OT: engines

The Corvair, although a brilliant design, was the wrong car to turbocharge. If you intend to drive it, pull off the turbo and its plumbing and mounts and put them in a box and put two three barrel Webers on there. Actually you should probably crate the whole engine and build a carbed one, or at least swap the heads, because you mill the heads to put the Webers on.

If both axles are driven there is an interaxle diff and it usually locks, tractor or straight truck. I never said it didn't. What fleet trucks don't have, are air operated fifth wheel sliders, air dumps, most do not have EGT, transmission or oil temp gauges, rear end temp gauges, turbo boost gauges, fuel pressure gauges on Cumminses (no more PT), they also do not have a splitter on the shifter (a range switch is not a splitter) or a hand valve for trailer brakes. Most DO have Jake brakes or other engine retarders. They all have air conditioning and a few now have cab heaters, but APU's are unheard of and most don't have a shore power connection.

My next door neighbor works for a Freightliner dealer and he is laughing his ass off at Bill. Maybe he'll join in....:-)

Since he only drives the trucks to the lot and to fleet customers, he comes under the local exemption and does not need to keep a log book. You know that, or did before the prions started in on your brain.

Even delivery vans have turbochargers. I don't think a naturally aspirated diesel exists that would meet current EPA regulations. They are all turbo.

My neighbor is a truck salesman. He deals in fleet accounts. He does not take his trucks home, they wouldn't fit in the garage anyway even if he didn't have a 1929 Packard dual phaeton and a Maserati Bora and a bunch of motorcycles in there. But he has a Class A CDL and drove trucks full time for several years. He only deals with fleets, too many OOs are morons and deadbeats. The newbies get to deal with those people. Some are decent people but most drivers who are halfway bright realize it's better to drive someone else's truck, and LTL if you can get on. Not all OOs are s******ds and redneck morons, but a lot of them are. I see this myself.

You are truly seriously affected with some kind of disease, that you just have to show your rear end and insult everyone all the time. Did it ever cross your mad cow addled mind, maybe you are wrong sometimes?

Not a chance. At almost every opening of his mouth he shows himself to be that exact redneck OO moron you mentioned.

Simple reason, as I said in the first place, many trucks do not have them anymore. Yes, eighteen wheel Class 8 trucks with sleeper cabs and all.

I'm sure some do. Mostly bull haulers and truck stop pimps.