davehummell

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.

Larry I just looked at your video on facebook nice job. I was setting at my desk and I was reaching for the hot stick.

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.

I got lucky and ended up with a 260 hp. engine and I put a double over triplex behind it with a 3.90 rear it runs pretty good.

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.

That 4300 look like the same model I had to keep running for my boss 350 cummins 13 sp. back in the dark ages the truck would of been a good one but it was run to death and put away wet by the time I got to it. If I remember they had a good size cab.

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.

There was a larger bore and stroke if I remember 103 or 107 per cylinder. I hauled a lot of tonnage with a 318 with the 13 speed.

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.

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.

I paid almost 100.00$ for the adjusting screw when I put mine on I got the whole thing switches and all for 500.00$.There are two different size washer plates I was told for different year engines?

It's really cute but I don't want it in my yard the little bastard would be hell on my chickens.

Is that an old 250hp. I thought some didn't have a turbo?

Larry I just seen a photo of your truck did you paint the complete cab? That chrome grill looked real nice. Did you ever do anything about your transmission noise?

It was 7 or 8 years ago and I didn't look for the interior green. Cook brothers phone number is 570-655-9152 I got some other colors that's when I was told that Kirker supplied paint to Mack. I think you could buy Kirker on line at one time I painted a dump box that long ago and the paint is still holding up I think it was about 60.00$ a gallon for black.

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.

Wow I'm bitching having to pay 2,200.00 a year for taxes.

Kirker paint was the company that suppled mack I bought it from cook brothers they had the mack shades in stock some years ago

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.

Those air-equip ends are more money to start with but if you have a vice you can make up a hose pretty quick I always got them for around my shop I didn't want to get involved with a hose press.

The thing that irritates me is the wasted money and effort spent screwing Trump right from the start. I would like to know how much was wasted that could of been used for our bridges and roads. Start there and then continue with education and other social good works. But we need infrastructure first. And enough with the bulls--t doing away with coal and gas and petroleum. Right now we don't have anything better. I like heat in my house and gas in my truck and diesel in my mack.

That family that I spoke of I have known for all my 65 years I am really lucky they ended up my friends as well as my neighbors. Good friends are the most valuable asset a person can acquire.

I guess my neighbors kids are millennials the one girl shovels the barn out by hand after 5 horses works every day and is raising a young daughter. the younger girl got a job on the pipelines right out of high school the two boys are employed on the pipe lines they are doing good. I was at work and they were off work and came down and the whole crew shoveled my driveway and walk by hand the father said they had to do it to try and return some of the favors I have done for them.

If you stick with a 237 or another model like that pretty easy I had very little problems water pump, front balancer. the 285hp. has the tipturbo so you have to deal with another air inlet line and a newer model engine with air to air I don't know how much of a modification you would have to do.

I would take a torch and heat the shoes and it would boil out the oil. The seals that were around back then weren't the quality we have today.