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Rad Shutters are a northern thing David. It's just a bunch of aluminum flaps mounted in a frame on the font of the rad and when it is fridgide cold and a diesel engine won't warm up there is a stat and air valve and cylinder that opens and closes the shutters to help keep heat in the rad regulated to keep the engine warm. they used to be really common up here but now most guys put a blanket on the grill with the new trucks. you guys probably never seen them in the south.

I have a brand new shutter set I had made for my Superliner and never put on. I'll probably never use them so i'll sell them if you're interested let me know' I'm in your neck of the woods anyway. (519)-999-4706 Dan.

$100 - $150 for a cot for scrap. I was lucky to get about $75 for one last year at the scrap yard.

You need to go north next weekend up to Notre Dame Du Nord Quebec. that's where I'll be at the Truck Rodeo.

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Come to Think of it I got an other friend that has a 72 or 73 in the woodpile with a 318 Detroit. I don't know if he'd sell it or not but I could ask. Also have another friend with an 81 with a factory 3406A Cat in it, but I'm 110% sure your odds of having a period are better than ever getting him to part with it though, but I'll ask him too.

I have a line on a 79 Transtar I been looking at for a possible future project and to save it from the scrap. The guy wants a bit more than scrap price for it, but you don't see them everyday anymore. This one has a 300 Cummins and a 13 SPD. Hendrickson spring on rear and dayton wheels with those cheesy stainless covers to make the look like buds. What's you price range for one? I'll see if he still has it and get some pics if you like.

I'm going to take the angles for the fifth wheel slider to machine shop a have the holes milled into slots and then I can re paint them and paint the centre brackets red. Still have to get the stainless strips made for the flaps I have for the front of the fenders. My sheet metal guy ran out of stainless the other day. Was going to buy a sheet to cover in the frame in front and behind the fifth wheel.

Got my full fenders and 2 mudflats on this afternoon. Getting closer to having it done need more hours in the day.

Nice pics, thanks for sharing. The ground looks just as wet there as it it where I'm at, gotta be carefully where you go off the gravel.

Here's how I've spent my week in this heat. 99% of the time I drive truck for a construction company were I live, weather it be pulling a n end dump, belly dump, tanker, float, or just driving a tri axle dump truck, most of my work revolves around a truck, but on occasion I do get stuck on most of the machines from time to time. Last week I was off for 3 days because my dad passed away so I had a short work week 1 day hauling tar with a tanker and a full day of floating equiptment on Friday getting things set up for Monday. Since Monday I've been stuck on a rubber tire roller with the tar and chip crew baking in the sun no a/c not even an umbrella been wearing a straw hat the last 2 days to keep from cooking my brain. And the kids on the spreader been leaving enough piles of stone all over that I have to rake out or move off the road, so I been on and off the machine all day. I usually don't mind doing it but we have all the junior guys in new air conditioned trucks, none of them did their time in any of the old beaters we used to have. I figure I should be able to loose about 30lbs by weeks end, there is a plus side to this. Here's some pics of the mess we made today near the north shore of Lake Erie near Point Pelee Provincial Park. A nice piece of German Enginering, the old Hamm roller with an air cooled Deutz engine can't kill the stupid thing.

My neighbour always liked a tall glass of cold milk after we finished doing hay. Don't really know how he could drink that on a 100 degree day? I'd rather have the beer myself or at least a big glass of kook aid or something. And yes a good shower is a must shortly after. I always hated all the chaff you get in the inside of your clothes stuff gets in the darnedest places.

I didn't have to shim the hangers because the CH had 1/4" frame rails and the Superliner frame rails were 3/8" plus the hangers slide on the leaf spring ends. I just had to shim the 2 piece crossmembers, according just using flat steel plate between the rail and the ends of he crossmembers.

I put the axles and suspension from a 2000 CH under the back of my Superliner we fanned up a pair of cross members like a New way uses and used the Mack 2 piece crossmembers every where else I had to shim them a fair bit of drilling involved. I used a step drill and finished with a 5/8 reamer.

I did price from General Rad and Detroit Radiator too but they quoted me in the $800 to $1500 for just a 4 row core and I really wanted a 5 row core that's what I had before.

Weller Radiators in Grand Rapids Michigan recorded mine with a 5 row core and repaired the bottom tank and I had to pay the customs charges plus the shop in Windsor that took it up there for me and the total cost was only $2600.00 witch I felt was expensive at the time, I guess it wasn't really too bad then.

If you don't mind me being nosey, can I ask what you paid for that core? I had mine recored and the bottom tank repaired from a place in Grand Rapids Mich. I put a 5 row core in mine. It was probably the most expensive part in my whole project.

No kidding that seems too good to be true. I wish I had the cash and it was closer to me.

Ah man that really sucks. Those big 425's always take half the hood off. We had the same thing happen to one of our RB dump trucks at work about 6 years ago. We put an aftermarket hood on it. I don't know if the old hood shell is out I'm the weeds yet or they pitched it, but if I remember right it had the passenger side blown off in case you were looking at repairing your hood. I guess one way of looking at it Bobo there is still some luck in this,thankfully you were able to keep it under control and bring it to a safe stop on the shoulder instead of the median or field, and you and everyone else around there at the time got to go home at the end of day.

Yeah it's a great show and it grows every year along with the number of members to the club. I picked up a little present for my Superliner on the way up to the show. Had to get these from Mack in London because the guys at Mack in Windsor didn't have a clue what I was looking for?????? Amazing how much difference 100miles and a different dealer makes.lol!! They had the R model floor mats and black and white rubber Mack mudflats in stock. Then the guys from Mack Canada had a little display with some brochures and other literature little rubber Bulldogs. I guess if I had been there earlier I might have got one of the small stuffed Bulldogs with the Mack sweater on and a hat like some of the other guys.

I took this photo of a V8 powered Scania Cabover. I've seen it in action working pulling a reefer trailer, it's impressive.

There must have been around 200 trucks on display there yesterday and the nice thing about this show is it's all for fun no prizes no competition just a bunch of guys showing their old trucks and just socializing. I hope to get my Superliner up there next year.

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