1958 F.W.D.

Wonder if that Oliver has a Wauky Diesel???

rough crowd......

Once again. If I have told you guys once, I have told you 654,918 times.......You can paint a turd any color you want. You can polish and wax the turd as many times as you like and make it shinier than a bar of silver. You can spray the turd with the most expensive French perfume. This does not change anything. It is still a turd. Here endeth the lesson.

Wow I never would have imagined that an F.W.D. is FWD that's pretty weird. I was wondering if it had a Wauky. Would have been interested in engine parts if it was a Wauky, also cab glass and other misc pieces if you weren't interested. If you do wind up parting it out I might be interested in the 4x4 xfer case, the axles and possibly the hydrovac booster. Maybe the tranny if it's a Clark over-and-up overdrive 5 speed. Don't have a lot of money though, might be willing to sell my body. Would be keeping them "just in case."

Mike are these yours? Will you part out the FWD? Specs on the FWD?

I wouldn't put it past Medium to kick his arse and steal the Winfall Wimmin.

Come to think of it he has not been on the fazebooks for a while either.....I just messaged him and told him we issued a BOLO for him.

Carl Ziamatic did make lights but I don't think that far back. AFAIK they came into the scene in the 1970's. Could be wrong though. They are located in our back yard in Bucks County, Pa.

Are they Mack? If they are in good shape, would be of extreme value to anyone who needs them for a Hayward restoration.

Stonco?

Obviously you are confused. We're discussing Detroits here.

He has a very hard time pressing down on the clutch though.....

You need to get a hold of Mike Martinelli, E290L103@aol.com

So "Medium" (age 9, soon to be 10) comes up to me at the beginning of the game and says "Hey Dad, what are we gonna do if the Patriots win?" I kinda shrug my shoulder and say "I dunno, what CAN we do?" He pauses for a minute and then says ....."Start a bar fight?" I blame gearhead, Hatcity, Otherdog, Freighttrain, 41Chevy, Mike69Mackman, Slpwlkr and JT for this.

mmmmmmmmmm future prime rib....mmmmmmmmmmm

I would have been shoveling sand into the intake

Ever see the episode of mythbusters where they take a "J" size oxygen tank and turn it into a torpedo? Sheared the valve off and put it right through a block wall. '

I have his phone number if you wanna give him a yell

If this is what I think it was, it was a BLEVE- "Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion" which are very violent and destructive. In the fire service we jokingly refer to them as "Blast Leveling Everything Very Effectively" or "Big Loud Explosion Very Exciting." Basically what it is, is a vessel, with a fire surrounding it that is intense enough to heat up the liquid inside and boil it to the point where it gives off vapors- which of course pressurize the vessel if confined (no relief valve or malfunctioning valve) the vapors expand to the point where they cause the vessel to suffer a catastrophic failure, hence the big loud explosion with destructive power. The carbon fiber tank had nothing to do with it. Gearhead I dont know about out there, but here on this side of the world we have been using carbon fiber or fiberglass wrapped aluminum SCBA tanks for well over 15 years. That tank could have been made from cast iron or 1/4" thick stainless steel, it's still going to succumb to physics under the right conditions.

:whistling:"for those of you on here that know me"................I don't know what you're talking about. No wait......Bias ply tires vs. Radial tires......YOU don't know what you're talking about!!! BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!

I love that black and white combination. And the sound of the turbo brings back so many memories of my childhood, riding shotgun in my old man's two F-Models......I can't tell you how many times the whine of that turbo and the sound of the Robert Bosch injection put me to a happy sleep in the passenger seat, "riding with my daddy." I miss those days. I'm going to send these to him, he will enjoy.

Check with Mack mhe9.......You might have to wait until he gets a load out that way, but he lives "in the general neighborhood" of Macungie.

No thanks. If I'm getting divorced because I buy another vehicle project, I may as well do it in style and get an R, U or Hayward F Model.

Mackdaddy, the gold leaf on the FWD has a clear vinyl overlay applied to it. You really have to look hard to see it. The old school way was to apply a clear finish which would have to be re-applied every few years, but the clear vinyl overlay is damn near indestructible.

Yes, very definitely a repower. 700 Series ALF's ("The Bathtub) were commonly delivered with Continental (straight 8) or Lycoming (V12) power. Later in life when these engines grenaded or the owners wanted to upgrade to an oil burner, the 6V53 (unfortunately) was a common choice due to similar horsepower and torque curves as well as fitting in there without much shoehorning or other work. But a common theme was that they created a turtle (a loud, obnoxious one at that) that wouldn't get out of its own way as they went from a 3200rpm engine to a 2100 engine, and didn't have the money to swap out the rears.