1958 F.W.D.

Never heard this. Please cite the relevant Pa. motor vehicle code.

When you hire scumbags....you get.........wait for it.........wait for it.......wait for it............. ....................scumbags! Like the article said.....Who do you want representing you out there and interacting with the customers- Mr. William Beendrivinglongtime who is clean-shaven, dressed neatly wearing work boots, gets out of the tractor with a pair of gloves and the documents on a clipboard and says "what door would you like me to back into, and what can I do to help unload?"........, or do you want Habeeb wearing shorts and flip flops and demands that the customer unload him immediately?

JC Taylor has always been outstanding to me, but I have recently heard through the grapevine that they will no longer insure trailers. Give them a call, if that is false and they will do it, go with them, I am confident you will be thrilled with both their service and rates.

Message Mack mhe9 (Ray Sidella)

Kansas Farmer you want to adopt me, don't you???

I for one think that a businessman would be rather refreshing as opposed to a professional politician for once. How much worse could he do than any of the other idiots up for nomination (on either side of the aisle?) That being said.....Trump is a racist, narcicisstic, egotistical prick and I don't trust him farther than I can throw him.

Carl, good point. I forget which year it was....At Macungie.....the crankcase of one of Mike Yarnall's rigs (with an electric pump) got filled with gasoline when someone errantly turned on the wrong switch. I've been disconnecting my battery terminals at Macungie or any other long-term show for this very reason.

"Admit nothing. Deny everything. Demand proof." Besides she told me she was 18.

What did you use to determine this particular brand/model of pump? I ask because if you use a high pressure, low-volume pump you will starve that 707. I know several folks who converted 817G Waukeshas to electric and used high pressure pumps that starved the engine. I also had the same issue with the mechanical pump on my 140GZ(F554G) Waukesha- ethanol ate away the diaphragm. It is a rare Delco-Remy pump made exclusively for Waukesha....So when I called around to find a diaphragm, I started to sweat when folks were laughing at me. Converted to an electric Airtex (low pressure, high volume) pump. Try not to run ethanol-formulated fuel in that thing at all. If you HAVE to due to lack of eth-free fuels, make absolutely certain that you treat it with ethanol-formula STA-BIL (the green stuff) and never, ever keep it in your tank longer than 2-3 months. Only fill up enough that you will burn off in that time frame. www.pure-gas.org List of fuel stations with ethanol free fuel. DO NOT RUN HIGH OCTANE OR RACING FUELS. You risk burning valve seats.

If you come to town again and want to do a BMT meet up, hit me up, I only live about 20 minutes away.

Don't laugh.....but not FDNY......

EMT? Holy crap! I took that shit 25 years ago! Letting that license lapse was the best favor I ever did for myself

Ok. I *may* know the whereabouts of a rebuild kit for the xfer valve. If I can dig it up, it may accidentally fall into a box with your name and mailing address on it, which may then accidentally fall into a mailbox. If it accidentally appears at your house, you don't know where it came from.

Hey.....I have not forgotten about you. I have had my nose buried pretty deep into code books the last 2 and a half weeks to study for a certification exam (which I took and passed on Friday thank god......) I am asking around about that and the 2.5" inlet plug caps. Also I need a pic of the rod guide for the front suction butterfly control handle.

From what I saw when I was in and out of there- Plus other PECO/Excelon facilities like Peach Bottom, the Conowingo Dam power plant and the Cromby coal fired plant in Phoenixville Pa.....I believe every word of it!!

Good stuff, thanks!

You dropped at PECO/Excelon Limerick and didn't call me? You were within Breakfast (or dinner, or breakfast-for-dinner) or lunch striking distance. I worked in that facility quite a few times when I did Industrial Safety a few years back when I was single.......It was a part time gig, worked it on the off-days from the firehouse. The money was disgustingly outstanding, especially on the weekends. I'm suprised with security as good as it is there, that they let you in..........But then again they let me in....so......oh never mind.

Vlad: The truck is equipped with a Kussmaul (2 amp) charger/conditioner which we keep plugged in at all times. And my father always taught me that its important to good battery health to excercise them regularly.....I have always started the FWD every 2-3 weeks and allow to run for a half hour- and the batteries that I bought in 2002 (two Dekas) just now took their final shit. As for the low oil pressure- its a freaking Detroit. Who cares....Nevermind the fact that low oil pressure is enough oil pressure for them.

UPDATE: Due to winter, we still have not given her a good, thorough bath. We could run her down to the firehouse and wash her, but we don't want to risk water getting into rusted nooks and crannies, and freezing and pushing on the rot. So we wait patiently for warmer weather. In the meantime we have a punch list of stuff to do. The tach/speedometer sending units took a shit, so we're trying to find one or both. I have the Hahn part number for the tach sending unit, I need to see if theres a cross reference that I can find a DD number. It has a pink, a white and 5 or 6 gray wires I think? Ring a bell with anyone? In the meantime Dad bought a hubdometer and installed it to keep track of mileage. One roto beacon on the roof isn't spinning (lights up but no spinny spin.....) I think it may be a loose wire somewhere, I hope I don't have to pull the headliner......ugh......And we try to light off the truck every other week or so and run her for a half hour (keeping off the roads due to salt.....) fills that old fire station up with exhaust every time until air pressure is up enough to pull her outside...LOL.......

Loud, Obnoxious, Oil-Dripping, Smoke-Blowing, Lawn-Boy wanna be, 2-Cycle Mechanical asshole............ The Waukesha in the 1958 F.W.D. is painted Wauky's unique orange-red color, hence the nickname "The Thunder Pumpkin." The POS Model 2-Stroke in the 1978 Hahn (pictured above) came from the factory painted red and is only there because I am allowing it to be there until I have enough funds to replace it with a Maxidyne. Myself and my father have a LOT of sentimental value of both trucks. Do I own a DD? Yes. Do I like it? Not only no, but HELL no. But you couldn't beat the price to acquire the truck...

Cans of what? Alpine puke effing green? I know not why you speak of this? By the way, it should be noted that I am not upset at the Good Sir for painting his engine alpine puke effing green if it was indeed a Mack OEM color......I am upset at Mack for allowing such a travesty.

WTF? When the hell did Mack have alpine puke effing green as an OEM color? I have never seen one before that I can recall? This is so completely, totally and wholly UNACCEPTABLE! I WANT SOMEONE'S HEAD FOR THIS! THIS IS UN-EXCUSABLE!!! I'm going to go beat the crap out of something now for this.........

Swishy tell your Mate that if he's on Facebook, to look up the "Friends of Autocar" group. There are many former factory folks on there that know quite a bit of information.

........aaaaaaand I care about this because..............?????????

Sure does look pretty! But that engine......I will say this.....At least it isn't one of those POS Green things!!