this, but we'd-no, I mean i've seen others-take that little cap off the top of the pump and loosen the nut towards the rear and back it off just a little. Half a turn made a big difference, and wasn't enough to hurt anything. Remember-a little dab'll do ya! Backing the rear nut off one full turn was about as far as you'd want to go, then tighten the front nut while holding the rear one. Trying to turn it up too much is what got most people in trouble-the old "if a little is good, more's got to be better" theory. I had some offset wrenches, it's a tight spot in there. This was late 70's maxidyne engines.

There was one guy in particular around these parts who was famous for turning up a Mack. He'd blow a 300's doors off with a 237. He drove a company truck and wasn't concerned about hurting the engine of course. When he got a new R-model with an econodyne he wouldn't mess with it because they told him at the Mack place he would end up screwing everything up if he tampered with the fuel because everything had to be set together. Far as I know he never did because he was afraid to mess with it, because it was something new to him.

Here I was in between three jobs:

...Now I'm thinking, Rob, you dumb somebitch, you are about as smart as a box of rocks.

It's like my grandpa used to tell me as a young man: "Better to be pissed off, than pissed on; Learn from your mistakes, boy"; (I HATED when he called me boy cause I knew better than to sass that man).

I had just filled my truck bulk tank so I backed up to the Mack and gave it about 40 gallons. I then removed the filters, filled them and it basically popped right off after a bit of engine cranking. The engine was still warm from the idle time of backing out of the building.

I think I'm going to pull the pump and nozzles and have them evaluated before starting to rely on this truck for transportation. Nine years is a long time to sit not running with the pump loaded with water. The engine runs very well but has a slight "lope" at idle that could be fuel related. The throttle response is crisp, and very precise but I don't want to trust it several hundred miles "right out of the gate" without more experience looking at it.

Rob

well, you should be pissed! how st-...uh... I mean, it's just one of them things. Could happen to anybody.

It would probably be a lot easier on you to just hire a couple of big boys to stop by every few weeks and beat you up.

Now that could be it!..the funniest thing I ever heard that is

Naw, I want the new owner to feel good about their purchase.

Rob

Ohhh...well, that's mighty nice of you.

Thats a new one on me. Lets hear more about Howes.

mike

It's a fuel conditioner called Howes Lubricator. Like all the rest say, it removes water, lubricates the pump and injectors, increases fuel milage and horsepower, and is an anti-gel. Their motto is "you go, or we pay the tow". Fuel is guaranteed not to gel with Howe's. It costs anywhere from 12 to 16 dollars for the big bottle, but it treats 320 gallons. I put it in the mixer and used it in that other truck that I drive every day all the way to Washington and back. I don't know about all the other stuff but I could definately tell a difference in the way the truck ran when using it, ran really smooth even starting out cold.

Now, if any Howes agents sees this and wants to shoot me a free case of it i'll research it further.

Stupid scanner still won't work, but here's what it looks like. Good stuff.

First thing you need to do is make sure the puff limiter is unhooked.

It was in this F-model-that's a carton of non-filter Pall Malls on the dash. "Hippy" was driving this truck when I turned it up for him. He got it when I got a new one and said it wouldn't run, but I knew better.

put a bottle of Howes in each tank and ride on-good stuff!

Conestoga at Fairplain, W.V. Go-Mart. Another Conestoga at our yard. Same conestoga being loaded with Mullite- the forklift was too tall so I had to open the sides. They are also wider because of the rails the sides roll on, 106". You can see the edge of the 96 wide trailer at the corner marker light in the mirror, they stick out this much on both sides. I've got a load of steel coils loaded on it now.

I probably wouldn't screw with it. Especially knowing that I'm willing to sell you Other Dogs' mixer for say, $500.00 american.

Rob

your keyboard must be going bad too-left out some numbers there. At least now I know who my real friends- uh,friend I mean-is. Right Paul? Paul?

Naw, I wouldn't do that to someone that only drives class.

Rob

but he said he secretly desires to drive a Pete...