davehummell

What diameter is the aluminum tank in the picture?

Very nice I like the aluminum fuel tank. Thanks for the picture

In the spring if it's really wet I run 2 dehumidifiers. The floor will be damp  and I can't have the machines getting rusted up. When I was running the shop two shifts I had heat all the time but I am retired and cant afford to heat it when I'm not doing anything in it. I had rebar and mesh put in the floor. I have no idea what psi concrete was used the guy had a local concrete company and I rebuilt his front axle and resealed the backhoe valve package on his john deere loader backhoe. I payed less than a 1000.00 for 3 concrete truck loads and 5 guys to finish my floor I offered to help and was told I would be in everyone's way just stand back and watch.

I had the guy finish my floor smooth and I had him seal it I can cleanup spills real easy my shop was designed for a machine shop not a mechanic's shop but I keep a bay open to work on my junk 

I ran black plastic drain pipe in gravel around three sides and I used double the layer of plastic but I didn't do the insulation under the floor but I spent it on the walls and ceiling  and door. for thierty plus years I never had heat worth a dam where I worked so what I built was fantastic.

I have a end 673 i'm willing to part with for you name it 

Not so dave collets 675's and 673's and he just got in a e-6 with a trans he sells all this range of engines plus trans and mack rears to Africa I beat them to it when I got the jake brake.

Well me and my buddy slogged threw the mud  today to see what this trany is, it's a trtl720 with a power take off. the main box shifts ok but the rear box lever is stuck with rust Jay said if i'm interested we could take the cover off and have a look. I offered 100.00 and he said he will ask the owner what he want's. Is this trany a good setup for my late model673 and how much should it really go for? 

Twenty years ago I built my garage and it is a pole barn so the guy that did the floor poured it a good 8" and put a heavy haunch around the sides I have about 30 tons off machinery setting on the floor and my b model one crack at the overhead door  

My truck is a b42 and it slid right out but I had to get the front axle higher than when you change tires.

Thank's Terry

Next week I want to go look at a trans mounted behind an end 673 it has an aluminum housing? rear brake drum and pto. Where is the number that would be on it? It looks a little different than my duplex it has the bell and lever setup for the b single clutch I was told it was in a wrecker If I can get it for a reasonable price. There is another twin stick trans near it and it has a pull type clutch arm sort of looks like the other one.

Ford trucks used a power steering setup that had two hydraulic cylinders on the truck so did a lot of farm equipment it was the change from true manual to an internal hydro steering box that came later. john deere had a setup on there garden tractors on the order of the drag length cylinder controlling pressure one way or the other. Back an air steering truck down a curvy road and tell me you love it.

If you ever been next to a 1160 starting up when it was cold god help you we would start them up in the shop and it would stink us out. The 3208 was a better engine design but they were put in trucks that they should never have been in. We used them in ford flat bed single axle 33,000 gross they worked good. If an engine needed 8 sleeves we figured it was better to get a block exchange. Cat had some pretty good deals years ago on reman's. You could get a reman 3406 head and 9 times out of 10 it was new for not a lot of difference money wise when doing a valve job with new valves.

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I now have a pump that was on a mack firetruck the steering box came off a mack firetruck and the front axle is the one that was on my b

I mounted mine out closer to the bumper and that gave me the room. the different steering pump I am now using has a valve with three hoses going off it and now the steering is better more feel at road speed.

I don't know what I did but somehow I got two pictures of my cab on here I hope I didn't brake the website.

I was restoring a velocette Truxton and I bought a new head it was semi finished valve holes and a ruff hole for the valve guide and chamber was not finished I had at least 30 hours in that head and setting up squish band for the right compression and I had to machine the piston crown for the  hemi head. That is the last British bike I wanted to own.  

That looks like my yard when I was planting flowers the girlfriend wanted 

You could have relief's cut on a mill and then weighed other wise you would have to figure out how far the valves open down in the chamber. This is standard stuff when you're building a racing engine. 

The front load trucks were a game changer over rearloads we could do double the pickups and it was less chance of the guys getting hurt. Pulling a frozen 4 yarder around with the cable and getting it hooked on the back of the packer was sometimes fun many curse words were invented. The role offs were ok if it was house cleanouts or remodels every constrution job we dropped a box at when they came back it was most times beat on from a backhoe or excavator dragging it around the yard. carl was trying to get a 40 yarder unloaded and it was so heavy I had to brace it from one side so it didn't tip the truck over with the cat front end loader he said the wheels were pretty high when he dragged that box on the rails. The weis shopping stores were pretty ripe when you were tipping but we picked up a movie theater and it was worse than anything else it would knock a buzzard off a gut wagon. the first trashhauler I worked on was a r600 and it was about 78 0r 77. 

I have a trans cooler off a mack fire truck engine it is 1980 and it was a 673 engine also it had some odd cooler on the top outlet to go to the rad.  It looks like they are copper and brass. I don't want to junk these but I have too much crap around my place as it is so make me an offer

Until you have to work on them for 60 hours a week for me the thrill is gone.