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  1. Brocky
    I know what you mean!!! Driving a Ram 3500 quad cab with a 9 foot tray body can become challenging at times.. Best if I can find a parking place with lawn behind the curb so I can let the back end hang over.. As far as the plow driver, as long as the parked car is in the highway "right of way" the car is at fault..
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    I am not quite as far out in the boondocks as Paul.. BUT we have good traffic flows in the small city about 15 miles from the house.. But as a young man operating a snow plow I did put the wing in someone's back window and opened his roof like a can opener while "pushing back" and he was parked tooo close to the road!!!
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    Looks like it has a "Bowtie" on the hood??? Did they build a 9500 with a short hood???
  4. Brocky
    Great!! A little elbow grease and polish and it should look new..
  5. Brocky
    Welcome to the forum!!!! I hope you enjoyed your trip to Australia.. I DID!!! They are great people Down Under... It looks like you have a good base Superliner.. Please start a topic in the Antique section and keep us updated on your progress.😀
  6. Brocky
    Somewhere on here, (last summer??), Vlad from Moscow has a topic post from his vacation trip to Iran which has pictures of Macks still in operation there including a Brockway.
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    A man I worked for while in high school had a 1958 or 9 Brockway with a 220 Cummins and an Overdrive Transmission that shifted like that , but I do not remember where 1st and reverse were. It was a single axle with an air shift 2 speed rear and you were not supposed to use the rear in low when the main was in overdrive.
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    Many of these southern Rebels have asked this Yankee how to drive in snow... My Answer is to mentally tape a rotten egg to your right toe, And DO NOT break the egg!!!!!! In other words go very gently on both the throttle and brakes..
  9. Brocky
    The Cole's Museum in Bangor is a definite to put on your bucket list if you get up to visit Maine. Everything from a wheel borrow to a railroad locomotive. Even bicycles hanging from the ceiling!! Also are the Transportation Museum in Owls Head with large engines, aircraft and race cars, The Erv Bickford collection in Yarmouth, now operated as part of the Gary Mahan Foundation in two parts, a display open 24/7 in a city park and his shop and storage building which may be accessed by appointment, Then probably by appointment and open for specific events the late Daryl Gushee collection in New Gloucester.
  10. Brocky
    That looks like an old Matlack dash!!! They even had 7 day ones for the F model sleeper teams, with a key lock only the home shop had the key to!!
  11. Brocky
    Paul, NOT really!!! The road our bus took up from Cairns to the Tablelands were very similar to the American ones up into our eastern Appalachian mountains.. The sign said something like a 100 bends (curves) switchbacks in the next 20 KM.. We gained about 2000 feet of altitude at the same time.
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    Probably here!! Also ATHS Wheels of Time and ATCA Double Clutch.. Do NOT know about Truck Paper and some of the other similar magazines???
  13. Brocky
    Good question???? Hope fully KS Carbell will jump in with the answer.
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    Brocky replied to Onyx610's topic in Odds and Ends

    TJC, Same Here!!!! These damn electric ears will drive you nuts!!! I work part time at the county landfill boxsite. The pump motor on the compactor will drown out all conversation!!
  15. Brocky
    KBS had frame and manifold paint that you could brush on.. I do NOT know if they had any others????? Check with Eddie Lucast over on the Just Old Trucks forum..
  16. Brocky
    GW: The one I drove was in a 1962 Autocar snub nose with a Cummins.. The shifting procedure was also in the Drivers Manual for my 1959 Diamond T 921C which had a 220 Cummins. I cannot post a picture of the manual as I gave it to the man who bought the DT.
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    Is there a site for Ford Trucks???? I used to go to one when Michelle Cole was still alive, but after she died it was all modern $h!t..
  18. Brocky
    Dean, I do NOT know what to say about rear fenders???? Most trucks of that era did not have rear fenders and I am not sure if they even had mud flaps???? Since you have your lights mounted on the rear cross member, about the only thing would be a half fender with flap bracket??? BUT that would not be period correct🤨.. Since you trailer it to shows do you really need the protection???
  19. Brocky
    I am an "Old Fart" and all my pictures are on the computer where my kids can delete them after I pass!!!
  20. Brocky
    Bob, I think(??) you might be speaking of the Spicer 12 speed??? The one I drove had a manual clutch and you had to shift the lever thru neutral in ever shift.
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    Dean, Thank you for bringing your truck down to the 3rd Annual Dark Corner Charity Truck Show Yesterday sponsored in part by the ATHS Palmetto Chapter.. It was definitely the "Hit of the Show"!!!! We awarded Gary Poague his ATHS 50 year achievement award and he wanted to get his picture with your truck as part of the write up in a later Wheels of Time magazine.
  22. Brocky
    Bob and Paul, AGAIN constant load and RPM's.... NOT up and down thru the gears..
  23. Brocky
    I know modern technology has improved engine life overall but still I do not think (???) that V configurations ever bumped the million mile mark that the inline 6's did?????
  24. Brocky
    Geoff Go on and say that no one was able to get reliability out of a V configured engine in a variable speed truck application.. In stationary and marine applications where they were under a constant load and operating speed the V configuration held up.
  25. Brocky
    ASK Otherdog!!!! He is the one who started the food trucks..

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