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  1. Joseph Cummings
    Yeah this was late 80's early 90's so they were using stuff like this Air Tractor 300 series Now they have an STC (Supplemental Type Certificate)for them to do a 12 cylinder turbo diesel repower. Supposedly it can burn red fuel
  2. Joseph Cummings
    I think to capture the US market, being it's a high end truck it needs to be more 379 Pete, LTL Ford, Superliner, LT Mack looking. Real front bumper, lose that top bunk, and lose those fairings. Needs to be a bit more rugged looking. The way it is, it gives off curb sniffer vibes. No large fleet is going to buy a 770 HP truck to haul corn flakes and tampons.
  3. Joseph Cummings
    I knew some crop dusters from South Jersey that flew like that guy drives. Going out overweight, checking their mags and fuel selector while rolling, barely clearing the tree line, and getting so close to stuff by inches. But then again they were older guys that flew in Korea and Vietnam. I think they were addicted to the rush
  4. Joseph Cummings
    No, here in Pa the cops were banging us up over weight. 58,000 GVW no matter what you had. But the south americans came up and bought them like crazy. They especially wanted macks. They liked big autocars like DC9964s with SUDD rears too, all the good stuff. Parts too Endt675 and Endt676 engines, TRXL and TRXXL 107 trannys, and 55,000 and 65,000 cut offs were all really hot items for export. They were crazy for 24 inch tube type rims too. The stuff brought decent money, and they weren't tire kicking types that wanted to "think about it". If they said they wanted it, they paid you in cash and took it
  5. Joseph Cummings
    Unfortunately we don't have those here. In the 90's when it got hard to run those heavy spec 10 wheelers lots and lots of them ended up going to south america. Exporters were hot for them, even ones that were beat to death with the cabs breaking apart
  6. Joseph Cummings
    A newer 4 valve engine with a Ambac PLM pump? What year is it? Weight isn't too bad for those specs. My buddy had a 10 wheel version on 24 rubber with a big underchassis hoist that weighed more than that. Here in Pa I think he could only do 12 ton and be legal
  7. Joseph Cummings
    Yeah, it's really nice. What's in it for power? Endt676 and TRXL107 or something more?
  8. Joseph Cummings
    I don't think it's his first time lol
  9. Joseph Cummings
    Acme Markets used to install a Pedigree and a brand new dressed out cab. Came out pretty nice. I think the Pedigree was about 6500 then. They did a bunch like that
  10. Joseph Cummings
    https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BCF5aKodY/
  11. Joseph Cummings
    Damn that is pretty. Brings back memories
  12. Joseph Cummings
    WTF? Dude, you are here with the wrong attitude. Almost everyone here is an old timer with decades of experience. Maybe you need to be on some Billy Big Rigger site
  13. Joseph Cummings
    Smells like BS. But it's bitchute. Some of it is way out there, some is really good. It's where the stuff goes that is censored by youtube for whatever reason, if nothing else you can always find something entertaining Personally I think a lot of NJ stuff is civilian aircraft, and a few I have no idea
  14. Joseph Cummings
    I love BitChute https://www.bitchute.com/video/6ZqWysLtVx5n
  15. Joseph Cummings
    Please God save us
  16. Joseph Cummings
    Don't get strung out by the way that I look Don't judge a book by its cover I'm not much of a man by the light of day But by night I'm one hell of a lover I'm just a sweet transvestite From Transexual, Transylvania Pennsylvania
  17. Joseph Cummings
    Here is a used one. If it's right they are 90 degrees out of phase. I've got to think about this. Maybe I'm having a senior moment, but I don't ever remember having to put much thought into designing a steering shaft. Maybe I just got lucky
  18. Joseph Cummings
    If something is binding it should be pretty obvious. It's got to be yoke hitting yoke. I've never had that problem and I've done a lot. I've even had to make a few of my own steering shafts for obsolete equipment and conversions and had no problem. But if something is binding it should be easy to see. He could just turn it if it makes it not bind. If the angles are all strange it's not like it's going to lead to a problem like as if it were a power transmission shaft.
  19. Joseph Cummings
    Yeahl. Right after Covid they started running in there hot and heavy again for over a year, maybe two. Only difference was it was Pa trucks, and only during the day. They started doing site work. blasting, dynamic compaction, they even had this thing working over there with it's 7 yard bucket Hey hope you are feeling better, and have an easy recovery.
  20. Joseph Cummings
    I don't think the angle of the shaft on the steering box and at the bottom of the column are are even the same, so in phase or out of phase shouldn't make a difference. When you phase a drive shaft it's only so one u joint cancels out the speed variations caused by the other. It causes a vibration problem, not a binding problem. Nobody is turning a steering wheel fast enough for that
  21. Joseph Cummings
    35 years ago you could have bought a real Mack like a DM or an RD with 55 or 65,000 rears with an E6-300 and felt like you were a Real American doing things The American Way.
  22. Joseph Cummings
    A lot of that stuff sounds like a maintenance and repair nightmare to me. Although 770 HP sounds interesting. I wonder if they hold up well. And how expensive they are to fix
  23. Joseph Cummings
    In a snow storm while drinking Colt 45 and hitting a bottle of Nikolai Vodka
  24. Joseph Cummings
    Looks like they did it with damp 6011 rod using an AC buzz box
  25. Joseph Cummings
    Oh God, that frame splice is ugly. And the torsion bar is nothing but obsolete junk. They weren't all that good when they were brand new. Look at that sharp internal angle on the aluminum portion. That's just asking for a crack. That frame job looks like something you'd see on truck doing intermodal drayage in north jersey in the 1970's

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