1958 F.W.D.

Staxx has great advice. You do need to get to the bottom of this, and a lube oil analysis is a great way to start.

I'm sorry I missed it- but I have a great excuse....Honest!!!! I have never been to this one, and I was planning on coming this year with Small, Medium and Large. However, as many of you (who are my Facebook Friends) know, my father kinda sorta threw me a curveball- on Friday morning 9/27 he told my mom that he was having chest pains. To make a long story short, she got him to the ER in the car, and 20 minutes later he coded (died right there on the table in front of the Doctor....) They were able to get him back. He was sent right up to the cardiac cath lab, and got three stents installed. He almost croaked 2 more times in the cath lab. He was intubated and sedated until Tuesday. Then after he was awake, it looked as if he may have suffered a stroke or an anoxic brain injury. However he is slowly regaining his memory, and is a lot more conscious, alert and oriented. He is doing very well despite what he was through. I almost lost my best friend....and was not a happy camper there for a few days. I've been a busy beaver the last week, going to work (which was the first week back after 12 days of vacation...so I had my hands full there.....) driving to the hospital (53 mile ride one way) and taking care of business in my own life......Ready to tear out my hair.

If it's an HT740 (which is very well probably is) standard ATF works. We use Wolf's Head HD Dexron III.

I think you should sign Ken's boob

Philosophically, Thats some deep shit.....

Who is this guy??? HINT: a while back, we were all praying for him. Now he's looking good (ok ok ok ok he's looking somewhat adequate......) and in good health. I am proud to call him my friend!!! The Most Interesting Dairy Tanker Driver in the World says: "Stay Thirsty, My Friends!!!"

Post more pictures of F-Models (especially Western/Hayward ones) or girls in cars in short skirts and I may reconsider.

Yes, thats the one. You're still fired for being a cock tease.

Thats ALL the pictures you took of that F-Model???? You're fucking FIRED!!! Do you hear me?? FIRED I SAY!!! FIRED!!!!! Hang your head in SHAME!!!!

I think those are the same style parking light modules on the headlights of my 1958 F.W.D. and if so, I might have some extra chrome pieces laying around, lemme take a look and get back to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVPol6AZjr4 Mack, if you never saw this video, it's a real good one of me and the truck running the test track at the Mack Customer Center/Museum for the first "Trucktoberfest" back in 2010. And then running out Interstate 78. Taken by a buddy of mine who was running shotgun. Two points: 1. She runs like shit until she warms up, hence the beginning of the video. 2. Ignore my 385 pounds!!!!

No, Not true at all. Folklore.

I was going to go- until I saw the admission price. Between that (me and the three kids) plus the cost to get there, and now what all of you guys are saying- I'm glad I didnt go,

David, from the sounds of it- you, me, and everyone else here damn well knows that Harry would have WANTED for you to have that truck. Don't feel guilty owning or driving it. Own and drive it and show it off to celebrate Harry's life, his love of mechanics and his love of Mack Trucks. You should get a graphics shop to make up something for each side of the hood or maybe the back window "IN LOVING MEMORY OF HARRY (last name) 1940-2013" or whatever year he was born....or maybe "HARRY RIDES!"

thomastractorsvc when did you get your picture with Chewbacca from Star Wars?

Let me get this straight....You claim you could not go under the truck and give it a good look because you only have one leg- even though you got on an airplane, and also managed to drive it from Ma to Wv???? When I was a career firefighter I worked with a guy who had one prosthetic leg and was still a paid firefighter......Sorry I'm not buying that sob story. You bought a truck that you did not thoroughly inspect by your own admittance......A 40 year old truck (that was not designed as a highway tractor or to maintain highway speeds up and down hills for that matter) that you drove home after you were told not to..... See ya bye bye......

mmmmmmmmm Hayward F-Model......I'm horrrrrrrrnnnnyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVPol6AZjr4 I remembered that this clip late last night....shows a certain someone driving/operating a certain brand of Non-Mack vehicle ON Mack's test track at the first "Trucktoberfest" and also on Interstate 78. There are views and sounds of proper up and downshifting of a non-synchronized tranny and with only one shifting "whoopsie." I even discuss matching input and output shaft speeds with my buddy who is not familiar. 4:55 in the video should be of interest to Poppa Jumper. And please ignore me being 350+ pounds in that video!!!! Makes me shudder!!!!

nice pink sunglasses........And wasn't it nice driving a truck that did not require you to close the door on your fingers before driving to be able to concentrate?

Holy fuck, yer a glutton for punishment. Sorry we could not hook up pally, but with getting the kids their dinner, homework, bathtime, gettin them to bed. blah blah blah......I was hoping you would have arrived earlier, I would have come over and picked you guys up, brought you to the house and we would have gotten some pizzas and cheese steaks, and then I would have done the kiddy stuff by which time the old lady would have been home- Then after the kids were in bed I would have trucked you back to the hotel. By the way the old lady says as long as Buster is ok with other male dogs he can come too. Hyper means nothing in this house. Backyard is fully fenced in.

Peachezz131???? Ahhhhhhh note how it is nice and quiet....You can hear yourself think, and have a conversation with the guy next to you who needs lessons in double-clutching and downshifting..............

Does he want to part out any of those I/H "R" Model cabs? I would love to have a windshield and driver/passenger windows.

The vast majority of every idiot 4-wheeler in the known universe (and non-operator big trucks too) that is going to Ct, Mass, Etc. uses I-95 by way of the GW Bridge, which is also one of two main routes onto Wrong Island. When every aforementioned schmuck uses said route, it tends to get a wee bit clogged. Therefore many of us "brighter" or "sharper" folk tend to favor I-287 up across the Throgs Neck Bridge into Ct, and then drop back down. The added mileage greatly makes up for the massive amount of lost time and wear and tear on your left knee.

Decatur....Effingham......It's all the same......

Just talked to dumbass slpwlkr, and he isnt going to Wrong Island- he's going to Maspeth, Queens. The address of his pickup is 53-20 44th Street, which is right in the shadow of the clover leaf of the BQE and the LIE. He's in Decatur, Illinois right now (2154 Tues night.) I advised him that taking I-80 in to the GW and dropping down was just as bad as as I-78 and up through the Outerbridge or Goethals and across Staten Island through Bklyn. However as he has to be there Thursday AM to load thursday during the day, taking the I-78 route in has the benefit of staying at a hotel in Allentown he knows has parking and takes pets- and also is located close by that asshole 1958 FWD's house where he can go mooch dinner and maybe take the FWD for a spin.......If he leaves the hotel in Allentown no later than 0430 or 0500 he should be able to make that address by 0800-1000 even in traffic. No matter how he does it, he's gonna hit traffic, and from the google maps view of the address it doesn't look like the greatest of hoods- so he's prolly better off staying out this way Weds night. All the truckstops on 80 and 78 in Jersey fill up at night.