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it had a second axle but i had the chop it off the put it under a heavy object during my move, money is always a bit short so i couldnt buy one for the purpose i needed, so i looked around and found the second drive axle off of this knowing the restoration wok will commence over time

Loving the way you think :)

that was a generous and helpful action on your behalf.

maybe that is why ive been such a downer on the industry lately :/ but i cant say thats all the fault o thier own, where is a person supposed to learn the old way if nobody has any examples to teach with?

You are absolutely correct, I'm 70 and I was running 48 states as an 0/0 at the age of 23,in a 1977 white road commander cab over. Have a good day

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Thanks for the thumbs up! Brightens the day to see it.

the last three years have been a decline in general as far as profit vs cost as the cost of tires, fuel and oils are higher, and the average rate per mile has been on the decrease. so yes, poor timing there. However, what i was mainly getting after is when i was an owner op, running one truck, my time investment to monetary pay out, so lets say dollar per hour was higher, as the was one truck to maintain, and a company i was leased to took on the majority of the paperwork. so my dollar per hour was better. the startup is always tough, which is something that i dont feel is generally talked about enough. nobody told me how many times you gotta hit your head against the brick wall before you "win" so to speak. many drivers i had talked to who were independant had been in it over 15 years so they mentioned the most recent 10 years (which sounded not easy but reasonable) and neglected to mention the first 5. as a company driver, you hop in a truck, you drive, you go home, the company handles all maintenance and paperwork (invoicing, payroll, ifta, etc) so you are either on the clock or you are going home. if you pull the trigger and run the show, you generally end up doing the book keeping, dispatching and such at one section of the day, you might go out on the occasional run here or there, but keeping drivers happy is a 24-7 on call job, if one of my guys blows a tire at 3 AM on a sunday, i answer the phone, if i got someone who hits a deer at midnight in iowa, its time to load up the gear and head on a roadtrip, yes, i am aware inmany cases like a blown tire it is obviously more economical to use a tire shop, so i dont have to go on that adventure, but someone will still need my payment details. so in a long way of saying, dollar made for me personally vs my hours invested i was more profitable when it was just me. that is not to say there isnt joy to be had in my little community, because i absolutely enjoy those i work with, its a joy, its a lifestyle so to speak, but it isnt nearly the "dream" i had previously believed monetarily speaking. which may have been naive or may have been because i missunderstood or was mislead, but I am attempting to show the good, bad or just simply how a guy feels on a random given day

@@Pirateshiplabs very well put! I hope you get thru to that "easier beyond the start up" part soon! I didn't do trucking but I did do managing and having a good team is so important, if you have that already then you are already a step ahead of most!

being as i have found no evidence of a primer pump of any sort, fill the filter full, and fire it up, usually within the first 10 seconds of running it does a little cough and then goes just fine. its been over 200k miles worth of maintenance with no issues thus far. in my experience, cummins motors are not nearly as particular as cat motors about being truly "primed"

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always a joy to help, If theres anything you run into on the cummins feel free to ask in a comment or shoot an email, if i have an answer to the problem i'll do what i can to show an answer

thank you so much, the plan is to pretty it up all the way down to a new frame, but until that is ready I cant help but to play a little during the process

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Thank you, I think of it as therapy. when the check engine light comes on in the new stuff I remember there was a time when there was no check engine light lol

I'm betting it makes you very content to have learned in old iron rather than in modern "comforts". many good skills are lost due to modern equipment "babysitting" the driver.

tell me about it lol. this year is terrible on that front.

I'm sorry to hear that, it can be very hard to manage the motivation to save them after a run-away. Very glad you did save them though, the younger generation could very much use seeing that once upon a time things were built with a bit of style and not just a gray, white, or black cookie cutter vehicle.

I think we can all agree old machines are just fun.

I'm open to ideas for it. The first thing I'd like to do is see it move under its own power just for fun. The next question will be, should it have a stretched frame, or like a 240 wheelbase, a fifth wheel plate? toter body? tow body? a flat deck that dumps like a UTV? I'm guessing this is the issue most others have when taking on a project, which direction to take when you have many ideas and only so much time or parts.

@@Pirateshiplabs Probably make a nice single axle wrecker with something like a 650 Holmes on it. What engine? Is it a PT pump on it? Being 1940's it might still have the disc type pump on it. Whatever you do make sure it's primed well and never let it run dry if it's the disc pump. Probably want to add some lube to the modern fuel if it's a disc. ATF is what I use

i also use atf, i do have a wrecker body im thinking about putting on it. its a small 190 horse cummins naturally aspirated diesel. yes to the PT pump, which is alright by me since they are relatively straightforward to understand. i also have a 90's model Pete frame and axles that it can be put on as the frame it currently has is well rusted out and the steer axle is old enough to not have brakes, considering i do want this to be legal and functional when im done it will need a slight amount of modernizing to pass an annual DOT inspection.

@@Pirateshiplabs You know up until about 1990 we almost never had steering axle brakes on tractors. There were cut off dates for production that didn't require them, and there was a 1977 date that even tractors that were produced with brakes could have them removed. But you had to say you removed them before the 1977 date. Now I never see stuff without brakes, so I haven't read the law in years. “(1) The service brakes shall act on all wheels upon application except for the following:” 67 Pa. Code § 175.94 (iii) The steering axle of a truck or truck-tractor having three or more axles was manufactured before July 25, 1980. The steering axle of truck or truck-tractor having three or more axles manufactured between July 24, 1980 and October 27, 1986 shall be equipped with functioning service brakes not later than February 26, 1988. I'll have to read into it more and check federal regulations, they don't always agree. Is the frame rotted up front, or just behind the cab?

i do know that production dates create exemptions on the current law. that being said, i do like having extra stopping power. the frame is mostly from behind the cab and back i believe, but ill be crawling up and down the unit this week. had to schedule in some spare time to see if the motor will even start as it has been a yard decoration for me for the last 8 years and then after selling that property and moving it hit me that id like to see if it was a waste of 4 hours with a tow truck or not lol

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