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you noticed the look on puppy' face also .🤣

a 2X4 cut to length goes under the yoke flange to ground. want to be fancy, two wood screws in the 2X4 with short bungee cord over the yoke hooked to the two screws. keeps it in place eliminates the backlash on drive train. cheap tool and it's reversable when install time. just move it to other side of yoke to take the backlash. lucky enough the same 2X4 works as a clutch pedal hold down when adjusting a clutch.

thanks for the pictures!! didn't know how I was going to spend hrs with outside temp -4 degrees this am sitting inside . good to see the the topic "other foreign brands " had Macks leading the way; any picture with a Mack B-81 is a great picture.

did you think of some gloss silver and touch up the red spots ; might look like some shadowing ??progress is lookin real good.

great job; hope you didn't short out the heater motor or put pin hole in the heater core !!!!

we have two computers === in separate rooms!!

now you see the reason I drive 25 miles(each way) to the farm and help out. she's retired also. easy answer when asked :"how did you two stay together for 20 plus yrs" ==== never saw each other much!!!LOL

might find it easier to gently remove the two shift levers. will depend on what glue you are using also.

Now I don't complain about "mine" ;; more like expressing a thought.!!!LOL

It's never tooo late ; they make plenty of models of the Mack. buy one for the Mrs. might give her a better understanding of the skill AND quite needed to built one.

prepping for the east coast blizzard of the '70's(78?) I mounted a V plow like that to a road grader owned by Schiavi Const.. put as many roof lights as possible. chains on all wheels. grader went one direction; loader one; and the TD-20 dozer down the road. neither came back for 3-4 days. no cell phones then. service truck with fuel followed the open roads to locate machines.

whether it's a big rig or a scale model ; the builder knows what it takes to build. build a real engine ; no one sees the pistons. the mechanic knows what's inside. point is the interior of a scale model needs the same integrity to build. getter done !! fun part of model modification is looking at it after built the builder knows of the frame stretched or engine changed ; my 352? pete from the 70's took 7 different models to build. or how air bags are made from alr cleaners taken from car models. keep it fun

only one thing spoils that beautiful picture !! silver wedding ring! LOL

Ginger Zee ; good morning America has my vote for prettiest weather girl on TV .

can't recall anyone having a steel nose R Scania powered ; must be a municipality unit looking at driver's door insignia. the picture could be CT today ; LOL