I saw this truck at a cruise this past fall at atwood lake.

 

Very cool! There is one about 4 blocks from me, yellow even, (doesn't look nearly as good as the one you posted though) it's hard to grasp from pictures how big those trucks really are, and I own a F600! lol course the picture with the two guys standing next to it only coming level with the hood might get that across...

 

What is that on the top of the motor ? S/C ? nice pixs !!

 

air compressor maybe????

 

Nice lookin' 56 Big Job, thanks for posting! And yes, it's an air compressor, painted up nicely to compliment the engine. I'm guessing Cal was poking fun.

 

That is the cleanest big job engine bay I have seen in while. Nice truck!

 

I'm curious too. What is that pump on top of the motor?

Tom

 

Takes a fair amount of air to operate the air brakes! So you need a good size compressor.

 

My first-ever car was a '56 Ford and whenever I see a Y-Block that perfect, it's just wonderful....

 

Oh! So its the airbrake pump. I was wondering if that's what it was. But I've never worked a big rig's brake system/motor etc and haven't peeked under the hood on a big rig all that much.

Although its funny when I was just out of high school I worked at a Frito/Lay plant in Portland Ore and sometimes needed to jockey about 40 foot semis to get them up to our loading dock etc. And we were in a weird area for a plant--a populated older neighborhood of some homes with a busy 4 lane city street in front of us. All kinda tight. So without any special license--and no ability whatsover I would drive these rigs around the block+ and back them into our tiny loading area. I couldn't pull a u-haul today!! I still can't believe I just did that on my own and got by OK, but I worked at it--and by birth I've got the "Car/truck" gene so I guess that helped.

I didnt have a big rig license or anything--just the blind confidence of youth that I could pull it off when needed--and I did. Except for the one funny time when myself and this other guy--a maintenance guy who should have known better--he knew more than me-tried to "release the brakes of an air brake truck by "bleeding" the air out of the system.

Wrong!! pretty funny\. It was a rainy--as always--late dark night in Portland and I was stranded in this residential neighborhood. We had to call my boss--He was really pretty good about it. But I still remember. What a screw up.

Goodluck Tom