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Clifton, Let me know if you want to part out the truck, I know someone in Texas that might want your F-CO cab to put on a Brockway BULLHUSK you could e-mail me @ ernie67rt@aol.com

I went under the knife yesterday morning, home today an all is well so far! I just hope I could put the summer of 2011 behind me an move on!! BULLHUSK

bob, Don't jump ship so fast! I've been a Teamster fo 40 years, I will not get the pention I thought I was going to get!..Why?? The union pention fund is broke!! just like our country!! So if you are workin A non-union job? Get your own pention plan an pay into it yourself, this way you are NOT payin for your Busn, Agent an the big ass car he's drivin,and if you do belong to a union?? opt-out of there plan an get your own if you can, trust me on this one bob! Thats another reason why a company today does not wat to pay into the Teamster pention fund, cause the money is not goin to the workers! Not all Local's are broke, if you are in one thats not you are a lucky guy BULLHUSK

Mark, Actually Peter is from the Albany area, an yes that's him!!...... But the guy who realy has the hice Brockway's IS Ray Lucia

Agreed! BULLHUSK

I have been sayin it time an time again about Volvo!! Ernie DS

bob, I think anyone who owned a Mopar, had to know Mopars, an anyone on this site who ever owned one like yourself knows what I'm talkin about. Take the Carter AFB, if you didn't have a screw driver or a stick under your seat to hold the choke open, when It decided to stick closed?? you called a cab!! (same on the slant 6 carb., an they would sometimes stall if you made a sharp left) I donnn noo! An then there was the good old BALLAST RESISTOR!! a must to have in your glove compartment! if you didn't have one?? you called a cab!! Reduction starters? keep on on the shelf! if not? your callin a cab! Then back in the 60's if you started your car on a cold morning an put it in reverse before putting it in neutral (automatic trans) an letting the oil warm up, you would break the reverse band!! Why because the Chrysler trans. pump did not turn in Park like the GM's an Ford's!! So when I was a kid for as long as a could remember, my Dad an I would go out on a Sunday afternoon every couple of months an look behind the gas station garages, an there was usually a Mopar sittin back there, that people who got tired of callin Cab's told the garage guy 'Just sell the freakin junk!!' An guess who bought the junk?? We did! An we fixed em an sold them with a screw driver an Ballast Resistor in the glove compartment an a list of instructions!!!LOL Ernie DS

Ya know, I didn't see any Cummins motors in any of those Compressor's, but I am a Cummins fan as well! I think the N14 is a far better motor then the 3406 Cat, now thats just my opinion (the ones that I owned anyway} BULLHUSK

Some of the stuff that I always liked about Mopar.. Back in the 50's about 20 Chry. engineers got together an started the Ramchargers Club an built themselves a 49 Plymouth business coupe, with a 354 or a 331 HEMI, 2 4b carbs homemade tunnel ram an hand built headers! they called it High & Mighty (after a John Wayne movie). Then in 1962 when the 409 an the 348 'Stone Crusher' Chevys held the track records on both east an west coasts in the Super Stock Class, Dodge showes up with a 413 Max Wedge with a push button A/T, an sent the Chevy guys home early. Soon after the 413 came the 426 M/W an the Alum. front ends with the battery in the trunk. Then I think about mid 64?.. Mother Mopar rolled out the SS/AFX with a 426 Hemi (Fuel Inj.) they moved the motor back, the front axle foward an the rear axle just behind the front door some of the guys who ran these cars off the top of my head?..Hodges Ramchargers, Candymatic, Dick Landy and I think Bill 'Grumpy' Jenkens ran a Mopar back then!! An the Cars?? Well they looked Funny!! they were 'Funny Cars'!!! An the rest my friends is history!! Then in 1964 Richard Petty won the Daytona 500 in a Plymouth with the new 426 Hemi, then in 69 & 70 Mopar came out with the Wing Cars an Cry Baby Ford made a stink about them an NASCAR took em off the track an a few years later they took the HEMI out!!.. So Today if you look under any Drag Car doing less then 5 sec in the 1/4mi Mustangs, Toyotas, Pontiacs, It's Crysler's basic double rocker, Hemispherical combustion chamber V8! an thats just some of the stuff that I always liked about Mopar. BULLHUSK

Mark, The 327 was only a 2 bolt main, an Chevy was using them in trucks that were way to big an heavy for that motor,I'm with ya on them being bulletproof!! The trucks I'm talkin about had a 22ft body on them with lift gates. They hauled everything from TV's to 600lb chem. drums, and COW BOYS for drivers!! As far as the 427's go... I don't know? but they would would throw the rod right through the bottom of the pan!! Once we put the 366 big block in them, our troubles were over.. The 350 shevy is a work horse, but don't send a boy to do a mans job, Dodge did the same thing with there 318 motor, an even there slant 6!! Ernie

