Just got a Dodge truck with a V-8 Cummins diesel

From : ruppster

Q: really miles i thought that the purpose of a corporation was to provide a service or product and make money doing it but your description shows clearly where your head is. come on miles get your head out. making money is why corporations exist. that is the reason. it is not a bad reason. making money is why unions exist to a large degree too. we are a capitalist society and that is not a bad thing. money is not a dirty word. we are getting hung up on issues that are not really the issue. rotflmbo!!!! you dare try to tell me how i should be and you dont even know who youre correcting in this post from t-bone. read again i was adding to what tbone said but then what does it matter. you read what you want to anyway. you would not have even noticed or commented on this exept i commented on what you said in another post so now you are going to try to find any little thing that you can to try to show your superiority which is a real paradox for you. you are the main example of someone here that has no interest in listening budd. you dont listen to a thing anyone says you just keep throwing out shit until someone hurts your feelings then you throw relidion and illness into it trying to get them to stop. aha!!!! hey roy heres one of those clowns that took my report on my health and corrupted it. now am i lying i never said you were lying. i said that i didnt remember reading it. i think and i may be wrong but tg just mentioned the pattern that i wrote about earlier. im sure he will clarify. roy i dont give a fig if he does. dont worry then i wont. i just cant find the motiviation today to go over that again. roy really did say it better than i could a few days back anyhow. whatever. roys one of those that has been decieved by the corruption of my report on my health. oh my gosh. poor roy. budd i am sure you think im picking on you. never my intention and even though i didnt say it real nicely what i said was for your benefit. then take this for what its worth i dont need your advice or guidance on my health issues. i have a fully trained medical staff for that. dont take a report of my conditions made in public to numerous concerned friends to be a whiney complaint its not. ok thats fair. ill let you make an ass out yourself. thank you and thanks for setting the example so i can be a complete one. i said it in the hopes that you would stop and listen and realize that you have been acting real strange lately and that in your own interest you should relax and take a deep breath. i am being myself. i have aged since i first joined this group and that changes ones outlook and personality live with it or killfile me. the clientele of the group has changed as well with an increase in less sociable personalities since 1996 therefore i react differently. killfile me or accept it. budd i dont killfile anyone. but i still dont have to accept it. i thinkill just make fun of you instead vbg so you enjoy or gain some vicarious pleasure out of making fun of peoples limitations and health problems . . .you are the one that is sick. that was a joke budd. just trying to lighten things up. i didnt find it at all funny. if you were someone i knew well enough to accept the teasing maybe i could have seen some humor in it. think on this ive met denny and we can tease each other quite a bit ive met bryon foust and we used to tease quite a bit nate and i got to know each other by email and have teased considerably max and i got to know each other in the great torque wrench debate. you have decided to hide yourself behind a screen name and your past treatment of me doesnt give me the freedom to accept it as levity. look in reality you are absolutely correct. you have the right to be who you chose to be. and i dont always package what i say so well. generally i can get the gist of your posts. youre not as bad as some that have driifted thru here. one of my big shortcomings is patience. i wich i had some i try but it is my weakness. i see several people here try to help you. from my perspective it looks like they are really trying to hlep you.........just to help you out. i appreciate help i do not appreciate condemnation / abuse for having reported my conditions to friends that asked about me. you just dont want to look or listen...........so i make it worse by getting pissed as you and saying what i have to say in a shitty way. odd im not angry. i am tired of you and others trying to tell me how to behave making fun of my medications / health issues or what kind of person i should be. wouldnt you i honestly apologize for the way i say some things. i do not apologize for what i said budd i said it because i hoped you would listen and it would help you out........but again i am impatient and i say it poorly. conditions on an apology

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From : max dodge

the cat 3208 will suck compared to the cummins. -- max there are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty soap ballot jury and ammo. please use in that order. -ed howdershelt author yep the truck has a 9.2l 555 ci cummins v-8 diesel engine hooked up to a 4 speed allison automatic tranny soon to be replaced with a 5 speed auto and that is how it came from the factory. its a 1975 dodge xcnt800 tanker truck with a 58000 pound gvwr. below are a few links to some pics of it. the first shot shows the truck as it was when the seller i got it from first acquired it. since then he has removed the tank and the truck now looks like what is seen in the second and third pictures. http//www.dodge-semis.com/mt/dodgexcnt80001.jpg http//www.dodge-semis.com/mt/dodgexcnt80002.jpg http//www.dodge-semis.com/mt/dodgexcnt80003.jpg it has been used as a stationary refueling point since the county got it from the military back in 1993. the engine was never run they used an electric pump setup to transfer fuel out of the tank in to trucks since they got it so the truck only has 9000 miles on it. since i cant have a truck that long in the base housing unit i am in i most likely will end up cutting about 12 to 14 feet of frame off the back and putting a single rear axle under it. dont know yet whether i will put a flatbed on it or a fifth wheel plate and make a tractor out of it. after that i might look in to replacing the cummins 555 with a turbod cat 3208 for even more power. g the cat 3208 is what replaced the cat 1150/1160 engine that dodge used from 1973 to 1975. ruppster .

From : ruppster

on fri 17 feb 2006 225113 gmt max dodge max340@verizon.net wrote the cat 3208 will suck compared to the cummins. the problem is parts availability. the triple nickel from cummins is getting harder to get parts for and they are not all that strong internally in order to handle a good turbo setup afaik most of the turbod 555 were used in marine application and most owners complained about lack of reliability from them. the 3208 was used in trucks for a longer period of time and has a better track record when a turbo was involved. easier to find in truck yards too. if all else fails i could always go with a detroit 318. seg ruppster .