Of Historical Significance!

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

I still use York

www.yorkphoto.com if you are wondering

It is good to see they still exist in some form, but I didn't see any mention of film developing.

Do they still develop film??

Damien,DAMON (Damien was that kid on The Exorcist = don't get us confused.) I used stricktly Kodak Kodachrome and Ektachrome for decades. When I could no longer buy it or get it developed easily, I switched to digital.

I heard it on radio news one day a few years ago, something to the effect of "an American icon is now no longer. Kodak has announced it has ceased production of their popular KODACHROME film, etc. etc." .

In this new electronic digital age, nothing is sacred anymore.


Dumb question, probably, but are slides possible with digital photography ??

Until recently, we used to make the 130-mile trek to Louisville twice a month to view hundreds of railroad slides in the back room of Scale Reproductions hobby shop, then the main influence and instigator got promoted and his job moved him away.

 

[GOOSE]

That is a tough feat to top. How many miles have you put on that truck? Any drivetrain parts still origional and untouched? I have pics of my '74 f100 4x4 with a good running 390. That truck had a history around here. The PO clipped a telephone pole in half with it and it lived, my brother flipped it and barely put dents in it. $500 and I put a hundred thousand miles on it. Still not as impressive as buying a truck new in '83 and seeing what it is today. Good stuff.

 

[jwalterus]

It is good to see they still exist in some form, but I didn't see any mention of film developing.

Do they still develop film??

last time I sent in a roll was nov, so they did then, and I have a couple envelopes still somewhere, so I'll find out

 

[hesutton]

Very cool to find that old photo eh? I too have never had to new vehicle. My wife....... well........ she's had several. My "newest" are my '86's in my signature. I drove Dad's old mine truck from age 16-31. It's an '83 F250 4x4 with a 302 and a C6.

What can I say, I like of Ford trucks.

Heath

 

[Agnem]

Sorry Damen! I think I used the Exorcist as a way of trying to remember your name. At least I was close. I'm really bad with names. The image presented here is a scan of the original slide in an HP multifunction printer with a transparancy adapter.

The Moose Truck has around 117 K on it. A lot of stuff has been replaced, but more because I wanted to, then because I had to. Axles, and trans are all original as is the engine, but it's been through 2 sets of head gaskets. No major repairs other than that. My goal has been to keep it like new, and I think most people who have seen it will attest that I have done that.

 

[Agnem]

Dumb question, probably, but are slides possible with digital photography ??

Not in the physical sense, but you can get a video projector and show "slide shows" like we used to. You just need to upload your photos to a thumb drive and stick them in the projector.

 

[SparkandFire]

Mel, did the moose truck come with hubcaps originally?

The PO of my truck bought my '86 truck brand new, I was looking at pictures of it the day he brought it home, the wheels were painted bright white like yours with those big, chrome salad-bowl hubcaps!

I've still got them in a box...

 

[Agnem]

Actually, hub caps were an option that year. One which I chose not to get, because I knew I would be replacing the wheels with something Ford didn't offer. However, Graham's Scarlet Moose has them, and we are missing one. Does anybody have one they would part with? I kinda wish I had held onto those wheels, but they have been gone a long long time. In fact so long, I'm not even sure how I got rid of them, as craigs list and ebay weren't around back then. I probably put them in the newspaper and sold them locally. When I ordered this truck it was in April of 83, and I took delivery in June. The engine has a build date of May. When I ordered it, I was single, 20 years old, and had to pay over $600 a month for it, due to 17% interest. Loans really sucked back then. I also elected not to get the clock, the glove compartment light, the carpeting or air conditioning. I wanted a tach, but they weren't available. I passed on the towing package, as I figured I was already pretty handy at drilling holes for trailer hitches. The original clutch was 12", and had 3 weighted fingers on the presure plate, instead of the multi-fingered arrangement we are used to today.

 

[SparkandFire]

I've got a bunch of the salad bowls... Ive got 4 of the deep ones for the rear, and 2 of the shallow ones with the center hole for the front, in nice condition too...

I'd trade them all to you for a moose pump...

 

[Agnem]

That's sounds like a really good deal, but I don't want to take advantage of you like that.

 

[dyoung14]

That's sounds like a really good deal, but I don't want to take advantage of you like that.

i will trade you a hole set of nice wheels off my truck for a moose pump and throww in a psd turbo

 

[jim_22]

I will trade you my truck for a Moose Pump... ain't saying which truck.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

That is a tough feat to top.

Naahhh , I still have my 1978 K-20 Chevrolet that I bought brand-new in 1978, now with over 400,000 miles on the original 4-bolt-main 350; it is sitting in the drive next to the rest of them, ready to go anywhere.

I ordered it in early February 78, it came in April 11, $5900 cash including tax and license.

Before the truck came in, I had three different individuals come to me and offer quite a profit to let them have my truck and me order another; the day it came in, one guy offered me ten hundred-dollar bills ($1000) to walk away from it and order me another.

This may seem un-believable, but at that time in history we were having some of the worst winters ever; orders for 4x4 trucks had a long waiting list, I got mine quite a bit quicker because I paid for it up front in cash.

And, probably the big clincher = my truck is one of the last GM produced that is classified "Heavy Duty Emissions", burns REGULAR and PREMIUM gasoline, and has no pollution system whatsoever.

Had I have waited a couple weeks to order it, I would have gotten 2-bolt mains, instead of 4-bolt, one of those crappy nylon timing chains, instead of a genuine double-row (motorcycle-type) "roller" timing chain, UNLEADED GAS ONLY along with smog pump and all that weird stuff on the exhaust manifolds; most of you guys are too young to remember those good old days.

The original clutch was 12", and had 3 weighted fingers on the presure plate, instead of the multi-fingered arrangement we are used to today.

There are two specific types of the "three-fingered" clutches; Borg & Beck, which is most common on GM products; and, LONG or Ford-style, which was more prevalent on Ford products.

The multi-fingered clutch is a "diaphragm-style".

The three-fingered styles are much stronger, hold better, and last longer; BUT, the throwout-bearing will eventually EAT itself through the ends of the three fingers, eventually punching it's way plumb through and not releasing the clutch.

I, myself, have had this happen on a number of occassions, usually when maneuvering a big cattle-trailer in tight quarters; just when the situation gets the tightest, you push down the clutch-pedal to dis-engage the engine, and IT JUST KEEPS ON GOING .


The multi-fingered arangement of the diaphragm-style clutch spreads the pressure of the throw-out bearing over a much larger surface area, thus the clutch itself usually fails long before the bearing eats through the fingers.

 

[Agnem]

That's cool that you still have your Chevy. A Ford would never have that finger eating bearing problem. The TOB would gall up on the trans input sleeve, jam the pedal, bust out the firewall, blow the slave cylinder, and require you to pretty much pull the trans, replace the sleeve and re-do the clutch while your in there, all well before either the TOB or presure plate wore out. Don't ask me how I know.

 

[MIDNIGHT RIDER]

The TOB would gall up on the trans input sleeve,

An old mechanic told me years ago to NEVER get that far into a clutch without installing a new throw-out-bearing "collar" on the front of the transmission.

I didn't always follow his advice and always paid for it every time in the long run.

That piece is so important, yet often over-looked, that it should come with every new clutch assembly.