1958 F.W.D.

If it's that bad.......You really should consider a complete tear down.

Now that's a great looking Detroit!!!!

You'll have to let me know how things are- I told the wife that if Hillary gets elected POTUS, we're packing up and moving to Australia or NZ.....or the Moon.

It's a conspiracy

Vlad, have you ever used dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) to freeze the liners (shrinks them) before you pressed them into a block? I remember my father doing this when he did a cylinder kit (in-frame) on one of his F-Models and it worked like a charm. He was able to put the liner in by just tapping it with a small dead-blow mallet and a block of soft wood.

Wait.....I don't understand......You had time to stop at the playground, but no time to push the girl in the swing?

Well, I didn't want anything to detract from the beauty of the F.W.D. buuuut since you asked.......

I wouldn't know, I was always in the Principal's office.

Ahhhhhhh now I understand!!!! Thank you Lads!!!

"driving the T404 with a new three rows of eight trailer" Can youplease translate this to east coast US English. Thank you!!

Best of luck! Send lots of pics!!! We all know you'll miss the snow!!!

Leslie you have seen the Mistress before but for the un-initiated among the masses in BMT land:

The FWD is full time, non-selectable AWD. The three diffs (1 each axle and one in the 4x4 splitter) all lock from a vacuum switch on the dash. I do not get my boots muddy.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh now I get it.............The (very very few) few times that I have ever started to slip I would just throw her in creeper gear. One time in some mud I even had to lock all three differentials.........Just one time though.........LOL

I still don't understand what this "snowbound" or "getting stuck" means......can someone esplain?

Joe, yes let me dig.

Huh. Weird. I don't have these issues with my toy.

I know I have more pics somewhere of the reduction set, shaft alleyway....gotta find them.

My father was an IC3 in the USN and was assigned to the USS Seneca ATF-91, a Navajo-class 205' fleet oceangoing tug. They were powered by four GM 12V278 diesel electric drive sets, which coupled into a single reduction gear that drove a single screw (for all intents and purposes, basically four WWII-era submarine drive sets next to one another coupled into a central drive set.....) Dad found out about NAFTS (The National Assoc of Fleet Tug Sailors) and joined up a while back. Through NAFTS, he learned of an organization which had recently acquired the former USCGC Tamaroa WMEC-166. (You might recall the name if you saw the movie "The Perfect Storm." The Tamaroa was the ship that performed the rescues in real life.....) Anyways the Tamaroa was originally the USS Zuni ATF-95, a sister ship to the Seneca. I had always wanted to see a ship like the one Dad was on, so I went to the inaugural work weekend in Baltimore to check things out. I joined the organization and am named as a founding member along with Pop. But anyways, here are some pictures that I took somewhere along the way....... Pic of Large and Medium. when they weren't so large and medium (and LONG before small and extra small.....) down in B2 (Main engine room) with one of the 12V278's behind them. Now we are one deck above B2 (main engine space) in B2E (engineering space) you can see the number three aux. gen set behind them, powered by a 671N. If I remember right the gen set put out somthing like 225kw.......This is the one that we used when we were not hooked into shore power. The number one and two (main) gen sets were 12V71's and something like 450kw each.

I have said it before, I'm saying it again........You can paint a turd any color you want...... -Seafoam green (I think its puke green myself) -Silver -Red -Cat yellow Hell, I even seen one painted Maxidyne gold one time....\ No matter what color you paint it, it was, is and always will be a gigantic turd.

Wise information. Many of you know that after my father drove for 17 years, he went into the office and helped to form the beginnings of the original "old school" JEVIC. He was the first Safety Man they had. Old man is also very wise with legal issues. One thing he taught me that sticks out to this day- anytime you get caught in an accident whether it is minor or major, your fault or not.....As soon as you possibly can, you sit down in a quiet place, and you write down each and every damn thing you can possibly remember about the wreck. You sign it with the date and the time. Doing this, as well as a partial video from an ATM saved my ass when I got involved in a wreck driving a fire truck.

F'kin Macintrash........Pieces of shit in more ways than one..........

grayhair, this is a mutual friend of Slpwlkr and myself. Getting information out of his isn't easy, nor always forthcoming. We're trying to help him, but he won't listen. In the meantime, he is a basketcase insulin-dependent diabetic and he winds up in the ER at least once every other month- and winds up getting admitted for 1-3 days every 3-5 months or so. Slpwlker and I are trying like hell to help him obtain and understand a copy of his health bennies, but he doesnt help the situation either.

I agree. He needs a good hard bitch slapping. I have never, ever heard of a health plan that denies insulin. He's dumber than he looks or he's not telling us the whole story. I think maybe a combination of both.

Thats good that you are simple, because the menu here is simple......Just ask Small, Medium and Large....You get whats set down in front of you......Simple, huh???