Miami Cossack

It won't be long before they put in an order for electric short haul units. Everyone is. It's a joke too. There is grant money, but even after the grant, you still pay as much as a new truck (bus etc) and you have to pay for charging stations. At least they won't have the EGR coolers, the DEF drama and all of the emissions stuff but I guarantee they won't age gracefully and you can't take them on long trips. I have a LOT of orders for electric buses and RV's due to the grants, but I can't wait to try to show 90 year old people how to drive them or avoid pedestrians. Fleets are really looking at this stuff. Baltimore ordered a couple hundred electric Freightliner school buses. AFTER grant money, they are still over $100k each plus the charging stations. Taxes are going to go WAY up, folks!

I would love to go to one of his "rallies" and just get close enough to be able to intercept the radio transmissions that they send to him telling him what to say and do.

Get better. It amazes me what good care taker the animals are. They know when you need them the most. I had this bug in 2020-2021 and took about 4 months to shake it. It's nasty. You're doing good keeping it out of your lungs.

China Joe Biden on poor kids vs "white kids". LOL He gets a free pass every single time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0UhvPuYS3A Fast Forward to 00:34

Dementia Joe's Peace Summit speech. They must have given his double the day off, he was babbling big time and tossed one of his favorite words out, the one that starts with N and ends with R. Fast Forwards to about 15:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwjxQoTyVAE

We've become so used to those roller tappets that we take them for granted. People seem to feel they will last forever, and they seem to, but it doesn't take much to make one fail when you think about it. That roller just has to stop rolling and that's it. Doesn't take much to cause enough friction to jam it up. There is a life expectancy for those bearing in there and a tiny little particle of crud or some heat and once the roller starts to rotate slower than the cam and it builds up the heat it won't take long

Those rims are still very common in Africa, Mexico etc. Nothing wrong with them per se, but like mentioned you have to know what you're doing. You used to see a lot of tyre guys missing every single tooth, or parts of their face. Career Day was rough for those chaps I guess. You can't have your head a mile away when you're working with those. Things have come a long way.

Restore one of those would be a fortune, makes me sad. If you ever worked the sheet metal on those old Macks, it seems to be at least twice as thick as anything we see in 2021. It's so sad to see them like this, but some things in this world cannot live forever, and some things must be organ donors so others live on. Thank you for caring enough to step in and do what you can. I commend you.

The batteries and battery box are here. That's just under $500. I spent a couple days when I could finder time fixing about 15 air leaks. The seat bottom is $107, that's on the way. I'll start on the A/C when I get some time, front tyres and paint it. This used to be yellow. The guy just wants new trucks. Image means a lot. These Are really well maintained trucks compared to some of the stuff I see. The A/C doesn't work and a lot of air leaks. If the batteries weren't dragging on the highway, it would probably still be doing septic suck-outs.

You shouldn't have oil in your air. It's going past the rings in the compressor. Change your air filters regularly. Also, pressures above 124 aren't a great idea. Some of the older stuff had been about 130 a long time ago.

It's actually not an R. It's a DM690S. I didn't even notice until later. When I towed it he told me it was a broken down R, and I see why. His other older trucks are all R's.

I send a lot of buses to a third party who send them to Laos and Brazil. Buses literally never retire. Many will go ten years or longer without break linings. The concept of DOT/MOT or PM is a campfire laugh to them. But I spent many years in Somalia and those people never discard anything, especially a truck. Even if it blows up, they will make an Ox cart from the parts

Very few here will knowing how correct this statement was. One of the few governments we feared in our peak even. People disappear all of the times

Too good to parting out

cyka byat

It's not letting me add pictures.

I'll get some pics up. No, it's not mint and ready to go cross country. But it's not bad either. It def needs some work but it runs and moves. They let some stuff go for a while. The clutch doesn't feel terrific and it's a city truck. You aren't getting on the interstate in something like this. Needs a battery box and a couple E31's. I'll make cables for it. The cab, glass and pump is worth the money. This would actually be a good export truck. Afghanistan or Sur America.

Yeah. $500 won't even get you a good parking spot anymore. I just got rid of an RV, so that piece of land didn't stay vacant for long