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A competition monster truck is typically 12 feet (3.7 m) tall, and equipped with 66-inch (1.7 m) off-road tires. Monster trucks developed in the late 1970s and came into the public eye in the early 1980s as side acts at popular motocross, tractor pulling, and mud bogging events, where they
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In 1981, Bigfoot made the first monster truck car crush. That same year, Bigfoot was featured in the film Take This Job and Shove It. In 1982, Bigfoot was the first monster truck to crush cars in front of an audience. In March 1983, Bigfoot 1 performed in front of 72,000 fans in the largest single day monster truck event at the Pontiac ...
Pneumatically actuated shut down valve A diagram of the internal components of a safety shutoff valve. When this type of valve is tripped, the flow is quickly stopped and an indicator disc tells the operator that the electrical circuit has been opened by a failure somewhere in the system.
A PTO at the rear end of a farm tractor A PTO (in the box at the bottom) in the center of the three-point hitch of a tractor. A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine.
Forby Forklift is a forklift-styled monster truck with golden-brown tires. Grandpa Rover (voiced by Bill Lynn) is Meteor's grandfather. Hook (voiced by Joanne Vannicola) is an orange monster truck who has broken lightbulb and cross-bone patterns on his tires. King Crush is an oversized steamroller-like monster truck from the horror movies.
A vacuum hose connected to the intake manifold downstream of the throttle provides a reference pressure for the blowoff valve.. When the throttle is open, the air pressure on both sides of the blowoff valve's piston is equal, therefore the spring holds the valve closed.