davehummell

I worked on hiab booms for 30 years the first ones had 12 hp. kohlers  then 16 hp kohlers  the last ones we had those crappy vtwin command engines 20 hp. I ended up trowing them in the corner and repowering them with the old opposed flat twin kohlers. they could do more work at idle than those new? supperdupper command engines at full throttle. same hp. but not the torque.

WE are spoiled today i started out with a 220 cummins and a 10 speed and ran  up to maine out into ohio a VERY slow ride anywere. Then i was a bigdog and bought a 262 cummins with a 4 by 4 what power i was living large. I thought every road was uphill both ways .

Funny story from years ago I was hauling brick over to a hospital in ny. from a rail siding about ten miles away. I had a 290 cummins with a 10 speed and a 38 foot flatbed . I double stacked the cubes on the trailer to finnish so i could go home when i pulled out? i had no power so i stopped and changed the fuel filters and checked the air cleaner i just couldn't get out of low range i was having a fit i wanted to get home i was up there for 3 days hauling brick. When i finnaly backed up to boom off the bricks i said you dum sh-t no wonder i had about 40 ton on that trailer plus the boom I was lucky i didn't blow out any tires. I didn't like that shortnose cornbinder but that day i felt bad for what i did to it.

  That may be true on paper but i drove a c15 515 hp. and a c12 430 hp. on the same roads i found the smaller engine sucked on hills. I had the same trailer and same weight on the trailer. At my last job we had the newer macks and the pollution crap made them so unreliable i would not want them as an independent trucker.

I live in anthracite coal country and coal may be good for your electric bill but i have to put up with Centralia , slag heaps, polluted water, mineshafts still open to fall into. In Pittston i think most off the older men had black lung, My uncle had it. My other uncle almost lost his life only saved by forget to bring a tool to the shaft elevator for shift change. I spent many hours working in that dust and silt in the strippings . Now the big thing in my town is gas gas gas wills all over the place miles of farm land dug up for pipelines. Yes we need energy of our own but lets not make mistakes as we did before and make northeast pa. a sh-t hole all over again.

I had a driver that thought wheel torque on studs was hammer on the 1" air wrench until it broke the stud or stripped the nut. To much torque?

Smalls111184 Get a quote from ed barber truck repair on rt 29 in pikes creek I see your in his area. I looked at 2 trucks he did the long rails on and i think he was okay on everything he did. I like my mack but i had to keep a late model mack on the road and the one thing that made that truck a pain in the ass was all the socalled pollution crap evey week it was one thing or other.

I have to add there is a well known piston ring supplier that advertises in some mags. I called to get rings and i was told yep i got what you need I will get right on it for you? I gave up after a month and 2 phone calls. Screw them i got what i needed from perfict seal out of las vegas . I told them what sizes i needed and i had them in 3 or 4 days and no surcharge for the small amount i needed.

I needed an injection pump for my 673 and injectors. Screw them, for over 40 years i have dealt with truck parts company and they were one of the worse i tried to buy parts from. Kevin all came to my rescue i will buy from him again.

I saw that commercial and after seeing it i will never use that company. I got rid of the directv nothing i wanted to watch and if there was it was something i seen 5 times before. I just got that hulu with no commercials my naps on the couch only cost 11.00 a month before it was 117.00. That woman should of got kicked out the front door to never shop anyware again.

The 97 dodge with the cummins really earned its keep i hauled upwards to 3600lbs 5 days a week to and from my one account for the life of the truck. the engine was way better than the rest of the truck. The 2011 i got it with the v8 and 373 rears and the 6 speed auto and 18 inch tires. On the highway on a good day i got 21 miles a gallon. with the cummins i got 20 miles a gallon loaded or not. my buddys had the fords with the diesels i just liked the straight 6 better. I would be happy to have a 300 straight six gasser under the hood on this ford.

We have a sharmin paper company up from me and most of the transfer trucks are ng. They are changing the forklifts over to ng. they have two wells on the property.

