I used to see trucks around here with stacks rolling coal, but I do not see many around here anymore now that I think about it.
Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 27, 2019, at 7:57 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Blowing huge clouds of soot out of your diesel was a thing around here, even > had "smokestacks" built into the beds of pickups. Looked like a WWI > battleship at flank speed. > > Very stupid idea, quite a few kids burned the exhaust valves off > over-fueling, and at a few thousand each for new heads (not rebuildable at > that point) AND the nice new $500 fine each time a cop caught you making > excess smoke, the "mods" have all vanished here. > > Smoke is unburned, and hence wasted, fuel. Screaming Jimmies and old Mack > trucks that make huge amounts of smoke were underpowered fuel pigs, that's > why they are all gone now. > > Peter > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
