Rob

Great to hear and congratulations to all!! Rob

Happens to me a lot too. Ever since the last board upgrade everything is much slower such as posting and photos take at least 10 times longer individually. Could be my computer, but other websites are not changed. Rob

That's very true but usually best when their detached from the truck!! Rob

And please stop by to get mine too. That way you'll have a full set and a few spares!! Otherwise, they just make a lot of smoke. Rob

If you pull the pump from the engine the method to get it loosened up is quite simple. Do a search for "plunger" in the advanced search as there are many commments on this as it is common. Rob

I went to the farm store this morning and acquired a 18" piece of hydraulic line to do away with the air dryer that is rusted through. I just reconnected to the place were the line was tapped to install the dryer. After starting the truck, and getting out of it for a few feet, the damned air horn starts to blasting, (loudly). I work the lanyard and it finally shuts up. After a couple of minutes go past the air gauge will only show 30 psi, but will not climb any further. After shutting the truck off and listening for gross air leaks, (none found) I restart the truck. Still not building air by the indications, I smack the air gauge in the dash with the ball of my hand and it instantly jumps to 90 psi but no higher. Turns out the gauge is defective and even when the truck is not running with no air in the system, it still shows 90 pounds. Well after letting her, (Target) warm up for over an hour, and everything stabilized, out around the property I go. It took about 30 seconds to figger out this is going to be one son of a bitch truck to be comfortable in. My overhanging gut will not stay away from the steering wheel, and the springs in the seat are not strong enough to support me as they bottom out with just the gravel in the driveway. After a few trips back and forth in the driveway, I turned onto the highway planning to drive a mile or so and turn around, but these tires only look round by appearance. They are not!! I thought my head was gonna be beating on the bottom of the roof panel but the lead in my ass kept me put at about 10 mph. Anyways, I drove around the property for several minutes wanting to get the temperature up in the engine. There is about 1500 or so acres of empty farm ground in all directions and I drove all over it. I noticed the temperature rapidly climbing as I was getting close to the shop and upon raising the hood to check for a reason, I noticed coolant running from the upper radiator hose fitting on the upper water jacket adapter. A worm drive hose clamp had busted through the threads and this was the problem. After dumping a total eight gallons of coolant, (50/50 mix) back into it, back across the fields again I go. Two hours and the engine doesn't even think of getting hot!! Really can't drive more than about 10mph due to rough terrain so I left the main in second, and the aux in low so the engine would turn about 1500 rpm steady. Upon stomping the brake pedal fully to attempt locking the wheels, two pancakes blew out promptly. Now the truck doesn't stop as well as it should, but it can be stopped. All of the brakes are incorrectly adjusted. One is the Rt. front wheel, the other the Lt. rear rear. The rears are rotochambers and the pancake itself is almost a hundred bucks anymore. I'll just go with a 24/24 spring brake chambers and replace them all at the same time on the rears. This truck has 38,000 rears and I've put the 24/24's on several trucks in the past replacing the type 20 rotochambers. Just takes a couple more valves and lines to function. Overall, a pleasant experience. Feels nice to actually have something I can drive. As mentioned I've already purchased plates and the insurance is in place. I'll order tires pretty quickly as these are nothing to be trusted and certainly will beat you to death. I was really surprised how easily the duplex transmission shifts. It is very smooth on the up, and downshift with virtually no learning curve for me. It is strange the auxillary shifter is on the other side of the main though. Repetition brought familiarity. The clutch is quiet and doesn't hop when engaging. It is almost as smooth as you would expect a pickup truck to be. I really didn't notice too many seepage leaks but there are a few. I will get the pressure washer after the engine once I get the fenders off the truck for rebuilding. There has got to be 20 pounds of grime and dirt on the engine/suspension in the front of the truck. The rear is very clean in comparison to the front. Couple other things I noticed: The tractor protection valve will need replaced. It is the TP-2 style which is long obsolete. When the flipper is on the "emergency" selection, it leaks terrible out the bottom. When in the "normal" position, it does not leak but you need to have the gladhands stowed on the holder at the rear of the cab. The front end does not really feel tight. It is not like a single wheel is loose but rather the whole assembly. I've not looked at anything so it could be the drag link, or steering gear play. On the shop floor there is no noticable play, or noise when the wheels are turned lock to lock, but a small road imperfection will try to take the steering wheel from your control sharply. Actually made my day. Rob

