1996 Pete with a 3412

[Mark T]

[Joseph Cummings]

4 minutes ago, Mark T said:

I was getting vertigo

[mowerman]

1 hour ago, Mark T said:

That baby'd move a set of Fedex doubles I bet.

Yeah man you know it 

[mowerman]

I’d probably still be working lol

[Joseph Cummings]

7 minutes ago, mowerman said:

I’d probably still be working lol

I wonder what doubles would be like at triple digit speeds lol

[Geoff Weeks]

19 minutes ago, Joseph Cummings said:

I wonder what doubles would be like at triple digit speeds lol

Well, you see officer, I can tow 6 trailers at 120 mph and they'll take up the same space that 2 do at 55 mph!

[Joseph Cummings]

22 minutes ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Well, you see officer, I can tow 6 trailers at 120 mph and they'll take up the same space that 2 do at 55 mph!

I was thinking at some speed, the wind buffeting, the speed of the tires rotating, and the frequency because of the short length of the converter dolly, and a few other things would be timed just right and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Poor Joe is dead, if only we had loaded the gaylord full of rubber dicks in front of the pallet of Kotex pads. I'm sure it wouldn't have gotten all crazy unstable like it did

Edited Wednesday at 01:23 AM by Joseph Cummings

[mowerman]

I’ve taken this one around 90 miles an hour downhill a few times it’s surprising if you’ve got a set that’s not pulling that straight you go flying down a hill and all that wind resistance seems to hold everything a little straighter

[mowerman]

But sometimes you can go flying off the hill and all of a sudden the back one starts swinging like mad and you’re scared that it’s gonna flip over and you’re afraid to touch anything even the brakes and prior to dropping up the hill, it was pulling straight as a narrow. That’s the weird part.

[Geoff Weeks]

1 hour ago, mowerman said:

But sometimes you can go flying off the hill and all of a sudden the back one starts swinging like mad and you’re scared that it’s gonna flip over and you’re afraid to touch anything even the brakes and prior to dropping up the hill, it was pulling straight as a narrow. That’s the weird part.

Ideally, you'd want to be able to apply the rear trailer brakes alone, but that is not possible.

I've towed some steerables where you had 120' or more of air line between the tractor and the trailer brakes, and the delay in both applying and releasing was enough to get you into trouble if you didn't account for it.

[mowerman]

That’s just creepy downhill you don’t have a whole lot of choices like you said air hits the first box doesn’t help you at all

[mowerman]

Frankly, I’m glad I’m done with all that all I gotta do now is worry about getting the DM out of my yard ha ha

[Joseph Cummings]

LOL

[Joey Mack]

I wonder why the turbo is partly disassembled in first pictures.? Just curious,

 

I meant the pics in the post not facebook...

Edited yesterday at 02:58 PM by Joey Mack
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[67RModel]

Was a 3412 ever available as a factory option from any manufacturer for an on-road truck? I doubt it but don't really know for sure. 

[Geoff Weeks]

In my mind, there is no good argument for anything bigger than the K Cummins and that is a hard sell to justify. V 12 and V16  92 series or V8 Cat are just money pits. The K Cummins carries a huge fuel economy penalty, rarely seeing over 3.5 MPG from the guys I knew that had them. If your hauling light enough to get more, you don't need them, and working hard they drank fuel.

Lowest I got with my Big Cam 4 was 3.75 working very hard.

[Joseph Cummings]

Damn somebody outbid me. LOL Think I should go for 20K?

[Joseph Cummings]

1 hour ago, 67RModel said:

Was a 3412 ever available as a factory option from any manufacturer for an on-road truck? I doubt it but don't really know for sure. 

Not really. This one was built by Mining Machinery at their own shop after Mack and Carter Cat refused to do it

[Joey Mack]

J.C.,  I know I would be proud to own it, of course i aint wealthy enough to keep it going.  Anyway, heck, why not bid for it. If anyone can keep it in good shape its you..

[Joseph Cummings]

8 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

J.C.,  I know I would be proud to own it, of course i aint wealthy enough to keep it going.  Anyway, heck, why not bid for it. If anyone can keep it in good shape its you..

I was actually thinking the 2412 would have to go. I'd take it out and sell it to someone that needed it for a big articulated loader, or a crusher something like that. Then put something more realistic in it like a 3408 or a KT Cummins in it.

But I don't think it's going to go for the kinda numbers I'd want to pay. I'll bet the reserve is over 50

[Joseph Cummings]

Well I'm high but still under reserve

 

[Mark T]

24 minutes ago, Joseph Cummings said:

I was actually thinking the 2412 would have to go. I'd take it out and sell it to someone that needed it for a big articulated loader, or a crusher something like that. Then put something more realistic in it like a 3408 or a KT Cummins in it.

But I don't think it's going to go for the kinda numbers I'd want to pay. I'll bet the reserve is over 50

So if I see it over The Shaft, don't wonder why there's an engine with polished valve covers 🤔  

[Joseph Cummings]

51 minutes ago, Mark T said:

So if I see it over The Shaft, don't wonder why there's an engine with polished valve covers 🤔  

LMAO

Bet it wouldn't stay pretty long. 

You should have seen Franklin Smelting / MDC Industries in Philly. Copper refining and sold the slag for abrasives. Dust everywhere that was not only abrasive, but electrically conductive. They had a big A Car dump in there with SUDD rears and I put 2 cabs on it in 3 months. Electrical fire burned the first one off of it, and like 2 months later I pull up to my shop and it's sitting on the street with the cab burned off it again. "Hey can you get another Cab? We parked it too close to the smelter"

I put at least 2 motors in that truck too. The conductive dust would build up on top of the batteries, and drain them overnight. So they used lots of ether. And they always punched holes in the air cleaner duct to spray ether in. The did that to all their equipment. Made Shaft look like NASA

Edited yesterday at 05:36 PM by Joseph Cummings

[Joey Mack]

J.C.  swapping engines sounds right to me.. im not familiar with a 3408 Cat. How does it compare to a 3406 E. I worked on a '99,,W-900 with a 3406.  It was easy to work on, and when i drove it, it was smooth and i could feel good power, it had a 13 spd. .

[Joseph Cummings]

5 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

J.C.  swapping engines sounds right to me.. im not familiar with a 3408 Cat. How does it compare to a 3406 E. I worked on a '99,,W-900 with a 3406.  It was easy to work on, and when i drove it, it was smooth and i could feel good power, it had a 13 spd. .

This truck used to belong to my friend Jimmy, (J&J transport) he used it to haul large transformers. He had an O/O working for him that had one in a 77 W900 KW. They were both pretty impressive trucks. Big twin countershaft Spicer 4 speed aux trans in them too. And they were all mechanical injection, so easy to turn up a bit.