1996 Pete with a 3412

[Mark T]

1 hour ago, Joseph Cummings said:

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

I think there's a 992 (E ?) over there engineless. I'll buy the transmissions and shifters if you wanna lose those too .

[Joseph Cummings]

6 minutes ago, Mark T said:

transmissions

The 1241 Spicer is about my favorite part of the truck lol.

Just curious, do you know any Evans, Yeagers or Rouchys from Mountaintop? Evans moved to Philly and opened a truck salvage. Yeager went to Morrisville and Hauled steel out of the Fairless Works, and Kenny Rouchey (SP) dealt in truck junk around Haz W-B area for years. They were all related. There was another one Poor George (George Smith) he was another relative that moved to Morrisville to haul Steel

[Mark T]

4 hours ago, Joseph Cummings said:

The 1241 Spicer is about my favorite part of the truck lol.

Just curious, do you know any Evans, Yeagers or Rouchys from Mountaintop? Evans moved to Philly and opened a truck salvage. Yeager went to Morrisville and Hauled steel out of the Fairless Works, and Kenny Rouchey (SP) dealt in truck junk around Haz W-B area for years. They were all related. There was another one Poor George (George Smith) he was another relative that moved to Morrisville to haul Steel

Not familiar with any of those names.  

[Mark T]

5 hours 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. .

I'd pay to see the look on your face the first time you ever saw a crankshaft from a 3408 🤣

[Geoff Weeks]

11 minutes ago, Mark T said:

I'd pay to see the look on your face the first time you ever saw a crankshaft from a 3408 🤣

or the price of one!

[Joseph Cummings]

22 minutes ago, Mark T said:

Not familiar with any of those names.  

Yeah that was pretty long ago. They all left Mountaintop in the 1950's except for Kenny Rouchey. I know he was still in Mountaintop in the 1990's They were all sort of half azzed friends with Sonny

[Mark T]

10 minutes ago, Joseph Cummings said:

Yeah that was pretty long ago. They all left Mountaintop in the 1950's except for Kenny Rouchey. I know he was still in Mountaintop in the 1990's They were all sort of half azzed friends with Sonny

I'm 58.  Never really got around that area until the early '90s.  Only thing I ever was involved with down below was hauling into Luciano's for a couple years.

[Joseph Cummings]

31 minutes ago, Mark T said:

I'd pay to see the look on your face the first time you ever saw a crankshaft from a 3408 🤣

Or something like this Wärtsilä- Sulzer RTA

 

[Joseph Cummings]

4 minutes ago, Mark T said:

I'm 58.  Never really got around that area until the early '90s.  Only thing I ever was involved with down below was hauling into Luciano's for a couple years.

In Tullytown? Did you know Kasperitis? He was always in there, he had equipment parked in their yard. Kasperitis used to have a junkyard in Croydon Pa. They were using a crane mounted on an AC Mack I think well into the 80's

[tjc transport]

18 minutes ago, Joseph Cummings said:

Or something like this Wärtsilä- Sulzer RTA

 

is that the engine with the 3 foot across pistons, 8 foot stroke, and 110,000 HP at 102 RPM? 

[Mark T]

8 minutes ago, Joseph Cummings said:

In Tullytown? Did you know Kasperitis? He was always in there, he had equipment parked in their yard. Kasperitis used to have a junkyard in Croydon Pa. They were using a crane mounted on an AC Mack I think well into the 80's

I was there late '90s. Used to go down and then come back up across the street from your shop.

[Joseph Cummings]

5 hours ago, tjc transport said:

is that the engine with the 3 foot across pistons, 8 foot stroke, and 110,000 HP at 102 RPM? 

Yeah something crazy like that. There was a low RPM version at one time that turned like 94 RPM or something lol.

There was a guy in Longmont Co that made fuel injection parts and he also did custom orders, like if you wanted to change the cam profile, or the barrel and plunger diameter, nozzle spray pattern, etc.. I got to talking to him one day probably 30 years ago and he told me he made parts for a Sulzer RTA. Three injectors per cylinder, and when he machined the tips, he got almost 20 pounds of chips from each one. Back then they were all optimized for 4 bunker fuel, \now within so many miles of shoreline they have to burn #2 so I'm sure things have changed a bit, Although the 4 was preheated to reduce the viscosity for a better atomization so maybe not

 

[tjc transport]

Many years ago there was an OLD back then asphalt plant in town. Built back in the 20's and only fit small single axle trucks under it.

It too was heated with #4 fuel.

If I remember correctly they had to keep it at least 100 degrees to pump the fuel out of the tank and around 160 for it to burn clean.

[mowerman]

21 hours 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. .

I ran one a short while years ago was a pulling SOB very impressive compared to the C 60s the rest of our fleet had 

[Joseph Cummings]

Someone else has the ball. I got to look into paying the FET before I go much farther. I got kinda banged up on a really nice truck before, Older and no miles, but only had a manufacturer's certificate of origin. If I remember right I had to pay full FET based on the price when new

 

[tjc transport]

my bet is it will not sell due to a ridiculous high reserve price.

[Joseph Cummings]

4 hours ago, tjc transport said:

Many years ago there was an OLD back then asphalt plant in town. Built back in the 20's and only fit small single axle trucks under it.

It too was heated with #4 fuel.

If I remember correctly they had to keep it at least 100 degrees to pump the fuel out of the tank and around 160 for it to burn clean.

Yeah some of those older plants and a lot of large boilers ran on #5 and #6. That stuff was almost like tar. 4,5,and 6 has to be injected into the boiler with either compressed air or steam to get it to atomize. You can't high pressure atomize it like how a home oil burner does.

Waste oil heaters do the same thing, they preheat, and then air atomize. BTW you can get an air atomizing nozzle and adaptor from Delvan for a regular home heating oil gun. but it takes a few more modifications and equipment to get it all to work well burning waste oil

[tjc transport]

the plant owner told me when he bought the place it was run on 6 oil, but he converted to 4 oil because it was cheaper overall to use. 

when they took it apart to scrap, they found all kinds of OLD tools that were dropped in the tanks and abandoned.