Road trip from Fairbanks Alaska to Arkansas

[fiver]

my FIL had a super nice tool for packing bearings, but he done about 500000000 of them a year.
he offered it to me when he retired, but since i might do 2 a year i can put on a pair of rubber gloves and just pack them by hand like i was taught in high school shop my freshman year.
sept the boat, it wears bearing buddy's and gets gooped up like 4-5 times a year.

 

[RicinYakima]

Anyone here old enough to remember when Chrysler products had enclosed drive shaft joints you had to hand pack? My first car, a 41 Plymouth Special Deluxe had them and I didn't know you had to do that every thousand miles when you changed oil. My Dad was not happy when I burned one out, as it took many junk yards to find a good one.

 

[smokeywolf]

I learned to pack bearings when I was about 12 years old. That's when Dad pretty much turned over the family auto maintenance to me.

Another thing most people don't know is, just like with many other things, there's such a thing as too much of a good thing with grease. Too much and balls and rollers have to slog through it. That actually causes friction and therefore increased heat.

 

[fiver]

then when the grease hits about 350-F it drops all the oil out of suspension.

 

[JonB]

So, when the orange light comes on, it's time to grease the wheel bearings?

 

[Glaciers]

Guy didn’t read the smoke signals in his review mirror?

 

[JWFilips]

So, when the orange light comes on, it's time to grease the wheel bearings?

Wow, that is badddd! Reminds me of the "Feynman's Van episode" on Big Bang!

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Yes, that's the quintessential “idiot” light.

 

[Rick]

Well Jon, make sure you use high temp grease.

 

[fiver]

light a couple of smokes off that while you wait for the tow truck, your gonna need to save all the nickles you can.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Well Jon, make sure you use high temp grease.

No kidding!

I've seen that glow before - not on my equipment but others. It never ends well.

 

[Glaciers]

Well this has no bearing on the drift taken here. But…
But while leaving Bichop California I ran across a Mack truck. While that’s not unusual, this truck was in my book.
Now I would have posted this a couple days ago, but, Karyn took my phone over to look at the pictures I took and managed to delete them from my phone. Fortunately she had transferred them to her phone. Well I found them this morning so here’s a treat for everyone who like a nice pickup truck, and in this case Mack pickups.






I don’t know about you but I think that’s a sweet truck.

 

[Rick]

Found this . . .

Between 1936 and 1938, Mack dealers sold 4,974 Reo-built trucks, ranging from one half- to two-and-a-half tons. Few people know that Mack went on to build its own pickup. From 1938 to 1944, Mack produced 2,686 Model ED trucks, rated at three-quarter tons. Less than 50 or so EDs are thought to exist.

 

[smokeywolf]

Now THAT is a pickup truck. If they started producing those today in a quad cab and 1-1/2 ton (550) capacity, without all the BS pollution control devices and data collection for insurance companies and gov't, I'm not sure I could resist.

 

[Rick]

Got thinking about the years Mack made pickups. If they were making them from 1941 to 1945, they most certainly would have been olive drab.

 

[Glaciers]

Today is reorganizing day at least for the back of the Toyota.

The basement, second floor stuff removed.


Stuff from the second floor. Making the pickup bed two levels really helps, if all the stuff was just in without the second level I would never been able to find anything without unloading a lot of stuff.


After 6 weeks tools kind got a little disorganized. This is the main bag which has enough verity for most jobs, if not I drag out the more in-depth box.


That box with tool packs weighs in at about 80# and the carry sack about 60#.

 

[Rick]

Today is reorganizing day at least for the back of the Toyota.

Just a hop skip and jump now and you'll be back home. Shoveling snow.

 

[Glaciers]

Just a hop skip and jump now and you'll be back home. Shoveling snow.

Boy you are just going out of your way hurt my last feeling.
But, just to make you feel better, by May 5 snow’s general gone, and the mosquitoes are in full swing. And it’s looking like with Karyn’s schedule we won’t be up country till the middle of the month. I’m just driving Miss Daisy.
Besides that for the most part I’m more technically advanced than the standard grain scoop or as Alaskans call it a snow shovel. I burn long dead dinosaurs with my technology.

 

[Petrol & Powder]

Got thinking about the years Mack made pickups. If they were making them from 1941 to 1945, they most certainly would have been olive drab.

And not available on the civilian market.
I don't know enough about the history of Mack trucks to offer an opinion. I do know that Studebaker made a lot of trucks for the war effort and many of them were sent to the Russians.

 

[Rick]

Boy you are just going out of your way hurt my last feeling.
But, just to make you feel better, by May 5 snow’s general gone, and the mosquitoes are in full swing. And it’s looking like with Karyn’s schedule we won’t be up country till the middle of the month. I’m just driving Miss Daisy.
Besides that for the most part I’m more technically advanced than the standard grain scoop or as Alaskans call it a snow shovel. I burn long dead dinosaurs with my technology.

Is it true the skeeters are so thick you need to shovel them too?