1958 F.W.D.

Don't know any labs down there but most of the major CAT dealers have their own in-house labs and will analyze any make/model.

CoCo where are you located?

I know you are bored out of your mind, but TAKE IT EASY......especially if you are having inner ear and dizziness issues!!!!

Have you had a recent crankcase oil analysis done? For an average price of $20 it is a priceless tool to use.

Don't forget to only use non-ethanol gasoline if you are able to.

Have enough energy to take a good long hot shower? They always make me feel like a million bucks after being stuck in bed for a few days

Joey Mack I see you are in Salisbury NC......My pop and I know the fire chief Bob Parnell there very well. We both used to work for Jevic and when Jevic had a terminal down there (later moved to Concord) we got to know him well after a few haz mat spills in the yard and on the dock. I had a job offer there about 25 years ago for the Fire Department, but my b tch first wife (who told me she would go anywhere with me for a career fire department job) wouldn't cut the apron strings from her mother. I am still pissed to this day about it but then again that was the beginning of the end of her and I wouldn't have met SWMBO.

Joey Mack hope you pull out of this soon. You may have seen a while back that my wife and I both got it the second week of December. I had fevers, aches/pains/chills and the mud squirts for less than 36 hours and then poof.....all gone like I never had it, I swear I felt FINE. Then four days later I lost all sense of taste and smell. The wife got her ass kicked- she had all the symptoms I had plus a hacky cough and she slept for 18-20 hours a day for the first 8-9 days. She also lost her taste and smell and we both got it back between Xmas and New Years. And if any of the kids had it, they didn't show any symptoms. When we both tested positive the school said "keep em home and switch to virtual (our district was offering both.) This disease is very strange it how differently it can affect people.

Absolutely THIS.

EFF SENSITIVITY TRAINING!

Saw my first "Double-Masker" today at the supermarket. It was ahead of me in the checkout line. Came with a bonus of wearing plastic gloves, and it wiped down the pad of the credit card machine. I go through my checkout routine, and head out to the parking lot. I did like I always do when I got out the door- ripped off my face diaper. I was walking to the pickup when double masker is pushing it's cart back to the store- it yells to me "Hey you need to put your mask on!" Without hesitation I shouted back "Hey you need to MYOFB!" Groan.

That may be a bit out of his comfort zone but give Gregg Hoffman (Under Dog on here) a call 610-428-6075. If he doesn't answer, leave a message. He is operatin' and will call you back at his next opportunity. Tell him the Hellertown Truck Stop/Freight Broker sent you.

If you are on Facebook, check out the group "Mack Truck Memorabilia Collectors"

The cab A few weeks ago- looking down the frame from the front. Yes the frame rails, the cross members, the torque box and outriggers are all galvanized. The pump housing, about 85% complete The Raydan air bag assist walking beam suspension. Note the Meritor disc brakes on the tandems. Most of the suspension components are installed. The engine (X15 Cummins/600hp) and the Trans (Allison AVS4000) have been installed.

I am trying to upload some more build progress pictures but am having trouble. Here is the 2000 GPM Waterous pump itself, set into the frame of the pump housing module.

Sure. How many do you want?

No one is perfect.

No sir but the thought of an FWD doing what an FWD does best makes me moist.

I am horny.

Donald and Lee. They both came to my Mom's funeral last year. It was good to see them despite the circumstances. Later on that year I was having issues getting my Ram aligned properly and I heard that Donald was really good with Ram alignments so I took it to him. He had me in and out in an hour and it has been perfect ever since.

I was 5 in 78, we lived in Montgomery County Pa just outside of far northeast Philadelphia. When my dad was home from trucking he worked for the local Gulf station running their tow trucks, had a Holmes 750 on a 1971 6500 GMC (among one other tow truck and two roll-backs.) They had the tow contract for Lower Moreland Township (Huntingdon Valley.) He would chain up that 6500 and he swore it would go anywhere. He said he spent about 28 or 30 hours in that truck pulling people out of ditches and winching them up hills or clearing roads before he finally gave up to sleep. I remember the blizzard of 1996- I was a rookie Federal Firefighter at the Naval Air Warfare Center in Warminster Pa. I was stuck there for 5 days straight. (1- my own 24hr shift. 2- Forced for 24, blizzard. 3- my own 24 shift. 4- repaid a shift exchange. 5- my own 24) By the end of day 3 we were running out of food. The Navy XO gave us permission to enter the Commissary and take food as long as we kept careful records of what we took. He picked up the tab out of his pocket a few days later. The base itself was closed. We ran several calls out to housing, which was about a 2.5 mile ride. The telesqurt pumper was chained up but the long wheelbase dragged around snow banked corners and got stuck often. We ran one medical call that was a kid having a bad asthma attack and the ambulance couldn't get in, so we loaded up the mom and kid in the cab and trucked them out to the main drag to meet the ambulance. I hate being a firefighter in snow, ice and cold.

David Wild, have you ever heard of the Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division in Warminster Pennsylvania? In years past it started as the Brewster Aircraft Company, was later taken over by the War Department, and later the US Navy. It was also called NAS Johnsville and the Naval Air Development Center. Not to be confused with NAS Willow Grove, Pa. which is about 6 nautical miles to the southwest. NAWC Warminster was a victim of one of Reagan's BRACs and the facility began to relocate to Pax River, Md in the mid 1980's and the facility totally closed and the flag was retired in March of 1993. Anyway, I started my Federal Firefighter Career as a rookie firefighter at NADC which had the largest dynamic flight simulator in North America at the time it was operational. (human centrifuge.) ALL of the Astronauts spun in the 'fuge from Mercury to the Shuttle astronauts up to 1995 when use of the facility by the USN ceased and it was taken over by Penn State University. It was eventually shut down entirely as the private contractors and PSU couldn't afford the upkeep on it. When it was still running for the USN, medical personnel were required to be on site when it was running, but because the base was closing, the USN Corpsman were being relocated. It was decided that Fire Department EMT's would be present when spinning, and since I was an EMT, I was tapped with another guy to go over with the ambulance and stand by and monitor vital signs and transport to civilian hospital if necessary (the infirmary was closed by then.) It was considered boring duty, but I ate it up as I was an aviation and space exploration buff and loved meeting the Astronauts. They were down to earth (pardon the pun) really cool folks, especially when they learned I was crash crew qualified. It had to come to an end for me however, as I put in for a firefighter position at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and moved on in January of 1997. After the Shipyard I became a Firefighter at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland where I was part of the crash crew for about a year. Saw a lot of cool stuff at Phillips Army Airfield that I can't talk about. It was awesome having worked at these three facilities and I consider myself very fortunate and humbled to have worked there.

I want to know who dropped the ball- each and every exterior door let alone the interior ones should have been locked up tight and when the first intruder came through they should have been blasted. Everyone behind the first one would have said "screw this!" and ran. Betcha this whole thing never would have happened. Unless someone wanted it to.....

I have a friend that was there. Though he was not in close proximity to the main stairs into the front of the capital, he reported that the crowd immediately surrounding him was respectful, well behaved and in good spirits. There was zero discussion of any illegal activity let alone what happened. Other than a bunch of Police Cars coming in all of a sudden and passing by to destinations unknown, he and his companions didn't even know anything happened until they were on the train headed back to Philadelphia. And he was emphatic to say that those actors were not representing the overall feelings of the crowd.