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Sunday Stories

I got a few, lets go with this one.


About 2 years ago me and two buddies were doing our weekly run on "12 mile road" A formerly paved road, although with maintenance since about 1946. So its pretty much a very steep, very muddy road with more a couple water crossing and a few pieces of pavement sticking up about 6 inches from the mud.

Anyway, There was my friend Caleb in his frame off rebuilt 94 K1500, my other friend Tanner (Who I'm riding with), in a stock 93 K1500 with over 300,000 miles,

We were doing alright, it was starting to rain, so things were starting to get very, very slippery. we are getting along alright for the most part, until we come to the first water crossing, it was flowing pretty good so we stopped to think about the plan of attack, while we're doing that, Caleb decides to point his truck at a puddle next to us, and rip donuts in the mud until the headers are glowing cherry red. He just blasts on through the creek, so Tanner decides to try it, he barely makes it out the other side, but the 350 is not pleased with things, Water got into the under the dizzy cap, and did its thing, and the truck was now running on 5 cylinders.
There was no hope of pulling the dead truck back through the creek, so we chain them together, and point them at the steepest, muddiest part of the trail. We were about 5 yards from the crest of the hill, when both trucks, in unison, slid into the ditch. Not one pulled the other, they slid in unison. And neither had any hope of getting out. We got stuck around 5:30, and we were there until 1:45 in the morning, when Calebs neighbor came out there with his 6.0 LS powered 78 K20, and pulled both trucks back down the hill, through the creek, and all the way back to the highway.

I only have one picture of the trucks while stuck unfortunately, and its not a very good one.
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The involved trucks
93, 300,000 mile K1500
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The Frame offed 94 K1500
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Oh! I have another one I just remembered, And might have even shared on here before. Too bad, get it again


Can we handle a Monday story?

Yes?

Good.

A few years ago I was out at the biggest junkyard around these parts, looking for nothing in particular, just enjoying being in a junkyard.
There has been an old tri-drive Peterbilt 359 that had been sitting up by the highway for as long as I could remember, It had an old Silver 8V92 two-stroke Detroit in it. And it had been sitting there with no hood, turbo or shift tower, for ever. All the brake chambers were gone, there were no wheels on the front axle, It was in a pretty rough state.

Well I see the guy over there lifting the front of the truck with a big front loader, he gets it chained on good enough, and starts dragging the truck towards the crusher, he was getting ready to round the bend to where the crane was, when you hear the unmistakable sound of 2 stroke Detroit with no exhaust roar into life, I turn around again just in time to see this ancient old Pete with hood or doors pushing this new Komatsu loader into the scrap pile.

Buried the loader a good ways into the pile, with the old Pete sitting there spinning its wheels, holding the loader in there.

Truck wasn't interested in going to the crusher.


For those of you who haven't been blessed with hearing an 8V92, enjoy these.
 
My folks had some trucks with Detroits in them. They certainly have character and a mind of their own
 
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