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Rob

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  1. I followed that advice; Once. Lost 1/2 of my left nut because of that attitude. "Momma" don't take no sass from nobody ya hear????? Rob
  2. I've never seen a 5W30 oil rated for diesel engine usage. I would not mix the two but rather find another oil that is rated for this usage. Rob
  3. Yup. She is already planning additional projects also for the out of doors such as a screenroom off the back door, a foyer for the front of the other house, a new back entrance for the other house also. The list keeps building. How am I supposed to work on trucks with this going down???? Rob
  4. He's not too far off in a gasoline engine application. However, the information is completely inaccurate for a diesel engine which does not produce a vacume in the intake manifold. Actually the intake is open to atmosphere pressure at all times unless turbocharged. Then the manifold is pressurized upon engine operation by the turbocharger compressor section. Any diesel engine in a chassis that uses hydraulic brakes has an auxilary vacume pump installed onto the engine to provide this vacume. Rob
  5. I tried three, (yes three) times to initiate the start of a chapter with the ATCA. I even renewed my membership as that was cited for the lack of movement. They didn't seem to care for any growth potential and this troubled me so I ceased progression. Hell, I couldn't even get a phone call back from them. Rob
  6. Sick, twisted, demented, and obscure bunch of individuals on this board. Guess that's why I fit in so well. Think that's sick? Look up "Barnyard Frolics" on the internet. It was banned on the ship when I was in the Navy with an automatic "Captain's Mast" hearing if caught with it. Rob
  7. "Momma" wants to go to the lumber yard/home center to check on garden center items today as the is in the need of some plants and bushes to finish out the landscape around the house. She asks if I'd like to go also. "Well sure", as I think this would be a great time to get a few treated boards to replace the broken ones on the decks of both my trailers. Well, we get to our local "Menards" store and she heads off to do her thing, and I do mine. I catch back up with her about 1/2 hour later and she has on the cart not only a couple of bushes, (boxwoods) and some plants that I have no idea about, there is a sliding compound mitre saw, (a nice one too). Asking what that is for she tells me it's so I can finish the jobs I started about 12 years ago, (or so). Awww Geez, I hate when she hammers me like that cause the "Momma" has a mind like a steel trap that don't let go. I just get caught up in the shop and she goes and schedules my next two weeks of evenings for me. We wound up getting out of there with about a mile of casing, base, brick mould, caulk, paint, perimeter weatherstrip for the garage door, and a new astragal seal. Guess I better get good with the saw. Rob
  8. You can mount the a/c compressor on the rt. side of the engine a little lower than centered between the water pump shaft, and crankshaft. Install a smooth idler pulley to use as a tensioner bearing against the backside of the belts that is adjustable and run longer belts to now fit over the extra hardware. I say to mount the compressor low because you want to be able to tension the belts so they don't slip on the water pump, or the compressor. These require about 1/2 circumference contact with belt to groove to ensure they don't slip. A 1/2" drive belt is only good for transfering about 8 theoretical horsepower and even the most efficient mobile a/c compressor equipment type currently in use consumes about 12 when running in hot weather. This is the reason for dual drive belts. Rob
  9. I got my copy in triplicate yesterday. Rob
  10. Rob

    See Ya'!

    Premature salivation has commenced. Rob
  11. Rob

    See Ya'!

    Can hardly wait for the "truckload" of ribs you must be delivering to me. Rob
  12. I had "sailed" with both of those ships in the 80's when I was in the NAVY. The Iowa was very, very LOUD when firing a salvo with the 16" guns. Aircraft carriers are just plain loud anyways you looked at it. In 1985 when the battleship battle group was being thought up with the modernization of the Iowa class battleships I started training to be stationed on the Iowa in the radar area. I however decided the long range search capability of aviation spectrum would be more conducive to my future growth upon discharge; I went that route. Two guys I went through with first string training, and one a neighbor three doors down in the base housing I lived in, did not survive that turrent explosion. I had however been discharged for five months when this event happened and only learned the names of the deceased much later. I found it disgusting the Navy placed blame for the explosion on a sailor with questionable sexual orientation which was later changed. Rob
  13. It would certainly seem so however the reason for the main batteries to be large was further distance effectiveness. If I remember correctly the 18" guns of the "Yamato" class of Japanese battleships had an effective range of over 33,000 yards where the 15", and 16" guns of the British, and American battleships were 25,-27,000 yards. Size really doesn't matter if you don't hit what you're aiming at. Rob
  14. The one I seen at the Chesapeake tunnel was not a cabover chassis. Too long as I can't remember the color but think I would if it were orange as the photo. Rob
  15. Rob

    Where"s Rob

    Been a rough couple of weeks with the heat, air conditioning, radar, lights, and everything else that uses electricity. This of course mentions nothing of anything that uses either gas, diesel, or has tits. Thanks for asking. Rob
  16. Rob

    Watch This:

    Buckwheat!!! My hero!!! I learnt most everthing I knows from that little rascal. I like the avatar but don't know what originated the change. Rob
  17. Rob

    Watch This:

    Sent by a friend. Rob
  18. From a friend of mine when I showed him the photo: Even from here, I can hear the molecules in that poor frame and suspension frantically re-aligning themselves in a valiant effort to avoid massive catastrophic failure -- such a failure will result in a blast / shrapnel radius of approximately 1,500 feet - depending on the exact tonnage being applied and actual spring rates involved. The only thing that will prevent this impending tragedy from occuring would be to throw a high tensile strength ( approximately 20,000 pound ) steel cable lasso around the whole herd and pull them off the back with one of your higher horse power Macks--- but you better get a good run at it--- unless the Mack in question happens to have a dump bed full of granite. Rob
  19. It's all in how you look at it. They look like "smoother oozers" to me. Self lubricating females are good; don't ya think? Besides, they are bigger than me. Rob
  20. Man I've been up all night thnking that photo sure looks like an invite for a "sticky threesome" in the bed of the "Built Ford Tough" truck. Rob
  21. Typically it's up to the installer if they run true or not. When I put them on a simple deep well socket on the pavement next to the tire is used as a reference. Alternately tightening the nuts to center up the rim to hub mating while turning thr tire is really not that difficult. After the rim is square to the hub, the nuts are then evenly torqued to specification, by hand with a torque wrench. I've never had problems but have seem both trucks, and trailers wobble badly going down the road. Rob
  22. It was there, (or one like it) in the mid 1980's when I was in the NAVY also. The Hampton Roads Bay Bridge Tunnel also had one stationed in the center of the span. The Chesapeake, (sp) had a short wrecker also but not one of these. I don't know what it was as only seen it once when moving at speed. Rob
  23. Can you imagine smacking em on the ass and watching the flutter, jiggle, shaking, verberations, (or whatever the hell it'd be called) all the way to the top of their foreheads and through all three of their chins? Man, them girls is just plain sexy, and juicy. I can almost imagine the dripping action. Rob
  24. Which would you lick first? Rob
  25. Thanks guys, I suppose it was "fitted" to the task better than I'd thought. Rob
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