2023 BS and chat thread

[BC847]

Happy New Year, folks!

Yeah, I'm slow. Been getting use to retired life.

[Richie O]

I forgot its not 1999.

[cougar]

I wish I hadn't unretired. Or at least picked a less stressful job. The money was the deciding factor though and being able to work the lonely shift.

[DMan1198]

I’ve been contracting doing mill shutdowns. It’s the closest to pulling myself out of debt I’ve been in a lot of years now.

[cougar]

I couldn't take the continual harassment the company was laying on me, so I quit as of Mar 6. As a matter of fact, my whole department has now quit.

[dazedandconfused]

I haven't been on here in a long time. I hope everyone is doing well.

[BC847]

Hey now.

[spencerdiesel]

Getting ready to rebuild the getrag and put a new 450ish hp clutch in the old girl, then studs and bigger sticks finally. I’m a bit late to the party lol.

[DMan1198]

I still need to order transmission parts but I have new turbos, head studs and a bunch of other stuff to go on. Going to pull the engine to make accessing things easier. She’s been broken for pretty much right at 6 years now

[fatty]

I still need to order transmission parts but I have new turbos, head studs and a bunch of other stuff to go on. Going to pull the engine to make accessing things easier. She’s been broken for pretty much right at 6 years now

Crazy how the time gets away. One minute you're making plans on fixing it, and next it's several years later.

[PToombs]

Still puttering with the dually. Hauled the camper on a 2500 mile trip this last week, found a few issues but nothing major and made it back in 1 piece.

[Richie O]

Still puttering with the dually. Hauled the camper on a 2500 mile trip this last week, found a few issues but nothing major and made it back in 1 piece.

Do you hang a pineapple upside down at the campground?

[spencerdiesel]

I can’t remember if I’ve asked this on another thread, or not already, but has anyone seen or driven a THD competition pump truck? I’ve heard there’s a lot of them on Facebook, but still to this day I don’t have one of those fangled accounts. Haven’t seen anything on YouTube.

[KTA]

Tim at Decent Garage on you tube has a hungry comp pump

[DMan1198]

I’ve made progress on rebuilding my engine. Ported the head for twenty something hours last week and put the gear on my 188/220 cam. Just have to do valve seats, and valves and that can go back together, then give the cylinders a hone and a few more little things and it’ll be ready to go back in.