Joseph Cummings

Reed & Hoopes had some neat stuff

,Here is a similar Philly area truck

Back when I was a kid in like 1980 the guy I worked for had a C-114 tractor 290 cummins, 15 speed deep reduction. It was early 70's so it wasn't that old, but it was all primer spots and had a hole in the left fender about the size of your fist. Nobody wanted to drive it. One older guy "Marvin" who occasionally suffered from something he called "wine cramps" used to drive it real local loading trailers and bringing them back to the yard. So one weekend, I fixed the hole in the fender, sanded and primed it, then wet sanded it, and shot it in Mack Standard Red with some of that Kirker paint that mack sold for like 25 bucks a gallon. I'm no great painter, but the stars must have aligned or something and it came out beautiful. Then everybody wanted it, but no way was Marvin giving it up. He called it "My Pretty Red Truck" and actually started washing it, waxing it, and polishing the chrome

I had a C-114 tandem dump in the 90's. I think it was like a 72 or 73. Set back axle. I liked it

Not sure who did the stampings and assembled the cabs. But yeah they were the Drivers cab. I swapped parts between them. Franklin Smelting had an A Car dump that I put 2 cabs on. I kinda think one came off of a white or reo

Nice set back axle Raider

I wonder who built the cabs. Diamond Reo first used that R series IHC cab, and then the white cab. They never made their own

Actually it was JDM. That was a division of James D Morrisey

Oh yeah, I forgot about that guy in between white and osterlund. I think he was from down south

Loyal Osterlund and Ray Houseal bought Diamond Reo. They built trucks in Harrisburg Pa actually for quite a while as "Giant Trucks". I remember in the 80's JD Morrisey bought some with air cooled Deutz engines

Nothing new. During the Weimar Republic they were celebrating this. And they had hyperinflation too. This lady is burning money to keep warm

Nice. I'd have it hung on the wall of my office

That number doesn't sound right. Do you have a picture of this pump?

You can't make this stuff up

If they aren't put on right, and never lubricated, they don't work for chit. And they are never lubricated because modern mechanics are allergic to grease guns. Hell, just look at the pictures in this thread. New slack, no grease, not in the slack, not in the cam bushings, not in the U Joints,,,,, That's the modern way, need 20 torque wrenches and a micrometer to adjust a door hinge, 100,000 dollar snap on box, and not a grease gun in sight anywhere

I hate auto slacks. I've seen too many not function properly. I want to get under the truck at least once a week with a wrench and a grease gun and have a good look around. Grease is cheap and easy to install, much cheaper and easier than replacing parts

Well someone who isn't me experimented a bit, and found that what ate up the most air speed was to cut off the mixture and have the throttle wide open lol. Oh and BTW, that someone who isn't me did some experiments on spinning a Cherokee 180. It was hard to get the damn thing to spin, and really hard to get it to stop spinning. It took about 8,000 feet. Nothing like a Cessna

I have a Dynatard on my R686 tractor, and I used to drive a R686 with a 750 Holmes on it with a Jake. As far as I remember the Jake performed about the same as my Dynatard. Then again comparing them is kind of hard, different loads, different hills, different amounts of wheels with operating brakes, hardly a scientific test. BTW I was always curious about putting an exhaust brake on a reciprocating aircraft engine. A windmilling prop eats up a lot of airspeed. It'd probably be great for a steep dive

Yeah, you're a total dick

Or better yet

I got better mileage from my EN707 gasoline powered LF wrecker. Hell you'd probably do better with a Hall Scott 1091

Yeah that would be a problem. How do we know this for sure? Somebody could have put a red knob on anything. I'd want a picture of the valves with the cover off the dash. God only knows what the kind of guy that welds to frame flanges might have done