Hello Mike, I am a retired mechanical engineer and drove trucks internationally for several years after my military service in the 80´s and 90´s. I'm currently drive trucks as a temporary worker. I've been subscribed to your channel for a long time and am thrilled with what you and your father have achieved in restoring your old trucks. Something like this is only possible with difficulty in Germany because we keep getting into problems from the authorities. Restoring a truck yourself and then simply driving it on the road is not possible without a lot of effort and lots of technical and legal checks by various authorities. The police would take us off the streets within minutes if we didn't do that. That's why I'm so excited about how relatively freely you can move around in Canada. But I certainly wouldn't unsubscribe from your channel just because you're taking longer to restore a truck. It's entertaining and interesting to watch you and your father build the truck piece by piece so that it can get back on the road. Here's a saying from Germany on the subject: "Good things take time!"(In German: "Gut Ding will Weile haben") I wish you and your father a safe journey, good luck and health.

Great shout out for Chad Keegan. he and Tim Gentry mention you often on their sites. sorry for your loss. have a blessed day from the USA. love your posts.

I didn't know you had a welding table LOL... You should be proud and pat yourself on the back Mike. I still remember the first video of you bringing Duke home, or attempting to bring him home. It was a huge transformation. You should especially be proud of rebuilding the engine. That's a huge task... For those that say you talk to much and don't get enough work done, we all love trucks, but there are times when you just flat don't feel like working on a project. I lost my wife in August 2022 and I lost my Dad July of last year. I lost interest in everything when my wife died, and I had very slowly gotten a little better, and then my Dad died, and the cycle started over again. There are things that I really used to enjoy, but in all honesty I don't anymore. If I was redoing a truck, or restoring a car, it would be sitting. I totally understand if you have a hard time focusing and being motivated.

Stubby is now a member of your 3 wiper army. Don't forget to replace his windscreen at some point. He still needs work but he's alive and driving. Superb work by yourself and your dad. Stubby is such a cool truck. Maybe find a fifth wheel for a little weight on the back. Hope we can see your dad driving him soon.

Made my day. Hope you ,Dad and family heal while you build those trucks. God bless! I'll be watching.

You should be VERY proud!!!!! I would be!! My dad and I rebuilt several of our K100s that our lovely drivers wrecked for us including my beautiful 83 that I specially ordered for myself, could have been a show truck!! Only had it 4 years before it was jacknifed on the Adirondack Northway!! That really sucked!!

Looks like your Dad will be able to enjoy Stubby pretty soon!!

old diesel runs just fine, Ive run 25 year old diesel that just looked like thin yellow oil and it was just fine. even made good power

The old truck sounds good Mike👌🏼

Stubby is a good name........and stubby it shall be. 😎🤠👍

Thanks for not changing the name it should be stubby although Dads truck does have a nice ring 👍👍👍✝️✝️✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️

You done a great job on Duke hole every body are fine buddy

Im gald stubby running and driving again and ur dad did u great job get stubby back on the road

Hi Mike from Yorkshire England truck look cool you and your dad as made a good job 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻I will pat you on your back because you did a really good job🤞✋️✋️✋️

Good on you mike for taking the Oldman on a holiday and yeah you should be proud of how duke turned out you did a fair amount of work

Love Stubby's mudflaps!!

Love that Kenworth cabover.

Old trucks are like old houses if they're not being used or lived in they start to Fall Apart which is a strange phenomena.

I love cranking a starter to death like that, lol I actually do it a lot more often then I should hahaha

Great video Mike glad to see you and your Dad working on Stubby. Glad see your getting some gremlins worked out of Stubby. Looking forward to your next video stay safe Mike and Dad.

Took me ages to work out why me headlights wouldn't switch off. I disconnected everything you name it ,relays light switch,, ignition switch,, starter switch, interrupt switch, plugs. As it turns out I disconnected wires from the busbar one at a time and found the wire responsible. Now they switch off. Go figure. How would've that happened. The lights were fine until I had a electrician wire up my roof light 5 years ago. Maybe some skull duggery goin on to drum up more work. IDK. He didn't need to mess around with the busbar to wire up new roof lights. I did mention it to him at the time but got no response. So I just left it and figured it had something to do with the turbo timer or something. 5 years later had nothing to do with that😅

Great Progress on Stubby Mike , congratulations to You and your Dad for getting it this far from where it was sitting for years , one step at a time, the projects will get done when time and funds allow , along ways off yet but have you a paint design and color choice in mind, Safe Travels, Thanks for Saving the Classics,👍👍👍👍

Don’t know if anyone has said this, but when you change filters or have almost run it out of fuel on an N14, I was told, you always fill them up and push the throttle pedal 1/4-1/2 way down before you turn the key on and start it… Never tried it any other way, and the way I stated always allows the truck to start right up and never have had any issues.

Great video Mike I think a great picture of your mom in the shop would be a nice touch and ya well I hope Duke kaboom will be doing great were ever he winds up

see Stubbys new flaps .... new channel sponsor lol

The truck formerly known as Stumpy sounds like the artist formerly known as Prince, which seeing as how Prince George features a lot is quite apt. Bodywork takes ages and let's be fair watching someone sanding and filling for weeks on end isn't exactly the most interesting content. As for the check engine light, you raised the cab, saw the engine was there, so you did check it. Keep up the good work with the father and son partnership and enjoy the time spent. Don't worry about the speed of progress.

