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davehummell

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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  3. 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.

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  4. 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

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  5. 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.

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  6. My uncle owned a school bus business and Sammy had two of those busses like in the previous pictures. I removed the 318 in the one bus and found it had a bad block so took three engines and made one good one it was quite a project removing and reinstalling the engine tilted over and in under the bus body and you had to adjust the clutch fingers on the pressure plate. The later busses he bought the engines were mounted more normally and still two stroke DD's. It must be almost forty years ago when I did that tilted over detroit.

  7. I was planning to attend with my B model last year, the year before had a great time but I was recuperating and this year I am getting my left eye operated on the Wednesday before so I shall miss it again. Hoping for Gerhart's show I usually attend that one.

  8. Mark you referring to Charley at Dunmore Injection? I had a Mack pump adjusted out in Williamsport and a friend called out this spring and they are gone. Enzo used to do Cummins but I can't remember if he screwed around with Mack pumps He was at the Kingston Franconi shop quite a few years ago. Cooky's sold the Mack dealer up in Scranton and they don't sell Mack parts anymore !!! Back in the early 80's had a Mack pump rebuilt at a shop out in Hazleton.

  9. I did quite a bit of work on 318's in the Brockway triaxles I drove they had 13speed's I liked them quite well more power than the owners cabover Mack 237. The Mack 5 speed wasn't my favorite trans and it seemed all the r's and f's had the 5 speed in them always thought a few more gears would help out but those transmitions were durable.

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