tjc transport

that is the electrical malfunction light. pretty much any thing can set it off. my 05 has a loose connection somewhere in the pyrometer circuit that is always setting the light. another one i get is #1 injector motor weak, but i only get that when letting the engine idle to warm up on cold days. once i get going it goes away.

i had a chance to buy one of those many years ago. all stock fire service truck. i still kick myself in the asterisk every time i think about it. it was at an auction. ran, but no brakes. ended up selling for $250. the only reason i did not buy it was because i had no pllace to store it for 6 months as i was in the process of moving out of state.

nost likely a short in the rear lights or associated wiring.

they starting these BS rumors again?? autoblog has been saying this for over 15 years, AND IT STILL IS NOT TRUE.

there is a junction box on the back of the frame all rear lights are connected to. the terminals get corroded and you loose connections. clean everything up real good back there and you should be golden

yea, i know. i was just being a smartass.

i bet it would loose it's "fizz" before you got to drink it all too!!

i don't know if there are any pictures of it on the internet, or even how to look for it. but back in 85 or 86 mack trucks did a photo shoot for either their magazine or their dealer display brocures that showed a new red DM800 in the mud, with the tires spinning and the driver looking back and down out the window. that was me in the truck.

John Laceys DM800 started life as a V8 truck, he swapped in a 350 and 8ll trans 10-15 years ago. still runs i talmost every day.

sounds like a fun car. what are you asking for it?

4.5 acres per hour!!

Selective Materials, which was a side company of Joe Defino Trucking

back in my lowboy piloting days, all i ran were DM800's, and they all had 237's and mud stick transmissions with 12X24 rubber, . trailer was an old Rodgers 100 ton unit with 10 X 23 deck, and it ran 14X24 tires on the tandem axles. i would move anything with that rig, including 14 foot blade D8's and 245 excavators. never worried about speed because with something that big i never went over 25 MPH. with the "S" tags, i was legal for 225,000 lbs, and regularly hovered rite around 200 to 210k lbs.. when not in the lowboy i was usually in a 73 DM with 237 and a quad box. until they finally bought me a brand new 1988 R model with 350 and mud stick trans tandem dump.

what year is the Falcon?

OJO Trucking in Sayerville NJ still runs 5 DM800 tandems. oldest is i beleive an 83, newest is a 88. i remember one of the guys that parked in our yard back in the late 80's had a first year DM800, it was on a B81 frame. big old tank, but you could not get it stuck with the automatic trans that was transplanted in it. i want to say it was a 1966, but not sure on that.

local towing company here had one for many many years with a 12V71 under the hood. he used to to haul broke down tractor trailers for the town tow list. .

i see that all the time in new yawk city. the red lights there are only for the out of staters. people from new yawk can do what ever they want at traffic lights.

from the line of dark liquid trailing from off the road to under the last vehicle, i am going to bet rod through the block with engine parts in the road that caused the flat tires on the other cars.

it probably happend at night and by the time they got to dislodging it from under the bridge it was daylight. that is usually how it winds up here. we can not remove the body until the overpass is inspected by engineers and deemed safe for removal.

more like road being repaved and the dumbass never put the body down after leaving the paver. i see it 2-3 times a year on our major roads here in New Jersey.

that is not a thingamabob. it is a thingamajig. a thingamabob has the knob on top of the lever, a thingamajig has the knob in the middle of the lever.

they sure do!! usually takes 4 men 3-4 days of welding to make it one piece.

it looks like the body of a Caterpillar 777-D

and let me guess, star transport only hauls alcohol, rite?

i had a guy try that yesterday in static island. he had to lock up the brakes when he realized he was not going to make it, and almost got hit head on by a NYC sanitation truck who did not slow down. the was nothing i could do, it was a two lane with no shoulder so i could not move over even if i wanted to.