Get in a truck and do it yourself is what the meaning is 😂

Hi Mike from west Alabama USA

Stubby sounds good

Stubby is a runner you and your dad are moving right along.

Great video Mike. Hair cut makes you 10 years younger!!

Your DAD Is a rockstar 😁😁😁😀🆒😂🤣

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

He really is ❤️

@jimmclaughlin9362

Ай бұрын

@@mikethetrucknut Which makes me wonder, Mike. Why did you not have or let your Dad drive Stubby down the road on his maiden test drive. If it is your Dad's truck....

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

@@jimmclaughlin9362 he didn't want to

You could call stubby TOD (Truck Of Dads)😎👍

I like Dad's truck.

Hi Mr Mike like your videos have a great day.

As well ya should be proud of the work you’ve done ✅ on Duke. Will miss him on the channel. I can’t wait to see K2 and the 359 runnin. Smokey hopefully is the next one to roll coal

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

10:4

I hear you mike, some people are just too impatient with other things. With Duke gone that leaves you room for other vehicles you can put in the shop to work on.

If your dad's going to use stubby to tow a camper, you can use replace the unused take ( New ) to hold water for the camper.

Keeping the name Stubby is cool, it's kind of like when a bald guy is called curly! lol

You guys can just work your way through the deficiency list on Stubby. That and some cleaning. Smokey needs more, but is far along from when you bought it. Take care. See you again soon.

The reason why they said clean it up is to inspect it to see if there is any issues before inspection. They don't want to go supprise can't drive it till new frame or fix it properly

Hi from France, i've been following you for a while,i really do enjoy your chanel, man i wish i could do what you do,i love cabover "K-dubs" (if you know,you know).

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Keep up the momentum on this excellent truck, being as the various jobs are relatively minor, but at the same time attack Smokey's engine.

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

I was thinking I should jump into smokey engine. The other work would be easier if it was driving

Like you said have the draw and return on one tank then you could fill the other tank with beer. Would have to figure a way to keep it cold though. Thanks for the video.

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

I met a guy that had made one into a tool box and would store firewood in it for camping

@jimmclaughlin9362

Ай бұрын

@@mikethetrucknut Fred Rethwisch keeps his handicapped scooter in his right tank on that beautiful International they built.

Got to see Duke making the rounds in Kelowna earlier this week 😀only wish I had time to stop and grab a few pics.

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

Very cool! I wish them well with him

You should post a month of video on each truck, keep everyone interested and not missing their favourite, but keep at it 😊

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

That's a great idea! Keeps me motivated with them all too.

When I started driving, diesel was two cents a gallon. Its never going to get cheaper again under the kinds of governments we now have. I live in Wasilla so who knows, maybe run into you if fall out of a moving rig in front of my place as I never leave home anymore. I used to when I could walk.... too old to learn new habits I suppose.

@petahdickinson1782

Ай бұрын

I live in Australia and the price of diesel is about $2 dollars a litre now

Hello Mike, just wondering has your dad driven stubby yet since it’s been running PS love the channel

Hey Mike! Great work you did on stubby! Now i like to know if you once go back to the place you bought Kenny and stubby from to check on the stuff there if its still there love to see the old truck parts and cabs and stuff thats stil there!

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

They went threw and scraped most of it. They did keep the old int. And pete.

@master0rico0

Ай бұрын

​@@mikethetrucknut ah thats a bummer... Isnt there an other old truck scrapyard?

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

@master0rico0 yes the truck wreckers he has a ton of old wreaks

@master0rico0

Ай бұрын

@@mikethetrucknut make a video🙈

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Enjoy the video 😊

Cleanest the workshops ever been, I can see the floor lol

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

Right !

I've never driven one that has the 3 piece windshield before. Looking out the windshield through your camera it looks like that upright moulding would drive ya nuts. Does it ? It looks like the interior on stubby is in nice condition. Do you have the sleeper curtain for it ?

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

Yes the sleeper curtain is in good shape

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@chadkeegan is one real truck driver, he’s a young man with an ol trucker soul

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

I love what he's doing

can you fix it ?

mike bey one scania dutch truck

leave them alone!!!

Are you going start on K2 put engine in and transmission Mike

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

I really need to

m ike less detail more workin what your workin on???

Yeah Mike I know you’re working on smoky and have a lot going on but K 2 needs some love ❤❤

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

It really does

Are the wipers intermittent?

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

They are air so you can turn them down

I love what your doing to smokey but I would like to see it started up when are you doing that

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

I think I'm going ro start on the engine

@shanebell2256

Ай бұрын

@@mikethetrucknut a awesome I love cabovers my dad

@shanebell2256

Ай бұрын

@@mikethetrucknut that's good to hear I'm glad I love cabover is my dad taught me when I was 12 on the cab over the drive

Now you can concentrate on Stubby,Smokey,Old Blue and K2..

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

Yes

You should be proud to get Duke back to work!!

What's next for "Stubby?"

What happened to Duke?

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

I sold him

Not a bad side line, grab newer trucks ..fix and flip to keep your other passions going .. it's hard once you put a lot of you into it but at least ppl will know what there getting when it's sold

@mikethetrucknut

Ай бұрын

Very true, the videos show everything so there's nothing hidden

the 359 and low and slow are my favorite’s. Pete and cat’s

the tipical day of trucker

Are you going to buy any more trucks older trucks