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You sir know EXACTLY what you are talking about. Thanks for the input, and you actually know something about the 6.0 and the 6.4 before opening your mouth!!!!!!

Finally

Tom

Why thank you. I'm a Ford man through and through as well, but I do own two cummins. One in a Do$*e and the other in my Mack. Good luck on your sale.

Ben

I have never heard anything good about a 6.0L or a 6.4L. Lots of problems. I have a '01 F-250 SD. There is not enough money to buy mine. The turbocharged 7.3 is the best motor that was put in a super duty. I have to agree with Rowdy. Either put a bed on the one you got or spend $58,000 on a new one. I have heard good things about the 6.7L.

My brother and a good friend are ford diesel techs. The 6.0 has a few problems that onced fixed should never come up again. After they are gone it is a very powerful engine. I love my 7.3 but would love to have a 6.0 also. The 6.4 is the engine that is making the Ford into a hotrodable truck also.

I vote that you just do the right thing and buy a GM Ben

That would be like kissing your sister!

I was thinking the same thing! i need some practice logging line 2!..........................................Mark

Would that be considered down time or up time?

Oh lord, theres a U model in the background, which means theres more U models!!!! I wonder if any survived? Or pictures?

Leave it to you to find a U hiding in the back.

Ben

2 minutes and counting!

Better swoop in with a $9600 bid quick like.

Ben

That is one ugly front end!

Ben

A buddy of mine just added 8 new drivers at a local tire shop. He had the trailer worked on one day and had the truck siting bobtail in his yard. It looked like the left rear inner driver was low. When I walked closer I could see that it was cupping bad. I don't think he had 2k miles on the new tires. After closer inspection they had put 11R22.5 everywhere but there. It was a 295 low pro. It pays to look at things closely sometimes because people can be blind when working on someones elses stuff.

Ben

No update yet? I was thinking we'de have at least a hey a made it with a picture of the truck and trailer hooked up.

Ben

My understanding is that here in Nevada you license the truck the same for Hire or not for hire. The difference is in the insurance. I haven't been through it yet, but that was the story I got from the DMV and an insurance agent.

Ben

Oh, yea i am taking a risk. But i don't have the $$$ for someone to go out and get it for me Running through the night for a less chance of getting stopped.

Tom

I'm confused also. If you are picking up a trailer that you bought, and nothing else, why would you be illegal running not for hire???

And I also like the website. I hope to see Kober trucking rigs running all over the country in a few years!

Ben

It may be my favorite model of truck but I can't justify the expense of purchasing and repairing it. If it was for sale for half the price, I may be interested.

I agree, it's my favorite also. I paid 2k for mine in a somewhat running condition, but I did steal it. If you have the money I think that truck is worth that.

Ben

I have never heard of the page and page, sorry. I just got my running, but I definately don't know it like the back of my hand. A guy I work with is pretty handy with the older cummins. What do you need to know?

Ben

Sweet, I subscribed to you.

Hopefully I'll have some video's like the Black Friday Fun to post in the near future. I might be illegally cruising the backroads of Elko Nevada, but I will at least be cruising. You and your Grandpa have been good inspiation to me and I'm sure a few others as well.

Ben

Glad too see you moving.

It feels good with no matter how much you need to do about in the future.

How did you brake her? With a hand lever?

Hope you will really have a pair of good weather weeks.

My happy time was finished just today with an amount of fresh snow and freeze.

My brakes are called gravity and slow speed. I kept it in lo-split 1st gear and idled around. I made sure I had a level spot close by if I needed to stop. I backed into a block I had set behind the rear driver before we pulled it. It has a jake, but everything is unhooked after I did away with the series parallel switch.

Ben

Wow that's one heck of a stack in that thing. Got enough wheelbase for a sleeper too.

