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Yes Jamison (37) was killed when a forklift fell on him, I don’t know the exact situation,, I know some guys that were there but I haven’t asked, just tragic anyway it happened. I went to his funeral , it was overwhelming with trucks , he was a great hardworking person! Sad thing I talked to him and Greg Bifile for a while at Harris Speedway in November, 2 weeks before he was killed, We went to Greg’s Ranch for his race ( Brad was also there) . The brought Jamison’s truck to race it , his wife and son were there. A week later Greg was killed along with his family and friends. Tough times for sure.

Merry Christmas!!!!

Merry Christmas,, as 2025 comes to a close it’s been a up and down year,, The year started finishing up the LJ as we were still digging out from the flood damage, as the summer went on we were fortunate to take the LJ to several shows, including Mack’s 125th birthday celebration! We were blessed to have a lot of fun. But as the year came to a close a couple weeks ago tragedy struck with 2 really great people I knew , Jamson Gibson a local big rig race driver , friend , really great guy , and Greg Biffle ( former nascar driver ) and his family who helped us a lot during the flood, delivered supplies to our Church very early after the storm with his personal helicopter . He was involved in a lot local charity work with kids. I had just talked to him a few weeks ago at a charity event at his farm. Very Sad, Hopefully 2026 will be better for all of us.

Merry Christmas to All! Hopefully I can make some progress on the Freedom next year now that this one is pretty much behind me, I’ll try to post a picture when I get it to working!

Merry Christmas to everyone ! Thanks for all the input and information on this post!

I told my Son to drive it up the road and let me know how it handles, he put a couple hundred thousand miles on it so I wanted his opinion since I replaced the steering axle. He gave it a thumbs up! I wasn’t fast enough to get a good video.

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I grew up on old dumps with 2 metal levers coming up through the floor, or a cable pull under the dash for the pto ,,, And never had a problem with them,, the air and some electric is nice and clean,,, but sooner or later it’s more prone to failure than the direct mechanical.

Yes the lens is missing,,, My next rainy day project,, . I got both strobes working yesterday. A lot of small things that’s a good time to repair while it’s still in the shop,,, Unfortunately if it goes out and gets hooked to a trailer stuff will get put on the back burner.

The small yellow button is to keep the PTO from accidentally being engaged, the lever towards the back of the cab is to let the fluid flow to the trailer,, the Landoll has a 2 line system, Engage the PTO , Move rear lever like you would raise a dump,, but leave it in that position, then work the controls on the outside of the trailer. It has a big “ Dump Pump “ on it , I could use a small box pump for the Landoll, but it’s already all hooked up.

Your exactly right, if I had it to do over I would have taken more time prepping the hood and cab before I painted it,, it started as a axle replacement just to get it back to where I could use it, trying to get it done quicker so I could work on the Freedom Superliner. I probably would have stripped the paint completely off and started with a good epoxy primer,, as it is I just hit the bad spots with primer,, washed it with Ajax , taped and painted. At least it won’t hurt so much if it gets some tree limb scratches .

This truck was set up for a dump trailer when we got it , the little lever with the push button is to engage the pto ( it locks in position, push the small button to release) the other is to raise and lower the trailer.) Went down today and watched some friends of ours run the Big Rigs on a dirt track.

Raining,cold day here in WNC . Got the shop warm and spent most of the day tying up some loose ends on the Superliner, it had a 15 speed Eaton from the factory when we got it , it started making a noise so we replaced it with a 18 speed Eaton a few years back, I changed the Decal just to look complete, installed and wired up a “ Easy Jake “ ( I have these on a few of my trucks) changed the shift knob , added some fog lights that I had laying around for years,, Just basically playing around with it.

Just a random photo I found on the internet of a Frontier truck, still Yellow, looks like a 90s Pete , long after Miller sold out. I’m still digging at the History of Frontier, I saw an Alaska West truck all blue , later an Alaska West truck blue and yellow. So it would be interesting to know how Frontier companies were split up.

I might have missed it but what was your final fix on the fuel tank leak, the one on the LJ was so bad I had to cut the complete bottom out, have a piece rolled and weld back, every Superliner I’ve had has had a leak on the aluminum tank, water pitts that cavity,, I’ve took them off and patched them too many times! The next time I remove a tank on a Superliner I’m cutting that a” Sump “ completely off and weld a piece of aluminum over the hole.