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Sorry guys, on the road all day yesterday, will try to catch up. There is no resistance into or out of any gear (including 1 or R) with engine off as long as gears are aligned. No issue at all with Rev when running. Everything moves smoothly as expected, til it doesn’t out of 1st. The resistance to shifting from 1st does not feel to be a load caused by rotational gear friction… When it locks, you can repeatedly hit the shifter - hard, and it feels solid - no slippage even by applying / releasing drive load with the throttle. Feels like something physical blocking it, (except on the 2nd Tuesday of the week…..) No common action seems to cause it to release. Does not appear to be driveline torque, caused by a turn. Happens at any time. ‘I’m still thinking this is something kind of simple’ - I hope you’re right. Just haven’t figured it out. Again, it’s just a PITA, but starting in 2nd vs 1st when loaded is significant. Thx for your input.

have to ask !!! what's the reason or purpose of the truck ?? show/exhibition / size of exhaust ?? just wondering. that's a truck being brand new during my time . any pictures or better a video.

The ENDT 673 was used to repower the M54 series of military 5 ton trucks during Vietnam. I've see pictures of a marine version of the END673 installed in a boat, so I believe there was a marinized version of it and I think some earlier engines, too, were installed in marine applications.

It's extremely common and on top of Youtube's algorithm already being trash, it makes the platform about useless. I've picked up reading again since I've noticed that the internet as a whole is terrible for a person now. I've heard it called an "attention economy," where everything is vying for our attention, and I know for a fact that's true. I've been making it my goal to not touch Instagram or Facebook at all, because I noticed that I tend to get stuck there for longer than I need to if I do touch them. Somehow, money is made off of our attention, and I don't intend to give them anything if I can help it. Reading's more fun anyways.

I have next to zero knowledge about military combat. However I think there are ample clues in history. Do you remember the Gulf War? Iraq had the world's 3rd or 4th largest army and it was totally dismantled by US strikes in a matter of weeks. The ground war lasted a month or two and looked like and NFL team playing against pee wees. It was something like 300 casualties for the coalition and upwards of 50,000 for Iraq. My guess is Iran isn't much different. Hardware in large numbers but extremely obsolete and hamstrung by decades of sanctions. And no real experience or training in waging war. Iran and Iraq were competing powers in that region for years. Sunni vs Shite Muslim ideology. Iran's large army was built up over the years to counter Iraq not directly engage with USA. With Saddam gone the need for to upkeep all that hardware probably became less important and its main use shifted solely to impressing and/or scaring it's citizenry into compliance and to keep them subjugated. The leadership probably knows they stand zero chance against the US military. I don't think the stuff being destroyed is bait. I think what we are seeing is an extremely weak military that really hasn't got a clue being picked apart by the most advanced and capable military on the planet. If there were to be a large buildup of ground forces and a ground war was started my guess is you would see a turkey shoot all the way to Tehran. Especially since there a large portion of the Iranian citizenry who would love to be liberated from the current regime. I don't know about Iran having strong nuclear rockets. The average citizen will never know the truth about such matters. I have serious doubts considering what info is available from IAEA as well as the bombing mission last June. IMO even if Iran was able to cobble together a nuke the idea they would use it unprovoked is laughable. They have no ICBM capability or possibilities in the works. Delivering it anywhere beyond a few hundred miles would be impossible unless it was a tiny one in a suitcase. Everyone on planet Earth knows what would happen if any country would detonate a nuclear weapon. If Iran was actually pursuing a nuclear weapons program my guess is the real reason is to prevent exactly what is currently happening to them. The only reason countries have nukes is as a deterrent.

Autocar cabovers have been getting popular around here for local trash haulers, so I wouldn't doubt that they're trying to push themselves back into the limelight. If they're making trucks to be worked on, they'll start getting local fleets' attentions pretty quickly. The only downside is their parts lookup is less than ideal and parts pricing a tad high, but hardly a reason to ignore the truck as a whole.

Holy Moly !!!!!!!!!

I was going to make a true but smart ass comment about this decided to keep it out but now nobody will know which side it was against. Ha ha oh well.

Wow Larry that’s unfortunate. I’m sorry to hear that. But thanks for the information. My wife was telling me the same thing about Jackie and shadow a lot of people like to follow the big bear eagles… what are country!!!!

OK, that’s just degrading

Like he or I care what you believe. His "uniform", by established protocol, is a business suit. No mention is made about a hat, neither for nor against. The ONLY people who seem to have an issue with it are you clowns on the left, who have an issue with anything and everything he does.

Curious if anyone knows of anyone who can build extremely oversized from stock E7 Etech Fuel system parts.. the fuel system we have is already extremely custom, Donated by a Mack engineer way back in the early 2000s, There showerhead nozzles and 12mm pumps(2 mm over stock). We tried to have them looked at and a larger system built by a shop but unfortunately came up short due to them not being to replicate what we had even. Truck makes around 1000 wheel horsepower on dual compound turbos, 2 88s feeding into a S475.

I believe he is to remove his hat unless he is in uniform. That cap is not part of any uniform unless it’s for the USA baseball team.

That's PRESIDENT asshole to you! He's the Commander in Chief of the US Military and wore a white USA hat, not a "baseball cap". He represented no baseball team. He represented the United States. And, as military regulations require, he saluted when appropriate, just like the other military officers who attended.

Nasty..

We use root beer and barbecue sauce in pulled pork here

Zina said we're having Cuban sammiches tonight and she wanted me to slice some of the pork loin real thin, so thin you could read the newspaper through it. So I did , maybe not quite that thin, but as thin as I could get it with a knife that's not as sharp as it could be. I didn't even taste it yesterday, just wrapped it up and stuck it in the fridge after it cooled. I still have a rack of leftover ribs in the fridge! But I did sneak a sample or three while I was slicing, and it was fantastic! I'm a barbecue person, don't know much about Cuban sammiches but I can't wait to try one!

Just heard the other day our governor wants to do something about our overpriced California gasoline but of course the Attorney General over here is an idiot and doesn’t want to have anything to do with it just like a real politician I guess I couldn’t expect anything less

Probably a true story

the part "it takes a couple loaded clutch activations " is the red light for me. a detent ball could care less if clutch activated rapidly. a double disc with one disc hanging would take notice. a lot depends on the movement of the shift lever during these episodes. lever move slightly after slider working ? is pressure held on the lever attempting to complete a shift ?

single or double disc Mack clutch ??? what does the lever do when it hangs up??? : stick not fully move to proper position ?? lever worn jamming between two sliders ? shaft bushing worn it should happen more frequently

got my vote on that