And Pink Tacos. Rob

Al Sharpton Blasts Tiger Woods for Lack of Mistress Diversity The Rev. Al Sharpton held a press conference today to blast Tiger Woods for the lack of diversity among his mistresses. Sharpton claims that the lack of African-American women among Woods' harem will have a negative affect on the black community, specifically young black girls. "Why is it that a man who calls himself black can't bring himself to cheat on his wife with a black woman?" said Sharpton, speaking to a group of supporters in Harlem . "What does it say to young black girls everywhere when you pass them over? Shame on you, Tiger Woods. What would your daddy say?" Sharpton, who has long championed taking black women as mistresses, said that today's black athletes need to stop neglecting black women when it comes to extramarital affairs, and should follow the examples of positive black role models such as Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, Jr., both of whom cheated on their wives with black women. Sharpton also stressed that cheating with African-American women would help the black community financially by giving black girls the chance to sell their stories to tabloids and gossip magazines. Added Sharpton, "I'm not asking you to not cheat on your wives, I'm just asking you to give back to your own community."

George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth. Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes. When he was finished the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so Putin writes him a check. Next Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for 30 minutes. When she was finished the devil informs her that cost is 6 million dollars, so Queen Elizabeth writes him a check. Finally George Bush gets his turn and talks for 4 hours. When he was finished the devil informed him that there would be no charge for the call and feel free to call the USA anytime. When Putin hears this he goes ballistic and asks the devil why Bush got to call the USA free. The devil replied, ¨Since Obama became president of the USA, the country has gone to hell, so it's a local call.

They have oval hand holes. At least they didn't have the audacity to paint them red, (of course they didn't; They want to make it to the end of the track without a wrecker call)! Rob

You forgot "BULL DYKE" when referring to Rosie! Rob

I feel that an E6-350 is at the upper limit of horsepower torque output from a reliability standpoint. Sure they will crank up more, but the lower end is not strong enough to take it long term in my opinion. If you go into the governor housing on the rear of the pump and adjust the rack travel, you will alter fuel settings to where the engine will make more power by opening the injection amount, and duration of injection timing. This extra fuel will need more air and without a turbo upgrade will create more smoke at low rpm due to unburned fuel. This of course translates to more exhaust heat and more power until a point of melting parts, or mechanical failure occurrs. These are broad scenarios and most times do not apply to an owner operated truck. If you have an easy foot a 10% increase in fuel delivery should not be too detrimental in operation, but much further than that I wouldn't do on that engine. From what I've seen it is the heavy foot off idle with a heavy loaded trailer behind that breaks crankshafts, and destroys the line honing of the engine block. Sorry to be so bleak. Rob

Divorce Agreement between Liberal and Conservative America I got this through one of the many 2nd amendment groups I belong to. Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way. Here is a model separation agreement: Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes. We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell (You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them). We'll keep the capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street. You can have your beloved homeless, homeboys, hippies and illegal aliens. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood . You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. You can have the peaceniks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N.. but we will no longer be paying the bill. We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. We'll keep The Battle Hymn of the Republic and the National Anthem. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute Imagine, I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing, Kum Ba Ya or We Are the World. We'll practice trickle down economics and you can give trickle up poverty your best shot. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you ANWAR which one of us will need whose help in 15 years. Sincerely, John J. Wall Law Student and an American P.S. Also, please take Barbara Streisand & Jane Fonda with you. P.P.S Of course you could not forget Pelosi as leader of the gang!

