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Dang AI garbage. Need to make a video about the subject myself I guess, find a motor with a hole in the block and tear it down. Those are at least my favorite type of vid

I stopped at my friends motor shop after picking up the driveshaft since I haven't made it down to lunch for a few Saturdays. A buddy was there and told me I'm working way too hard and he could never pull all this off. I told him I can't believe I'm even getting it done. It is an endless chore of assembly, fabricating, etc. Nothing like when I bolted the 237 in. Hook up a fuel line and go. Nothing that easy with this. Last night was fabbing up cruise control cable. Bracket is painted and ready to assemble on engine and then hook up cable. Should be good. Much easier with no fender in the way. No way I would get it done if I had to climb over that fender a 100 times. I also got the rear air tank hung back on. It used to feed air steering but I am leaving it for volume. I dropped it off to ease removed of old aux box. I use it to air my tires in race car at track. It has a check valve so it doesn't affect the rest of the system. I hooked the 13 spd air line to it, since it had an open port now with no steering line. The trans does shift ranges, as I confirmed it last night. I just need to fab up a handle. I just did a refresh on my clutch linkage drawing this morning. I think I found a better way and will confirm it tomorrow night.

Some of you remember when ABF had all R models

When I lived in LA, I used to see matlack rigs everywhere all of a sudden they disappeared

Excellent he didn’t look like he was going anywhere… I don’t remember the photo but I am no spring chicken and I’m getting dingy … bob

Yes he is, he's on Facebook a lot. I've been looking and looking for that picture and couldn't find it anywhere and Zina had it on her phone.

Yes, as did Overnite, Smith's Transfer, Jamerson Brother's Trucking, and many more. Well, Jamerson Brothers here in Appomattox probably didn't have thousands of them. Maybe dozens at their peak? Herbert Jamerson was mostly all Mack in the early days and H.H. Moore ran mostly Internationals.

Thanks for that tom,,,, i was going to mention this,,, met him in person… but now i don’t have to …. Hopefully he’s still with us … Bob

Happy birthday Tom! That's Bob and Tom on the golf cart, from the Bob and Tom show.

May be not:

Paul that last comment was priceless lol .. bob

Always have, what you did with our medium gassers for so long wouldn't have been attempted with our biggest gassers, 345 in a loadstar pulling a semi OTR. Once you got our big diesels you came up with road-trains. I felt I was "pushing the limit" when I grossed 168-170k with my "normal every day cabover tractor" and didn't do it often. Different world down there.

I had air mufflers on both of mine, and it didn't bother the neighbors when I left early when living in town. Too many like for the "look at me" noise they can make rather than the job they do. Same with un muffled Jake's. I have a 1/2" snap-on air drill that will hurt your ears if the muffleing "wadding" comes out the the handle. No shop would stand for its use that loud. No one is impressed by a loud air drill, nor startled by it in a commercial shop, just annoyed. I think it does more to give the industry a "black eye" with the rest of the world than anything. With a muffler, they sound different then a electric starter but not loud. People may still look because it sounds different then they expect. I never once got a complaint or dirty looks with my trucks starting.

No. Escape (Kuga) sales continue in the global market.

The mine I work at got three of the last C500's manufactured. Talk about disappointing. They have been plagued with issues. Even the paint peeled off the hoods first month. Now one broke a rear hub and they can't even get one. 80,000 pound Meritor rears. It's too bad Western Star discontinued the 6900 because they were three times the truck these KW's are.

Have you been in contact with the Mack Trucks Historical Museum? They might have the information you are looking for.

We call them a "Granny Scarer" And yes they do scare the occasional granny Paul

Probably not, the U.S. market is very different than the Australian market In Australia we would use these types of vehicles to pull 3 1/2 ton Were as the U.S. would want a dually or something similar We (Australian's) push our vehicles a lot harder in Australia than the U.S. And this isn't a pissing competition, we just flog the crap out of our gear Paul

Be buggered Missed this one, hope you had a great day Joey Hope beer o'clock rolled around and a great time was had Paul

All I know is, yah can't take it with you I'll share my latest dumb ass purchase when and if it arrives from the US Don't see any trailers hooked on the back of a hearse A very dear friend of mine is slowly dying of brain cancer, he has no regrets and has lived a full life Anyway, enough dribble from me Your having "Crack" and that's all that really matters Top work and your making us all look like bludgers, or bums or what ever you call no hopers in the States Paul

Sorry, I thought I mentioned, The big plant in "Winchester" is Winchester Va and I think they chose that site for its good connection to the interstate system making distribution beyond New England a key reason.

I have a 85 superliner 1 500 12 speed tri axle on newway air ride

I put my headlights on relays, so it eases the load on that old headlight switch. With the old halogen bulbs, the brights would kick the lights off. Now I can run them forever. The lights get power right off the back of the alt. with a couple circuit breakers, one for low, one for high beams. Oh, I put new drives on last years, just under $3000. The first set lasted 23 yrs! They still looked new but were way out of date!

Looks like newsome might be center stage soon seems some Utuber has got all kinds of dirt on him and huge hospice fraud… let’s see how fast he wiggles out of this