Mark T

I wasn't there or anything, but I'm pretty sure you didn't get off the boat and tell them " I'm just gonna walk around and see how it goes "

Yeah. Go through Ellis Island....all on the up and up. Not that I care in any way, but my surname isn't even what it's supposed to be. I know in my case, first generation (my Father and Uncles) went to WW2. Which in my case meant they were fighting where their parent came from. Now ???? ya sneak in....get a prize. It's not right, abused from every angle. All these birthright guys think it's so great, take'm to your house to live.

One thing you didn't mention. Your Grandparents (and mine) had to have a sponcer here and some kind of plan ( for lack of better terminology ) They didn't just come here, procreate and lived happily ever after. Also, if people who came here in that manner didn't feel the need to assimilate as best they could.... guess what happened. There's laws for all these situations, but for some reason there are those who think they're up fro interpretation or judgement calls by unelelcted people. Until new law is passed, old ones still need to be enforced.

In the grand scheme of things, I think outta tens of millions that came in, there'll be tens of thousands able to pick a tomato or apple. It's the weed'n out the dingle berries that have been in charge the last few years that need to be focused on.

I was watching that before it showed up here. I didn't know it was a four wheel drive. Could you imagine driving that in conditions that required 4 wheel drive ?

I think you're correct.

That one in RZ's video is a 4 wheel drive ?

Welcome. You might be surprised how much we love pictures, and would appreciate if you posted them. Many discussions and memories come from pictures.

That's the vacuum doing that. No vacuum on turbo charged diesel. ( well no enough to do that ) Even just the energy of the heat of the compressed air in a diesel counts for something, even without fuel. The little Cummins boy really was a genius.

I can't help but wonder what would happen if you had to stop fast bobtail 'n . Or maybe they don't even have brakes on the steer.

Nice collection of Macks there in that picture. Thanks Bob. It's not all about chrome and glitter.

We're talking about the Stealth Brake. They were and exhaust brake used along with a Jake. Sometimes, directly on the outlet of the turbo, and sometimes downstream under the cab. They were back in the E7 period in the later "90s before the E Tech. PacBrake also had versions of them called the Super Pacbrake. Not to be confused with a Super Jake (Caterpillar) Like was pointed out before, E6s......they weren't very big displacement wise. So expecting one to work like a Cummins of the time is unrealistic. That's just based on size alone, let alone the better timing control of the exhaust valve opening during operation being triggered by nice big injector rocker on a Cummins.

Little more to the exhaust brake part. One of the reasons was so with a Jake, the face of the exhaust valve would be "preloaded" allowing more lash in the setting of the Jake. This allows the piston to travel further on compression stroke and when the valve is bumped off the seat there's more effect. You can get away setting the Jake a little looser than spec, but .... Those exhaust brakes were also rough on the turbos. Up until the Power Leash, a working Dynatard had comparable power to a Jake. Jake was just much easier to have in working condition.

Uh ha ha whoa....cool uh ha ha 😂

I personally have never seen a Rogue.

bet ya there's a Gold Comet under that hood

IDK Mech, the heavy diesel Diamond Reos were pretty much a Diamond T

I have a picture of a beautiful '73 in my office. I know the family that bought it new and had it until the late '90s. When I was a kid, I had no idea there'd be a time I'd be putting heads on it. Never dreamt I'd be the guy orchestrating the sale of it either. I have a soft spot for Diamond Reos

Been trying to snag this for several years

They looked great with a dump body . Not to say they didn't look good in other applications.

They bought Reo for the engines.

Did Sheller Globe make them ? After White sold the division they were some form of the Autocar Drivers cab

There's an axle forward Raider (C119)

I'm pretty sure The Raider and Royale (& The Rogue) were between when White owned them and Osterlund took over. I know The Raider was only produced for seven months between '74 and '75.

You're thinking of Hemp(t) Brothers. They had lots of Osterlund trucks . They were right there in the same area. Lots of those Osterlund Diamond Reos had L10s in them too. They were popular in all types of construction trucks. Mixers, dumps,block trucks. They were popular around here, and it's not out of the question to see some form of Diamond Reo still at work.