There are a very few good things about today's trucks.But the older trucks were defiantly tougher.I wish for a frame,suspension and drive train from the ...70`s?
With a cab from today.
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When Religion ruled the world , they called it the dark ages...
Don Farr
Roswell NM 88203
D-farr AT cableone DOT net
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On 4 Sep 2006 01:55:04 GMT,
[email protected] (Bruce Burden) wrote:
>Lon <[email protected]> wrote:
>:
>: Ahh, the good old days of building a freaking fire under your oil pan so
>: you could get "reliable" old betsy to cough a few times before the
>: frozen battery gave you the rest of the good news.
>:
> And the 90/120 in the tranny/transfer case, or the
> 150w gear oil in the diffs.
>
> You also neglected to mention the wonderful frozen
> bias ply tires.
>
> Yep, the good ol days. When single piston master cylinders
> meant that blown real wheel brake cylinder took all of your
> brakes.
>
> Bruce
They started dual brake systems around 1970 and foreign cars had it
sooner. As fars as bias ply tires, I still use them today in a 10 ply
studded form on my plow trucks. Never found a radial that will grip as
well in snow service nor take the beating those tires can. A few
winters ago I found these to guys out on a county road when I was
headed to a snow job that were contract plowers that were also headed
to another site. One truck was a new CTD with a plow and ballast and
the other was a GM Dmax with a plow and a bed mounted spreader. The GM
had gone into the ditch badly and the CTD could bearly move hime let
alone get him out. I told them that I could get them out for 75 bucks
real quick and they looked at me like I was crazy but said sure you
can try. On the first atempt I drug him backwards about 30 feet before
it became obvious that it would not climb out of ditch that way. Next
I hitched on to front of truck in ditch on a short pull at a angle to
try to get heavy front end back up on raod as it was acting like a
anchor with spreader in rear too. I snugged up the tow line and after
about 10 seconds of an little spining and getting a bite it poped it
right on to road. Needless to say they were shocked because my lowely
gas power 1 ton SRW with bias ply tires had save their cookies. I
still like the old truck because there is nothing to go wrong with
them, no shift on the fly or electric 4x4 control to go bad when you
need it the most. You can have the new one as I have likely bought my
last new one as they are more car than anything today. BTW I have
dealt with some really cold weather, wel below 40 below but never had
much trouble because I was ptrpated for it with light lubes and in
extreme cold I would thin them more (engine oil, tranny, Tcase and
power steering) with a bit of kerosene as it did wonders the kero
would evaporate out on them when it got hot but it helpded a lot
trying to get a automatic to work well at minus 40. One winter I
forgot to plug in my olf jeep truck that i used for plowing and though
I did not really need it that day I want to see if it would start at
38 below and it did first try after a few seconds of cranking because
it had light lubes in it. New truck have more creature comforts but
there is a LOT more to go wrong with them.
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