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Mack Technician

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  1. Agreed, football games, baseball games, soccer games, hockey games and election games. You only have one choice of uniform colors. Winner takes all, loser goes home. Politics has become a zero sum game in America. I’ll vote for any independent thinker, so far it’s the Trump 2020. He parasite’d the Republican Party, very crafty. He held them hostage by threatening to run independent. They had a 15% approval during Obama, they hated him coming into 2016 and yet had no foot to stand on. They would never have beaten Hillary, Cruz would have lost. It remains.......Dems cannot produce that scenario of a hostile takeover. Dems are, and always will be, narrow party line, tribal group thinkers, till the day of liquidation.
  2. Amen. All eight of my wife's immediate family aren't working right now. In middle ages they'd be constructing a guillotine for the royal family and serving spiced cider to a cheering crowd. Make mine an Old Milwaukee Mademoiselle Bouvier. Now take the 1/22nd of people (against the predicted 2.2 million) who "died" and reduce by...… 1. People who simply died of natural causes with virus present 2. People who died within the last 5% of their natural average lifespan 3. Falsely reported deaths to get federal money subsidies and we're probably down to 1/80th of predicted deaths. Now that the numbers are in and anyone still acknowledging & pushing this agenda can identify as a painfully slow learner. The governing body HAS to keep it going, they invested too much in this mistake to suddenly divest themselves, it'd be self incriminating. Reality, we have a big mess to clean up and egg on our face.
  3. Small universe. Yup, Paul Bunyan's is still serving. The kids are still working the camp, in fact I ran in to a big group of kids from Australia up here working one of those gigs last summer (may not have been that particular camp). The Hodag is still legendary. The rule is you can bring in anything that fits under a chair so it's still a lively crowd. Covid claimed another concert, sadly. BUT!!! The commission for Tomahawk Fall Ride kicked against the pricks and has declared no cancel. The Muscular Dystrophy group that it benefits pulled involvement, so its a non-benefit ride now. If they want to play the role of "conscientious objector" who'll stop them? MDA Pulls Out Of 2020 Tomahawk Fall Ride Due To COVID-19 Concerns By Ben Meyer • Jun 2, 2020 The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), the main organizer of the annual Tomahawk Fall Ride motorcycle event, has pulled its involvement from the 2020 event due to COVID-19. “With the uncertainty of what is to come with COVID-19 we simply cannot risk the responsibility of any illnesses for our guests, customers and MDA clients,” wrote MDA Executive Director Murphy Maes. MDA also hinted funding and staffing challenges during the pandemic played into the decision. “MDA has elected to implement a furlough for employees whose services are not immediately required at this time,” Maes wrote. As of Tuesday afternoon, it was unclear whether any other group would continue hosting the event. The event bills itself as the largest annual motorcycle rally in the Midwest. Travel Wisconsin estimates the event brings in more than 40,000 bikers to the Tomahawk area each year. This September’s event was scheduled to be the 39th annual.
  4. Remember the feminist bra burning parties? Do masks burn? Can I buy a t-shirt that says “I Never Wore It!!” ?
  5. I know those foreign guys. Those are the dudes who do that cool trick with their semi. They make a snake slither action going down the highway going Back and forth over the adjacent lanes. I watched one guy doing the slither (as I call it) and every time a car came close to him he tried his hardest to stay in his lane. As soon as the cars got past the slither started again and he’d be bouncing across lanes like Atari pong.
  6. Pretty soon we’ll be hiring illegals to do our police work too because no one will want it.
  7. No oil viewing through that front hub cap eyeglass anymore. It's the "White Out" edition.....because DOT inspectors can't flag what they can't see. Neither can you unfortunately.....
  8. Every Mack Truck needs love, grease, oil and a job..... but this girls been sitting on Craigslist North Dakota for quite a long spell. https://nd.craigslist.org/hvo/d/grand-forks-for-sale-1996-mack-rd688/7104404350.html
  9. Covid is falling into its predicted role. It’s a great little tool to stop open voting, but not really useful as a tool to suppress the lawless young liberal out on the street raising hell. It’s a switch leadership can now turn on and off according to need and works best against the law abiding than the lawless. Same with Dems pressure applied against lawful gun owners. Suppress people who respond/react to control methods and follow laws......don’t properly enforce the existing laws against known felons. Lets put the hairdresser in a jail cell and let the other prisoners go because we don’t want the LAWLESS to get Covid. The conservative outspoken hairdresser can get Covid in jail and die, she’s spoke up against us.
