carlotpilot

quite an accomplshment. thankyou

fwiw   160 mi for 700 is ridiculus i would drain out whats in there now  put new oil in` it drain the radiator fill it back up with clear water and drive it home  then you can check and test whatever. provided of course it runs okay otherwise 

who on here is old enough to remember seeing school bus chassis being driven on the highway from the mfg. to the body installers place of business? no cab only a temp seat and half a windshield

3 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said:

Exactly!  That's all it was meant for.  Hold the button in, get out of the road, and let the button go to lock it back down.  Sometimes, there wasn't even enough air in that system to get them to release cleanly one time!  That's how my old R was set up.  In fact, all the R-models I drove in my youth had this setup.  If/when it worked, it was a pretty nice system.  No crawling under the truck to cage the spring just to move out of the road.

california used to require that setup. not sure what year they lifted it

12 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

I gotta say I learnt something here 

R models in Australia have a valve to push thats beside the air supply valve to the trailer 

Looks the same on the knob, black round but I think the writing is different 

Anyway I have never known what this valve is for and have asked plenty of people over the years 

I push it and never holds, just pops back out 

On my mates R model we were problem solving (having a drink and talking dribble) one night a few weeks ago and I noticed that at least one of the brake chambers is different to a normal maxi 

It looks like these DD3 when I googled it 

He had no idea as it never gave trouble and hasn't ever paid attention 

His R model is 83, so two years newer than Mrs Mack 

I wonder if that is what that valve ia for 

Must look into this another night 

 

Paul 

on that system you had  enough air to release brakes one time but you had to hold the button in. intended to only get you out of the road

sounds like a dropped valve  stuck in a piston

this stuff has loosened heat siezed pistons in several engines for me . not free but enough to move them 

 KROIL   expensive stuff `about 60 bucks a gallon  about 1/2 teacup in each cyl wait 2-3 days  heavy duty pry bar in the fly wheel provided  you can get to it`` back&forth prying  it will come loose

sounds like winning to me 

lookin more like a million every week

still not working 5 pm mon.

keep em rolling guys

he`s fine

I offered a guy 4 for free he thought i was nuts

a  beauty

no overspray on the droptop

why would a piclup need 10 speeds?

WE HAVE A SCAMMER  WORKING THE SITE

MEMBER SIGNED 8 5 2O2O  CONNECTED 

TO A SCAMMER    ( MY FRIEND ROBB)

wanted to buy area

a set of grill surround mounted headlight assemblies from a 378 peterbilt` used in good cond . these would be the ones with turn signals as part of the assm. with or without sealed beams . will also consider new oem

13 hours ago, david wild said:

So this is the Pete that was in CA. slow progress cause it's been a busy summer but maybe next year unless someone comes along and wants to buy it. what it looked like and some after some work, Order bumper next week and the Prutsman mirrors are on their way

13 hours ago, david wild said:

So this is the Pete that was in CA. slow progress cause it's been a busy summer but maybe next year unless someone comes along and wants to buy it. what it looked like and some after some work, Order bumper next week and the Prutsman mirrors are on their way

dave . is that a 375 - 378 .? I need to find a set of head lights the same as whats on that one 

4 hours ago, mowerman said:

Looks to me like wedge brakes—air . Bob

clean your glasses bob 

it is 90" needs the hood rebuilt and some other tlc other than that bc 350 runs good . I will start on the hood shortly can`t find one that i`m willing to pay the price for so gonna do it myself

On 7/20/2020 at 12:58 PM, Freightrain said:

Fellow on JOT was just commenting about his fleetstar and how 2 cyl were under the hood, 2 under the dash, and 2 in the cab.

heres another of those 2+2+2 arrangements

I can`t even stand the old shows anymore