Joseph Cummings

The museum used to be right at Macungie back in the day. But it was smaller I think. I've never been to the Allentown Museum

I didn't know he was running a mechanical detach

Some reason you don't want to put a set of 38 or 44s on camelback under it. If you are not going to be bobtailing a lot, they don't ride that bad. Air ride cabs work great too. Personally I've never had an air ride I liked. Compared to a camelback, they get stuck in spit. And if you are going to run a dump, camelbacks, Hendrickson. or some other single point suspension is really the only thing I trust to be stable

Is that using just regular printer ink? Like you use on regular printer paper?

Why are women even allowed to vote?

I have a fear the reality is much worse

I never did understand why they went from the L cab to the B. I've owned an L and driven a few. L cabs were comfortable. I'm a big guy and B cabs always felt tight to me

Well I think they stopped making them in 1985, so kids your age have probably never seen one.

I used to see them in heavy spec DM now and again. Friend of mine had one in in a V-8 DM. I was thinking universal tractor fluid, but you are probably right. Whatever you do, don't let a rebuilder touch the starter. The dingleberries always loose the nose. And they are big money. They'll hand you a starter that looks right, but oil will pour out of it

From sometime in the 60s until the mid 80's Mack offered a clutch that ran in an oil bath. I think it was a 13.5 inch two plate. Different bell and trans bell, seal between the starter drive and starter motor. (Different nose), and the clutch was actuated by an air cylinder. In the cab instead of the regular clutch petal there was a regular treadle valve, just like the one for brakes. When you looked in ,, it looked like you had two brake petals. Built for very severe service. If you took them apart to replace an engine or something, they'd have hundreds of thousands of miles, and still look brand new

Imagine pulling on the scale at Jeddo and hearing Peggy go WTF https://www.facebook.com/Pakistanitruck1/videos/226992802625351/

You ever see this place? I was going down the road and thought I was hallucinating. I had to pull over and look 51 Manor Rd, Schuylkill Haven, PA 17972

Broken front axle repair, and making frame rails. I really like these guys. How do I get some of them to move to Hazleton and live behind my shop?

I think the Dynamax wet clutch was great for that kind of stuff

Actually my first ride was my uncle's WC22 White, Super Mustang, 5 speed with a 2 speed rear. It had a single boom wrecker on it they built in the shop. Dark blue brush paint lol.

When they first started talking about building trucks I was picturing something rugged with like a C15. Then they turned out to be a rebadged Navistar

No I guess not. Hey, what the hell happened to all the new CAT dump trucks I saw when I moved up here. Did they all get cut up for scrap? One of those North Jersey guys had a whole bunch of them

About 4 more hours

Yeah, lower hole is for a temp sender

My first dump truck was an R210 450 Red Diamond 5x3 Heavy Eatons on a Hendrickson, 10:00 x 20 rubber, lever on the floor with linkage and a cable to lock the power divider. I bought it off of a farmer in jersey for 800 and it had a seized up motor, It was old but everything looked like new, Not even a rock dent or a spot of rust on the 14 yard Heil body. I bought a 450 out of a state truck from Donny and Bobby Metzger when they were in a barn up at Street Rd and 611 in Warrington. Bobby had long hair like a hippy lol. (Donny and Bobby are Coopersburg KW now) I think I gave them 500 for the motor. I put the motor in using the hoist in my grandmothers barn. It cost me as much for tags and insurance as I had into the truck That thing was such a good reliable truck, nothing ever broke But it was no speed demon lol It looked just like this one but the body was red

I think it's a short penis thing.

I must be getting old, 510 sounds like a lot of power in a dump. What kind of power is normal for these fleet operators anymore? Like the ones I see running into that place across the street when it's busy.

How do you like the Paccar engine? Some of those MX13 are like 500 HP aren't they?

Back in the day I used to see them with chains going over to the frame rail to keep from walking. They'd let them walk until they started hitting. For some reason nobody had a multiplier

Damn I'm getting obsolete just like my beloved 1241. And this is for a triaxle? How big of an engine? I'm figuring the 1750 is 17,000 FP input. I guess a 2000 FP engine in low gear in the main box