  10. Our vendor from Green Bay came over and was explaining the protests. He said “It wasn’t Black Lives Matter, it was every trailer park in Brown County dumped out onto the street”. He described it as lots of “white trash” hoping for some free stuff.
  11. Being denied a haircut is a loss of Liberty. Having your life taken away is the ultimate loss of liberty.
  12. I did consider a similar thing... where are the crazies? The gun wielding maniacs we seem to have dozens of in the U.S. The nut sitting at home, popping rounds into magazines, 20 something white guy, contemplating shooting himself, but wanting to take out 40 people before he does. Truth is those people are spineless cowards. They never shoot at a pillaging mob, they shoot concert goers, women shopping, folks out at a park or theatre, sitting in some classroom. No spine to meet any form of resistance. In an ideal scenario the two mobs would cancel each other out, unfortunately law abiding people suffer the brunt of managing all forms of idiots.
  13. Lol, yup, you porta power the crank up you’ll find a 0.010” under mishap!! Heck, you probably can save money and use the same piece of plastigauge for the whole thing! In the dealer world Mack wouldn’t allow us to machine the crank. Only Remack cranks. Machine shops don’t ease the corners of journal cuts and it predisposes the journal to crack. Don’t suppose that matters as much at 350HP, but 12 liter cranks turning 480HP May be a little more critical. On the rare occasion it was needed we used a porta power. Seems like the weight allows for a lot of sag distortion if shimming. We’d generally, 99%, check to make sure crank was std, and if polish was good, it got a shell. In most cases main failures destroyed the block.
  14. You can’t plasti the mains in chassis, you can do rods. If your creative you may load the crank upwards with a porta power to try it.
  15. See what I’m saying, I just dropped another nickel on the lemonade stand counter for the analysis.
  16. You guys had peaceful, constructive, street-side chats? Remember on Charlie Brown when Lucy would put up a lemonade stand with a sign in front that said “Psychiatric Help 5 cents”..... please tell me you had one set up by the road side.
  17. Cam bearings are popular on that vintage of engine. Usually you could drive through it, except you lose your engine brake around 1,100-1,000 RPM as you descend. Mack came out with a spec for gauging acceptable loss vs rebuild time. Oil at a certain temp and RPM at a specific rate should create “. “” “”” psi of oil pressure. I don’t remember “” “ “ psi.
  18. Flip side to this one is the guy actually was murdered. There’s been a couple times where they catch a cop shooting someone in the back and planting a taser (as with Walter Scott shot 5 times in the back, 2nd degree murder). This round in Minneapolis is a righteous anger situation. Not like the Micheal Brown shooting where he clearly earned his bullet, that uproar being a media puppet show. Same with Trayvon, AKA- “Obama’s could-have-been-my son”. Heck, maybe it was Obama’s kid? So all of society and the political surround agree early into this.... the cop is most likely going to do time and it’ll end up murder. Regardless, the 10% of blacks that cause 100% of the problems can’t miss the opportunity. Even with a pending guarantee of the cops incarceration. Black lives matters is showing there true colors in Minneapolis, pun intended.....Black TVs Matter, make mine a 72” please. As for the whitey’s out there busting it up? You see them mixed in. Yeah, NOT white nazis. That’s a biggest pile of lame stream media 💩. Those are farm raised, born and bred, leftist liberals gone feral !!! They’re fulfilling their party’s duty by duplicating the solidarity playbook. You read up on terrorist tendency it’s know female hostage holders are the worst case scenario for the negotiator. They’re much more likely to kill women and children in an attempt to disprove any femininity and to be taken as a more seriously than an average “woman”. That’s what your watching, bunch of over zealous white liberals trying to prove their “black solidarity”. Since it is the Corona thread......why isn’t the media going into long diatribes about how much Covid is getting spread in this protest riot. If it was an NRA march they’d be predicting a mass outbreak and shaking their righteous heads “tisk tisk”. Farce indicator revealed, it’s Covid when it’s convenient (conservative).
