Rob

I gotta leave the queer jokes alone........

Your old one is dependable. Keep it and keep running till it won't run no more, or keeps breaking you slowly. There is no money to be made by paying a banker. Rob

That would work and I'd certainly offset your costs in the project. Rob

Hi Barry, the post did not print to the screen correctly and there was no "delete" button at the bottom as there usually is. Rob

Another post I cannot delete.

ARKANSAS PEACHES| A farmer was selling his peaches door to door. He knocked on a door and a shapely 30-something woman dressed in a very sheer negligee answered. He raised his basket to show her the peaches and asked, "Would you like to buy some peaches?" She pulled the top of the negligee to one side and asked, "Are they as firm as this?" He nodded his head and said, "Yes ma'am," and a little tear ran from his eye. Then she pulled the other side of her negligee off asking, "Are they nice and pink like this?" The farmer said, "Yes," and a tear came from the other eye. Then she unbuttoned the bottom of her negligee and asked, "Are they as fuzzy as this?" He again said, "Yes," and broke down crying. She asked, "Why on earth are you crying?" Drying his eyes he replied, "The drought got my corn, the flood got my soy beans, a tornado leveled my barn and now I think I'm gonna get screwed out of my peaches...

Marriage for Women: If you want someone who will eat whatever you put in front of him and never say it's not quite as good as his mother's ..then adopt a dog. If you want someone always willing to go out, at any hour, for as long and wherever you want ... ..then adopt a dog. If you want someone who will never touch the remote, doesn't care about football, and can sit next to you as you watch romantic movies ..then adopt a dog. If you want someone who is content to get on your bed just to warm your feet and whom you can push off if he snores ..then adopt a dog ! If you want someone who never criticizes what you do, doesn't care if you are pretty or ugly, fat or thin, young or old, who acts as if every word you say is especially worthy of listening to, and loves you unconditionally, perpetually .. ..then adopt a dog. BUT, on the other hand, if you want someone who will never come when you call, ignores you totally when you come home, leaves hair all over the place, walks all over you, runs around all night and only comes home to eat and sleep, and acts as if your entire existence is solely to ensure his happiness ., - - - - - - - - - - - - - - . . ..then adopt a cat! Now be honest, you thought I was gonna say... marry a man, didn't you?

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75 year old rancher, who's hand got caught in the squeeze gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old fellow. Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his role as our president. The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post Turtle.' Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him, what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, 'When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post turtle.' The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to explain. "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability to function, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to begin with."

Yup, I was kinda thinking my imposters were the "crown jewels" too. Rob

Get some solid stainless steel rivets from either Fastenal, Mcmaster-Carr, or another industial supply house. Obtain a thin "bucking bar" that will fit within the channel of the frame and smash the rivets flat with a hammer for the purpose. A good bench vise with soft jaws is a plus to hold the piece parts without hurting them. Rob

Can't say I've ever heard of an injection pump rack dampener but have seen problems with worn springs, bushings, and pivot shafts cause erratic idleing. I'm assuming the truck runs fine during a pull or above curb idle. Rob

Thanks for your reply but this trough drips back onto a gear that is 1/3-1/2 submerged in lubricant. I can't see where it helps to lubricate anything but Eaton's explanation seems very plausible concerning "throw off" of oil from the spinning gears. Rob

Hey Ernie, your purchase of this truck would comply with democratic principals fitting the term "redistribution of wealth". You know, give some idiot a lot of money for nothing. Rob

Hi James, I did that prior as it was my first inclination and they are not camming over. I even used a 24" pipe wrench on the camshafts to try to cam them over and could not. I did pull the clevis pins and can manually, (with my hand) move the slack adjuster over an inch before it starts to try to rotate the camshaft(s). This is in the normal plane of operation for the chambers to stroke the slack adjusters. I'll have all this stuff broken down within the next couple of days and will post photos. I'm going to bust the side plates off a slack adjuster to have a look see inside. Rob

I was wondering about this again. With the brakes dragging the drums and the adjustment bolts tightend firmly, (wheels will not turn with tractor pulling trailer) and the foot brake applied, all four snap over and past the adjustment point and the brakes all relax. These slacks have to be junk. I've ordered all new slacks, chambers, clevises, hardware, and will send the shoes in for relining if the cores are good. The drums are virgin and show very little wear. They must have either been replaced with the last relining, or have not worked in many years as the trailer is a 1981 model. Rob

This hit me kinda funny the other day. I had my daughter jump up into "Yella Dog" to apply and release the trolley valve so I could watch the brake hardware on the trailer actuate. I've never had hardly any brakes on this thing since the purchase. After ensuring the brakes were offering a slight drag on the drums, I had her pull the trolley valve and much to my surprise, all four chambers stroked, but only on cam physically turned and it was very little. I had her repeat this action several times yielding the same result each time. I then had here stand on the brake pedal and three of the slack actuated further, rotated the cams until three of them violently skipped internally allowing the brakes to fully release. The brakes were then extremly loose and could be adjusted back up via the adjusting bolts again. I then grabbed a pipe wrench and the cams rotate easily against the shoe retraction springs, and spread the brake shoes. It's obvious I need new slack adjusters but I've never heard of something like this happening before. Anybody else seen similar? I'll take the old ones apart once they are replaced to see what makes them tick internally and maybe what went wrong? Rob

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http://sfbay.craigsl...2574766597.html The very last one in the United States: It's listed in California, but Richmond VA also? Rob

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I had to ask what "Blue Ray" was as I really didn't know. I know what a VCR, and a DVD is, (thanks to my kids as I don't watch television). I also had to ask a guy at work what "bluetooth" was as again, I'm not into consumer electronics. Rob

Every now and then I do when I don't run out of fuel. Rob

Yup, a friend of mine in a little "hole in the wall" town owns Arlen Vanke's altered 65 660 Dodge. Still has a hemi engine that was actually campaigned with Chrysler money too. Rob

Bob is correct here. The friction type mounting assembly still has a "bellmouth" shape to the end of the cable jacket, and the cable end is not exposed. Your jacket has been broken off quite possibly from being run loose with all the jarring a truck endures. My little laptop does not have a good screen to view photos on which I used earlier. Rob

I don't know why the word "My" started the reply, I typed "Some"? Rob

My speedometer heads used a friction type clip that retained the jacket to the instrument housing. I suspect this is what you had. It was a piece of spring steel that you pushed in towards the instrument to extract the cable jacket. Really don't know how available they would be any longer. Rob