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  1. Red Horse
    Like I said-what negotiating power do we have left? Its like our industrial base gave no thought to just who they were jumping in bed with. The only thing that mattered was "getting the job done for least cost". Irwin tools? Vise Grip? Yeah-packaging says.."engineered in America" And Kevin- I hear you. But fact remains-cut off petroleum supply. and how long does the loon last? And there can be NO military option unless you want to kill a few million So. Koreans. Complete isolation of the North Koreans is the only thing that hopefully will bring about a change.
  2. Red Horse
    In any case, I have to believe that China for sure holds the key to keeping the loon in North Korea in power. In spite of all the sanctions that have been imposed we now see confirmation that China is lightering tankers at sea so oil ends up going to North Korea. When will we wake up to the fact that China can't be trusted. Yet we continue to give them increasing stakes in all phases of our industrial base. What negotiating power do we have left?? Boycott Chinese goods? We could-but that would mean the end of Walmart! Here's a good thought-maybe Tillerson and Mattis should have to approve any commercial venture involving China
  3. Red Horse
    Beautiful! Makes the Bulldog sit a little lower on the hood! The one thing I wish Ford had NOT sold was Volvo.
  4. Red Horse
    Hippy you have to give them a couple of close ups of your "wing"
  5. Red Horse
    Hope the Ford guys from the US were in attendance-might give them some inspiration!
  6. Red Horse
    Class 5 19,500. My bet is Navistar would not have an interest in them getting into class 6 and 7. As for Ford, time for them to come up with a tilt hood for 450-550. When I look under the hood of a Power Stroke 450/550 I say..."sorry for the guy who has to work on this"
  7. Red Horse
    So guys-how do you drive these Cats? Put it in a slot-say 5, and it sequentially upshifts from 1 thru 5 or is each "gear" selected with the stick i.e. put it in "1" and it stays in "1" until you move selector up??
  8. Red Horse
    Jim-you were correct. Patrick confirmed. Don't know what Allison it is but not your usual Allison. this truck is unique-down to air/hydraulic brakes-
  9. Red Horse
    Good thought Jim-I will send to Patrick. A friend of mine sent me this picture with the question dummy that I am we had a meeting in his training room last night-never thought to bring my phone out-Danny M was there too-talk about Mack resources!
  10. Red Horse
    Thx - as I look at this picture I see 7 "slots". I drove Scania powered DM-400's in early 70's that had Allisons-don't remember what the selectors looked like but not this for sure. Dm's by the way were NYC spec 3000 gallon gasoline tanks-back in the day when NYFD ruled the that world with an iron hand.
  11. Red Horse
    Any clue as to what this is?? Never saw an Allison with a selector like this.
  12. Red Horse
    Well that is good news. If they are running at 33,000 you sure they are not 750's? Max plate on a 650 is 26,0000- Not to say you can't carry more-I would be surprised though if any propane tank outfit would mount a barrel big enough to exceed the chassis GVW rating. Last guy has to certify the truck. In any case good to hear that whatever they are-650 or 750 the trucks are working out well.
  13. Red Horse
    My point exactly. And I'm not talking about going crazy. The 750 can go up to 37,000 GVW. It has plenty of heavy frame options with high RBM numbers. 14,000 front axle and a 26,000 rear. Might need a bigger radiator. Other than that, what keeps them from upgrading?????? Case in point, there all all sorts of Bluediamond 750's around here in utility co. bucket trucks. Have any of these utilities bought OAP 750 buckets? If they have I haven't seen any. If the old 750 was good enough for that service, why aren't they buying the new truck. I say they are gunshy about the power train.
  14. Red Horse
    I would think it is more of financial decision that says they think they are making more on the in house power train. I'm sure they do well with that in house power train -but IMO it would make more sense to capture more sales even if the profit on those outsourced engines transmissions is less-at least you are getting incremental volume that has to contribute to overall profitability. OAP has to have significant fixed costs. Every additional truck that goes out the door, lowers those fixed costs. And by the way I don't think those workers in the Ford plant in Mexico that builds Power Strokes are paying UAW dues!
  15. Red Horse
    I guess they haven't figured out yet that one reason their class 7 sales are so low is not everyone wants a V-8 diesel-or a Ford Torqueshift transmission vs. an Allison. All kinds of rumors about a new 7 liter gas V-8 as a replacement for the 6.8 V-10 so that might help if and when that becomes a reality.
  16. Red Horse
    Thx-looking at it from a truly global perspective, I imagine then those numbers are realistic. I wonder how many US employees are employed there or even travel to Turkey on a regular basis. And as a followup to Roadway R's comments, seems like the full range of LCF's offered in Brazil and the increased emphasis GM is placing on LCF's for US market makes sense that Ford is working on a return of that class to US.
  17. Red Horse
    Kevin, "500 engineers of the 1500".... can this be? Or does "engineer" in Turkey mean anyone working on the line building trucks?? I find this hard to believe.
  18. Red Horse
    Dumb move on your part to post that fact-with the way things are going, you might have been in congress in a year or two as all the politicians "come clean"
  19. Red Horse
    Wow- I guess if I was faced with that bill I too would not be too happy. I'm not a fan of V-8 diesels but how many of these things are on the road now?? Many thousands I would think. And offering them in 750's up to 37,000 lb GVW with a 250,000 mile warranty is putting it on the line. What did your dealer tell you? By the way- buddy of mine has a new GMC 2500 on order after dealing with one thing after another on his 2014 and he told me GM has a hold on all duramaxes-no reason given.
  20. Red Horse
    And we had a lot of V-185 Cummins with Allisons -as well as a later version that I think were 220 horse. They were previous to the triple nickel. Between those engines and the early Allisons they were a nightmare.
  21. Red Horse
    I do believe light weight given high horsepower was a selling point for service in bulk transport (tankers). we never had any on east coast but they were used in Calif. And the experience was not good, although I have no specifics. Looking at all the comments on this thread however, that experience appears to be common.
  22. Red Horse
    Kevin- I hear you-but apparently Hackett thinks everything is cool as he proposes cutting engieering and parts procurement. How many of the recalls are the result of outside vendors? as always you get what you pay for.
  23. Red Horse
    Wow- a 6-71 and Maxi's to boot! someone spent some time on this over the years. Frame looks pretty good too!
  24. Red Horse
    Kevin, Hope you are right. Actually the fact that the 6.7 was included in BAE's unsuccessful bid for the Humvee replacement is also a positiver statement as to how others view this motor. And as you have previously pointed out, with AVL's fingerprints all over this motor's design there is good reason to be positive. as to Ford's miserable showing in class 7 sales, I still think Ford is suffering from a perception problem associated with the old 6.0 and 6.4 Power Strokes.
  25. Red Horse
    I find this a bit surprising; http://www.piercemfg...fordpowerstroke Ford was one of the gorillas in class 7 back in the old days before they sold out to Daimler. The new Ford 750? 3.32% of class 7 market share and I say the reason is no one has any confidence in the 6.7 Ford Power Stroke/Ford built Torqueshift trans. Might work well in an F-250, even a 550 at 19,500 pounds but in a 33,000 gvw dump truck?? If this goes anywhere this is a real positive statement on this engines capability.

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