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  1. tjc transport
    so according to the washington post, smugglers are sawing through a wall that does not exist?
  2. tjc transport
    and that will ensure his re election.
  3. tjc transport
    how about both??😂 besides the fact the rig alone was 72k lbs. then add a 90k excavator on top of it. or the D8K with the 13'11" blade, i was always pushing the limits of my permits. the D8 with full fuel tank and blade on had me at around 185k lbs. after the Brockway finally died, i started using a 79 DM 800 with a V8 and 15 speed for the low boy after one of the hinge pins broke and the body went over tweaking the frame.
  4. tjc transport
    no idea. probably though. he retired in 85. but stopped delivery and went behind the desk in 65, except for when he went out on a fire investigation. besides being postmaster he was also a federal arson investigator.
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    yup, that is the way it was, deep reduction in first and reverse only. and now that i think of it, you did not split 5th because 4th over and 5th direct was the same so you skipped 5th direct and went from 4th over to 5th over. which would make it 12 gears
  6. tjc transport
    dad was a postmaster Bob, so his job was even worse than a carriers.
  7. tjc transport
    could be, it WAS close to 30 years ago. i guess i may be mistaken and reverse was on the splitter and not the main stick.
  8. tjc transport
    if we had done christmas decorations as a kid, the house would have had bah humbug on it. dad was a mailman for 35 years. we did not see him between thanksgiving and christmas, he left on 4am the day after thanksgiving and did not come back home until after midnight on christmas. he averaged 20 hour days during that time
  9. tjc transport
    that i don't know. i was never under it.
  10. tjc transport
    the main stick, reverse and 5 forward gears. air splitter was low, direct, and overdrive. then the small stick was deep reduction in first and reverse.
  11. tjc transport
    we were discussing older trucks we drove today, and i remembered a late 70's early 80's superliner tractor i ran with a dump trailer back in the late 80's early 90's. it had a V8 and a strange trans in it. 13 speed air shift, but it also had a small about 6 inch tall deep reduction stick between the driver seat and main stick, but much closer to the seat than main stick. low, direct, and overdrive. but 4th and 5th were not reversed like most of the 13 overs from back then. anyone know what trans that may have been?
  12. tjc transport
    i wonder what the other side looked like?
  13. tjc transport
    what is it? i never heard of it before seeing it mentioned here on BMT twice in the past two days..
  14. tjc transport
    what the heck is instagram and why all of a sudden are these new users pushing it? is it a spammer thing?
  15. tjc transport
    this is all in response to the cheap bartstards that would rather save 10 cents on a part, then replace it 4 times. i have never understood the spend 10 dollars to save 10 cents mentality.
  16. tjc transport
    check the valve for proper adjustment. my 2020 T880 would just barely go up at 1500 RPM, and drop like the box had 25 ton in it when empty blowing the fluid out of the hydraulic tank. after properly centering the control piston it now raises at idle, and comes down without blowing out the hydraulic fluid.
  17. tjc transport
    how about the 2021 Ford Mustink? it is going to be an electric SUV. no more high performance gas engine street racer.
  18. tjc transport
    it uses glitter and rainbow unicorn vomit that you can only get from tesla.
  19. tjc transport
    i think it looks like something my nephews two year old son drew last week.
  20. tjc transport
    heat inside the building above 40 degrees will melt the bottom against the metal roofing layer and the rest will slide off.
  21. tjc transport
    and not even blowing any black smoke!!!
  22. tjc transport
    third gear? fifth was the way to go! when we were doing the big highway projects building the on/off ramps, we used to get a running start up shifting until we were doing 30 MPH in reverse. just before the soft spot backpedal so you are not under power in the soft spot and fly rite through it. then back on throttle until you get to the dump spot 1/4 mile away up the ramp.
  23. tjc transport
    if i remember correctly Bob, the one i ran was a Hathaway reject. the boss bought it for scrap price after the engine blew, and put a junkyard 350 cummins in it for use pulling the lowboy trailer. it was not a bad truck, but with the light weight rears it was not very good for the heavy weights i was hauling. kept on snapping the through shaft cause my average weight was around 150k lbs..
  24. tjc transport
    all our 88 R models had the "mud stick" trans as we called them.
  25. tjc transport
    i think this perfectly explains what is going to happen Bob:

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