Outbehindthebarn

The installation instructions said to install in the cab first. . . but I kinda agree with you, I got further getting it started with the vent first. As tight as the fit is, I may just forgo the locking strip! (not really)

Thanks for the support/sympathy.... Franklin is only 80 miles away, what are you doing tomorrow?!

Yes the vent is the same size, but the gasket seems slightly larger. I wrestled with it for an hour yesterday. . . had me completely flabbergasted. When I try to fit the vent into the gasket (its already fitting into the cab roof) it just keeps popping out. I get it lined up on one corner, and as soon as I'm not looking it rolls right back out.

I've never done one of those either.....

Last time I was in the hospital I told my nurse she looked tired, and that she was welcome to lay down.

Wish I would've just done that instead of paying $100+ for a vent that I can't seem to fit in...

I can't even begin to get the vent started in the rubber molding. I used OB lube and everything. Its just an absolute nightmare. Is this a two man operation???? I get a corner started, and as soon as I try to move along it pops back out and I'm back to square one.

HELLLLP. How in God's name do you re-install this bleeping roof vent?

God I hope that isn't contagious.

Good one.

http://louisville.craigslist.org/hvd/5288394391.html

KS, what are you doing up at 2:30AM posting on BMT?

$27000.00

Been on Craigslist for at least a month too.

Was that a Mack-specific curve on the exhaust outlet? I've seen several like that on Macks. . . can't say I've seen one anywhere else. Pretty amazing you can still get those new????

Rowdy< I just figured out that SoIL is Southern IL.... .... I thought you lived where there is good soil, you know, dirt?

He had a basement FULL of farm toys on display too. Needless to say, to a 10 year-old he had it ALL!

http://marshallsfh.com/category/obituaries-condolences/ Charlie (T.C., for TopCat) Baird passed away yesterday. T.C. was a quite a local trucking personality. Our farm is directly across from the former "Tri-Farmers International" farm equipment dealership, of which he was a 1/3 owner. I remember racing to the front yard signaling for him to blow the air horn when I was hub high to a budd wheel. He would wash his K100 on Saturday afternoons at the shop. Never without his Pall Mall non-filtered 100's, T.C. was known for giving rides leaving the riders with stories to tell: A girl I dated in high school, her dad rode with T.C when he was young. He always told a story about hauling fluffy steel turnings with T.C., when they made a turn in town a gob of the turnings rolled off the top of the dump trailer onto a parked car in Zelienople... T.C. always claimed he saw nothing, and trucked on. Running late, he once requisition Ab for a nighttime run to Boston after having driven all day, T.C. slept on the doghouse while Ab tried to find the 'sweet spot' of the K100 that didn't vibrate the cab. . . T.C., dead tired, declared while still hunched over "A.J., speed up, slow down, or get out. . ." He was brusque as he was kind. One blistering summer day, he stopped at neighbor Albert (Abby, A.J., Ab) Leech's, himself a local trucking legend (running single axel gasser IH's 'til '99) with a load of watermelons, where he promptly tossed a few melons off the truck where he, Ab, and a handful of kids enjoyed a cool treat in the shade of his 40ft Fruehauf. They were always great stories, and I heard them several times. . . time marches on.

My dear departed old trucker buddy would say, "Lad, them tannums' look cambered. . ."

Best explanation I've ever read.

Not to hijack the thread (although its related). My Super with E9 has an engine brake.... are they controlled through the governor housing only? Or did they also come with a switch on the clutch pedal?

How about that exhaust....

That is KOOL. I dig the orange steelies w/ chrome caps

I was looking at a '75 RL700L with a factory two stick 12 speed in it.... it also has a V8.... badge on it calls it a Maxidyne.... shouldn't it be a Thermodyne?

The cut-outs were just for muffler fitment. . . if you go with straights no need for cut-outs correct?