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  1. Stumper

    It is nice to have a heavy truck

    Carl, That was my presumption.
  2. Stumper

    It is nice to have a heavy truck

    It has been topped off. PLus one on servicing. Frans, I am in the dark on Allison trannies. I know my Fords have a modulator valve(vacuum control) My old Dodges operated without vacuum controls of any kind.
  3. Stumper

    It is nice to have a heavy truck

    Brian, It doesn't takeoff too quickly but it does fine around town. It has developed a tendency to race between gears on the higher end.I can induce it to shift by backing out of the accellerator and then getting back on it. The tranny fluid is clean in appearance but I wonder if there is a...
  4. Stumper

    It is nice to have a heavy truck

    Brian, Ole Blue is a pretty stable platform....but I still bounce the bejabbers out of myself sometimes working overcenter-seems like setting the upper and lower booms moving at opposite tangents just makes it jump. I'm okay if I feather in the lower boom down very gently...but I'm used to...
  5. Stumper

    It is nice to have a heavy truck

    It does sound cool.... but it also gives me the willies. I almost volunteered the idea of climbing but then remembered that I am really busy and also scared of heights. Switching from tree mode to scaling stanchions and crawling cables could prove to be a very slow and painful job. Frans, The...
  6. Stumper

    It is nice to have a heavy truck

    I got a call today inquiring about the bucket truck. Thankfully it is too heavy. It seems that they need someone to drive out onto the world's highest suspension bridge and tighten some fittings at almost 60 feet over the planks.......1100 feet over the bottom of the Royal Gorge. The thought of...
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