davehummell

I wanted to get down to the show tomorrow, but my last competitive shoot is tomorrow, and I took home some of the targets to repair so I pretty much have to go, or a bunch of guys will be hunting me down and they shoot long distances. The last car show that I show my 31 model A and my 32 Ford hotrod at is tomorrow also too much stuff going on at the same time

I used to get this stuff at grangers that you sprayed on a gasket, and it loosened it up so scraping it off was a lot easier cleaning the gaskets off cat aluminum oil pans were time consuming and the spacer plates also. I made real good gasket scrapers from the blades off the power hacksaw

I have a triplex in my B model and it is a double over when I shift from third high to fourth I drop back to direct and when the speed and rpm is right I shift into overdrive on the hot stick when I want to keep up and pass others on the highway I pull it back into 5 over the 373 rear gives me quite the road speed. My trans usually will grind a little bit going into fourth especially if I let the rpms up over 1800

they are right under the handle if you look closely you can see the plate plus, I just gave them a coat of black paint

Hi, I made a different mounting plate to center the shaft that operates the mechanisms inside the door it's been long enough now I don't remember much else other then it wasn't too hard to do if I did it anyone with some tools could do it so far, they work just like the originals sometimes I can be a cheap bastard and I figured these would be good enough for my beat-up truck

There is a guy just over in New York that has trucks he sells parts off and how about that guy on up that has lots of b model parts Kevin he has lots of stuff you better get up to the Hartford truck show on the 31st you can get some leads off guys up there.

I can't remember how many times I got the measles along with chicken pox and the mumps from others in school not to forget the bad colds I can still remember the threat of a spoon full of caster oil if I didn't get better we didn't go to the dr unless we were at deaths door

I have about 24 birds for egg laying I haven't bought store bought eggs in about 20 years. When I was little my Gram and I would walk up to a relative's house and buy a chicken for Sunday dinner used to get eggs from him too.

I had a Massey Ferguson 35 that had the English standard diesel four-cylinder engine it wasn't a good starter when the engine was cold I changed to a Ford 2'000 gas and I think I had a better tractor

Mine is a triplex 13 speed

All the Cat engine overhauls in the truck I used a wooden block and a bottom plate and a bottle jack with a long pump handle, so I didn't get an antifreeze shower when I popped up the liners. Wore out threaded rods doing Mack liners I can't remember how bad the sleaves came out of the old 318 DD engines did them too

Back in the day there was a company I think called Lake city Diesel that advertised about getting 850 hp out of 3406 engines for trucks. The marine engines always seemed to get more power, but you could get rid of the heat out of the engine in a boat easier than a truck

I haven't done timing on a mack in a long time but if I remember I set the engine on the timing mark and used air pressure and an adjustable pressure valve and you counted the drops on the clock if I remember correctly I did a lot more stuff on the 1693's for more power back in the day.

I remember the day we got a phone installed it was a party line so you had to wait to get to use it and I can just remember getting a black and white tv with the rabbit ears for years until the satellite tv came through we got two channels and some days not even them. I was raised by my grandmother and my one aunt there wasn't much money for extras it was really something to celebrate if I got given a Hersey's bar. I took a bath in the kitchen in a big tub we had cold water from the one sink a wringer washer and no indoor bathroom it was out back. I really like indoor plumbing we heated the water on the coal cooking stove.

Many years ago I worked at a trucking company that ran the 285's with the 5 speed in several cabovers to the coast and they sent a R model with a 237 with 5 speed on a weekly run to Canada. I knew a guy that I used to do work for that had a R model running to Texas and back