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    Old Kenworth 849 tach not working.

    This is what it looks like, and what it looks like in the bell housing. This one is above the starter, but it also has another hole below the starter, common for them to go bad, couldn't get them out and just drilled a new hole. I think the hole is tapped 3/4 fine thread. If I remember right...
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    Cummins PT fuel pumps

    Thanks for catching me on that kshansen. Its been about 25 years since I had the compressor and fuel pump off my big cam, and you are right. The big cam also has to have the accessory drive timed off the camshaft, just like the old small cams. I never had the front off of mine before. But I...
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    Cummins PT fuel pumps

    No timing for the pump to the engine, it just pumps fuel for the engine and timing is done thru the camshaft with rockers for the injectors, next to the rockers for the valves. You can probably put a 400 pump on a 350, but there are small changes inside the pump, a "button" that meters the...
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    Transmission for 1986 S1954 IH

    I used to haul a lot of fork lifts around, and the ones they used in lumber yards had something on them we called a micro-lock, press on the pedal and flip the switch and the hydraulic brakes would stay on as a parking brake. Here is their website...
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    Class A license med cert and eye test

    That sounds about like the schedule I had for drops after the surgery, 3 bottles if I remember right, 4 times a day, but the surgeries were a week apart, so I had a heck of a time remembering which eye got what at what time of the day. After a month I was off all of those, but now I am on 3...
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    Class A license med cert and eye test

    Glad to hear the second one came out well. for you. Keep an "eye" on it and if you notice any changes at all call them back. I went back to the specialist on Friday to check on the inflammation that has been giving me problems for the last 9 months and he said it is completely gone. but he still...
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    Class A license med cert and eye test

    yes it is amazing how far technology has progressed. I had never heard the story of the fire in Halifax, but I can believe the outcome. I always knew I would need cataract surgery, my dad had to have both eyes done and he was younger than me. And when he had his first one done it was a new...
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    Class A license med cert and eye test

    The place I went was an eye care specialist group. They have about 10 specialists that work there, and do all sorts of different surgical work from basic lasik and cataract surgery to specialized retinal surgery. They are one of the top notch places to go in southern Maine, I guess I just...
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    Class A license med cert and eye test

    When I went in to the surgeon 5 weeks ago for the "cloudy" eye, he took a photo of the inflamed eye too and he said the inflammation is all gone now, but we'll see what the "specialist" says this Friday. I am at the point where I expect them to say the inflammation is gone but me vision won't...
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    Class A license med cert and eye test

    RZucker, glad that things have gone so well for you so far. I had both of my eyes done last October. I was very near sighted, wore glasses for 58 years, since I was 8 years old. They did my right eye first and I could not believe that my vision was so clear the first morning after the surgery...
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    Jump Starting Equipment

    Lightning does weird stuff and it doesn't have to hit something to mess it up. A few years back I was running the shop for a construction company and we had put in a computer card system on the gas and diesel pumps to track fuel in the vehicles. The company that installed it was giving me a hard...
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    Where is Nige????

    Hey Nige, I just went thru hernia surgery 2 weeks ago. I laid on the sofa for 2 days, only way I could get comfortable, but couldn't take it anymore. I got up to walk around, which they recommend, and of course wound up in the shop, started cleaning up tools and moving parts around and felt a...
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    MICHIGAN 175 A SERIES 2

    My Wix book say 51136, cartridge filter, would be a NAPA 1136. 9 inches high, 4.31 OD, 1.45 ID gEORGE
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    TD14 won't start on gas and no fire at plugs

    If the lever is in the gas position and the mag wire is still grounded, then the switch in the front of the manifold might not have flipped all the way over, this is caused by the shaft going thru the manifold getting sticky. Look up behind the carb and you will see a "V" piece of metal and a...
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    Lube or not to Lube

    I used to use white lithium grease. George
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