Mark T

Damn'it Bob. When I gave you that picture of my GF you weren't supposed to share it. ( just let me have my delusion)

Don't worry, one way or another we did.

Never saw a two valve that had been severely over run (like down a hill with overheated brakes) make it much more than a couple days without drop'n a valve. Really no way of telling just how oversped they were.....unless you gauged it off the condition of the driver's underwear. If they were otherwise in good working order, never saw one throw a rod because of it though. Most would go up to 2400 just like they were. Sealed n all. Of course no one dreamed of engines having the life to overhaul back then like they have for over 20 years now.

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Some of those high performance diesel guys swap around valve components to achieve extra RPM s I've heard of Cats that somehow have big block Chevy valve springs. My guess is that's the first area that would actually fail when using an engine like that. 3400??? I could see an 11 litre turning that high otherwise.

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It looks like the stern made it through the mishap fine.

They work. Save a lot of cut'n and welding on a dump truck too. They seem a little heavier as far as adding a couple pounds to the truck,but otherwise I've seen lots of guys get good results from them. Dump trucks, mixers....they work.

Those mirrors and brackets look like they're in nice shape. Some metal polish and some patience, they'll clean up nice. They'd be tough to replace.

I think another one of those chris crafts ran ashore there, or am I seeing things ?

I think I can see the chris craft. I'll look a little more to be sure.

That looks almost like it's slobbering outta the breather somehow.

I tried a repair kit for something like that once . My results looked nothing like the package the kit came in 🤣 Some real upholstery guys may have a suggestion. I can think of repairs one of the local guys did here I never imagined could be done. Good repairs usually aren't cheap.

I can still picture seeing the receiver cover with the worn plating.

I remember seeing them. Holy cow, forgot all about them.

I can relate. I'm trying to decide if the weather chick is a fox or not.

The part that goes around the top of the liner is soft enough to get squished into the top of the liner and the grove cut in the head.

Back when I was a kid, the owners of the Mack dealership were from in town here. The one relation (a beautician) used to set me up with all sorts of cool stuff I was too young to know enough to save. Sweat shirts, hats, all sorts of things with the bulldog on them. Ash trays. tie tacks. key rings, cups of all sorts. I even had a Mack 3 ring binder from the Signal era. Never gave it a thought 50 years later how much I wished I kept some of those things.

That "P" part is what tells if it's standard or oversized. That piston and bearing looks good, like nothing out of the ordinary 👍

A high class leader like him would never say children picking marijuana......he'd say children working in the cannabis sector. Makes it so much better.

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That head gasket looks more like it was rotted. Doesn't seem to be passing combustion there. If you decide to resurface the heads, be sure you're friends with someone who can recut the fire rings, and you may want check that person has a tool that'll hit the same circle. Old heads mightalready be done once or twice and not enough left to mill off and start over again. So if the cut on them now is a little out of round, it will have been ok as long as it was into the ring, new cut a little off of the existing circle....no good (F's right they're important) Why's that main cap painted ? Pay attention what's going on there. Like make sure it's not cut already and requires a different bearing. ( they did stuff like that back then, like cut one journal a couple thousanths and nothing else is cut ) If I remember, it was a "P" number that went along with bearing size. Engine looks like a good candidate for a rebuild.

😳 You didn't dare call it a 285 back then. A "300" ....you were proud as could be. If you drove a Mack around here with the air cleaner with the two ducts over and under....king indeed.

15 over was popular back in the '80s in tractors. Older trucks might have a direct 15 . Like back closer to the early '70s. ( a ten speed with deep reduction ) They could have been either directs or overs. I think the last ones went up to 15-7s. I mentioned it cause I drove a 300 with one behind it. Even though it was a Maxidyne it still worked pretty good, and was nice for slowing down the truck with the engine brake. After some thought, I think an FRO ten speed might b worth looking into for Larry. ( low 1st gear and fast over gear )They're cheap and lots of CHs used them. I doubt the clutch housing is gonna be bolt for bolt though.

15s went away because axles got so much faster. (basically) That was the beginning of the end for so many of those once popular transmissions. Super 10 ? Technology outpaced them before they ever came close to catching on. Everything gets outdated at some point I guess