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  1. Mark T
    The Granite replacement is in production. They're in the bullpen at Macungie.
  2. Mark T
    I didn't misunderstand one bit. Volvo might be the first to use this setup, but it's what's coming with all of them. You will be surprised to see how much of a truck becomes more and more dependent on new technology. It'll all be proprietary too. If anything these things have become cheaper to manufacturers.....not end users. There's more systems on newer stuff that was never even thought of not that long ago. Colission avoidance driver monitoring.... goes on and on. These trucks are outpacing the casual mechanic in leaps and bounds.
  3. Mark T
    Going to 24 volts is way more than lights on newer trucks. You're gonna see more stuff being electric on them ( think components like fans and such ) and whatever they are ???? every one of them is going to have it's very own form of ECM. Wouldn't surprise me a bit to see 36 or even 48 volt systems before too long. One thing for sure, there won't be fixing a marker light or some other simple thing with a test light or volt ohm meter like most of us guys are familiar with.
  4. Mark T
    I'd like to have a nurse like that one from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. 😏
  5. Mark T
    I think the increase in voltage is more about multiplexing. Wider range of voltage equals more signals that can be sent from processor to processor. So many components now have a module that used to work from an air signal, or some simple form of relay. Way too overcomplicated anymore.
  6. Mark T
    Hope everything goes well. We'll be waiting to hear from ya.
  7. Mark T

    Best of Trump

    Mark T replied to JoeH's topic in Odds and Ends

    Awwwww someone is jelly
  8. Mark T

    Best of Trump

    Mark T replied to JoeH's topic in Odds and Ends

    Soros ? FYI you're helping pay for it. You me everyone who lives a productive existence. One way or another these low life leaches get a little piece of everything and funnel it into nonsense.
  9. Mark T
    Read up Jojo. There's no wine come 'n outta that scumbag's winery. Right up there with the learing centers
  10. Mark T
    Think it's served with wine, but it's not available right now.
  11. Mark T
    You won't find a workout like that at Planet Fitness.
  12. Mark T
    😉 they last a long time like that when you don't put them through the paces (and that's a good thing) Back with the dirt bikes..... if you didn't have a Bel Moto 3, you weren't cool.
  13. Mark T
    Those engines (the 60 degree gassers) had some impresive torque numbers and were a simple design. I was referring to that engine when I was in school in the sense they were giving them away back at that point. The only popular thing i remember being in that shop was a 238 Detroit and a John Deere 6 cylinder. Everything else was obsolete. (nobody was donating anything newer or sought after) Still back then everything was still simple and in general the same mechanics even if one make was better than the other.
  14. Mark T
    Be interesting to see the reaction to that clown trying that at a mosque. Not just for one reason either.
  15. Mark T
    Perhaps, but there's a story there that he needs to get out to the public, because he IS a journalist.
  16. Mark T
    Most of those cab overs at the time never had a second life and the torch found them pretty quick when they were done. Not many still around. When I was in VoTech there was a ToroFlow in the shop on a stand. I'm not totally sure, but I think it was a V8. That woulda been close to 1980 and it was donated back then. There wasn't Big Cams or anything like that, so I'm guessing they were kinda useless back then even.
  17. Mark T
    Maybe he can do some investigative reporting on prison a$$ rape. I mean after all he is a world class journalist always searching for truth and real facts.
  18. Mark T
    IDK those 60 degree big V 6s were popular. Even in the early '70s. At that time I had no idea what they were, but they had a distinctive sound and most of those old cab overs you'd see it hanging out if you looked under the cab from behind.
  19. Mark T
    Used to be a company named Lund that made visors. F Model one is gonna be hard to find in 2026.
  20. Mark T
    Right up there with farts, alway a good source of humor.
  21. Mark T
    Lucky for her Fetterman was there to take hold of that no goodnick with the salad dressing. Seriously ? if some wacko squirted something on me, I think I'd be a little more concerned about what it was......unless I already knew it was basically harmless. I'd say " what does she think ? she's Teddy Roosevelt getting shot in the speech ?" but I doubt she even knows who Teddy Roosevelt was.....or he was shot at while making a speech.Truly a great American she is.
  22. Mark T
    There's a couple different ones. Older ones had an adaptor that linked the walking beam end to the housing with a bushing inside of it. Newer ones had a bigger bushing with a large bolt that went through the center of the bushing. Those Nuways have that bushing located about midway through the trailing arm where it attaches to the housing. The two types interchange on the Hendrickson. I remember going to the smaller ones with the the adaptors instead of taking wheel ends all apart to get the bolts in and out. I'm thinking the big style is the ones that are like the Nuway.
  23. Mark T
    That switch at the end of the cable almost looks like something you'd find on engine brake controls .
  24. Mark T
    I could be wrong, but I think the bushing in the Nuway is the same as the bushing in some of the Hendrickson walking beams. Seems it might be the same adaptor.
  25. Mark T
    I think that guy in the middle is an Amazon Prime driver.

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