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Ok. Tight as it will go then back it off to the next slot for the cotter pin

When my son went to register his (CF) trailers in NH. He ask for "Antique Trailer" plates and was told NH didn't have those. So he pulled out his phone and showed them a picture of Jim Ryme's trailer and plate. He came home with plate numbers 1127-1128-1129. l went up six months later and got number 1130. Don't think many people know of the plates being available. .....Hippy

Yes it is the cross cut

$3:59- $3.89/ gallon

Thanks fellas, I think reason for the fuel hike is to pay for the next load of crude, not the stuff they already have And were else are we gunna go Thinking this bit of excitement in the middle east might want to be over soon otherwise your fearless leader might not be to popular with the people after 6 months of high prices Anyway, it still beats walking Paul

Same here, but so far just one quick heavy shower.

Dunno about CT!! But in SC the antique truck application only asks for empty/tare weight. NO gross weight needed!!

Well, surprised to see this thread still going six years later, but I never did attempt to get the truck in question registered. Just days after getting my DOT exemption, the state shut down due to the china virus. With the DMV shuttered, I just dropped the issue. Now I'm going at it again. I've got the title in hand (my father sold the truck to me), a bill of sale, and the registration form. I see the registration form clearly says right on it: "If DOT #, has the vehicle been inspected?" Since I'm registering it as a Classic Vehicle, it won't have a DOT number, hence, there should be no requirement for an inspection. There is no GVW information on the Title or Bill of Sale, so I wonder if I should just not bother filling anything in that space...or just put whatever I want there, like 25,900lbs. My appointment at the DMV is coming up soon.

I guess Michigan guy is going to buy the truck. He gave me the no. for his bank in Michigan so I could call and verify that he was good for the money, and he already called Underdog about hauling it to Michigan.

...and we've got high wind and severe thunderstorm warnings for today.

We raised tobacco when I was a kid, that was many years ago. And my Dad and grandfather would make a plant bed in the woods. I don't know why it was in the woods, maybe the richest dirt? Anyway, they cleared a spot, tilled the soil good, then cut 4 poles to put on all 4 sides of it. They sowed the tobacco seeds inside and covered it with a big white cover like cheesecloth. I guess so frost wouldn't kill the plants when they came up, and the poles kept the cover off the plants. And they would always put tomato seeds in it, so when everything came up they had enough tomato plants for half the county. Dad grew his own sweet potato slips too, but he would just put a sweet potato in a hole in the ground and cover it with sawdust and it would sprout lots of slips. He still had a little plant bed for tomatoes and peppers every year too, long after we stopped growing tobacco. Still had enough plants for everybody in the neighborhood. But when I was a kid many years ago there was 6 of us in the family and our garden covered a half acre, there wasn't much we didn't grow.

Paul, Diesel up here has gone up about a dollar and a half a gallon since this started. Gas also but not as much. I can understand with the Straight closed the import of crude is down and this will affect FUTURE prices. BUT BUT why has the price of the already refined product jumped overnight??????? I think the oil companys are ripping us off!!!!!!!!

Paul, here in New Jersey diesel has gone up around 70 cents per gallon in the past week. it is currently $4.99 per gallon. gas did the same, about $1.20 cents per gallon, from $2.39 to $3.59 per gallon

How's the fuel prices in the U.S. and Canada ? Fuel has gone through the roof in Australia $1.65 - $2.60ish in a week in Australia This is per litre price so multiply this by 4 for gallons Paul

So I think we are all sort of right and sort of wrong Cavitation of pumps, which is what I was talking about is different than cavitation in a Cummins around the liners That been said, I think we are all learning and that is what really matters Thanks for the thoughts Vlad Paul

Copied Vlads reply over to here Maybe it's not fine to flood up Larry's thread but seems I should toss a pair of nikels to this basket. Paul's explanations were wrong (or maybe we are both wrong with him as he clever addmits sometimes). The effect of cavitation is predicted by taking the fluid body apart. It's possible if you "pull one end" and "hold the other". For example in a centrifugal pump some portion of fluid is forsed to go to the outside due to spinning but the incoming fluid is hold down because of excessive resistance in the suction channel. Or similar effect can be achieved on a surface of impeller blades. Big impellers have section of blades made by the same principal as a plane wing. That "assymetrical ellipse" shape produces difference of pressures on different sides of the wing. More curved side gets lower pressure what helps getting the plane up. And same effect is used in leaned (not straight) boat sales. Ok, that's a rocket since but the point we deal regarding cavitation is fluid is broken down in a certain point. So a bubble occures there. That's not gas in fact. It's vaccuum. It could be gas filled to some minor grade because of intensive evaporation to the vacuumated volume but what has meaning is that volume is under notably lower pressure than the whole fluid body. When that bubble moves from the area with conditions which produced it to area with normal conditions normal pressure in the fluid presses it down immediately. And as long as fluid doesn't compress as gas it produces big hit in that spot. It's pressure wave spreads over surrounding fluid and since fluid is super-conductive for stress it achive structural parts of the device. During cavitation we have a kind of "hammering" to empeller blades, pump housing or a cylinder sleeve (here the effect is stimulated by pressure jumps in the combustion chamber if combustion isn't going right, for example being detonative). Ok, constant hitting to a structural element makes material brittle which is followed by chipping out and making cavits. This way general reason for cavitation to take place is incorrect movement of fluid in a certain passage. For centrifugal pumps the most typical reason to cavitate is higher revs than they are designed for. And clogged suction side too or sucking from very low level.

You know, I didn't even think about that. When I was having turn signal issues I unplugged it, but it was a pain to get it unplugged. I'll be going back out there soon and try it. Another thing to note is the high beam indicator does not light up when the relay is installed. However when I put power to the corresponding pin on the relay block it does illuminate. My flash to pass switch up top also triggers the indicator as it should. I think I know where you're going with this, I didn't think to unplug it since the high beam indicator wasn't on.

I have a superliner 1

If I would buy the paint all the material would anyone be open to painting it I don’t have the money to spend

A pencil pusher "engineer" who never drove a truck??????

Seemed odd to me that Mack felt the need to call them Road lights instead of Fog lights.. thank you for the response

Basically you are right!! That is one of the names for the additional lights either in or below the bumper, white or yellow, for better visibility in poor weather conditions. The best were made by Perlux and had fins to keep the light from blinding oncoming traffic.

i remember many many many many years ago on the farm we bought a load of sweet potato seedlings from a co op in North Carolina because of a shortage at our usual sellers. we ended up with about 25% of the field being tobacco plants.

I have a factory toggle switch on the dash of my Western built Superliner that is labled "Road Lights". Can anyone tell me what road lights were on those trucks? All of my lighting is controlled by existing switches, so I assumed road lights were an option that has long since been disconnected. Were they just Fog lights mounted in the bumper? . . . or something else entirely ? RW