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    Oil service

    We run 8k miles with rotella 15w40 and oem oil filters.
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    Heavy Haul Lowboy Tractor RD 822s

    Not much on the road will out pull an E9. Just wouldnt want to front the bill for a rebuild should it ever need it. Thats one nice lookin truck, that should be great for a heavy lowboy. Plenty of power, good strong trans, good driveline. With that big motor i would worry about breaking u joints...
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    allis chalmers year model

    Maybe its an HD5 then i cant quite remember. So the detroit powered AC's are the oldest ones then?
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    allis chalmers year model

    A friend of mine has an HD6G trackloader and its got a 2-71 detroit in it.
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    John deere 440 problem

    a buddy of mine has a jd 440 track loader. Its got a 2-53 detroit in it and we were runnin it over the weekend and a pipe got jammed in the track and took the pump off the motor. The bracket that bolts to the block broke, and since the bracket is a block off for an oil feed line we cant run the...
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    TD25 - What's it worth?

    No, falcon excavating out of north jersey. If you were in north jersey 5-10 years ago you would know them, he used to be real big but now hes real small.
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    TD25 - What's it worth?

    I belive the farmalls with the planetary reduction were call torque amplifieing. That must be nice having that much control of the track speed individualy
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    Old dozer for wrenchbender and KoO.

    Farmall(made by IH) made a lot of tractors like that. You walk on one side of the tractor theres a distributor, walk around the other side theres an injection pump. Those were cool old tractors.
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    TD25 - What's it worth?

    At the company where my dad used to work they had a TD25 not sure of the letter and on the same job they had a newer D8, Mid 90's or so. The guys got a little bored and put them blade to blade and pushed. The TD pushed the D8 backwards like nothing. I just cant belive they didnt break anything...
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    West Kern Oil Museum

    That yellow mack is nice. I belive thats an A model but please correct me if im wrong. That stuff is in nice shape compared to how it would over here. Stuff 10 years old is rotted out worse than those trucks
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    pics of the used and forgotten

    I love all those old pics. A buddy of mine just recently picked up an AC HD5G Im pretty sure its a 5 but it may be a 6. Its got a 2-71 detroit in it. Paid 750 for it and it runs great and everything works good. That was one hell of a deal.
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