Mark T

40 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

There is always a concern that a ground war will come to the U.S...   For decades I have said to many people, that bullets, rockets and bombs, are less of a concern to me than the use of Biological weapons..  All of these recent actions, whether its, Baloons, or kissing China's A$$, Train wrecks, ignoring American strife but giving aid to a country, that really isn't a friend, in my opinion. Seems to tie in to a fear of mine..  Ok, well i gotta go now, i was scratching my head and just ripped my 'tin foil hat',  I need to make a new one...  Jojo

You mean like a virus or something ??  One capable of destroying an economy and creating a major change in life as we know it ?    Wanna go halvsies  on a roll of aluminum foil ?

Emeryville ??  I'm pretty sure it was the VCO. 

Could you imagine how few kids the age of your grandson have any idea what some of the vehicles you have are.  Let alone how they're supposed to be used.  So many of us on here were that boy at some point.

What's that car hide'n in the background 🧐

Tell ya what, after see'n the "Bob" pictures photoshopped it makes ya wonder .   

No reason you couldn't just use an R12 for a relay valve. 

9 minutes ago, mowerman said:

 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarite People never really look like  you think thier going to 

So you're saying that doesn't only apply in online dating ????     who knew

If that one's a relay, it should have three lines hooked to it. One constant supply, one to delivery (should be to quick release before air chamber(s) and one to signal air to it (from shuttle valve or foot brake)   

The Royale was from when that oil guy briefly owned the company (after White)  Would have been around 1974 to 1975 .  Same time as The Raider was produced. 

Just a fun little factoid .....  during the time of the Diamond T 921 and 931 they were under the leadership of Zenon Hansen.  Same guy that was in charge of our beloved Macks during the Maxidyne / R Model era .  Some believe he saved Mack at that point. (maybe he did)  Wish he had a grandkid to have saved it from Volvo.

That one picture doesn't look like any valve I've ever encountered . But then again , age wise compared to the truck.... the truck has quite a few years on me.  Sure has my curiosity go'n though.

Just a wild guess,  truck didn't have an exhaust brake at some point ?    (I know little about those old ones, except they did exist)

7578     side post screw in posts 

It was the right thing to do OtherDog.  learn by doing .

That little guy there looks like an old shuttle valve (maybe)

That couldn't be from sanders or something like that.... could it ?

I had an old friend. He had a 1959 Diamond T dump truck he bought new. He was still using it in the early '90s to plow snow. That truck had one of those mufflers on it. Funny how some things stick in your memory.

Those first two are funny......  like use some vulgarity to describe how funny 😂

2 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

amazing how the old pictures Sturr up the brain cells.. I haven't seen a "pancake " muffler in many years.  nice looking unit. so simple yet practical "for the day".

Wasn't that a Hopkins muffler ? 

Yeah..... and I wanna date with Jane Seymour too .   

6 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

It was a nice Gesture from our King, to let the Chinese spy Baloon complete it's 'info gathering' mission, before he shot it down..  You Go !!! Brandon...   

He wasn't too worried about it, they already sold them any info it could have gathered.

You get a little exercise lugging them around it sounds like....then the clothes hanger part. 

🤔 looks like a muffler in the front of that truck. Must be some tanker of some sort ?  Don't remember ever seeing anyone restore something like that.  Look'n great though 😍

37 minutes ago, RowdyRebel said:

Even then, though, it can & will override your decision to shift if it doesn't think it's the right decision...sort of like those run-away toyotas a few years ago. Push-button on/off (no key to physically kill the ignition) that wouldn't "allow" the car to be shut off while it was in motion, turn-knob fly-by-wire transmissions that wouldn't "allow" the driver to select neutral under WOT conditions, and a fly-by-wire throttle that was stuck wide open. My desire for a vehicle to override my decisions on when/where/how to shift is lower than my desire to have a vehicle shifting for me...and that was already lower than the wind chill on Mt Washington the other night.

 

Coming to an intersection close to home a guy was blocking traffic. I noticed it was a guy I know, and something was wrong. Turned out his kid used the Dodge pickup and ran it really low  on gas.... so it was out of gas.  It had that rotating knob  shifter. Without it running there was no getting it out of park to even push it out of the way.  I had never known that, or if there is some way to do it.  All I could think was  " God.... what a dumb set up"