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Noon time the roads are dry at work, Snow about gone and 41*.

Those kinda of things, I usually try to wire directly to a battery(including an inline fuse link at the battery end). Even if the unit is fused, I rather not have a glowing red wire if something gets chaffed. Maybe get a terminal post mounted inside the truck, off one of the batteries, for your power supply. Something like this: Help isolate any "add ons" and not rely on the truck wiring to handle the load.

Very nice truck. Kenworth of Canton is my neck of the woods. They had an open house about 6-7 yrs ago and I took the B. Felt outta place with all them large cars around me LOL! I have pictures somwhere. Have a buddy that still works at East, he's a supervisor.

We dodged the bullet here in Canton. About an inch of wet snow, roads only damp this morning. WHew............

Strange enough I just saw a Lil Red express last Saturday on the way to the B75 auction. Caught me by surprise cause there ain't many left. This one was weathered, but not rotted to the ground. About 25 yrs ago, there was on running around on cruise nights. Someone had put some old school flames on the front fenders. He used to try to race my old pickup all the time. That white mustang with the stacks? I hadn't seen those pics in quite a few years. They made the round of the internet about 5 yrs ago.

Ya...it's coming my way. I'm right kinda on the edge so don't know if I'll get hammered or just light dusting? They were saying 5-6", now 3-4" by tomorrow morning. Wunerfool! I just sprayed my pickup off yesterday from all the salt dust. We're suppose to get into 40's by Thursday and through the weekend. It won't be staying around long(thank goodness). Really starting to hate this crap, I want SPRING!!!!!

It was a very, very hard 127K miles. If the motor was rebuilt already? Or maybe it was repowered? I was trying to read the number on the accy drive, but just couldn't see it well enough to read it, not that it mattered. I'm trying to remember the guy in Wooster, they have that show every year. Kinda private thing, I only hear about it after the fact. I figure the truck was near 20K lbs. Maybe 12K for the chassis and another 5-7 for the bed. What is scrap for 20K lbs? That is about what I figured. The cab was junk, doors really rough. Hood and front were okay. Tow bed was usable. Yes, two guys were apparently running it up was the story I got from friend yesterday.

Here is a link to a previous post about those transmissions; http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/3463-t2180/

Ya, back before I got my B I was looking to build a COE or such to pull my trailer. Like they to today, maybe not as fancy as some of the guys do, but workable. I ended up with the B instead.

The H model mack used the L cab and stuck it on stilts. The H model Ford used the Budd cab on stilts. The RD highbinder put an "R" cab on stilts.

The valve on the end of the motor might be sticky. It reverses the air pressure to move it back and forth. Could just need some clean up. Mine "worked", but was slow and random. With some attention they work like rapid fire now. I know most guys just want to get rid of them, but with some maintenance I think they do fine. Little more cantankerous then electric, but not horrible.

That sightliner is a real Rube Goldberg of a truck. Strange how they take a cab from one model and mold it into something else. Like the Ford Two story Falcon, the Highbinder, and likely a few others I can't say right now.

Make sure the air feed line to the motor is good(or the feed to the valve on the dash). Had mine get old and crusty/hard and would not pass air well. New line and WOW....they run like the devil!

Yup, just got a call from a buddy, heard it went $6200? Whatever. The old Ford wrecker went about $6500. It looked pretty decent. Low mileage and didn't look like a rust bucket full of bondo.

Now that's a highway machine right there. 18 mpg?? That near beats out any new car today LOL!! Very cool! I can see a 440 and a 833 in that LOL!!!! But I'm a sick kind person that likes a bench seat and a 4 gear.

Well, no worry here, it ain't in my driveway. I found time to run down about 10:45 Saturday morning. They had about 3 city blocks roped off, I parked and wandered down. They were working on the tools inside the old station. All the trucks were parked off to the side by the new building. It was 28* out, nippy, and I wasn't going to wait around to see what happened. I left and went to lunch with my Saturday group. Funny, I opened the passenger door to look inside again, the right fuel tank and rocker panel were covered in rust pieces from people closing the door all morning LOL!! I lifted the mat and the floor wasn't pretty. It was filled with junk previously so I couldnt look. The bottom back of cab was missing about 2-3" up, you could see the mount area. The truck is rough, like I was told years ago. I tried to read the pump number, but couldn't see it well enough to figure out what motor? Not sure if 673 with turbo or 711 with turbo? It was painted some gawd forsaken blue/green color(ugh). I suppose if no one actually knows what it went for, a call to Kiko this week sometimes might find some information from their records.

Tell him it's an adjustable carrier bearing LOL!!!

I gotta agree, if that was my new toy sitting in the driveway................I'd be wear'n it out too. Jeez, all my toys have been around for 15-20 yrs. Guess I need to find something new to buy to get me excited?? I used to drive my B everywhere, 10 yrs ago. It's kinda lost it's appeal and it more work then worth sometimes.

I heard Homer Simpson........................................................................... "DOH" I wanna see who lays claim to hooking the chain?

Pics? Never heard of it, but again I wasn't involved back then.

I have most of the movies, and enjoy them all. Can't really pinpoint one as best. Just depends on my mood.

Saturday, March 02, 2013 Chattel: 10:30 AM - Real Estate: 12:00 PM I'm cornfused. I would guess that everything is going before the property? Or they keeping the trucks til after?

Looks great. I'm thinking of putting something like that in a few areas of my cab(where I can get it to stick anyway). Anything to kill the drone/cut the noise. Man, I'm SOOOO jealous of these nice, clean, rustfree cabs!!!!!

Yup, I've always loved Dilbert!

Welcome to the site. Can you determine where the leak is coming from on the treadle? The valve itself or a maybe a fitting?