2012 Chat /BS Thread

[Mark Nixon]

So i watched a guy get his arm broke today. He had been having problems with his power steering in his truck. I got over there and they had it all ready to fire up. He stuck his arm threw the steering wheel and hut the key. It fired up and wheel went right and truck pump screamed blowing the hoses off. It broke both bones in his forearm sticking the big one threw the skin.

I take it he possibly played with the (centering) valve set-up on the power steering box, that the return hose comes off of.
This valve floats on over-sized bolt holes, mess with it and it'll make the wheel go 1 way or the other INSTANTLY once hydraulic pressure hits the box.

I'll NEVER rebuild my own power steering box, both after a failed attempt with less disastrous results AND because a buddy had a 1975 New Yorker with 400,000 miles randomly YANK the wheel out of his hands a put the car into an Interstate median.
The car had been experiencing a random, self steering problem mere days before, where if you spun the wheel in either direction and let go it would continue to spin the wheels until they locked in the direction it was heading.

Turns out the centering valve was eroded from high miles and failed.
He'd had his warning.

Mark.

[Hansen01]

Heres what ive been doing over Thanksgiving break,


Moving dirt. Were pulling the river bank back, making a boat dock type deal slopeing back to his house, If you havnt gathered, i could dig dirt all day and not be bothered

[bmoeller]

50 series tractor?

[dazedandconfused]

It was a pump he picked up from the local parts store he said. I dont really know him he is a friend of my uncles. O know he will never stick his arm threw a steering wheel again.

[cmann250]

50 series tractor?

Gosh, I'm so glad they stopped putting the stacks through the hood. I can't ever decide which side to look out of It's kind of the same deal with a Trimble light bar. I get confused staring at the same thing after a while I guess

[CumminsPower59]

Years ago, I use to own a 91 W350 SRW. I was a dumbass and sold it to pay for a wedding, a marriage that didn't last. I have always wanted that truck back, I had seen it twice since I had sold it, but the last time was in 2008. Today, while house hunting on some back roads, I stumble across it!!! She looks pretty rough-er (it was rough when I sold it), and appears to be sitting for quite some time. I didn't get a real close look, as the property owners weren't home and I didn't want to take any chances. All I could really tell is that the rear of it is up on jackstands as the picture shows.

Here is a picture the day I bought it...


The winter after I ditched it and laid it over on it's side...Can't find a pic right now...

And here it is today...


The plan is that there is a guy coming up from MO on friday to buy my 92. Then I am going to try to get the old girl back. I don't care what it needs to get back on the road, I am going to try to buy it back.

Sold my 92 wednesday evening, got what I wanted out of it. Did a little digging online and found the name of the guy who ones my old 91, got a phone number and all. Just gave him a call and it sounds like he is interested in selling it as "it just sits now, got a newer truck"...said he will think about the price and get back to me...I guess I will wait. I really don't want to spend a whole lot as half of the money from my 92 is gone already on some bills that needed to be paid, but I will try to counter offer a reasonable amount. I would really like to get the 91 back, but if I can't, so be it

[bmoeller]

Good luck gettin' the ol' girl back! Wouldn't mind the old Farmall, myself.

[PToombs]

I think you're both nutz!

Hanson, I was going to say looking at the water?

[Hansen01]

Keep reading Pete
Yup 4955, or this thing

[Hansen01]

Oh yea, and Pete, Im not the sON of Han
Hansen

[Mark Nixon]

Oh yea, and Pete, Im not the sON of Han
Hansen

At least he didn't spell it Handsin.

Do you know how many times I have told people "Nixon, like the President" and people STILL spell it totally wrong?
I've had it spelled like these;

Nickson
Nicksen
Nixson
Nikson
Nicson
Nison

Any more I just spell it out to them.

BTW, it's real surprising how many people know of "Tricky Dick" Nixon, yet have NO clue how his last name is spelled.

Mark.

[ellis93]

You both should try toting fortenberry for a last name,then have telemarketers from Bangladesh pronounce it for you. lots of fist fights happened in grammar school over it too,I should have been named Sue for a first name

[cmann250]

I have fewer letters in my first and last names, Ellis. I'll raise you one. I know a girl with the last name Finkenbinder. That's a shoulder to shoulder name in baseball.

[oldestof11]

Lady i work with has a first name of Candy...

[Mark Nixon]

Lady i work with has a first name of Candy...

Usually those gals named "Candy" aren't so sweet.

Mark.