I just traded my 2011 f150 in on a 2018 it has the v-8 engine and i get 26 miles a gallon on the highway. the last two trucks were dodge cummins i can't justify spending the extra money up front and down the road for oil changes on a diesel anymore. I used to use the dodges to haul steel for my machine shop but i am retired and i want comfort when i drive now. This new truck was 48,000 i can just imagine what your going to have to pay for that diesel.

I wonder? Could there be any water in the oil? That is a low point in the system maybe some settled in the box and can't get pushed out in the oil flow. I have a Kubota with a backhoe that the swing only works right until the oil warms up and the Kubota i had before had the same valve problems. ????? Crap like this will drive a person crazy Good luck

I am retired as of june and i really don't miss getting up and going in to work as a lot of the  repairs i did out side on a cardboard. But now that i don't have to do anything i get up at seven every morning  to feed the chickens and water the goats and deal with 5 dogs and 3 barn cats. And two weeks ago i getting a little board so the water heater went bad on Tuesday spent the day changing that. wed. the bathroom shower fauset went to leaking so back to the store to fix that. Monday i was asked to get the spraywand fixed in the kitchen sink back to the store for a new fauset. This past Thursday the sinkdrain went bad. I was afraid i would have nothing to do if i retired?

I remember paying less then 5.00 for an oil pan gasket on my old 220 cummins. I was in new mexico and ran into a team that was going my way i had the 350 cummins and i thought  it ran real good they were running a kt450 i never saw that truck after we pulled out. A guy in the valley had a kt 600 i was told it ran away from most things on the road.

57bcr, Thanks for reminding me i had to work on one of those 1776's it was in the shop more than the owner liked. back in the day most guys ran 1693 ,around me to the coast i drove a supped up 350 small cam or a 370 external fuel line cummins . I drove both 1693,s and lots of 3406,s You wouldn't like the fuel millage on a 1693 on today's fuel  prices Back in the day i picked up in elpaso and i would drop the trailer and go over in mexico and fill up for .17 gallon

If I remember right it was before 77 when the 3406 came out the first models were prechamber just like the 1693 I used to doctor them up and I got 550 hp on the dyno. It pissed me off because we finally got all the little bugs straightend out and cat retired the engine. Cat had a twin overhead cam v8 on the order of a 1693 it was a poor engine. Cat had a smaller engine 1673 it was a pretty good one. The 1693 was a very good engine but it was heavy and used a lot of fuel it was used in loaders, pans, air compressors.

I worked for Cleveland brothers years ago and I worked on electric sets at one school they had 4 v16 cat engines and one v12 I think they had 8 inch bores I know they held 250 gallons of oil and had 5 or 7 oil filters. That was one loud room to be in. The engines had 2 sparkplugs per cylinder and ran off a magneto,they would run them on propane or natural gas. I worked at another school they had a v12 and a  6 cylinder backup they ran on off road fuel. I was around a stripping shovel it had a 5 cylinder 24 inch bore engine we had one of the heads off and it filled up half an 8 foot truck bed the valve guides were the size of a beer can

At the turn of the century that company name was big in woodworking industrial tools they were made right there. There is a foundry next door. Today they make carbide indexable heads for planers. They welcome you to walk through the warehouses and the repair shop and machine shop. If you have time go down to the end of the street and there is a very nice museum lots to look at.

Hi Hobert, I got the little bosch table and it is handy for smaller stuff and I have a freud table way better with a 3 hp router. Hermance  tools have used tools for sale look them up on the web.

If I remember aren't the rings and rims numbered  so they stay together? That was told to me when I was first learning to change tires.

Have a look at king of obsolete's website very interesting an he runs an old ford with a 318. I saw him on that ice road show pulling a load along with some others. I have a soft spot for those old 318's

The trucks that i started PMing from new I greased at 12,000 miles with the best grease I could get from psc . They have 900,000 plus but it was mostly highway miles.