davehummell

There are two types of machines for rod bushing the one is a Sunnen hone which is the type I own and use and another type that I have seen used but I can't remember the name of the machine I just did a set of spindles for a 47 Cadilac pressed in new bushings and fit them to new king pins

I at a long time ago did an in chasse overhaul on a 300 in a R triaxle and had the pump gone over it had the six speed if I remember it ran pretty good I told the pump shop down in Hazelton to step up the pump a little

I spent many hours driving a 318 with a 13 speed I will have to admit I liked it better than the Mack 5 speeds I drove in the r's and fs I did like the 4x4 in my Autocar and those 10 speeds in my White and International were nice

I was pulling a dump with marble chips when I lost the cold cap off the right side front duel and when it unraveled it took out the lines to the maxibrake it was a quick pullover about midnight and my flashlight soon quit working this was before cellphones and nothing around for miles away I crawled around and found enough fittings and with the tool box I always carried I got to sleep in my own bed that morning when I got home. Changed a fuel pump on a 3406 on the side of the road and two cummins water pumps on the side of the road countless water hoses and fan belts, fished a set of duels out of the creek down a bank when they parted company from the flatbed I used the Hyab boom to pull the tires up and used the boom to lift the axle up so I could chain it up the driver was impressed with my ingenuity. Got a call the duels on one of the walking floor trailers about come off and the truck was stuck at the rest area that dot used but they weren't working that day I walked the duels off the axle and used a bottle jack to lift the axel up to chain it and used my chain cumalong to pull the tires up off the ground and strapped them to the rear door I had the driver take the loaded trailer up to the next fuel station and we hid the thing out back and went back before light and snuck the truck back to the yard. I pulled the Brockway triaxle home from about 5 miles away with the F model Mack when I rebuilt the 318 DD in it I ran that dump for a few months it was pretty ruff but I was working on a fed rate job so I kept it running $17.65 25 years ago was good money from where I lived. Had a driver miss a shift on a very large hill and twisted up the front drive shaft I went out on call about 75 miles from the shop and found a phone to call the closes truck dealer to see who could repair the drive shaft found a shop and we got the shaft repaired in short order I helped the guy doing the work got back to the truck and the shaft was too long and now it's about 5 o'clock got the shop to stay open got the shaft in place after dark that night the driver hooked up to the trailer and no taillights and when I was screwing around trying to repair the wires up pulls a state cop and says I was watching you all day trying to get this truck home he says if you got 4 ways on the trailer and headlights just go home you guys need a break was the nicest thing a cop ever said to me

Larry when I made up the power steering in the B I got a steering assm. out of an R tractor and got an adjustable steering shaft off a Freightliner conventional and went to work making everything connect you are lucky like me we have a machine shop for our use when we want to do stuff like this

When I moved into my new shop I purchased a blaster cabinet and I had a 5 hp. Ingersoll shop compressor boy could that cabinet suck up air after 20 years of waiting for the air to build back up I found a 10hp. job with a 100 gallon tank it shuts off when I'm using the cabinet but it does make the meter run

When I first bought my Mack, I insured it with Gulf way and after a while they referred me to Haggerty they claimed they were getting out of insuring large trucks

I have Haggerty for my Mack and 31 and 32 Fords there is a cheaper company, but I tried them and it was quite a bunch of hoops with them, so I stayed with Haggerty

I remember seeing the damage done on liners I pulled out of Cat engines and Cummins engines I worked on. Not taking care about additives in the radiator system really made a difference I rebuilt an old D-4 engine and the liners were almost eaten through the side of the liners I did an on the floor rebuild and the guy got the dozer going and was hogging out an old pond and sucked sand in through the front cover and killed the fresh engine he tried to blame it on me but the pan was full of sand was a shame because I even overhauled the pony motor.

I drove a few with the 5 speed and it was quite an event to go from first up to second and it wasn't much different shifting on up I really liked the 13 speed in the Brockway triaxle and the ten speed in my White I

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