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Sounds like she had a tough life, DO NOT even think of driving her home until you KNOW that the brakes are OK, and she builds/holds air, I would STRONGLY suggest that you have her TOWED home, there are about 100 reasons why. 11 miles is no different then 1111 miles if a event happens.

I lead the rebirth of Swiss's 55 m62, we gave up on the vacuum governors (really 1 with 2 different controls), both the one on the power divider and the one on the distributor, we could not keep the engine running due to the rear one that had MANY vacuum leaks, so the lines to that were cut and...

One of the HIGHLIGHTS of my life is being allowed to get to know the PROUD, hands on, learning the story of the PROUD and why it was built, getting to know how great and good a MAN the builder is AND being able to call him a FRIEND, and also being allowed to drive the PROUD for a very short time...

Also a working metal temp gauge/sender, looks do not matter as long as it works and the lens is clear. NO PLASTIC CRAP

These older spicier trans can be found in OLD big truck junk yards, yards that keep EVERYTHING forever., it is going to be real hard stuffing a newer trans in because most will be to long, to wide, and the pto is on the bottom.

These mods were done for North COUNTY Sand & Gravel and other companies that I worked for in CA., most mods were 1/2/3 mods, to many different boxes to have a standard mod plan, just look at the box linkage, work it out in your head, mod. Yes on keeping the manual dump lever, this was used when...

Over size tires are a power/clutch KILLER You can put in a twin disk clutch, just hard to fine for the fit. Ideally you could drop the crap trans and install a OLD 8/10 spd. spicier, it is a narrow trans with the pto on the side like what is in the truck has now, the newer ones are a flat...

Looking for a 939 steering wheel, does not have to be new, just no cracks.

I have done a bunch of civi trucks, full air and full air/manual. That would be EASY to do, does not take a lot of air psi, all it takes is a little thought, and would NOT affect the duel action tailgate use.

A twin and a tri stick is what I learned to drive a BIG REAL truck, not a WANT-A-BE truck with a auto trans,. 36 gears behind a 200 Cummins or a DD 671 = 3 sticks, this was what was needed for a heavy haul truck, and at times NO PS but some had clutch assist because the clutches were BIG double...

I have been shifting like this for years since I lost my last clutch, just got around to posting about it, in fact I "think" I have posted before on this, but in case not I posted .

For you that have HEAVY 39/809 series 5ts (wreckers, ect.,) here is a BETTER way to shift to save the clutch. As you KNOW the trans suck especially the overdrive, though the non-overdrive is not much better. The wreckers are close to the 36,000 lb. mark, loaded can be a easy 60,000, the trans...

So far I found the picture was in a apple based email by way of a link, the F en link is no longer good thanks to POS apple, still looking for places I could have saved to.

If it is leaking from the trans air valve air vent (the center teed ports between the two air valves) when out of reverse, the tc air piston is leaking air from the neutral/forward position to the reverse side, then to the trans TC air vent. The fix is, 1-- put a bunch of air tool oil in the...

TO TIGHT, if was not hot before repack.

IF you ATTACH anything to the working cable of a crane/wrecker, the rig down to get into WORKING MODE is greatly SLOWED down, when time is important, this slow down is VERY important. Needed NOW can not happen if things are attached to the working cable, where NOW can happen if a auxiliary...

A 55 gal. barrel with a 2x8 across it works REAL well, the OE part is VERY easy to bend and even a dropped bucket if the detached bucket is bumped hard enough.

The POW/MIA flag is rigged on a rope that has a hook at one end, this hook kooks on the outer edge at the end of the boom, the pentle gets the live end which is secured by a truckers knot, the flag and rigging stays together, just release the knot, pop the hook off, the 819 is ready for work...

YES somewhere, guess a hunt and pounce mission is needed.

I fly about 3x4 flags off the m819, most of the time I fly a POW/MIA rigged from the boom tip to the pintle going down the road if I am not pulling something or on the hook, the flags I fly when the boom is all the way up/out is the AMERICAN flag, then POW/MIA, then DO NOT TREAD ON ME. BELIEVE...