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Female Red tailed hawk......................
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Your nickname from now on, marchplumber, it's "Audubon"!!Female Red tailed hawk......................
It is certainly not like other females. At one point it bowed it's head, stuck up it's tale...and I thought it was posing for the photo. It took a crap. That's a rare sight I presume.Female Red tailed hawk......................
Females come in MANY varieties and emotional conditions.....It is certainly not like other females. At one point it bowed it's head, stuck up it's tale...and I thought it was posing for the photo. It took a crap. That's a rare sight I presume.
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Were the original frames painted upside-down? How did the paint on Piglet run up? We only paint prepped where the engine is going then just a quick clean outside the engine bay. I had paint left over after the engine bay so hit a few areas that were easy to reach. We didn't see it when scraping or washing. It was just another cool find on ole' 0685 Piglet.
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For the record, the Canola crop is cut.
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The only Piglet progress was premier paint prep on this plumbing pipe.
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Great progress on the paint job, plowboy, but all these sidebars are so distracting:
Great progress on the paint job, plowboy, but all these sidebars are so distracting:
- Birds of prey
- Agricultural product
You plain got a lot going on!
Some ice hockey buddies and me started a housepainting company our summer out of high school;They 'New' Grey color is not the same Grey as many of the rebuilt engines.....as pointed out by a Mattech. We have 2 darker Grey take-outs so we're chasing info engine rebuild paint codes. ........."paint it grey"...."what color grey?"
Sounds like a Frank Lloyd Wright house!If you haven't done so already I also strongly recommend pulling the oil pan and resealing it with Grey/Threebond RTV as it would leak quite a bit. I'm not 100% on all the leaks but I know there was a decent amount of them.
That bit of history with the plumbing supports 'in-service' history. If Johnny farmer put it in it wouldn't match a few of the trucks that have real similar plumbing. Real good to know.Just went through a lot of the thread finally, good to see the progress on everything.
As for the Hydraulic fitting on the compressor oil line that was infact an oil pressure tester fitting, I had used it when I first got the truck because my oil pressure gauge never worked but I was not the one who originally installed it so it most likely came from the Rebuilders.
All the additional cooling hoses, tees, and recirculating heater were also added before my grandfather had gotten the truck originally and to be honest i'm still impressed that it was operational until the day I pulled it.
If you haven't done so already I also strongly recommend pulling the oil pan and resealing it with Grey/Threebond RTV as it would leak quite a bit. I'm not 100% on all the leaks but I know there was a decent amount of them.
Your "gray matter" is still in top function, rustystud!I just remembered the name of that hydraulic fitting. It's called a "comp-u-check" , and is used to test everything from engine oils to air systems.
Mine just takes a while to get there these daysYour "gray matter" is still in top function, rustystud!
Mine doesn't always fire on all cylinders so much...
On the road?Well "plowboy" I just got back from "Lyle's" place today. Eight hours up and eight hours back. He has quite a collection of M135 parts up there.
That Tesla looking WWII truck is a CMP or Canadian Military Pattern. Lot's of those saved up here already and part of the reason I saved the Deuce instead. So good you made it up to see Lyle. Did he have any magic repair kits around that might help for future seal work?There were also two WWII trucks I'm unfamiliar with. This one which was his parts truck and it's companion which was inside. There is also a M37 up there.
No. I spent the night up there and came back the next morning. I was "toasted" after driving for 8 hours and then loading up the truck. Coming back was also a trial as I was "overloaded" ( around 1.5 tons) and those mountain roads are steep ! I spent most of my time at 45 to 50 MPH to keep from sliding off the roads ! A few times I needed to drop down to 30 MPH which made the locals really pissed off. I'm sorry but coming down a 7% grade a half mile long at 50 to 60 MPH in an overloaded truck is not wise. As it was I think I used half my brake linnings coming down those mountains.On the road?
For 16 hours?!
You are made of tought stuff, rustystud!
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