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i ordered L E D lights on my 2021 jeep mojave , kinda regret it now. never use high beams . have more oncoming traffic when on narrow roads flash their high beams at me. going to see about adjusting them down. have driven with just parking lights on ; ( they are bright enough. don't like driving during the night (or day time in CT ).

well if the dinosaurs come back it will be old times for me. that's what i used to get my license!! yea ;;I'm old. 😁🤣🤣

the ones actually in charge need to keep the puppet around. it distracts the underlying motives.

now some way or other this canoe with new turbo is tied into the new breed Mack topic other wise canoe is going up stream without a paddle LMAO ,🤣. there must be a bulldog on front of canoe.

lucky for me I was sitting down reading the RD text LOL. ALL of the BMT "crew" will be waiting for pictures of the new '98-02 RD Mack .

always good to hear updates especially when they are positive. thanks

She's a truck driver, mechanic , welder owns and drivers a trike ! with total respect intended::: AND a fine looking lady. now JoJo you have made myself and possibly many other here jealous. LOL😇

your wife is a truck driver AND a mechanic !!! no way will you say she can weld also 😁. You have found the perfect Women.

back in '77 I bought a new ford F-350 dual wheel C&C had a flatbed dump body installed. back then the motor craze was to have a 4x4 with white wagon wheels. many at work questioned my vehicle till winter came and the request to borrow my vehicle started. ' boy bet you can haul a lot of wood on that or gee my three snowmobiles will fit on there. my reply = can haul a lot of wood and pull the lever and it dumps the wood!! don't follow the trend == set it!! LOL

thermostat ??

i blame the years of brake kleen (the good stuff) , asbestos clutch dust breathing for some of my senility. not as much old age ..now let not go off topic

enlarge the first picture ,I can see the top switch having a white sticker. I also noticed a pink wire not looking factory in picture. some ones been rewiring .

definitely the brake light switch would be live all the time . us old folk are use to the round two pole live at all times switches . can't remember too well; wasn't the kysor low water/ high temp system using a two pole switch having isolated ground circuit ??

and they work real well in model building . also shortens the list of "to do items" getting things done faster.

the low air buzzer has one wire for purposes of connecting ground circuit ; picture of on line switch would be used in a system having isolated ground circuits. always willing to learn , but would question the teacher as it being a brake light switch 😱. the brass tab lower right insulated . if it were ground side and top power side ;; sparks fly. unless lower right insulated enough to carry power circuit ;; THEN it could be a NEW style brake light switch:::: to which I stand corrected and have to stay for detention after school and write on the blackboard 100 times ::I will not question the teacher!!! been there done that toooo 😁

the low air buzzer switch should NOT be powered by live wire; power source should be from acc relay side which is NO power with key OFF.

the way rules ,computers AND money ruined nascar , same was done to drag racing. the funnys and rails of the '50-70's that looked like real cars modified and only did 150mph were way more interesting then todays computer driven 300 + mph vehicles. steel B-model vs todays computer "plastic "::: times change ; sad

when ever i delt with a rogue brake acting erratic, findings were things such as brake can (you changed ), wrong size brake line compared to the others from can to quick release valve; oil /grease on shoes, . when you say shoes are new; brand new or resent install. has this happened since shoes changed?? someone put new shoes have wrong grit block?? slacks must be autos; is the adjustment same as rest or a slack over adjusting ??

I always say; don't laugh at the car with a flat tire stranded on roadside , in a moments notice I may be the one stranded others are laughing at. we all have ideas of what the lowbed driver should have / could have done, or what we would have done. a major unfortunate situation. seems the train stopped in short distance after crash possibly from impact. start of video train was a long distance away doesn't appear as too many cars hooked to engine. could train have stopped sooner?

U dun GOOOD . so proud . at last eye feel like eye taugh U youngsters some thin. 🤣🤣🤣 LOL

with that info;;I go back to a line crossed on brake valve. wasn't leaking previously to new valve install. don't understand why the front axle brakes are connected to parking brake valve.??? fronts are service only . with the elimination of front axle limiting vale in todays new units, air to front brakes comes from foot operated valve. (short version). the limiting valve back then went from foot valve to dash valve to front brakes,

most people don't realize the voting system has always been a phony front going back many years. difference today is the social media coverage is instant. just like the covid numbers today ; no one sits and adds all the numbers . the voting numbers are put in favor to a certain groups agenda. no one "at the top" will buck the agenda. nov. 22, 1963 proved that. JFK tried to do right ;; world knows that out come.

possibly driver was trying to race over the crossing as lights were on and gates were coming down but figured wrong. the lights and crossing bars are usually working long before a train shows up. study video closely. he's on the track better then half way across , you can see lights are flashing with crossing gates dropping. I've sat at crossing wondering " Were's the train?" . realize under the -I fu---ed up situation , minutes go like seconds.

fortunately gal in car had enough common sense to back up far away. easy to say what I/we would have -should have done after the fact. first look i thought a beam trailer with the excavator tracks hanging up. it was the trailer it self hanging up. any doubt before crossing ,raising the trailer with the blocks would have been a no brainer.

Mack management of the day had the "brain power "to know a chassis set up for east coast terrain and weather was to be different in many ways from the west coast counter-parts , even though it was same model. also with west coast being big rig / high horse power (pete/ KW ) country. Mack made equivalent trucks with western designations= alum wheels/frames / eng etc. one of the major issues when running the shop for baskin east coast was all trucks purchased came from calif. 20-25 units purchased at same time. truck 1 same as 25. 4 branches nation wide had new units divided. I had many discussions with management regarding unit set up. can't build a truck for east identical to calif/ texas units.