tjc transport

what he meant was 7 years out of the casings. not 7 years on the caps.

old company used to love recaps. brand new trucks had caps put on the rears before they even got lettered. we averaged 20-25k miles on the caps. the guy i have been with for the past 12 years flat out refuses to have caps in the yard. the cooper dealer gives us $125 for the cores last time i got tires. but then again, we replace tires when they got down to around 5,000 miles left on them. and we also do not hit things or sidewall rub tires either.

yup, same here. 60,000 on the steer axle, 50-55k on the rear axles. i rotate rear axles front/back every 10k miles for even wear pattern. yes in hurts a little paying for 8 tires instead of 4 at a time, but i prefer having same wear on the rears instead of front axle 50% and the rear damn near bald.

yes it was, but i would not trade the memory of those days for anything now. i truly believe those days are what made us what we are today.

i think it is amazing we all are still alive with some of the pranks, or stupid stuff we did as kids. but then again, we are probably still alive only because out parents did the same stupid stunts.

the cooper roadmasters on my trucks are all made in america. our cooper dealer is in the building next to us in the industrial park.

similar story here. when i was around 14 i came out from under a car covered in trans fluid. mom see it and almost had a heart attack!. to this day, i still call blood trans fluid. get a cut and blood dripping down the arm? damn it! i sprung another transmission leak! 😆

it is still a rare animal, but i would expect to put about 20 grand into it to make it rite.

add another 5 speed box to that, and you will have the trans in the 59 autocar with 16V71 detroit i ran to move a cracking tower 5 miles back in 87. 5 speed under drive, 5 speed main, and 5 speed overdrive. it had a top speed of around 35 MPH. it also had 100 ton planitary axles under it with 14-24 tires on it. the cheveron refinery was being closed and dismanteled, and they needed a cracking tower in louisiana. so they loaded it on a large 40 axle trailer and i hooked to it and drug it across town to a waterfront where A.J.Ross had a yard with a crane large enough to lift it off the trailer and onto a barge. took two days to make the move because halfway there someone missed on the route and a railroad crossing had crap in it and blew out 20 tires. the move was supposed to take around 15 hours at 1/2 mile per hour.

it needs an engine bob. the one currently in it is apart. and the interior is most likely messed up too with all the removed engine parts stuffed in the passenger side.

very interesting and informative read. thanks for that! 👍 i was not aware they were that far into the technology.

i am still waiting for he drive from home option to be developed and perfected. 😁

i saw a peterbilt a few years ago with a wheelchair lift built into the sleeper and no driver seat. same deal. once in the truck the driver would lock his chair in and off he went.

before i retire i am going to put this shift pattern in one of the manual trans trucks...... probably the 2000 W900 with the 18 speed. 😆

i never saw a swapped gear on a mack trans. only on the eaton/fuller 13 over and 15 over trans. but then again i only ran the one quad, and the mack twin stick. all other transmissions in the macks were eaton/fullers. the weirdest trans we ever had was a straight 7 speed. and i moved a fiberglass nose autocar for a friend with a 6 speed split trans. 3 low, then 3 high. i also moved an 80 autocar with 290 cummins and 5 speed low/deep reduction. to get low you put into first or reverse, then moved the shifter to driver side and up or down depending what gear you were in. then for deep reduction, move shifter again up or down.

we picked up a 78 C30 at auction around 1990 with "fresh rebuilt 350 and new clutch" on the windshield. under it was bad vibration in engine. paid $50 because no one else wanted it. pulled the engine, and sold the rest for $250. pulled the flywheel off after determining it was a 400 and put a 400 flexplate on it, bolted a turbo 350 to it, and stuffed it into an old woods crasher rig we had built back in winter of 74 on the farm. and proceeded to get into all kinds of trouble over the next few years. the woods crasher was a 62 ford wagon frame with body removed, frame shortened 5 foot, and welded back together with full roll cage..... and welded spiders in the 9 inch.

i had an old 66 dodge W300 powerwagon. slant 6 with a 4 speed. when the 6 went at around 600,000 miles, i put a 273 275 HP out of a 64 bananacuda in it. ran it for another 200,000 miles befor the cab rotted off it. cab was held to the frame by 1/4 inch steel plates. the rocker panels were gone, so you got wetter inside when driving it in the rain than standing outside. still loved the truck and was getting ready to rebuild the cab for the third time when the driver front inner wheel bearing went and tore up the spindle. and Dana 80 front spindles were impossible to find back then. so i parted it out. i replaced it in 88 with a FSuperDuty diesel, and converted it to 4 wheel drive with a pickup bed. i still have the 88, it has 496,000 miles on it and waiting for the new cab to be put on it.

when you see an old trans where 4 and 5 are swapped, that is a tell tale of an overdrive trans. as in 13 over or 15 over.

about 25 years ago when i was still drinking my drinking partner and i took 47 30 gallon contractor bags of crushed cans to recycler. the scale master asked how long it took us to fill all those bags. we both looked at him straight faced and said at the same time last weekend. 😁 the guy looked at us and just shook his head as he walked away to get our money. we made close to 400 dollars. it was actually close to 2 years worth of cans.

trying to open a beer can. 😁

very similar, but not quite. it did not swing out like that one, rather slide out from under the cab and than a hand rail came up on the outside. looked just like a staircase on the side of the truck.

a few years ago i saw a cab over with retractable staircase, similar to the kenworth ace system: the difference being it came out and a handrail folded up, and it looked just like a staircase on the side of the truck. climb the stairs to a landing and get in the truck. it opened with a remote. also opened the truck door. then in cab, you pushed a button and the stairs retracted into the truck and the door closed. i want to say it was on a MAN or or Scania.

i unfortunately lost all my guns in a tragic boating accident a few years ago about 1 mile offshore in the atlantic ocean

yup b81 mack 6 cylinder. b813 cummins engine. b815 mack V8 i don't remember what the designation is for a detroit engine

it was a sweet ride compared to the 237. i put close to 750,000 miles on it in the 10 years i ran it. still ran good to when it got wrecked. only thing it needed in those 10 years was a water pump, 2 sets of brakes, and the trans was giving me issues. the new trans was in it for under 1000 miles when it got wrecked and split the trans case in half. also ruined the block on impact when it drove the water pump into #1 cylinder.