Hi Paul, my daughter has already "laid claim" to this truck. As a contingency I will need to update my last will and testament because Momma is steaming at me again, (she sells my stuff when that way). I had four chili cheese dogs and Tabasco sauce, and a couple glasses of home made grape wine for lunch yesterday, and she was "paying for it" last night till she ordered me on the couch about 10:30pm. I hate that damned thing I'm tellin ya too. Dog has the habit oc comming up and "slobber kissing" my cheek at night when it wants out, (stupid Lab). I've always said that dog would look best on a dinner plate. Gonna try to take it for a ride over the weekend. I have temp tags so just need to call the insurance co. to be legal. Do need to have brakes first though!! Rob

Neither of us play with fire extinguishers due to a lesson she taught me years ago. She was cooking, (or making attempt) some kind of breakfast on a Sunday morning and it caught fire in the skillet. I grabbed an ABC fire extinguisher and blasted it extensively on the stove and the ensuing cloud of bicarbonate settled on everything. This stuff etched everything that was chrome in the kitchen. She was not pleased with ole Rob that day, and many times since, (but not because of fire extinguishers). Just another adventure in the life of ole Rob and Momma. Even my daughter says: "You ain't right". Hmmm, must be some kind of omen...... Rob

She is 29 going on 50 I think. You'd be able to "whip her into shape"? That's what I thought at first. I snapped this at a Christmas party and she still looks about the same except she's dyed her hair red, (more orange than red in my opinion). Rob

Momma calls and says she's bringing me supper at the shop cause I was busy. Well, little did she know I was working on the B-67 instead of customer's cars and I'm smart enough to know that trouble be brewing if she catches me!! I quickly devised a plan and implemented it with being very close to the finish line when she walked in. She saw right through my charade and I was ordered to stop and get my fat hindquarters back to doing what I was supposed to do or she was really gonna be pissed. Now since I've already lost my primary body parts to various cutting utinsils, I can only imagine what she'd turn to next. Unwilling to find out, I started on the Grand Prix side. I'm banned from even looking at any of them for at least a week she says. I'll sell her cheap, (Momma that is) right about now; Any interest? Rob

The physical exterior dimensions of the Baldor single phase 7.5hp motor you have are the exact of it's 5hp cousin. If you are going to install that in your basement invest in a "Solberg" silencer for the intake. You will be pleased as Quincy reciprocating compressers are reletively quiet in operation but the silencer will help even more. Rob

Before. I know somebody that could prolly paint it. Besides look at the amount of labor you'd save. Rob

I've only seen one B-57 series. It was a tractor and had the concave back panel like my B-67 but had the longer hood such as a B-61. I did not see the engine so can't tell you if it is leaned toward the passenger side of the truck like a B-67 is. The B-67 series has a hood that is about 10 inches shorter than a B-61 and has a doghouse in the cab like the attachment shows. Rob

subliminal message to third coaster: take the R769 to Rob's house and forget about it; take the R769 to Rob's house and forget about it; take the R769 to Rob's house and forget about it........ Listen to your conscience, It'll never steer you wrong. Rob

I run straight 30 in all the old engines. I just cracked a new barrel tonight to fill the filter on this truck. Think I still have two new ones yet so I'm set for a while. Great to hear this thing run. Rob

Prefilled the oil filter with about a gallon of 30wt. oil and she cranked for about 30-40 seconds, then roared to life. Took a while for the hydraulic governor to stabilize smoothing near 650 rpm idle speed. Truck is not making air at this time and that can be another chapter. I'm going to drain all the fluids, change/clean all filters and replenish. Oil pressure gauge sure fooled me as it is not connected so I was nervous at first. To ensure I had oil pressure I loosened the plug at the top of the oil filter and was going to slightly unscrew it until I had engine oil get past the threads, but to my surprise when the engine is running, I couldn't move the plug by hand. Shut the engine down and it's a two finger operation. I surmise it has good pressure...... I've got a couple of minor wrecks to repair so this will need to go on the back burner for a few days. Just too damned hard to leave something new alone sometimes......... Rob

According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, while both male and female reindeer grow antlers in the summer each year, male reindeer drop their antlers at the beginning of winter, usually late November to mid-December. Female reindeers retain their antlers till after they give birth in the spring.Therefore, according to EVERY historical rendition depicting Santa's reindeer... EVERY single one of them... from Rudolph to Blitzen... had to be a girl! We should've known... ONLY women would be able to drag a fat-ass man in a red velvet suit - all around the world - in one night - and not get lost. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

First guess appears to be a five horse, two stage, splash lubricated Quincy upright compressor. These are made by Colt Industries, Quincy Compressor Division in Quincy, Illinois. But as I said, "It's just a guess". Rob