A little background on the Million Dollar Baby

A little background on the Million Dollar Baby.
The truck is a 1992 Kenworth B Model W-900. It has a 425 h.p. 3406 B-Model Caterpillar engine, a 15 speed deep-reduction transmission with 3:55 Eaton 402 rear ends. It has the V.I.T. Kenworth interior and the Aerodyne I style 60" walk in sleeper with double bunks. It had a 270 inch wheelbase before I cut it down, and I haven't measured it since.
It has approximately 1.5 million miles on it, and I drove it about 900,000 of those miles. I had an inframe rebuild done to the engine in 1999, and it's been running untouched ever since. (Same turbocharger since then too! Today's lesson is change the oil regularly!)
It's on the third clutch since new, and I put an Eaton reconditioned transmission in it at about 1.3 million miles. (It didn't need a clutch then, but I put one in it anyway since the transmission was out already.)

Saturday, September 17, 2011

What is it about trucks?

What is it about trucks that capture the imagination? They’re everywhere. What do people think when they look up into those big trucks as they flash by on the highway, all paint and chrome and spinning wheels? As a young boy growing up in Arizona, when I was at school I would look out the windows at the road, and I’d watch the trucks going by. Maybe it was just my circumstances, what with my dad driving trucks since before I was born, but I liked reading the names on the doors as the trucks went by. Kansas City, Chicago, the names of all the places I had never been whispered through my mind. I knew better than most kids where that road went, because I’d been there a few times myself.
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