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i was a child during the war years. and got a deferment to being drafted until i got out of school. my number was pulled, but i did not have to go. then the draft ended three days before graduation so i got a pass. 6 guys from my class that also got their number pulled did not use the deferment, and went off to vietnam, 5 did not came back alive. the 6th was so badly injured he committed suicide about 3 years later.

we ran cab over freightshakers so we could pull rite up to the trailer in front of us to keep the animals out of the trailers. it was a dangerous place for sure. one of the favorite things the thieves did was look for over the road drivers sleeping. they would put 6X6's under the inside tires. then bang on the door waking the driver up . "you are blocking me, can you pull up 10 feet? " the half asleep driver would not notice the pull up on the blocks. ground monkey would say "thats good, thanks" driver would climb back into the bunk and go back to sleep. only to wake up in the morning to unload and find the 8 outside tires and rims gone.

i wonder what those boats cost?

remember the big power pole on the right corner leaving the market? i wiped at least a dozen people off the side of my trailer trying to get into the side door with that pole. one time i had a guy pop the door and climb into the empty trailer as i was leaving after dropping a load there. the guy behind me had his helper jump out and close/lock the door, then called me on the CB telling me what was up. the next light i fired up the reefer and set it at 35 degrees, then took a nice slow ride out to scranton before stopping and opening the rear door. that guy was damn near a popsicle. i gave him the option of getting out, or riding back with the reefer set at 10 below.

it would be more betterrer for the country to put AOC in the boat and use it for target practice.

yup. Stavola is still running the yellow/black Macks. Traprock still has the yellow/black Macks too.

it is obvious you have not been on the Cross Bronx, BQE, or Northern Blvd is a while. they are able to strip a car while "moving" because the top speed on any of those three roads is only 1/2 mile per hour. and that is at 2 am when there is no traffic. i was on Northern last month. took me 45 minutes to go one block.

i saw this truck running out of Stavola Millstone NJ asphalt plant the past three days, and it still looks just as good as the first time i saw it 5 years ago or so.

that building in the 2000 picture is now an open field. 90% of Greystone was demolished in 2016.

it is even better when the truck pulls off the traffic light and the car can not keep up to it, let alone pass it.

cavitation is not as common as everyone claims it is, but as said it is more a 7.3 issue. if you add a turbo to that 6.9 it becomes a whole different animal.

360k on an IDI is a cake walk. my 88 has a little over 495k on it and still purrs like a kitten. the cab is ready to fall off it, but i have a spotless one to drop on it over the winter.

the company was, but the union would not give an inch and demanded more and more until they could not afford to stay open. if the union would have given concessions, they could have weathered the storm. but nope, we want more money, more time off, newer trucks, more everything. and the drivers did not care because they knew they were not getting more for doing less. so they tore the equipment up. the past 7 years or so the Elizabeth NJ terminal looked like a junk yard with all the tore up trucks and trailers in it. 10 years ago it was a completely different story. the only time you saw trucks at the shop was for routine maintenance.

yup. finally closed the doors for good on 2-11-2019

in 1964 the volunteer fire department my father was in ordered an aerial ladder on a GM "crackerbox". it was supposed to have a V12, 5 speed, and two speed rear axle. by the time they got around to building it, the V12 was no longer an option, so it came with the 637 "magnum" V8. gm said the two speed rear was not needed, the 5 speed was more than enough engine to do what we needed. needless to say, they were dead wrong. that truck was the biggest turd i ever drove. besides the fact it only got about 2 MPG, for 20 years that truck would have to leave the firehouse going north at full tilt to hit the hill 1/4 mile north at around 40 mph to be doing 5 mph on top of the hill. the pumper with the V12 5 speed and two speed rear weighed almost the same as the ladder truck, could hit the bottom of the hill at 20 mph and be doing 40 on top. that ladder truck had 13,000 miles on it in 1986 when the new truck came in and they gave it to a volunteer company in Pennsylvania. that company had it for less than a month when they sent it out to have it re-powered with a detroit diesel, because they had hills in their area and it would not climb them either. when i joined in 1974 i was assigned the ladder truck after qualifying as a driver because no one else wanted to drive it.

around 7-8 years ago, the NEMF trucks were getting real ratty, because the drivers knew their days were numbered and just did not care about the trucks or company anymore.

VIN shown is 76 F600

my bet is at one time in it's life it wore a snow plow out front and the doors were cut in the hood because it would not flip open with the plow on to check oil or other fluids.

if i remember correctly the 150 and 170 HP engines were "H" models we had a 190 HP in the old 60's dodge grain truck when i was on the farm. my friend still has it, but only uses it on site and does not take it out on the road anymore.

as said, those are synflex connectors and push in to remove the air line. you will need to spray penetrating oil in the fittings to loosen up the crud that has built up over time. then possibly blow out with compressed air to get it out of the fitting before trying to remove the line.

simple solution to this. edit the post to delete that picture, with a note: "picture deleted after 6 years because it just offended a snowflake"

good call, i missed the two port master cylinder.

that booster under the truck is for the brakes, not clutch. that truck will have a regular mechanical clutch. another option for ignition is a pertronix points replacement unit. simple, and 10 minute to install.

AOC and her pack of rabid blankity blanks can leave even if it don't offend them!!!

you don't all you can hope for is they believe you. which i really don't think they will, since ULSD has more lubrication than the old high sulfur ever did.