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  1. Crummy

    2005 Peterbilt 378 Wiring Issue

    Did you flip the tach/speedo panel and check the grounds on the bulkhead stud?
  2. Crummy

    Crazy truck prices

    I ended up with the '05 project looking for a roller skeleton for the '76 project. The '76 is a dump lay-over, that frame will go into the steel borrow pile. When I was at the dismantlers getting the cab/hood they had a late year test truck (never wrecked) rolling skeleton super dump 6-axle (3...
  3. Crummy

    Crazy truck prices

    Buying an older rig these days is like buying an un-packed parachute- better be savvy to what you're getting into or the result will be the same.
  4. Crummy

    Crazy truck prices

    I've already got stupid offers on the one I'm doing, but not stupid enough. Yet. The thing I've found currently is the unavailability of some OEM/aftermarket general parts, like the old POS air HVAC controller for pre-'02 PACCAR. A fellow is pretty much SOL on that- I found one new for $640 and...
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    Crazy truck prices

    The quarry job kind of took over. Helping now and then to 5am ring ring "HELP!!" I just found out big contract came through and going through the winter now. The thing about crushing basalt is everything mechanical separates into pieces suddenly or violently continuously. That and the owner...
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    Crazy truck prices

    I'm doing one this winter- '05 T800 253k for real miles, 475 Cat, factory 4 axle 14..6/12/46 on Chalmers, severe service, 24.5 all aluminum.... Got it with a smashed cab and clean title. Went to Spokane a couple weeks ago and got a hood/cab grill to rear window mirror to mirror complete. In the...
  7. Crummy

    large collection in Tacoma will be sold soon, stop by and check it out before it goes

    Good 'ol WOFSCO. I was buying from them before they moved down to the grocery store. Sitting on the stool reading the log truck paper waiting.... Best filter and hose shop ever back in the day.
  8. Crummy

    BCIII Cummins Rebuild.

    1301A's, grill chrome are probably worth that. Good headliner definitely worth it.
  9. Crummy

    Grizzly Trucks

    A few years ago (like 40!) I was looking for a bellhousing for my mustang. Friend said "my brother probably has one". We drove to Marysville, WA from Whidbey Island and his brother says "yeah, let's go look in the barn" Huge dirt floor barn, FULL of Fords- one whole wall lined up with Boss...
  10. Crummy

    Memories for us old truckers

    I'm hoping something turns up private sale, I'm in no hurry. Somewhere someone has what I can use with a squashed cab sitting behind the shop.
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    Memories for us old truckers

    My fall/winter project. The box is going on the '67. I'm thinking put it together as a tractor, pull the cab work on it in the shop, give Holst a call for a skeleton 18/20k front 46k Chalmers/Primaxx, 18sp....
  12. Crummy

    Any brand log trucks

    East of Kooskia.
  13. Crummy

    Any brand log trucks

    My plan of taking it easy went horribly awry. Almost full time at the quarry, plus got the shop put together and seems everybody wants something done. And running the 'ol dump truck, hay season.... I picked up a '76 W900, haven't even had time to work on it. I guess I'm collecting A models now.
  14. Crummy

    Any brand log trucks

    Lots of trucks down the hill at my place. Heli been really active, too. I don't know if anyone is making any money, but they're tipping a lot of trees over.
  15. Crummy

    D8H

    When we were fighting with the hydraulic shop we swapped the lines- if it was the control valve it should have done the same thing but opposite directions, but same result, pull back down & hold push forward up and then drop, so cylinders.
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    D8H

    Hydraulic shop was positive it wasn't their work and it was something else. We lifted the blade, held it up with the 980, capped the cylinders and let down with the loader- psssssshhhhh right to the ground.
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    D8H

    I just had that happen a couple of months ago after a complete lift cylinder rebuild (D8H)- it would lift blade WOT but drop down unless lever held back, down would hold up fine. Back to hydraulic shop- some QD valve/hole in cylinder [piston] messed up they did something (I think welded up?) and...
  18. Crummy

    Has anyone ever traded work for anything other than money?

    You know George too!
  19. Crummy

    Has anyone ever traded work for anything other than money?

    I'm doing it now at the quarry. What's the point of him writing me a check for my work and then me giving him the money back for rock I need.
  20. Crummy

    The perfect 10/10 for dozer diving

    Any machine I ever had would have immediately fallen over because the hydraulics bled off right quick and/or blasted one side of the angle cylinder lines and taco'd the other. Built Cat tough.
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