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davehummell

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  1. Larry after reading about your truck I slid in a rear out of a freightliner air ride I wish my truck was a little longer wheel base I think it would help. Is your tranny a 15 or 13 I ended up with a double over triplex and a 3.90 rear I could of lived with the 4.64 rear I had.

  2. I wonder how much the wages were in the top floor offices? It seems ceo wages and stock options have a way of altering company's bottom line along with the retirements that were given out when the economy was more stable but now? Briggs use to be a good engine but my cousin and a very good friend both ran small engine repair shops and they agreed any Briggs didn't have the longevity like Honda or Kawasaki.

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  3. I had to put down my skippy two months ago. I had him for 14 years and he rode with me every ware all the parts places my truck dealer had treats for him. Really tough job for me to deal with. I know first hand the heart break. 

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  4. I worked at a truck company and they had 37 f's and r's and one b for the yard. There were mack 675's torn apart every week never had to repair a maxi 5 speed and I never repaired any mack rears just changed springs and bushes for the suspensions. My boss clamed they got only 100,000 miles out of the mains and rods. I don't know but I changed a lot of bearings at that garage. One guy did coast to coast with a f model with a juced up 237 5 speed. That was so long ago I wish I could remember all the stuff bosso did to those engines to get more out of them. A year after I left the owner bought a bunch of freightshakers with 3406's and began retiring the macks.

  5. I'm no expert but if you didn't use the intercooler I think you would loose some hp. I don't think you would have to redo the pump settings for a truck just for shows. I was hot to buy a 285hp. out of a r model but it turned out the engine was stiff from setting so I got a different engine I knew I would have fun running the second air intake. One of the easiest engine swaps I ever did was installing the later engine in my b.   

  6. That looks like me when I was told to back in a persons side yard with a dump trailer full meaning over weight load of rock dust bedding and the tandems sunk down over the axles on my trailer I used the 580 and the 930 to get the stuff out of the box so we could get the trailer out of the guys yard. I told the boss that it was going to sink but he knew better. I only made one load that day. The other triaxle driver was told watch out for the guys septic on another yard and the first time in he hit the lid and put the wheel in the tank. We had real beauty's back in the day too.

  7. I had the pleasure of giving a Kenworth cabover with a 3408 a short spin I can't remember what trans but it was a real runner that was back in the mid 70's and I run a Kenworth cabover with a 380 external fuel lines Cummins 13 speed that was a good puller.

  8. I can't get jack sh-t where I live I got that hulu and amazon and netflix it don't matter there is nothing on any of the channels. Last night I fell asleep and I guess I was snoring so loud I woke myself up I must of scared all the dogs out of the living room when I woke up I was alone.

  9. My Two good friends owned a trailer park I used to hear all the bull crap they had to put up with.  My property is most likely worth a lot less than most of the property's on long island. I only paid 25,000.00 for my property about 30 years ago.

  10. Years ago I was friendly with one of the tire guys that would do the tires for the company I worked at it was back when you would still see split rims. He showed me the ins and outs of dealing with those rims if you looked hard enough they were numbered to be kept together he claimed if you kept the parts together and in good shape he wasn't worried working on them. In the early 70's you would see a lot of split rims  in the tire shops it was standard most trucks had them I had them on my New Idea manure wagon.

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