davehummell

The hose place that I used supplied me with this stuff for anything to do with hydraulic fittings I would smear it on the threads and twist the fittings together I used it on stuff when I couldn't use tape or pipe dope.

I was taught how to operate the locomotive at our one yard years ago I would spot rail cars for the guys to empty it was a real treat to do shifting of cars had a very large GM engine diesel over electric if I can remember right, it weighed over 150 tons what I was told.

I will see about ordering this book I've spent over 40 years dealing with trucks one way or the other.

I think that Mack was scrapped years ago I was at the sale they had and there was an equipment scrap yard and everything disappeared soon after. I loaded Cat equipment many times on the two Acars saw them on a weekly basis as I remember had really big rears small Cummins engines I can't remember the trans they had. Jack Gillan had a nice Acar with a 335 Cummins I loaded a d-9 ublade and four barrel ripper on the goose neck trailer and the driver got out on 81 and blew four trailer tires it was quite the talk for days. Coal was king back in the 60's and trough the 70's around my location. My good friend owned Finch machine in West Pittston it was set up to do work for the mines there was a 10-foot x 30-foot lathe and the biggest milling machine I probably will ever see. I was doing some work on a 992 up in the stripping's and if I remember it had a 12 yard bucket and I was cycling the loader by scooping coal at todays prices for a ton of coal I can't believe what that bucket of coal is worth.

Pagnotti coal company had an old Mack with a 1693 with two or three trans. they used it to haul shovel buckets and other heavy loads was nothing to look at, but it did the job it was a bigger model than a b-61. Kominsky coal company had Auto car single axles and Serge would haul anything that would fit on the goose neck trailer many times he would run out of power and have to get a push up the hill.

The 343 was used in the 988 loader, 983 track loader, 16 grader, 657 pan, first 35 ton end dump I can't remember the number I worked on all of them at one time or another was a cat mechanic for Cleveland Brothers back in the early 70's work on a lot of 1693's and 3406's and the rest of the on road engines. I liked to work on the 1693 it was my favorite engine the v-8 double overhead cam engine wasn't very good but they did better with the 3408

We had an old Grove deck crane at Cleveland Brothers when I started in 73 it had a ford six cylinder gas engine after a few years they brought in a new Grove 17 ton with a 3208 engine it was a bit bigger and a little nicer to operate.

Larry I would use cardboard or I had a thin sheet of masonite that I would set against the radiator core. I remember changing Cummins and Mack water pumps on the side of the interstate more than I care to remember.

A couple of years ago the three of us went up to the Brockway Museum it was very nice I ask about the show and said maybe I would come up with my B model and the lady looked at me like I killed someone she said we don't want your truck up here don't show up with it. I guess they have a strong opinion about Brockway's I drove a triaxle Brock with a 318 dd and a 13 speed hauled a lot of stone with the truck.

I think he would make a good president better for our country than some we already had to put up with

When I was still working on trucks for a living I was spoiled the guys at Cool brothers were there for me 5 and 6 days a week and Jeff had the exhaust gaskets for my set aside even after Cooks quite selling mack parts.

Larry I have bought parts off Kevin went up to his garage in NY. I see him at Gerhart's and sometimes at Harford truck show he has a cool bus he built and I was looking at a John deere tractor he was mounting a Detroit v-8 or a v-12 in it for a pulling tractor.

Larry I have never fully recovered from the day a guy pulled out in front of me on my motorcycle I can't lay down on a creeper I get dizzy so bad I feel bad for days and I lost some use of my left arm the shoulder never healed right I had a hole in my scull and bleeding on my brain I layed in intensive care for two weeks. Spent two weeks in physical therapy.

I needed a new floor jack and bought the Snap-On look alike from Harbor freight so far I am satisfied with the jack. I think it was about $200.00. I don't have many things from there but last time I was in the store it looked like they had some better quality items for sale.

I ran those teflon plates for years on two tractor trailers they didn't unhook only for servicing the tractors. I felt that it was a good setup and they helped save the trailer and the fifth wheels. the next fleet I took care of the head driver said they don't work I replaced fifth wheels on all of the trucks and built new king pin plates and new kingpins on four or five trailers.

I'm putting my B up for sale it has a 1980 260hp. Mack engine, double over triplex, Freightliner air ride 373 rear, air seat, six aluminum 22,5 rims with very good tires, power steering, aluminum 70 gallon fuel tank and aluminum battery and tool boxes, 10 ft flatbed with headboard, air dryer, a dry type air cleaner from Watts, reupholstered passenger seat and a Mack green interior with the right floormat and headliner with Sunvisor, pyrometer for turbo, working two stage jake it will see 80 plus on an interstate in overdrive, no rust on cab, windows crank up and down, heater works good, I was a Mack mechanic so I built it to fit me I did all the work in my machine shop. As it sets I have antique tags and insurance on it. Northeast Pa. near Wilkes-Barre

I looked at that engine Mack had on display at their museum and my thought was they should have put the engine in production it would have been a vast improvement over the low hp engines they ran in the trucks I ran back in the day the 237's were everywhere slow but you got there eventually.

Henry Ford was wrong on his thinking the Model A was an improvement. I have drove a model T and it is fun but I own a 31 Model A coupe and I will put over a hundred miles on a Sunday drive I wouldn't do that with the T I drove. But for real fun I built a 32 ford pickup with a 302 ford v-8 that is zippy.

How about Perfect Seal ring company out of Nevada had some rings for my old 673

I have done up god knows how many deer helped do up cows and pigs' chickens, rabbits, game birds, at my age I am happy to stop over to an old friend and buy meat out of his store. I haven't hunted in quite a few years, and I don't help out at the friend's farm anymore.

I used to work on a d-9 for the west side landfill and I was in there working on it on the way out they had a lineup of lawnmowers and such for sale and I bought a 66 international pickup for 150.00 out of that line up, I drove it for years everyone always made fun that I bought the truck in the dump.

I worked at a trash transfer station before I retired it was amazing the stuff I drug home that someone would throw out I was good at crawling in the dumpsters to check out the contents about everyone that worked there was looking for goodies every day. I was in the center running the cat loader loading trailers and I had a guy back in to dump his load said he worked here many years ago and he was returning stuff he drug home back then was carping about paying to dump the stuff he drug home for free.

My B would do 50 and 52 down hill not safe on the highways last time I came up from Gerharts it worried me on 81. I installed a 373 air ride rear out of a freightliner and I found a double over triplex I have a very good setup for traveling on highways and it doesn't hurt having the 260 hp Mack engine and jake I installed.

Last year a guy didn't look pulling out onto the highway and I nailed his truck doing about 45, I spent two weeks in intensive care and two weeks in physical rehab learning to move and speak and think again. My left shoulder bones never got back where I can hold onto handle bars. Please wear a helmet I had one on and I still ended up with a cracked skull and bleeding on the brain I would have been dead, but the helmet helped save me. I was lucky the cop was right down the street and it happened right in front of an ambulance business those guys saved my life.

If you go to the antique truck show at Hartford Pa. on September 3 you will get to talk with the family they will have 3 or four trucks there. I just can't remember their names any more.