Joseph Cummings

I don't think I ever saw a 6 volt B Model. Not even a 6 volt L cab that I can remember

Deregulation started under Carter

"Rebuilt Engine" can mean a lot of things. Who did the rebuild? What is their idea of "rebuilt"?

Maybe 3 long tons of unprocessed truck scrap and some trash to get rid of. Any parts you can sell is just a little bit of gravy

They put a transmission funnel down alongside the shifter. Or they cut a hole in the sleeper floor for other body functions. I guess it helps keep the DOT from going under the truck

I can remember going through lots of fuel filters. Back in the day before red fuel was a thing we had a guy that did oil tank removal and cleaning on an industrial scale. (I'll bet you know where this is going lol) He had an old Transtar with the right headlight panel and part of the bumper torn off and a bunch of old tank trailers (One without baffles, but that's another story) and he had bible passages painted on all his stuff. Well when he got a load that was kind of clean looking, he'd sell it to some guys I knew who had bulk tanks at their yard for next to nothing. But damn the algae it spread. I found out about Kathon FP .005 from my dad who worked developing it and dosed the tanks. It killed it, but the dead algae was still in the fuel. I built a bypass filtering setup and it helped some, but everybody was still going through lots of filters. Everybody kept buying it though while it lasted. Changing filters like every week or two was cheaper than buying fuel at the pump.

I like a cougars blonde with some kind of animal print something like this Reminds me of back in the day before they were all lefty lunatics, or maybe I just didn't know. Good either way I guess

I've never really used Baldwin, so no personal experience. But I know a lot of guys that won't run Baldwin filters. Personally I always try to run factory filters. Probably because I grew up looking at that tag on the Mack filter bases that said "Warranty Void" lol

Be interesting to see what this one goes for 1992 FORD LTL9000 T/A DAYCAB VIN: 1FTYA90R8NVA29744 Odometer Reads: 284346 Engine: Cummins N14 Dual Fuel Tank SP: 13 Manual PS: Yes Axles: Tandem Susp: Air Front Wheels: Aluminum Rear Wheels: Aluminum Visor: Yes Notes: New batteries, turbo, brakes, and power steering pump, but no documents for work done, drums and wheel seals on 3 axles, like new tires. Stock # 84405 https://www.equipmentfacts.com/listing/upcoming-auctions/242705623/1992-ford-ltl9000-day-cab-trucks?gtmlt=1&_ga=2.127833037.117426335.1743117718-1288162443.1742961771

Looking around at the Truck Paper site I'm seeing insane prices for stuff that needs lots of work before you can put it in service. I really don't think anyone is paying those kind of numbers. Especially to use to haul general freight. The money just isn't there

Yeah about 5. The 3406E was better. I ran a Cat 3406E and it was a great engine until it wasn't. Cat can be very expensive to fix

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The frame is rust jacked, and if you look at the pictures it appears to be a homemade double frame that doesn't extend to the front axle. That's a parts truck. If I drank a fifth of Tequila, smoked crack, and shot LSD into my jugular vein, I wouldn't pay 45k if I had a million in cash in my pocket

It's a 41 year old cabover, repowered with a 30 year old M11, with paint and lots of shiny stuff bolted to it. It looks like problems. They only made the MH for about 8 years. There are not many left to rob for parts. They haven't made them in 34 years. Salvage yards don't save old cabover cabs, you are going to be searching some farmer's junk when you need anything. And who the hell did the M11 repower? Did they even have a clue as to what they were doing? And why a M11 and not an N14? Why do you want a MH so bad? There are lots of better more plentiful trucks out there. And if "looking cool" is any part of your business plan, you are going to mess up

They throw around the word "Nazi" too much "A homonymic term Nazi was in use before the rise of the NSDAP in Bavaria as a pet-name for Ignaz and (by extension from that) a derogatory word for a backwards peasant, ." Basically it's calling someone a stupid hillbilly. It reminds me too much of how Hillary Clinton called those WV miners a "Basket of Deplorables"

We were cutting them like crazy then. Even fairly late models. Hardly anyone wanted them. Lots got made into conventional gliders. If you are doing local work and in and out of the truck all day, all that climbing gets hard on the body. Most of what people call "Cabovers" that are designed for city work are actually cab forward trucks with low entry

Local 825?

Good thing it wasn't a Big Mac. I wouldn't trust the "special sauce"

I never had any problem with any of my in-chassis rebuilds not lasting. In construction or city service one million miles really never happens. By then the truck is worn out. And when you are working on a contract, what are you going to do, have a month of downtime while some automotive machinist plays with his wiener? Half the time one of those bastards touch something it comes out wrong anyway. They hire from the same pool of idiots that everyone else does. It's not like they have guys that grew up in a machinist monastery. And I think it's a hell of a lot faster and cheaper to cut one journal and roll in rods and mains than to take the engine out of the truck and tear it in a million pieces. Again, it all comes down to downtime. Contracts have lots of penalties in them for not completing them on time. Not to mention if you play around you can lose your ability to get a performance bond. Even without contract issues, if you let a customer down and he has to call someone else because he needs stuff done, you stand a good chance of losing that customer.

Forklift certification, what a joke. I was on a forklift before I was a teen. When that "certified forklift operator" thing came out I thought "What kind of idiot can't operate a forklift" But then again, today we have grown men that can't jumpstart a pickup or change a tire. If we are going to Make America Great Again all these nancy boys are going to have to be thoroughly re-educated

We did lots of stuff that wouldn't be "approved" or even believed by the "techs" of today. Like grinding one rod journal in the truck with one of these and having the truck back in service and working the next day Hell we used to do an in-chassis and have the truck back to work within a day or two even if something was slightly worn beyond tolerance. The techs nowadays will put someone out of business with downtime. Lost truck revenue and failing to fulfill contracts doesn't even get factored into their thinking process