jeeper61
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Hard to find decent help these days none of the young want to work that type of job, those jobs are below them
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Yes to all 3 I could get rubber on the 1-2 shift with my 250 I-6 Nova 3 on the tree, my 1st car I did every low cost hop up on that 250 six, two barrel carb, recurved distributor, MSD box, more initial timing, turbo muffler and taller air filter.
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The 405 was the big dog of International’s early-1950s highway lineup: an Emeryville-built diesel tractor rated for 64,000 pounds gross combination weight. Order the Cummins NH or supercharged NHR diesels, or a massive Hall-Scott gas or butane engine, and the truck got a factory-stretched nose with an oversized grille to keep it cool on heavy West Coast mountain hauls. In the model codes, a “D” meant diesel and an “F” meant tandem rear axles, so an LD-405 was a diesel and an LFD-405 was a diesel tandem. The 405s earned their reputation out West, where durability mattered more than fancy features. Around 1951, an LD-400 series tanker hauling for Eastern Washington Transports was working the roads near the Port of Seattle. When the R-Line arrived, International mostly left its heavy-duty models alone. Clearly the company knew it had a good thing going. The Emeryville plant became a legend in its own right. Its trucks helped make International the largest seller of heavy-duty trucks in the world at the time, and by the early 1960s its DCOF-405 cabover had been the best-selling American heavy truck for four years running. Dick Boyd of Ottumwa, Iowa, brought his “Class of 53” LD-405 to the 2026 ATHS National Convention & Truck Show, and it’s a fine reminder of why these long-nosed Internationals still turn heads more than 70 years later. Stories like this fill every issue of Wheels of Time, the ATHS magazine. Learn more and join at ATHS.ORG. See less
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Volvo marine diesel broken pushrods and sticking valves
jeeper61 replied to acem's topic in General Chat
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Another old military chassis repurpose The old military trucks got many rural areas fire coverage after the war Many rural districts still purchase surplus military chassis and repurpose for fire and DPW use
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Someone hit a deer with there car thought it was dead and wanted the meat and put it in the back seat. The deer came to and proceeded to thrash and trashed his car even farther
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Pretty common in some areas https://electionfraud.heritage.org/case/200379 https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2026-08-26/ct-bridgeport-ballot-stuffing-case
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They should then we can have real election integrity That's why some states allow same day registration and voting and others don’t. Then we can have consistency and no non-citizen voting
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You can be in the same state and still be too far away to vote in person in your home locality on Election Day. Still not the Federal government's problem
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You can claim residence in that state and register to vote the same day in 24 states Going to school out of state and working overseas is a choice
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Medical reason yes school no You are allowed to vote in the federal election i.e president at any polling place I would consider showing up at a US Embassy and presenting a valid US passport be allowed for Federal elections The the other reform we need is no dual citizenship
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IMO they should come and vote in person I would consider showing up at a US Embassy and presenting a valid US passport be allowed for Federal elections
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Mail in should only be for those who are shut ins or those who are overseas in the military Early voting is fine as long as its less than 2 weeks France used to permit mail in voting, but banned it in 1975. This decision followed widespread concerns regarding voter fraud, after documented instances of electoral manipulation in Corsica It seems we always have to try the things that failed in Europe
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Had a friend who worked at the local beer distributor. They had a Divco milk truck called the Fun truck, it had tapers sticking out the side and they rented it for big keg parties. He used to drop it off and set it up so we always knew where the party was.
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THE END OF AN ERA. On October 30, 2026, the lights went out on another chapter of American truck manufacturing. Daimler Truck North America’s Portland Truck Manufacturing Plant on Swan Island officially closed its doors, ending 57 years of production at the facility and bringing an end to nearly eight decades of Freightliner “Freight Shaker” truck manufacturing in Portland. This wasn’t just another factory. This was a place with some serious history. It was here in Portland that the Freightliner story found its postwar manufacturing home, following the vision of company founder Leland James and his determination to build a better truck. From those early cabovers and aluminum components to the big conventional trucks, vocational Western Stars and, eventually, electric Freightliners, generations of men and women worked the assembly lines putting these machines together. The company grew, changed hands, expanded its brands and became one of the biggest names in the North American trucking industry. And now, after all those years, the final chapter has been written at Swan Island. The numbers tell part of the story. A banner displayed at the employees’ October 2 farewell gathering commemorated 515,549 trucks built at the facility. Fifty-seven years at this particular factory. Nearly 80 years of Freightliner manufacturing in Portland. More than half a million trucks.
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Volvo marine diesel broken pushrods and sticking valves
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Might be possible if they a spherical at both ends if it has a cupped end then not so easy What's the part number? I see some on E-bay -
I avoid the Hood Locations of anything If the store needs bulletproof glass and a pass through drawer to do a transaction you are in the wrong area My advise is get out and don't come back
