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Florida Republican Representative Maria Elvira Salazar has written DHS asking them to spare migrants who entered the country under Biden's humanitarian parole program. Salazar represents a district in Miami-Dade County, which has the highest share of immigrants of any county in the nation (54.3% immigrants and 93% of them were born in Latin America). Salazar asked DHS to protect migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela (CHNV) who entered the country under the CHNV parole process. Per CBP, 531,690 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans arrived under Biden's humanitarian parole program as of December. The Trump administration is giving ICE the power to deport migrants who were allowed into the country temporarily under Biden-era programs including CHNV parole and the CBP One app. (The Biden administration created the CHNV program in January 2023, allowing nationals from those countries to stay in the U.S. temporarily, up to two years, allegedly due to urgent humanitarian reasons and heightened instability. But taking people from those countries is a recipe for trouble. They should have remained and fixed their countries, orchestrating revolutions for better countries they can be proud to call "home".) I strongly urge you to ensure that all Cubans paroled in under the CHNV program eligible for or with pending applications for the Cuban Adjustment Act are protected from deportation until their cases are fully resolved. Additionally, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, and Haitians who arrived under the CHNV program, have no criminal record, and have applied for asylum through the proper legal channels should also be protected until their cases are fully resolved. Although President Biden originally created this program on dubious legal grounds and brought individuals here without a plan for their future, they were still enrolled under programs offered to them. Maria Elvira Salazar The DHS says: The Biden-Harris Administration abused the humanitarian parole program to indiscriminately allow 1.5 million migrants to enter our country. This was all stopped on day one of the Trump Administration. This action will return the humanitarian parole program to its original purpose of looking at migrants on a case-by-case basis.

I dunno why they are this way Geoff, but they are a pain in the ass some times when changing a flat tyre on the side of the road 44,000 lb back ends are normal, course thread each end, 58,000 lb fine in the spoke and course on the cleat Stupid idea I always felt Paul

Bob, could you see the R model tow I have ? I think we have the same one.

And Tom shit happens that’s messed up I

Your moving right along with this, keep up the good work Paul

Add Tom I put that DM together a long long time ago

Yeah, Bob.. it has a mirror background, so it looks like i have 2. I found stuff i forgot i had.. its cool. The wooden choo choo was given to me by Aunt Carmen when I was like 2 years old...

Oh, I see Joey. There’s a mirror back there. I didn’t notice that at first.

Looks a lot like mine- very crowded in there! I think I have a couple of the same trucks. Reminds me of when we were moving from Gladys- I put a big cardboard box on the arm of the couch and carefully placed everything that was in the corner cabinet in it. Then I bumped into the box and knocked it off into the floor. Broke every mirror on every truck in it.

oh, I thought there was two of them

Excellent sounds like you’re well in your way pretty crazy about that one bearing

Yes. I already have countershaft figured out and waiting on more shims. Once I recheck, that is done. I have the mainshaft already checked and just got the shims needed for output bearings. https://i.postimg.cc/JhLFMTWm/IMG_20250114_214250671_MP.jpg

2024 Mack Anthem-- So far, I've only found the one small mounting surface on the dash. I want my electronics mounted below window level, though, or otherwise above driver level, like in the cabinet door above the driver's head. Magnets with adhesive backs just fall right off. Is there some solution for mounting such adhesive magnets that I'm not seeing?

The Snap-On guy had them about 8 years ago.. glad i got one.. thanks Bob.....

Wonder why they were made that way? Normal wheel studs (for spoke wheels) are course thread both ends. Normal studs for other purposes, the course thread is the stationary thread (on the end of the stud that stays put) and the fine thread is on the rotating (nut) end. That is back-asswards. Course thread resists being pulled out, fine thread provides more clamping force before failure. axle drive studs, course in the hub, fine on the nut.

Like wow man some really cool shit I like those cute little busses amongst most all of it … bob

Glad you found them easy enough. I thought they were gonna be a little bit of an issue. You probably did too.

My Sweet wife started a Facebook acct. to find a Curio for my collectables.. Well, we got one.. Here are 2 before and several after pictures. Sorry about the link, I cant post pictures anymore. Hope this inspires a few of you to show of your small toys... Mechohaulic,,, The big car that looks like an Avon bottle is actually a Whiskey bottle.. I thought of you, and there is a truck in there that you may reckognize. https://photos.app.goo.gl/n1LAoBp4CADz8Wrq6

If I were to have walking beam (and have had), it would be spring. The walking beams, and any center point suspensions strong point is it dampens by transferring shock loads front and aft. The springs themselves don't do a whole lot of deflecting, and mainly on large "swells" where the load is on both axles at once. I don't see the air version as worth the complexity. I have run various spring suspension, and loaded properly they are fine. A lightly loaded walking beam on a short wheelbase tractor can and will "launch" the driver over a rough road. But any suspension will be rougher on a short wheelbase. KW 8 bag is notoriously rough despite haveing the most air bags of any air suspension. The Hendrickson designed Z spring combines the best of both worlds and has been around in some form or another for 50 years, only the walking beam design which has been around for about 100 years can claim longer life. Both are Hendrickson designs. The AR2 was never a big seller, and I have yet to see on a truck.

Sorry to hear your having trouble how ever If you want help please post! SOME HISTORTY / The parts you replaced and how the situation developed/ And what tools you have to trouble shoot! Throwing parts at shit is expensive you need to do some trouble shooting first wild guesses don't always work as you have found out! educated guesses sometimes work ! Facts are much better! We are here to try and help how ever we don't have a magic wand or crystal balls the snapon guys quit making them years ago But Guys here will try and help if they can !

this is a copy of A Radan suspension and is more for dump and mixer application! I remember seeing that flimsy looking y suspension being offered in some write ups touted as be light more pay load blabla ! Sounds like yup you pay alright!

Voltage reading at the coil doesn't tell you alot, esp if the coils are externally ballasted. Some 12 volt coils are internally ballasted and most are externally. If you are unfamiliar with point ignition, then some help is needed before you go changing stuff that may not need changing. You want someone who has a dwell meter and knows how to use it. I'm assuming (and that is not always a good thing to do) that this truck was 12 volt from the get-go and not something that was changed by someone in the past. I suspect it was 12 from the get-go, but is from the era when that is not a given. You don't want to run a"New wire" from the switch to the coil if there is an external ballast resistor in the circuit somewhere. Taking the Ballast out of the circuit will cause weak high speed spark and could overheat and short the coil. Getting someone who can look over the ign system, set the points by dwell angle and time each distributor with a strobe, is really a must before you condemn anything.

Tks guys will be on the phone tomorrow morning.

I’m sure you probably know this, you have to bolt cases together to set endplay on counter shafts and shim accordingly,check at pto opening, and I believe on mainshaft output at back box takes spacers between the two facing bearings to set endplay. Terry

Its probably a little late for a reply. But the air release line for my hill holder was clogged up. Put two hill holder valves on it. Each time replacing the valve would loosen the mud dauber nest in the release airline and it would work for a while and then act up again. Valve was not the problem. Release air could not vent from the air line thanks to a mud dauber.