davehummell

Larry you ever race at Numedia race track in PA.

Larry don't feel too bad I have $2500.00 in my Shilo Sharps 45/70 and $2000.00 in my old Winchester model 94 38/55 and another $500.00 in a Uberti 45 colt rifle and probably another $ 2000.00 in bullet casting and loading tooling just to try hitting metal plate targets and every time I do the shoot I pay $10.00 bucks plus about 86 miles round trip in my $48,000.00 pickup and I'm the guy that brings home the targets and repairs them. I can just imagine how much it cost to run your drag car.

Very nice pictures Swishy at one time I owned a 59 or 60 White cabover 5000 220 Cummins ten speed with an air operated clutch was slow but I made some money with the truck

I had a family near me that lived on the town later on the kids grew up and lived on the town and there is another family that is the same way. I worked all my life and now get ssi and pay 200 a month toward Medicare every month and have a supplemental insurance also. I am 70 and I don't feel bad about getting social security I paid in from my main job and I payed toward ssi when I filed my taxes from the machine shop business on the side for about twenty years

Larry I don't have any kids and never been married so I got to spend money on what interested me girlfriends came and went I was smart enough about 30 years ago I bought my house and property and promptly put up my 32x48 shop and a 12x25 side garage

Larry don't feel bad I have been known to piss money away I restored a 1934 vld Harley Davidson the paint job and chrome and nickel was about $5,000 back fifteen years ago and the 65 Vellosette Truxton was an absolutely killer for money spent on parts I built a 1940 80 inch flathead Harley and the money involved was significant. The 32 Ford hot rod pickup was somewhat inexpensive a can of JD flat black paint for the paint job a $ 400.00 1969 mustang 302 and c-4 trans and a cheap 9 inch Ford one legger rear out of a bronco I got for $100.00

If I remember correctly the natural aspirated Mack engines did not have the tubes and all the ones I rebuilt had the tubes because after you got done with the new liners, you would check the orientation of the tubes with a plexiglass plate the tubes shot oil up into the underside of the pistons for more cooling when using a turbo. I remember the early 3406 engines had replaceable tubes and Cat recommended them to be replaced at a milage or hours I now can't remember also you rolled in new bearings at some point recommended by Cat. I had a freightliner with a 3406 that the pisser tube broke off and it scored the piston so bad I had to do an in the frame job

Larry maybe next winter you will rig up a power steering box on your B.

I like Macks and currently own a B model but the last place I worked there were two Kw's with c12 engines two Macks with 350's and Western star with a c12 a freightliner with a 400 DD an old Volvo with an old 350 Cummins another Mack yard tractor a Sterling with a c12 an Autocar with a Cummins two single axle garbage trucks with smaller cat engines a Ford rear load with a cat engine and a front load Mack with an mp8 this truck was the most unreliable in the fleet and one of the newest. A cat wheel loader with one of those English engines JD 410 backhoe and a JD 450 dozer and five walking floor trailers and brand-new Case frontend loader that was a nice machine to run. Every week there was something wrong with the pollution crap that was on the MP engine

Larry looking good it looks like the air compressor has a place for a power steering pump on the original 673 in my Mack I put on an air compressor like yours and added a pump it was a job and a half if I remember correctly, it involved me using my one lathe and milling machine and a lot of figuring. So far you gained over 40 hp. on me that should pull your race car very well that same engine was in a Mack cabover that I would pull 100,000 plus gross of bedding for riprap in a steel dump trailer. I wish I went through the aggravation of getting a twin disc clutch but the triplex was set up for a single and I'm usually only hauling a nine-hundred-pound bale of hay for my goats.

Larry I found a triplex and installed it in my B it is double over and you don't split 5th either so in reality it is just a 13 speed

When I was in 9'th grade the school that I attended pushed for collage and people like me were thought of as loser's by not wishing to go to college I decided to attend the local tech school and it was the one reason I did graduate plus I learned some life skills that I have been using for 53 years. Before I was out of school, I lined up a job as a Honda motorcycle mechanic for the day after I graduated and, in the fall, I took a job as a heavy equipment mechanic

Those prechambers on old cat heads were just a nightmare to get out sometimes and yes the injectors on the Mack heads were more times them not a real battle. I used to mess around with the old hit and miss engines and getting a stuck piston out was always great fun.

My one Grandmother and Grandfather came over from Italy and he worked in the mines she was a house wife I never saw any Italian speaking signs up around Pittston if I wanted to talk to gram I had to carry on in Italian everyone spoke Italian in the house but always American off the property no special stuff was expected from them like what is going on today and I bet my Grandfather had a tough time working in the mines not like todays piss poor excuse of humanity today

those bulldogs pulled good money I may have to dig out the one I have stuck away on a shelf and get it in my show case