The muffler is coming off and the pipe above it will be moved down to the elbow. It should put the tip just above the cab. The frame has been replaced from the axles back. It looks like it was lengthened about two feet over the original wheelbase. I submitted my serial number to the museum a few months ago. Hopefully I'll get my info sometime soon and see what length it started out at. It also appears to have a NH855 (335) instead of the 743. My understanding was that the 73's all came with the smaller engines.

Ben

Thank you. I have a hood, but it isn't the best, it is cracked and seperated at the bottom on both sides . I am also missing one of the filler panels between the fender and the hood.

Ben

Here's one of the video's we took. The compressor doesn't work so I have no breaks. The Aux tranny won't shift. Next time I'll try to get some speed.

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr3xwJhOpvRRdXxRj8MLgTA?feature=guide

Ben

I finally got the B73 started this afternoon. The last time it was started was about 8 years ago. After we got the Fuel shut off soleniod working, we rigged up a jerry can that was plumbed into the 1/8 pipe thread fitting on the 90 coming off the pump from the tank. It sucked a full gallon just filling the line from the tank to the pump. We pulled it around with my CAT motor grader and as soon as my brother dumped the clutch it bellowed white smoke for a second and just purred a beautiful Cummins sound. I was at the previous owners house when we started it 8 years ago, but we couldn't move it because the compressor doesn't work. I pulled the pins on the brakes before we hauled it home so it would free wheel. Today was the first day that I ever got to drive it I took some video with my phone, but I can't get it them to email. I might have to wait until I get back to work on Monday to cable my phone to my computer and post them. I got to looking back through my old text messages and it turns out it was exactly 1 year ago to the day that I brought the truck home. I wish I would have had a couple full days before now to mess with it so I could have had it running earlier. Next project is to get the new battery cables built so I can use the new 12v starter and get the Air compressor working. Man is my motivation level high now. I hope the good weather holds for another week or two so I can get o few things done on it. Then we need it to snow snow snow.

Ben

Someone better get that outside duel on that quick before it tips over and ruins a perfectly good drivers door!

Ben

I'd like to disappear and reappear, and disappear and reappear over and over in with her!

I got an hour to work on it this afternoon. I pulled the solenoid off and tested it with a couple jumpers on the battery. If I ground to the other post the magnet is on strong. I pulled the plunger out to make sure it is free and everything looks good there. I put the solenoid back on the pump and ran a ground wire to the post that has been without a wire for quite some time. If I unhook it I get the same thing as the other day. It still doesn't make sense because I started it back in the day with it that way? But with the ground wire I now know it works. I spun the filter and had fuel flowing out the top so that shouldn't be an issue. I was going to remove the line from the filter to the pump, but I couldn't find my 1" end wrench. I am off Wednesday, so I'll see if I can get the line full of fuel and try again. Hopefully the weather will stay clear for a few more weeks!

Ben

Never really liked twinkies,always been more of a "Tastykake man" myself.................................Mark

HOLY APE$H!T Batman! Butterscotch!!! I better find me some of these.

Ben

Sorry forgot the photo.

In all my haste I forgot to mention that it is a Cummins. I didn't check the filter, but I don't think it ever went without fuel. I started the truck about 7 or 8 years ago when I first tried to buy it. The filter sits next to the tank and the top of the base is below the fuel level in the tank. There is an abdondance of line(and elevation) from the filter to the pump. I will try taking the line off and filling it from the top if it is empty. As far as the electrical testing I was measuring from ground(the Frame) to the jumper and getting 8 to 10 volts(not htte best ground connection). With the tip of the meter still on the frame and the other on the jumper, I would touch the short pigtail coming off the soleniod and I would drop to 0 volts. This doesn't make sense to me. It should keep the same voltage unless it is grounding out. The soleniod has another post above the one with the wire, but I have been told it should be grounded throught the housing. I have attached a picture of it.

For you East coast boys, don't hold your breath, I'de spend a few hundred having a mechanic come over before I would ship my baby away. It took me almost a decade to convince the wife that I needed it.

Ben