Where is everyone #5

Some easier than others. Daughter wasn't interested in this meal. So it's just me and the wife yet we still make enough for seven or eight people.

 

Some of them were slabs

 

@BigCam9670 built that truck from the rails up.
Tell us all about it brother.

 

I probably wouldn't have caught any by myself. Went with my cousin, he knows when and where to find them. 20-30 ft deep trolling crank baits behind the boat. Who knew.

 

My first thought was a Mercury too, but the passenger side didn't look quite right on my phone.

 

I'll be right there!

 

The one behind it don't look to shabby for a booggity across the country type of rig.

 

Was the cam replaced when you did the overhaul on it?

 

Do Not READ this lol x1Heavy I could not bear to read this either.

This is painful How can someone even have this much B. S in lunch counter tales?

I had a 5 speed mack a very long time ago and I do not recall exactly where I shifted at. The range is from 600 idle all the way to 2300. It's not a very fast truck. Engine starts to wake up about 1300. Begins to pull ### off at about 2000. All heavy truck engines have a torque RPM below which it will refuse to pull anymore and begin to lug, buck, bounce or fight you. Or even stall. That is your bottom number. Find a big hill, hit it in one gear stay in it until that nose starts hopping. There is your torque RPM. You can literally hear by ear it's song. If it's coughing a fit it's not working well in toohigh a gear, downshift one GENTLY andSmoothly. If you get it in there, music should be the result. If you push it too much you will feel as if you about to lose your drives oryour turbo screech icepick in your ears. Time to shift up. There is also a high horse power RPM.today's trucks are engineered to run about 400 or 500 RPM apart between the twoRPM's for either wind it out shifting or progressive shifting (Which is beyond thescope of this post) Your rig should be at least 500 RPM higher than that point at which she bounced orbucked on you at or under Torque RPM. You can probably find the engine stamp on the block, google it by make and model and discover it's operating chart which all engines have. Which is a curve expressedbetween two RPM's for shifting.