Rob

Exhaust restriction can also be a factor. Don't know much about newer engines but has the engine been checked for an overboost at load? It would sure seem that if the exhaust path is not as free flowing as it should be the exhaust temp would elevate in short order. Rob

I wouldn't rebuild the 4L60 but go with a 4L80 if you use the truck at all for loads. Too lightly construted internally to take much of anything like commuter driving, let alone abuse, (my opinion). Glad to hear you're alive, at least. If you got time to lurk, you got time to post. Other Dog was getting so upset with your lack of participation that he was willing to "offload" his mixer to the first willing purchaser for $500.00. He is just lucky I got there in the "nick of time" to pursuade him otherwise, and talk some sense into him. He was wanting to do this just to purchase new overpriced hubcaps for his Pete!! After this temporary attack of "lunacy" almost befelled him, I think he can be somewhat relied upon to make prudent decision processes for the short term duration. Hope you get picked up real soon. Rob

If you've got a couple of days to wait, I'll send you photos of this setup. I have the six speed out of a V8 R795 and can slip a RTO-12513 right in there, then snap some photos if it will help. I don't plan to use the current engine in this truck and the six speed is going to another party, It would be easy at this point to help you out. Rob

Looks plent stiff enough to do the job. The angular placement of the brace concerns me as far as interferance/clearance issues. Although a bit more work, I would have probably used gussets in each of the four corner leaving the center of the space open. I'm certain you evaluated that in your design stages. Is that a bit of rust in the floor sill on the driver's side, (right) that needs repaired? Hell of a weldment you've got going there mate. Should work real well for you. Rob

Man, I just don't know about you guys. I don't use the "pickup lines" on Momma; Don't need to. She loves me anyways I may be. I will share with you something that I do with her but I must first explain: You see, Momma has always been a bit wider in the hips than the shoulders. Of course as we all age we retain more weight than we would care to. Her, and I have struggled for years to regulate ourselves and we have had limited success. Let me continue: Momma has continued to increase her posterior size logarithmically over the past couple of years and using the analogy of throwing a rock into the middle of a pond with perfectly still water is what happens when I smack her on the ass. Of course her favorite saying seems to be "Kiss my Ass; Robbie"!! This is how I know I'm loved, along with being shown I'm still number 1. Now if you had something like this at home, why would you need "cheesy pickup lines"? Rob

I'll take it for a restoration if you don't need it. I've got a couple of trucks round here that still use them. Thanks, Rob

Obviously it was me filling the stein. I felt so "drained" after it was full. Rob

Hi Rod, actually I knew it was fake when I received it via a friend who is a "regular" on snopes.com. I do like the story though. Rob

It was the first day of a school in USA and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Patel entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, "Let's begin by reviewing some American History. Who said 'Give me Liberty, or give me Death'?" She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his hand up: 'Patrick Henry, 1775' he said. 'Very good!' Who said 'Government of the People, by the People, for the People, shall not perish from the Earth?' Again, no one responded except from Chandrasekhar. 'Abraham Lincoln, 1863' said Chandrasekhar. The teacher snapped at the class, 'Class, you should be ashamed. Chandrasekhar, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.' She heard a loud whisper: 'F*ck the Indians,' 'Who said that?' she demanded. Chandrasekhar put his hand up. 'General Custer, 1862.' At that point, a student in the back said, 'I'm gonna puke.' The teacher glares around and asks 'All right! Now, who said that?' Again, Chandrasekhar says, 'George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.' Now furious, another student yells, 'Oh yeah? Suck this!' Chandrasekhar jumps out of his chair waving his hand and shouts to the teacher, 'Bill Clinton, to Monica Lewinsky, 1997!' Now with almost mob hysteria someone said, 'You little shit. If you say anything else, I'll kill you.' Chandrasekhar frantically yells at the top of his voice,' Michael Jackson to the child witnesses testifying against him, 2004. 'The teacher fainted. And as the class gathered around the teacher on the floor, someone said, 'Oh shit, we're screwed!' And Chandrasekhar said quietly, "Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, December 9, 2008."

I'd have to think long and hard before I would need a beer that bad. Certainly hope it isn't someone we know. Rob

