Mark T

I saw there's a new portable compressor on the market. It looks like a cordless impact but has a hose coming out of it where you'd put a socket on. thing must work great, shows them blowing up a truck tire...... and a basketball.  Even has a LED light and digital pressure read out.  What more could a man ask for ?

I have a really hard time believing guys like us are the only people who notice things like this.  What a joke.

What's the matter Jojo ???  not happy with her performance for her bought silence that our taxpayer money paid for ?

Super Ten Fullers were back in the beginning of automation and all that great stuff.  Some engineers agreed there were fuel savings to be found being in direct and overdrive at the proper times. Technology wasn't so advanced at the time so basically (really basically) the ECM would shift the transmission between direct and overdrive  (9th and 10th) as it was programed . Since processors and servos weren't that sophisticated (or affordable) at the time the Super Ten Top 2 made some sense on some level. They could also just be shifted by the driver if it wasn't set up to an ECM or in a truck without an ECM.  By the time they marketed them and all though , they were basically obsolete because there were better mousetraps. (think Autoshift) . they also pitched it as "less shifting for the driver"  Sorta like a Mack ten speed from the early '80s but the shift pattern was where it ended.  Outside they looed like an old RTO 13 speed but with no range valve on the main case on it's left side.   Remember when all these ideas.... low RPM high torque....less shifting.... reduced weight were all Mack ideas no one really valued at the time as they do now ?

On 7/4/2023 at 5:47 PM, RowdyRebel said:

WTF is this world coming to...🤦‍♂️

look what you started here 🤣

That red one looks like the top flange is split on the frame.  

Is it just me , or is it getting harder and harder to laugh at these things because they're for the most part true....and we're live'n it.

Wonder if the a$$hoke will brag about the first time coke was discovered in the white house.  

11 minutes ago, tjc transport said:

biggest move i ever made was a 16 foot diameter 150 foot long 245,000 lb cracking tower from a refinery to the waterfront 5 miles away. move was supposed to take 10 hours. 

2 miles into the move something was missed and blew out 37 tires as we were crossing a multiple track railroad crossing.

power and phone companies all over the place raising, or disconnecting wires across the road as needed for me to pass. 
ended up taking 26 hours. 

truck was a 59 autocar tri drive with a V16 cummins, 5 speed main, 4 speed auxilary and 4 speed reducer trans. giant planitary drive rears, and 14/24 tires. had a top speed of 23 MPH.

trailer was 20 sections of 6 axle Mammut modular transporters.

i was hired to do the escort, and declined it because i did not have the manpower to do it properly so they asked me to drive the rig instead. 
 

Who's truck was that ?  Sounds like a Gerossa   (I should apologize for the likely misspell)

The MP 7 you ask about would clean  the EM7 300's clock (in my opinion)    These don't have the wallop of an old 400 HP 3406 or anything like that, but if they're in good shape ????  they're a good engine.  Mackpro pretty much described it as well as could be described .

14 minutes ago, Mean Green said:

I just hope those are all electric cars in the photo so there is zero emissions and all those homeless people are breathing clean air🤣

Yes yes..... NO restrictions for them breathing in through the free crack pipe they were given. Can't have those nasty NASTY carcinogens mixing in with the clean safe crack pipe.  Or worse yet , a car running out of gas and blocking the EMTs from getting there in time to give the narcan  out.

15 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

I agree with you Mark,   I was just hoping to give some insentive for higher learning..   I too have worked my a$$ off to get the bare minimums at times..  I guess my wishful thinking is that we could produce some more smart people instead of system suckers..   Free rides only produces D-Bag's...    I cant post my true feelings, because I dont want to ruin my good reputation here..   jojo

I know exactly what you mean.   If I said what I truly want to , I'd be fired off this site like one of those Space X rockets .

TT475 😍

2 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

Instead of giving college loan refunds or amnesty...  how about tell students that they can EARN a financial relief...    GPA of 3.5,  10% discount, 3.75 GPA 15% discount,  4.0 GPA  25% discount..   This will give students a goal, and if they meet the goal, then the country wins!!   we will have smarter graduates entering the workforce rather than, affirmative action kids with lower educations.    Regardless of SKIN COLOR......   Jojo

How about they sink or swim ?  Ever get a discount for your hard work ?  IDK about higher education, but the ones getting the free ride, they're smarter than me get'n by without kill'n themselves. F#$*'n joke. Can't earn a grade or pay, then you shouldn't be there in the first place.

That LE 12.9 means it's a metric grade 12.9 ( pretty hard bolt ) and LE I believe is Lake Erie (?)  the manufacturer.  Those 23-160s are a very good component.  Odd that bolt broke and no sign it was loose. ( weird )  from your pictures, looks like there's definitely some life left in it. 

Yes

Is that a locker ? If it is you'll need to cage the sliding clutch. Remove the air fitting and if I remember correctly you'll use a 3/8 fine thread bolt in through the hole you take the fitting out.   Make a couple long studs same size as a bolt you remove around the carrier. When you slide the carrier out of the housing on the studs it'll be easier to balance it with one of the then exposed flange bolt holes.  This component is a couple hundred pounds. 

That's 2300 cubic inches of Cummins brute power there. Gonna need some big exhaust.....and a big fuel tank.

QSK38     that right there is about as close to living behind it that automatic transmission will ever be. 

12 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

That Black B Model dump truck looks like one of Danny Smith's truck's...   

That black truck is a beauty. 

Is this by any chance a reman clutch ?   Do you have a good transmission jack ??

It's a beautiful dump truck.   I also just happened to see that H360 Brockway with the dump trailer out by The Beacon  Bridge on RT 84.  It was something seeing it in the area it would have been working in 45 years ago. 

OD   I wasn't fast enough earlier today to get the picture. Saw one of your favorite Bs going up Route 222 today headed to the show ( that black dump truck with the red frame )  Cool seeing it in action like that. 

Looks like some form of a Cummins QSK38 (V12 size of 2 6 cylinder KTs, as opposed to the 1710 V12  2 855s)