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For the life of me I can't say that actresses name.

That's the facts Jack! The Aunt Jemina treatment....

I was watching this video recently.

Ah, I see the notch now. I'm guessing getting the ball to pop up in the detent hole is going to be tough with that big flat spot on the shaft(no taper to help push it). The ball is too big to stay in the flat to get past the detent hole in the top. Hate to say it, but you might have to drill through the top of the casting to let the ball/spring fall out and then drill/tap/plug or weld it shut?

Ya, occasionally we all have a bad day, but stupid people have them EVERYDAY.

Way back after college, hanging out at buddies garage, we all used the backyard fence. His mother had some sunflowers growing there. She would complain that we were killing them(one was always short). We told her that we didn't use that one, but the really tall one was the one we watered!!! My garage has no bathroom, but I do go outside if needed. Nothing worse then having to go all the way to the house and get the grubby shoes off to use the bathroom.

Unfortunately the stupid reproduce faster then Darwin can eliminate them.........................

Nice work so far. Very first thing I noticed was the LACK of safety stands while working on those brakes. Just don't want the "safety police" to jump all over your video. If you read many of the comments on peoples videos, it can get brutal!! I don't know the legal ramifications if someone follows your advice and gets hurt and comes back at you? Something to definitely think about. I know there are lots of crazy SOB's on Youtube so just remember you are dealing with the general public and they usually don't have a clue.

Few weeks ago I was backing into a parking spot. Small car behind me and I could not see it around the bed of my pickup. I was cautiously backing up when my buddy asked "want me to go out and look?". I told him "sure". If not I was going to get out and look. Would a back up camera be handy? Ya, I would agree. Unfortunately today everyone just assumes they need a camera to see anything. MIrrors? What's that? Park assist? Come on. Now they have trailer towing assist. The dumbing down of drivers. I take it like calculators were back in high school. AFTER you learned to do the math yourself, you could use a calculator. NOT BEFORE!!! Now everyone HAS TO HAVE all these upgrades to do the simplest task of driving. I get a kick out of "blind spot avoidance" lights blinking in your mirror. I know go out of my way to move my vehicle around in the lane behind the car in front just to make that little yellow light flash. I call it a spot mirror. I use it to see what is in my blind spot. If not.........TURN YOUR HEAD and look!!!!!

Ya, when my friend Bill called and said Dave passed away..........I was like Dave who? It just threw me for a loop. His health as surely not great, but I tell you, he never sat around. He joked when I wanted to take a break from running the truck that "what the guy with cancer is out working the young guy?" I told him if I had gloves like him, maybe my hands would not be so sore from working that steering wheel so hard. I'm getting soft with my air steering! That armstrong stuff is for the birds! Especially with 55K lbs of dirt on your back.

Yup, Dave was not afraid of any DOT cops pulling us over in the dirt pile!! LOL!! I got some very tragic news just the other evening. Dave, the owner of the red B61 passed away the other day from Cancer. He has been fighting it for a few years now. I met him about 5 yrs ago at out local Ashland show. He has a very clean W900 he pulls a trailer with the B and a very clean blue single axle Brockway dump. He and his wife Nancy go to all the shows.

Yup, they KNEW the story was not TRUE............and you know they can't print it if it ain't true!!!!

Hmmm, I was thinking your story would be you were hitch hiking to school and this VW bus full of cheerleaders stopped and.........................well, you know how those stories are SUPPOSE to end, right?

I realize he is not changing voltage(I just used that link to show it can be done), but you can make your positive ground generator into a negative ground and continue to use it on the truck.

You can have the generator repolarized and run it with neg ground. That way you keep the originality you like. http://fergusontractors.org/nfs/wp-content/uploads/technical-articles/Polarizing-a-Generator.pdf

Easiest way is pull all the Mack stuff out and find a single axle air ride and slip it in and bolt it up. Might take some spacers to get to fit the narrower frame of the B. Pretty sure you can't do much with a camelback and making it a single axle. Air ride will ride nicer too.

Interesting. I know mine didn't have anything like that. The heater hoses just hung in space. I always wondered how long those old copper lines would last before they cracked. Never did.

Dead on it, just like Mike usually is. My passion was trucks growing up. That was all I thought about. My parents told me I had to get a "real" job. I dropped out of college after 1 1/2 yrs and got a driving job. That grew into my 31 yrs at my company and learning a ton of skills along the way. Lucky for me, that job has given me the opportunity to play with trucks. Not too bad I suppose.

didn't they tell you the secret handshake? LOL!!

Brian, Ben......well it started with a B anyhow.......... See what you have to look forward to? LOL!! Don't get any grey hair.....that's a sure sign of things to come. That's interesting about the bellhousing. I was kinda assuming that they switched over to Drivers side on R models. Guess that is not the case, it is more of a motor option.

It would be called Eastwood Ravine?

Is that the bridge they used in Back to the Future III ? LOL!!!

Guess my eyesight must be getting poor. I was darn sure it had a narrow bellhousing with passenger side starter. Hmmm, I knew something didn't seem right though. Thanks for clarifying it. I enjoyed our chat at Gerhart's, but you'll have to excuse my poor memory(see a pattern), I don't remember which one of you it was and all I remember is a Brian?

SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sad for sure. That is the biggest issues with "museums". So many are run by people with such minimal means and no big backing of money.