1958 F.W.D.

https://www.amazon.com/Fluid-Undercoating-Gallon-bottles-everything/dp/B0048770KE/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1503274777&sr=8-6&keywords=fluid+film MackMB I found this on Amazon, have you ever used it before and do you think one gallon is enough for a 1500 Ram 4-door with a short bed and the wheel wells??

I traded in that that leaking sonofabitch Chevy.......Or do you mean the Driptroit?

So I bought a new-to-me 2013 Ram 1500 Pickup. Got tired of my 08 Silverado and the myriad of issues I was having with it and it nickel and diming me to death. One of the problems was that it the frame and sheet metal began to rot out badly. I travel Pa State roads for about 80% of my driving and the beet juice they put down in the winter is brutal. A while back someone posted a formula for spraying the underside of vehicles- put it into a pesticide pump and spray away. I think it was a gallon of diesel and 2 quarts of cheap ATF or something like that. Does anyone recall this and if so, what was that formula???? The truck only has 34,000 on it and is still pretty clean as far as rust goes and I would like to keep it that way.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/us/captain-once-a-scapegoat-is-absolved.html?mcubz=0

https://news.usni.org/2017/08/19/uss-indianapolis-wreckage-found

From the SPAAMFAA facebook page, credit to the unknown original photographers.

A picture of Seattle's tiller just popped up on the SPAAMFAA facebook group, lemme see if I can copy and paste it here.

The City of Boston Fire Department got tangled up in a huge lawsuit with firetruck manufacturer KME over these engines and how the rigs with them spent more time at the Motor Pool than in the firehouses. Boston filed Lemon Law claims against KME and wound up returning the trucks.

I attend several annual parades every year where participants toss candy to people in the crowd. In fact if you do NOT throw candy to the crowd they get vocal about it. I for one HATE it and REFUSE to do it- ever try to look out over the hood of an F.W.D. Firetruck with a kid in close proximity grabbing a piece of candy that fell from the truck in front of you? It's enough to make your heart stop.

Psssst.......We're over here.........

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Carl, supposedly one of the two in San Fran set an awning of a building on fire while it was pumping at a plug at a multi-alarm job. Up to that point there had been discussion of re-powering but this was the absolute death knell for the turbines.

Do I see one of those girls in cars telling you that you are number one?

I am pretty sure that the three Turbo Chiefs had the turbines removed after being proven to much of a PITA. Most especially when one that was on a hydrant one night set a building on fire with the exhaust.

Harvey Eckert

I knew someone would say that. Yes, you can try Cal Little, just don't mention your last name.

Why didn't you say something earlier? Call Doug, and ask him about the guy located near Pfahl's Mack. They rebuilt the carb on the MN deuce and a half at the museum.

Carl, normally I would be like "Meh....it' s your truck and your money......" But not only did this guy carve up a pretty rare FWD (FWD Firetrucks with custom canopy cabs are extremely rare) he did a sloppy job of if, AND he is trying to sell it for $10,000 too much. He deserves to have a 2x4 broken across his head.

And that's a dual carb F817G Wauky, too. About a mile per gallon.

This is all over the firetruck and SPAAMFAA groups on Facebook. I would like to find the azzhole and kick him in the nuts until he spits blood, and then 10 more times for good measure.

Pics are now up in the post.

Crap I dunno what happened....Stand by for editing.

So I took a trip out to Hinckley, Illinois this weekend. Hinckley is a small farm town on Illinois Route 30 about 20 miles or so west of the junction with I-88. My buddy is the paid fire chief there and every third saturday in July they have their big "Drawdown" Fundraiser. It's a great time and yes I drove 800 miles to get drunk with a bunch of friends. It was a blast, I can't remember the last time I had a weekend away "with the boys." I left Thursday after work and got to Rossford, Ohio (Toledo) and overnighted it with a buddy, and we left for Hinckley on Friday morning at 6:45. We got there about 11am their time (- 1hr time zone change.) It was a blast and while small town life is not for me, I still had a great time. Being a city guy I would go nuts from the boredom. We saw some construction on Illinois 30 just outside of Big Rock, about 10 minutes from Hinckley. We saw some Hinckley Firetrucks Bunch of drunk guys posing for a pic. If any of you ever follow me and my firefighting buddies on facebook when we break each others balls, starting on the left is Josh Drouard, Ty Jimenez (little guy is his son Kyle) then Joel Hallstrom, then Eustace Haverkamp (thats his facebook name, he's the boss of the Hinckley Fire Dept) and me of course. Quarry in Illinois on I-80 I think it's near Aurora? It's on both sides of 80. It was huge. We saw a Boston Terrier licking Josh Drouard's legs We saw Josh Drouard, Larry Haler and a couple of other drunks......What a great time!!!! A stack of flatbeds westbound on 80 in Ohio, Triples coming eastbound. It's been over 20 years since I have been west enough to have seen triples. I also saw double 48 footers but wasnt quick enough with the camera. A load of onions eastbound on 80 in Pennsylvania between DuBois and Clearfield. Some fire department spotty dogs Also, some of you are friends with me on facebook and know that a week after Macungie I was blessed with the gift of a Pit Barrel Smoker (I can't recommend this device enough for both virgin/inexperienced smokers to the most seasoned BBQ Experts. Here are some pics of my first two or three runs of the barrel smoker. It is truly a wonderful device and whoever invented it should get the Nobel Peace Prize for Barbequing. Here is the inaugural run. It was a very small 4lb brisket and two racks of boston ribs. I kinda messed up a little bit because I didnt start early enough, and there wasnt enough charcoal, so the temperature petered out early- I had to finish the brisket in the oven but it was pretty good anyways. This is the pit barrel smoker. Check out their website sometime if you are curious. This is a few weeks later- a 12lb bone-in pork shoulder that I smoked for 10 hours and then pulled. It was FANTASTIC with some coleslaw and some brown sugar/hickory BBQ Sauce on potato rolls. Here is a small boneless pork shoulder that was cut into slices. Note the smoke ring. It was deelishess. The bone in shoulder finishing up with some ears of corn and hot dogs for Small and Extra Small Pulled pork And lastly some miscellaneous crap..... Here is a used (practically brand new) Craftsman tool box that my father and I scored for Large's tool collection. We also scored some oddball Craftsman tools for him. He already has the basics so we concentrated on oddball stuff like a set of 6-point offset box wrenches, a set of 3/8ths impact deep sockets, a set of vice grips, a set of combination open-end/wratchet end wrenches, and even a body hammer and anvil set. He does not know about it yet because he is in Vegas visiting his grandmother. When he comes home tomorrow night it will be a complete surprise to him. He will finally be able to move out of the two portable tool boxes he is currently in..... Small and Extra Small say "Happy 4th of July!!!" from a very hot cab on a very hot day. I saw mikemack69man at the Nunnery I saw a big truck that jacknifed off the wall at the exit from 78 E/B to 33 North

Not exactly rare but something you don't see every day, I restored a 68 Dodge Polara when I was 16/17. The kids at my high school all laughed the first time I drove it to school but when I laid a patch about 30 feet long in front of the Principal they stopped laughing........