  19. “Hey Walz, why are you letting them burn down the 3rd precinct police station?” Gov Walz default answer, “Well...................their’s no perfect answer”. The Twins put him in office and he’s letting it burn while he’s pulling his hair out at 3 AM thinking of another soggy, milk-toast, politically correct, apology statement for the morning press conference. Hard life lesson for them unfortunately.
  20. Virginia? Are you seeing....... Black Riots? TVs leaving through the front window instead of the front door? “Free money” government checks being distributed to everybody, even working folks? A simple Flu virus being overblown by media to destroy Trump? Liberals trying to drive the economy further into the ditch to lather up for November? A spontaneous re-emergence of “only black lives matter”(even though more white Americans are killed by cops every year)? 🤔 Oh....wait....that’s national. Meanwhile...... It’s entertainment to read the leftist propaganda campaign coming out of Madison to make Wisconsin look like the Republicans committed mass Covid Homicide by striking down Tony Evers unconstitutional power grab. Fat Cheesehead 🧀 Apocalypse 2020!!!! The Corona PC police grabbed the wheel and drove the Hodag Country Music Festival into a tree, made them cancel. Ridiculous. The festival owners circled tents and stood their ground for about a week till it collapsed under hygiene PC. If the haters had simply gone to Hodag they would see thousands of people pouring 100 proof disinfectant all over their faces, hands and the down the front of there bare, white, hairy, redneck, blue collar, chests. I was there once... BYO carry-in event, You need safety glasses for champagne hour. There’s one chance left. The bikers! September Colorama Bike Week up in Tomahawk. The two Harley Davidson factory’s in town are pumping out cycles, the spirit of open road and the thrill of lawlessness may break through. Many of the secondary Biker events locally have been privatized, in rural, loosely zoned, areas. Hard to shut down.
  21. Biomass agitators......earth breakers. They use them for pine plantations and clear cuts. It doesn’t drive, just agitates earth as it rolls, crushes seeds and sticks into the earth for better forest recovery.
  22. It’s a topside stiffener I believe, though it doesn’t appear it could serve any real purpose, kinda flimsy. Refasten it. May Have been unique to Visions with a free-hung fuller transmission if I recall.
  23. Yes, I can’t get it? I want to respect the Democrats like the person on the other end of the political power teeter totter, but wow, did anyone think it through? It’s not new, I saw this happen in High School. All the prissy, popular, girls got together and planned our prom like it was their damn wedding. They told us they wouldn’t allow boys wearing semi-formal on the court. We had no opinion or say on anything. We got disenfranchised. Us guys, however, weren’t segregated by popularity. When the vote came the guys nominated all the chubby, unpopular, C grade girls to court. The place went into uproar!!! Popular girls crying with streaks of Tammy Fay Baker eyeliner running down their face. Teachers yelling at us boys “look what you’ve caused!!” . The special ed teachers publicly chastising the up-ity teachers for being irate about unpopular girls getting a chance to be queen. When the smoke cleared the society teachers forced a re-vote and the popular girls got their way. The parents of the average girls and special ed teachers gnashed teeth at them the rest of the school year. That’s how Grope’in Joe got in. Just like those unpopular, “C” grade, freckled, chubby, loveable gals who otherwise wouldn’t have had a snowballs chance in hell of pulling it off. It took tons of party in-fighting to make Joe possible. Socialists pulling the hair of the LBGTQGF’s who were stepping on the environmentalist’s throat who was at the time hacking the feminist Indian want-to-be. Remember, the Republican Congress under Obama had a 15% approval rating. Disenfranchised brought Trump into office. The Dems experienced the same disenfranchisement. Only difference is they saw all the crazy’s trying to get into 2020 and grabbed Stammering Joe. They didn’t HAVE a viable outsider!!! Bloomberg was suppose to be their Trump, but he was a flop and they defaulted backwards for an old relic of the Obama years. I feel genuinely sorry for them......mmmm.....no I don’t, they worked up to this.
  24. Nice pic grabs. Lonestar are, I my opinion, the coolest modern chassis on the market and that road goat basher is frosting on the cake.
  25. They are a humpty unit with the box style exhaust process up high right behind the cab and direct couple between engine and trans. Short’n fat.
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