[AT] Weird truck problem was RE: 8V 71 DetroitinaMackCaboverforRalph

[charliehill]

All depends on the mufflers.  The Detroits I drove were loud.  The trucks 
didn't have sleepers and the stacks were right behind the cab corners.  They 
had mufflers but the drivers made sure they were all gutted long before I 
started driving.  I had both of the stereo speakers right behind my head 
(one for each ear so to speak).  Most of the time I couldn't make out what 
was being said on the radio and I couldn't understand the CB very well 
either.
I once picked up this beautiful young college girl hitch hiking.  We were 
about the same age.  She was headed  to the beach and I was headed in that 
direction.  She jumped right in but I couldn't talk to her.  We couldn't 
hear each  other, so when I had to turn I stopped and put her out without 
even knowing her name.

Those trucks most likely had something to do with the constant ringing in my 
ears these days.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "carl gogol" <cgogol at twcny.rr.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Weird truck problem was RE: 8V 71 
DetroitinaMackCaboverforRalph


>I do not remember loud as something that would describe the V-12.  It was
> almost a whisper compared to the real snowplows of the day (Walters FWD
> Oshkosh)
> Carl
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steve W." <falcon at telenet.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
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> Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 10:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Weird truck problem was RE: 8V 71 
> DetroitinaMackCaboverfor
> Ralph
>
>
>> carl gogol wrote:
>>> Twin 351s or twin 409s - what's a hundred cubes one way or the other 
>>> when
>>> you have 7or800 cubes?  Either way, it couldn't pass a gas station, but
>>> we
>>> sure could shake up a few drivers that didn't want to go 50 on the snowy
>>> road.
>>> I remember some talk about the motors having a special crank; was it 
>>> only
>>> on
>>> the one nearest the output clutch or on both?  Could one engine be shut
>>> down
>>> for better economy?
>>
>> The 702 GM engine has a special block with all 12 cylinders and a
>> special crank with all the throws on it.
>> The heads and intake/exhaust manifolds were the same as the V6 though.
>> They are a real bear. There is a local company that still has a parade
>> engine with one in it. LOUD almost describes it.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> This was a great plow setup, but was usually put aside late in the 
>>> winter
>>> when the banks got eight or ten feet tall.  The Walters machines with
>>> V-plows got used almost exclusively except for cleanup duty after the
>>> Walters plows forced the banks back into the ditches where they could on
>>> warmer days.  After that exercise you hoped for lots of warm weather, as
>>> a
>>> foot of snow and wind would fill the snow canyons to the top.  The only
>>> hope
>>> then was the rotary.
>>> Carl
>>
>> Around here you have Oshkosh or Walters used to open the roads after big
>> snow. Then they use the smaller trucks for single lane clean-up. Between
>> them I think the Sno-Fighters have an edge. Takes a GOOD driver to run
>> them though. And a BIG tow tractor if you get one stuck...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Steve W.
>>
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