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racking the mental picture section of my brain. the manual box had the side adjuster, big sheppard had the adjusting screws top and bottom ; seems those two adjusters were for the pressure relief settings

outer bearing ? meaning out put shaft bearing not the steering shaft u-joint? 7+- that's considerable play have you tried the fluid/ filter change yet. DM - sheppard box with outer rack and pinion adjuster.

i 've heard stories of trucks deadline/ fined due to idiot lights not working. as inspector mentioned." if the light is there it has to work" doesn't matter if it's one of 10 on the roof or 20+on the body. reality was another ball breaking way state made money.

in the mack days, there was a construction company who's dirtiest truck looked like it just came out of a museum. mack had a recall on the axle spiders . basically they had to be removed and swapped .left to right and vise versa. cams were opening opposing tire rotation and chattered. the owner and his son stood over my shoulder watching axles being removed. as was told to me "we had just removed 8 tires and REPAINTED the rims". truck was brand new. beyond spotless inside and out. a DM685sx. how do you pull axle caps/axles with not a drop of oil on the rims. a lot of rags /pan . no could not tell them sit in lounge, they had a lot of pull with management/owner. clean is good; job nerve racking

i'm all in favor of a clean shiny truck , dump;; tractor or what ever. things all over have changed drastically through the yrs. dumps around here have the shiny alum bodies, tanks, couldn't count all the lights , etc. the thrill is great at the start if you are only a company driver. after a while the thrill might wear off. still have to clean /polish. my question many times is " how do you haul rock and stone in that?

fleets ran them 1- cheaper due to less parts involved ;2- didn't get right side of trailers dirty with soot=== before computers and emissions , clean was important to many fleets.

by now everything has been changed. the intake are regular hollow tubes , exhaust push rods are 3 times heavier due to they are "solid" rods made to take pressure. there is the possibility with all the new computerize technology they don't use heavier rods. my statements are based on when fred flintstone built things and i worked for him;;😁

worked for me. wife ranting on about me on here; so i read your post REAL slow. LOL. besides i found it very interesting . how some updates are done has been know to be challenging.

can remember when mack came out with the dynatard; what a joke / pain in ass. changed more exhaust push rods then i want to count. mack started out using both original in/ ex push rods. the pressure on exhaust rods so bad it was bending them. mack went to solid exhaust rods finally.

just signed out and saw your post;; had to sign back in to thank you for update. now i can sleep tonight ;LOL. couldn't remember how the jake got oil supply. forgot the o-ring fitting went top of rocker assembly. back in the day joke was "made in japan"-junk.. after day of class at jacobs engine brake and seeing how the Japanese new owners saved the jake operation i was impressed. old way was spend day making hundreds of units. then check them. one bad they were all bad and thrown out. new owners had random pulls from assembly line. bad one found stop the line and make corrections.

that's where confusion came about. unit looked familiar to what i remember, the pic with 90 degree fitting is different. Thanks for reply/ update.

once again never too old to learn new. have installed jakes; even trip to factory here in CT yrs ago when they were made here. question JOJO ; the braided line, is that how units are oil fed today;; no more o-ring fitting coming from underside?

quite surprised this week end watched some of the mecum auto auctions, seem to me prices were low/reasonable. could also be a bad sign of the times. a $200K bentley ??when new sold this weekend for 30K. I'm a "66 shelby GT-350 (blue with white 10in stripes) man myself. by '67-68 they started with the slopey nose

like I've said before;; for my little grandkids I feel sad for; they didn't do anything wrong. I can't stand seeing signs "black lives matter" ALL lives matter , pull your own weight and work for what you have and i don't give two sh-ts your color.

never did the oven cleaner, imagine it's trial and error depending on how much / thick letters etc are. first trip cleaning doesn't do 100% , a second soaking safe? how close to the 20 mins +-

now why would biden have to do different then most before him,,, did you forget we put the money in his paycheck;; LOL . as ALWAYS the working man gets screwed.

I see the LTL is still there. possibly his numbers are too high?

of course that combo a big deal in good ole USA. we all know our friends "down under" that 4x2x4x2 is an every day work ride. i'd vacation in Australia just to see , maybe ride in a combo like that. another favorite on u-tube oversize loads.

not much a twin stack dump truck person, i would take that KW as a 4 axle HD lowbed tractor. growing up on B-81 dumps, never "understood "twin stacks on a dump. now a 4 axle high horse power tractor hooked to 2 axle jeep connecting to a 4 axle lowbed maybe a 2 axle stinger!! got my vote. don't worry wife looks at me with that expression too.. LOL

I don't have a MAJOR problem with helping the refugees from the mess over russia/Ukraine; coming over here. it's the middle man making $$$$$$$ at their expense. when news talks about a boat made for 20-30 people has 60-80 being smuggled in this country sinks, the smugglers made their blood money. it be great if this country started taking care of their own first also,

too bad your not closer to CT ,we just had 16 turkeys ( the flying kind; not white house occupants) walking in the yard. usually 12-13 not 16. 5 males look ready for dinner table. LOL

what they ; (higher up brass ) not only want someone to generate repairs for profit, they want someone who knows how to get on their knees and kiss a--. and be a good bullsh--er to the public.

grab the SS as fast as possible. the border walls down and "they " are coming over by the thousands ; your S S money will go to "them"first. WHY??

no association to me ; just passing info. once again JOSEPH EQUIPT in NH has a few more macks for sale. '58 B87 has the reversed trans discussed in another topic while back. main close to driver aux to rt. '65 -B81; 62-B75 and others.