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- Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:25 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Smoking Brakes
- Replies: 9
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Hmmm. Can't remember what kinda brakes your bus has. Air or Hydraulic? If hydraulic, then what kind of parking brake? Maybe it was left on? A 10 or 12 mile ride probably wouldn't involve enough hard braking to cause properly functioning brakes to get hot enough to smoke, I think. But a parking brake...
- Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:04 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1973 Blue Bird
- Replies: 864
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- Wed Jun 08, 2011 1:00 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Shakedown trip for the '55 Metro
- Replies: 8
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Thanks for the pics. The first few I recognize from South Bend, and several are rigs belonging to friends and acquaintances. About number 6 down, the green Brockway 10-wheeler with the box (blue/green murals) on back belongs to my friend Dave, who I made the trip to South Bend with. This trip he dro...
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 3:19 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Shakedown trip for the '55 Metro
- Replies: 8
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Mike, the Pleasanton show was a bit too far for me. I've been to 5 of the national shows now, and love camping in my rig while there, but I'm not sure I'll be able to make many more of them. Might be able to make Springfield, MO, in 2014. The show is in a different place every year, rotating from we...
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:32 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Shakedown trip for the '55 Metro
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5820
Shakedown trip for the '55 Metro
I left here Tuesday afternoon, 5/24, and drove to Cookeville, TN, where one of my trucking cohorts met me on Wednesday morning. We drove to South Bend, IN, for the ATHS National Convention and Truck Show for a few days of hanging out with our old friends and old trucks. By chance I made the front pa...
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:47 am
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1973 Blue Bird
- Replies: 864
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- Mon May 30, 2011 2:56 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: Generator caution
- Replies: 4
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- Sat May 21, 2011 5:12 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1973 Blue Bird
- Replies: 864
- Views: 360674
- Tue May 03, 2011 1:19 am
- Forum: Stuff Forum
- Topic: 4-day training session over for now.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5641
Tmax, this is a good place for your link. I've been waking up for a couple years now myself. And I suspect we're only about 20 or 30 years behind Sharkey and a few others whose online writings I've been reading as part of my education. After the oil-crunch of '73/'74 (forgot which), I got rid of a 3...
- Mon May 02, 2011 3:05 pm
- Forum: Stuff Forum
- Topic: 4-day training session over for now.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5641
4-day training session over for now.
I don't know if news from this part of the country gets out to your part of the world or not, but we've had some rough weather here in the Southeast. Tornadoes, this time deadly. Not sure of the toll, maybe 300 or more. It's been a few years since they've been this bad here. We were somewhat surpris...
- Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:42 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: 1973 Blue Bird
- Replies: 864
- Views: 360674
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:53 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: A cool raised roof bus
- Replies: 15
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- Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:50 pm
- Forum: Stuff Forum
- Topic: The puzzler
- Replies: 297
- Views: 117423
- Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:37 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: A cool raised roof bus
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9630
- Fri Mar 11, 2011 4:29 pm
- Forum: Housebuses & Housetrucks
- Topic: It's time
- Replies: 56
- Views: 26860