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Was parked next to this old girl that is still working. Found it last night at Joes Truck stop on I-5 in Cental CA. Woke up this morning and it was still there so I snapped a few pics. Lots of modern drivetrain added but still neat to see on the road. has a N14 cummins, air ride rears, new front axel all out of a 2007 IH. The owner was very nice and we chatted for about 15 min, said that the truck has had many upgrades thru the years. Sadly he was rear ended a week ago by some illeagal Mexachan truck driver and it damaged his rear fenders and bunk when it pushed his load forward and into the bunk. He attends alot of the ATHS shows and knows alot of people who attend them. Trent

I worked for UPS back in the late 90s the maintaince shop at the time did most of the truck repairs. I recall seeing crate engines and rear ends just waiting to be installed. even with their package cars they did most of the repair work. As the equipment got old they moved them to emergency or yard equipment. after that they would come in strip the stickers off the trucks red tag them and park em out side in a corner. about once a year they would round up the junk and send them off to the scrap yards. Only seen a few make their way back to the streets with miss matched parts to get them back on the road. they did the same with package cars.

I'm picturing this and have to agree with your brother....that it is funny!

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How about them apples....?

Looks like he dropped the deck on that to get under....

Ha ha... Love that feeling... I was running up Mounteagle coming back from Florida a few weeks back. Passed an empty parking lot and skate board. I'm grossing 74,000 held 55-58mph in direct. Those guys were dropping down to 45mph empty....lol

The Black RD has a E7400-8LL- and think 4.17 on air ride The Pete has a Cat550 with 18 speed not sure the rear ratio but it's on air ride as well.

Here are a few more stolen from Facebook.

No problem... I should note that the red rd is a glider kit. Its still red and his brother drives it now... Actualy pj and I moved a machine and attachments this past weekend. I drove the red RD and it's a great running truck. I will grab some more pics next time I'm at the yard.

here is the Pete and his RD last summer. His older r model is pictured in 06' or 07' we were running clay out of Chicago. I don't have any others on my phone . I will check my computer for more..

if i remember right PJ hauling started with 2 of his dads " Tanzillo" R models just hauling dirt. PJ later bought a late 90s Rd on air ride from a chicago fleet that i think hauled bulk cement? He ran all 3 trucks for a while hauling both dirt and lowboy. He sold off both R models about 3 years ago and focused with just his newly rebuilt RD. his RD just did lowboy work as the dump trucking dried up...Last year he bought a ex central crane 4 axel Pete for even bigger moves. That RD is great for the everyday stuff needed in the city and the Pete moves the real big stuff. We keep talking about building him a 4 axel superliner with a big inline 6 cyl for power..

That truck had a 300L with a 6 speed. It was a 62mph truck untill the pump was tweaked. Last time I drove it it was turning 2200rpm and was good for about 73mph.....75 if you pushed real hard on the floor boards.

Cool idea Witt the over head console. The plastic ones always crack with age...

I have them on my RS and like them. Mine have lights at the tops as well...My thought is that if you have a long hood. Your all good. Just don't put those spot mirrors on the hood!

I have seen some Fuel haulers with a weird looking muffler. Way to big and hanging on the rear of the cab. Wonder how much weight those things add? NO THANKS!

Wait....you let that little day cab pass that big old V8 of yours? Please tell me you just entered the hiway from an on ramp!!!! LOL

your old....ha ha ha ha.......Happy Birthday O.D.

If your painting them just go steel and paint/ under coat them. I would expect stainless full fenders with brackets to be about 1000.00 My stainless half fenders with brackets were about 500 had to drill and bolt on my self...no kit for them

IIRC...Alan smiths V8 superliner burned up shortly after he died. Shame, It was a nice truck... I Haven't seen the Northern IL superliner or the butterfly hood wrecker in a wile...

Ok start from the easy part...does it have oil ...seriously...lol....just asking? If she has oil in the pan Try pulling the turbo drain line off the turbo and bump over to see if you have oil flow there. Put a 5 gallon bucket under that oil drain. It will be gushing if you have any pressure...If not I suspect you either have a clogged pickup tube, bad oil pump. Or you have bearings so warn out that it canT build pressure....the line that feeds the turbo comes right out off the main oil gally so it should really move oil a few sec after cranking....let us know and yea we want some pics of this truck...sounds like a rare dog..

Most likely a 237 but things can change over the years... If the engine runs but won't show oil psi on the dash gauge. Pull the gauge remove hose and place it in a empty 2 liter pop bottle or large container with small spout. bump the engine over with the throttle stop out and withing 20 sec of cranking or so you should see oil coming out the hose... Carefully it will come out of that hose kinda fast. If no oil after all that cranking start looking for the problem.

Something's wrong here... I don't see any black smoke...

My 1977 rs700l and 1982 22' contractors special end dump weigh in at 28,500 Think my tractor was 17,500 with me and half tank of fuel last time I weighed it.

My truck saw 5.5 mpg loaded and maybe 5.7- 6 empty. All depends how you drive it. I had the fuel bumped up and smoke shows when I wanted...we ran hard some days when paid by the load, or kept it smooth when paid by the hr. If I recall we did 150-200 miles most days putting in 30-35 gallons every night. Some days we saw 300 miles but that was mostly city to the burbs and back. 3 loads a day maybe 4 if you got lucky. Unless you haul out of the pit most of the time a steel trailer is best. Yea you will weigh more but working by the hr or by the load does not matter. With steel you haul everthing you want...My experience is you tell the loader how many buckets to put in and as long as your trailer is full you go to the dump and that's that. Better safe than overloaded.