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1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
ESI Plus with 3 filters and the big pan. All the blue, as kinda like a Pedigree -
1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
And I thought I felt old then -
1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
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1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
237 as built shouldn't have anything but a 5 or 6 -
1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
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1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
Oh yeah somehow I missed that one. Funny I don't remember seeing a splitter on the shifter -
how do i line up a bajo suspension
Joseph Cummings replied to wondering's topic in Driveline and Suspension
Tom Benden does lots of cool frame and suspension stuff https://www.youtube.com/@bendinwithbendon -
1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
I went by the shift knob lol. I don't see a picture of the trans. Maybe it's an ENDT673C -
1983 Mack WS700 Cruise-Liner in Algona, IA on purplewave.
Joseph Cummings replied to tjc transport's topic in Trucks for Sale
237 5speed, Mack suspension with the short trunnion. Not bad really -
I delivered trailer mounted equipment to the Lipari Landfill down in Pittman NJ. Same deal, I couldn't set foot on the ground even to drop and hook. And they washed my tractor before I left. That was a big superfund site. The town of Pittman had a big cancer cluster in the 70's. If I remember right there was a lake there and the stuff got in the lake that people swam and fished in
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Back in the 80's and 90's my Polish cousin, ran his whole demolition company with Illegal Polacks. He was giving them like 100 a day and they worked here for a couple of years living cheap, and then go back to Poland with 50 or 100K saved up. From what they told me American Dollars went a long way in Poland, and if you had 50 or 100k in US Dollars you were a very wealthy man
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Joey, again I'm not saying 'All". I just don't like the way all this is going. They are trying to make everything out to be a super high tech repair that can only be done by guys that grew up in a monastery, shaved their heads, flogged themselves and fasted for one month a year. And this super high tech only exists in somebody's fantasy. You don't know how many times I see mechanics do stuff like spend 10,000 rebuilding an engine for a shop forklift that That you'd be able to buy a good running replacement forklift for maybe 5,000 or less. The engine might have nothing wrong with it but a leaking valve, or one chugged out cylinder, or just need rings bearings and valves because it's old. But they don't want to do that, they want to act like some part that might be worn half a thousands under isn't good enough for the shop forklift that might get run 5 hours a week. It's like they don't get that they are building a 4 cylinder B Cummins for a POS obsolete forklift and not a race engine for Barny Oldfield And the worst part is, even with their high tech BS talk, the shit doesn't run right when they are done
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how do i line up a bajo suspension
Joseph Cummings replied to wondering's topic in Driveline and Suspension
Here is a banjo alignment. But people freak out if you do it -
But they totally are. I see trucks down for months for an in chassis, nobody will do their own head work, they replace whole alternators over a diode trio or a broken brush holder, they all swear up and down that it's "Illegal" to straighten a dump that went over and twisted the frame or to weld up and fishplate a frame crack, When you talk to them they seem to specialize in making some kind of high tech excuse. They say you need a "clean room" to do fuel injector work. They think every fastener needs a torque wrench, but can't tell you the last time their torque wrench was calibrated. I hear stuff like all frame welds must be done by a "certified" welder. I can only assume they teach them this horse crap in tech school. It's like they just don't get that downtime is money, and lots of money. The hell with it anyway, they are all going to starve to death worshipping The Snap-On Jerk Off and jacking their carrot to Big rig with chrome and chicken lights pictures
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Yeah some of those older plants and a lot of large boilers ran on #5 and #6. That stuff was almost like tar. 4,5,and 6 has to be injected into the boiler with either compressed air or steam to get it to atomize. You can't high pressure atomize it like how a home oil burner does. Waste oil heaters do the same thing, they preheat, and then air atomize. BTW you can get an air atomizing nozzle and adaptor from Delvan for a regular home heating oil gun. but it takes a few more modifications and equipment to get it all to work well burning waste oil
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Someone else has the ball. I got to look into paying the FET before I go much farther. I got kinda banged up on a really nice truck before, Older and no miles, but only had a manufacturer's certificate of origin. If I remember right I had to pay full FET based on the price when new
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