1958 F.W.D.

Keep on truckin' Mike!!!!!!

So have the wearers.....

ahhh yes, a 3208 Cat it is.....IF and I repeat IF I ever have to do it........

Ohhhh the stories I could tell......I grew up "on the wrong side of the tracks" in a town where the parking lot at the high school was filled with beemers, mercedes, and other top-line cars that the kids drove to school every day, courtesy of their Doctor, Lawyer or other high-paying professional parents. I was growing up in the right-hand seat of two F-model macks on weekends and summers (at least until I was about 12.) I hung out with my Dad at the local gas station where I pushed the broom, pumped gas, broke down and mounted tires, changed oil, etc etc. I was overweight, always the last kid to be picked in gym, never got invited to parties, and was ridiculed for being a volunteer firefighter and wanting to be a career firefighter. I know what it's like to be persecuted, and I also know what it's like to be "tested" or have your "balls broke." Looking back, i think about some of the stuff I went through. Call me a primma donna, but I'm sitting here thinking that maybe 12 years old is a bit young to go through this kind of stuff. I dunno, could be me. I wouldnt change anything about my childhood or teenage years- but I have to wonder if I would be any different now. And now that I am a father of three of my own- wow doesnt THAT make you think hard!!!! I think cutting Vinny a break may be warranted here. At the same time Vinny needs to learn to take what we all say with a grain of salt....But thats just it.....LEARN......And at the same time, maybe we shouldnt push his buttons so hard.......

Yes there is, now that I have gotten gastric bypass surgery!!!!

I make a motion for the Moderators to give this spamming arsehole a good swift kick in the ass to never-never land. Does my motion have a second?

move along, nothing to see here......

140GZ (F554G) Waukesha Hmmmm yes, perhaps...But right now I am running a 3200rpm engine....If I swapped a lawn boy into there (which I would never, ever do even on a dare) I would have to change out the gearing of BOTH axles, or I'll be doing 40mph for the rest of my life.....But it aint gonna happen unless I come across a junker somewhere with the proper gearing. Thats why the plan is, if I ever have to convert her to an oil burner, she's getting a factory remanufactured 3208 Kitty....They have a 2800rpm version right out of the crate that matches my horsepower and torque curve almost exactly. And they are not smoke blowing oil dripping lawn boy wanna be's.

Let me count the ways: 1. Had the three anklebiters with me. That R-Model International cab is not, I repeat NOT big enough for myself plus two booster seats and one baby seat. 2. 100+ miles from the house (Exit 67 of I-78) @3.5MPG......The old lady kind of has this thing about paying the mortgage, feeding the kids, etc. She's annoying like that. 3. Cooling problems on really hot days......There is a bad head gasket or perhaps a cracked head, on hot days the head must flex just enough that it allows water to pass through somewhere and burn. Macungie is 18.5 miles from the house- before I left to go home had to add about a gallon of coolant, and then about another gallon when I got her home. On a cool day (like Bethlehem's Christmas Parade) she runs fine, no issues. 4. There is something about riding in that thing on a hot day, with the engine out in front of you and no insulation on the firewall...going to Macungie at 0700 in the morning is one thing, driving it 100 miles one way at 4:00pm in the afternoon......uhhhhhh no thanks!!!!! One of these years I plan on trucking it out there.

A spanish family from Bed Stuy.

How would you like to be the dude that handcuffs a legend?

As misguided as that is, we wont hold it against you or him.

OFF with your head!

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Carl, I am pretty sure I saw on here (not too long ago) that these guys had to beg, steal and borrow just to get this one........

Hey if the old lady kicks me to the couch I gotta have SOME way to keep warm!!!

Pop came back a few hours later and had this to say: "Lots of possibilities, none good, none cheap. Bent shift fork is one. Whoever the brainiac is that did it shouldn't be driviing a car, let alone a fire truck. Recommend to your contact there to call Waterous at 651 450 5200. Follow prompts for service questions. Anyone in that group should be able to help. Make sure he has the pump serial number and the chain case serial number."

you can sleep on my couch.....if you shave your legs first because thats where I'll be too snuggling up against you......lol

Actually I mis-wrote my post...I have seen water tankers with bunks before, but they were privately-owned/contract water tanker fire trucks used on large wildfires.

I've never seen a water tanker with a sleeper before- whats the history of the truck, what was it used for??? Was it perhaps one of those privately-owned/contract water tanker fire trucks used on wildfires out west????????

Pop says: "The YBX is the model of the transfer case. The pump is either a CM, CMU, CS or CSU, not that it matters. Most Macks had CMU. FDNY trucks usually had CMs. The Y series transfer cases were chain driven. So the first question has to be, does the truck move all right when it's in "Road" mode? If so, is there any noise when it's moving. I never heard of a chain breaking, but there's a first time for everything. Later on when I go up to the firehouse I'll look in my Waterous stuff and also look under E11-1 to see if I can see anything obvious."

The lad is right. We certainly dont want to get Ben and Vinnies rights to come on here taken away, we have "two youts" here whom we all have an opportunity to help foster their interest in our hobby. We all know the vast majority of kids today are a bunch of blubbering idiots and that it's hard to find young people interested in trucks. ....It would suck if their folks put the brakes to coming on here....Let these guys' minds get tarnished and varnished at their own speeds, not with the accelleration provided by a bunch of dirty old men. Ben, I will refrain from posting stuff like that in the future, however 2-stroke jokes are still fair game.