davehummell

I ordered any new triaxles with the c12 and later the c13 they did a good job I had a c15 515 hp. tractor and a lighter c12 tractor the c12 would run along on the flat but the driver of the c15 said as soon as you could see a hill coming the c12 would start losing ground. I got to run a Cat 3408 and that was a whole lot different than the 350 Cummins I was driving

When you filled up 1693's with coolant you had to be careful about air causing overheating

The dealer talked me into buying a triaxle with the L10 for where I used to work, I drove it maybe 70 miles back from where I had a company install the flatbed and I was shocked at how gutless the truck was we had one with a 3406 and it was a screamer compared to this new truck

How about series three 15-40 I run it in my old Mack the 31 and 32 fords and both tractors more useable in cooler temps. Back in 1973 I was in Caterpillar engine school, and we had a course on oils I asked about multigrade oils and the teacher had a little fit over me asking back then 30 w. in the summer and 10w. in the winter times have changed and 50w. in the trans anymore I think it was in the late sixty's dodge changed to autotrans fluid in their standard three speed trans I know for certain.

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