Stick with me; Don't worry 'bout a thing........ Rob

The Rambo Granny of Melbourne , Australia: Gun-toting granny Ava Estelle, 81, was so ticked-off when two thugs raped her 18-year-old granddaughter that she tracked the unsuspecting ex-cons down, and shot off their testicles. The old lady spent a week hunting those men down and, when she found them, she took revenge on them in her own special way, said Melbourne police investigator Evan Delp. Then she took a taxi to the nearest police station, laid the gun on the sergeant's desk and told him as calm as could be: 'Those bastards will never rape anybody again, by God.' Cops say convicted rapist and robber Davis Furth, 33, lost both his penis and his testicles when outraged Ava opened fire with a 9-mm pistol in the hotel room where he and former prison cell mate Stanley Thomas, 29, were holed up. The wrinkled avenger also blew Thomas' testicles to kingdom come, but doctors managed to save his mangled penis, police said. 'The one guy, Thomas, didn't lose his manhood, 'but the doctor I talked to said he won't be using it the way he used to'. Detective Delp told reporters. 'Both men are still in pretty bad shape, 'but I think they're just happy to be alive after what they've been through.' The Rambo Granny swung into action August 21 after her granddaughter Debbie was carjacked and raped in broad daylight by two knife-wielding creeps in a section of town bordering on skid row. 'When I saw the look on my Debbie's face that night in the hospital, 'I decided I was going to go out and get those bastards myself ''cause I figured the Law would go easy on them,' recalled the retired library worker.. 'And I wasn't scared of the m, either - because I've got me a gun and I've been shootin' all my life. 'And I wasn't dumb enough to turn it in when the law changed about owning one.' Using a police artist's sketch of the suspects and Debbie's description of the sickos, tough-as-nails Ava spent seven days prowling the wino-infested neighborhood where the crime took place till she spotted the ill-fated rapists entering their flophouse hotel. 'I knew it was them the minute I saw 'em, but I shot a picture of 'em anyway' and took it back to Debbie and she said sure as hell, it was them,' the oldster recalled.. 'So I went back to that hotel and found their room and knocked on the door, 'and the minute the big one opened the door, I shot 'em right square between the legs,'right where it would really hurt 'em most, you know. 'Then I went in and shot the other one 'as he backed up pleading to me to spare him.'Then I went down to the police station and turned myself in.' Now, baffled lawmen are trying to figure out exactly how to deal with the vigilante granny. 'What she did was wrong, and she broke the law, but it is difficult to throw an 81-year-old woman in prison,' Det. Delp said, 'especially when 3 million people in the city want to nominate her for Mayor.'

My posts are transparent to those detectors so you'll just have to believe my words are spoken with upmost integrity and truth. Keep the faith my friend. Rob will show you the way. Rob

I've had a couple of early 70's 237 engines that I've "turned up". One I used an E6-350 turbocharger and intake, the other a 300 Maxidyne turbocharger and manifold. Both trucks had the mufflers removed and ran straight pipes. I've never done pump work myself, cause I have a friend that does that for a living. I do know the timing was retarded a bit and advance recalibrated. Can't answer if injectors were modified other than being rebuilt on either of these engines but they both ran much different, and stronger after modification. I like a pyrometer and use it as a tool to let the engine live. Too expensive to break something being naive. Rob

I never lie, about some things......... Rob

Now you have the fuel for the low end power you desire and you need the air to burn that fuel. Go with a larger turbocharger and install a pyrometer in the dash and the key: USE IT!! You also need to be aware you may shorten the life expectancy of the engine by asking more from it. As Macks said; The 237 is a sweet running motor and maybe the best motor mack ever built.

I told "Momma" about this situation and did she offer kind, compassionate words, or solace; NO!! She just laughed at me. Think I'm gonna short her a spray can of whipped cream this week as punishment. Rob

Naw, I want the new owner to feel good about their purchase. Rob

The time to exit comes suddenly sometimes. Truly a sad story, and tragic. Those conestoga wagon type trailers do not look inexpensive to acquire, or maintain but I have no experience. Rob

Never heard of Howes either. We have Siloo, or diesel power service around here and they seem to work. I usually don't run any additives, and only purchase fuel from a single source, so have not had problems at this point. Rob

Naw, I wouldn't do that to someone that only drives class. Rob

That's fair enough for me Joe. I'm sure Other Dog would be reluctant to ante up the information anyways. I have the truck located via google search, and it is ready for pickup by the new owner. I won't worry about the old title as I can get a brand new and improved one readily; (amazing what a 12 pack will get you). Rob

Momma is pretty clean about herself. She would never have food stuck to her upper body. She shaves twice a day also so I don't think there were any whiskers. Rob

That's what I always say about "Momma". She still looks close to her senior picture in the high school yearbook to me. I've heard others say things like, "Yeah, Right", "you must be blind", "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", "She needs to tuck that third chin under", etc..... I let it roll like water off a ducks' back. Rob

I would "lie in wait" for the opportune time to bring it up. You would be amazed at the amount of things I have said and done through the years that "Momma" brings up to further her own agenda at my expense. Sorta like laying in bed on a Saturday, after a hard work week, while she was in college. Somehow during her analysis of problematic world affairs using compassion and reasoning, I blurted out the comment; "Well if your gonna lay here and psycologize my ass, I'm gonna get something to eat. Or the time I knocked over the elderly lady sitting in her wheelchair at the grocery store, or the cheese cake comment, or tripping the fire alarm at the movie theater, or chain bindering a guys car doors shut in a public parking lot............ Rob