Geoff Weeks

As far as Power steering, it depends, on what gear you have. Sheppard takes 10-40 motor oil as per Sheppard. 15w-40 has been the oil of choice until recent engines. Trans depends on what transmission. Look to the manuals, for the last word.

This shows the lower rad connection, through the oil cooler to the center of the waterpump. Yes, you need to vent the scroll to prevent air being trapped, but centrifugal pumps ALWAYS pump from center to outside. Where the outside is connected to the block (top, bottom or side) doesn't change the fact that it is on the pressure side of the pump.

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I think you have that backwards, it draws through the oil cooler to the center of the pump, centrifugal pumps always pump from center to outside. The block is on the pressure side of the system. edit: hum the post I was replying to seams to have been deleted?

One looks to be on the pressure side of the pump (new one on top) while the other is on the suction side (lower). Not interchangeable.

There does seam to be something about the last name "Green" no matter how it is spelled, disrupting the SOU speech. I agree with 67Rmodel, it isn't just one side.

Any updates?

I hope I still have another good 10 years in me. I went looking for an older animal to take care of, Puppies often get adopted 1st (but don't always get to stay in that home😒). 5 years old was on the younger side.

Spoke hubs are all inboard drums, they have to be!

Koda, joined our family in Jan at almost 5 years old. Lost my last one in November, and I need some time to grieve before opening my heart to another.

I don't know much about the actual conversion, what was re-used and what was new. The engines were Detroit 11.1 L 60 series, and the transmission I think were Meritor. I remember the ads, "new truck for the price of used". I don't know if the frames were the same, it would look that way, otherwise why were the wheelbase limited to short conventionals? It was doomed from the start, the 11.1liter Detroit was the 1st electronic engine and while not bad, the displacement and power were not what people were looking for. I can't remember if the 12.7 L was a option or not. They were trying to use up what was already in the chassies. The bodies looked like Freightliners "business class" mid range with a hood that was different then their other trucks IIRC. That would seam to indicate that the original cabover frame was used and parts from newer trucks would't work. I don't think the program was a success, by any measure. I didn't pay much attention, as I wasn't in the market for new trucks, I always bought used and held onto what I had. When I retired, I sold my 1st truck I ever owned, it remained with me for the whole time. It was used when I bought it.

Paul, for a while Freightliner was converting their old leased cabover "turn ins" to short wheelbase conventional sold cheap. I don't know what all had to be changed, but they had leased so many cabover units to the big carriers that got turned back in when the length limits went away. No one would buy the old units, and they had to either export, scrap or find some way to get some money out of them. They overhauled the engines and transmissions and offered a warranty close to that of their new trucks. Still, there were not many "takers", some farmers that needed something cheap to haul short distances, bought them. They didn't learn their lesson, and there were a ton of conventional turn-ins a few years later. Used to be a huge storage yard not far from me of Freightliners sitting in a field, They would try and sell through dealers, but most just sat.

Ahh, the beautiful Iowa scenery!

Beautiful work. Labor of love not expedience. For a trailer, I would go another route. I got what was left of a parts truck. It had been cut up to make a dump trailer out of a rare tandem drive K series IHC. The complete truck, un cut was worth far more than putting the dump bed on some frame rails and a suspension.

To do so would have required buy in from congress and the rates would have to be in the bill. He wanted to threaten and then back down when other countries reacted. Unlikely he would get all republicans never mind any democrats to go along with it. So it would not happen. He is being told he is not "king" and can not claim a false emergency to dictate his desires. Like the "fake" emergency telling private electrical generators that they have to keep old coal plants "operational". There has to be an emergency for real, not just in his mind.