Rob, I got to talkin to the guys in the shop at this place, an one of the old timers told me that they (the V71's) never blow up!! he said they run until they can't keep oil in them, then they rebuild them. He was tellin me about the older Cat motors ( D342, 1693's an the 1674's ) he said they would only get half the life out of the Cat then the Detroit's an it got so $$$$$ to rebuild them that sold them for parts an made a bundle!! He also told me about the (pre-lube starters) they had to put on the Cat motors so they wouldn't blow up in cold weather!

bob, Ya got that right, my dad had a customer back in the 60' that had 5 shevy viking series stright trucks with 327's in them, we kept a new motor on the rack (I think a comp, new engine back then was 450 bucks). Well, his customer goes an trades them in after 5 years an gets new ones with the 427 motor!! O-MG 4mi to the gal an windows in the blocks!! so we spoke to one of the older guys over at the shevy shop an he told us 'every time a 427 blows up, put a 366 back into it' we did, and the trucks ran for ever!! We wanted him to by the C model Dodges back then but his gulfing buddy was the owner of the shevy joint. Ernie DS

Rob, Last week I was at a air compressor rental shop, an one of the shop guys just got done with a repair on one of there (big boys) with a V12-71 that they use up at the ski lodges for snow making, well when this guy started this thing, she went to full throttle for about 3 sec. an then to idle!! Holy shit It scared the hell out of me!! O-MG

Mark, It's definitely the correct color!! Ernie DS

On the old 673's an the Maxi's, we would coat the mushroom tappits uith a heavy wheel bearing grease, slip them in gust before sliding in the cam, it has to be a heavy sticky grease an it would hold them in place until you got the cam in, I'm told some guys even used to cut down clothes pins to hold them but I've never done it that way. BULLHUSK

I think that all of these kids should be sent to Parris Island for 12 weeks, before goin to college?... But then again, you can't fix stupid!

Sorry guys but I havn't had my son over to post the video of the truck yet, the good news is that I think I might have a set of alum. doors! Just waitin for some pics, also I'm lookin for a cab for my friend Stephen's Cab over V12 Brockway, so be on the look out!! I'm tryin to get Steve to join the Mack Site (he thought because he only owned a couple a Brocks an no Macks he couldn't join!) He's a real good 2 cycle Detroit guy, I've seen him in action! an I think he could add some imput to us Mack guys who also love our screamin Detroit's Thanks Ernie DS

There factorys arenin Korea, China, Vietnam, they received there US dot# An Rating in 1966, none are manufactured in the US. BULLHUSK..PS If you want to just Google 'where are Kumho tires manufactured?' It gives you a whole rundown on the co.

That would be great!! Thanks Ernie

41, I would just love to see the young ladies of Columbia U. spend about a month in Iran, without being able to come home to Mommy an Daddy an the BMW an the Benz an the Credit Cards, I want to see the young Columbia Boys go to Iran for a month an protest in the streets about what they don't like about Iran? Or maybe some of the Columbia Hiking Team might want to Hike along the Iran boarder, to see some of the beautiful mountain range's or JAIL!! Are they really that naive? or just plain stupid? BULLHUSK

An I'm sure there's a few $$$ in there for Jeff Ameltdown an GE an CO.... What a shame!! how can anyone vote for this Guy??

535 Million of our (tax payer) money, 1/2 a Billion down the drain Solyndra corp. In one year? somethin smell fishy here? Thats a lot a new Macks!! BULLHUSK.... had enough yet folks?

Can anyone out there tell me if the Mack F cab an the Brockway cabs are the same? I know they look the same but are the interiors an the wireing the same? A friend of mine found a low MI Brock. with a factory V12-71 but the cab can not be saved!! so I'm tryin to help him save this thing. The reason I ask about the cabs? The Brockway 700's with the R-Cabs look the same but are very different. Thanks. Ernie DS

Rob, Devino used Truck's & Parts had a realy nice R700 with a V8 Mack Motor in his yard a couple of weeks ago, It was an X Long Island sand hauler, so It was a little to heavv for me. Soooo after thinkin about It for a couple of days, I said 'Ah what the hell' so I called Mike,..... The export guy beat me to the punch, the tractor is on It's way to Africa!! China men say ' he who stand still to long soon go backwards'