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So R600 or R700 sounds fine, CH Macks are a fair step forward in comfort and I don't think you would be sorry with a E6 2 valve tip turbine motor or a E7 Mechanical type of motor Mack 12 speed are pretty bullet proof as are 44 Mack rear end Single rail chassis in parts of North America are apparently important It really depends on what your plans are As much as we love the old gear, you certainly know it's old gear after a big day pulling a load Paul

Somewhere I had a GMC V-6 repower catalog too. I talked to a guy years ago that worked for a trucking company back in the 60's that had a lot of White 3000's. He told me that they repowered their Whites with GMC V-6's with good results, they had more power and better fuel economy than the old White flatheads.

I think the Deutz was available sometime around 1987, after the brief fling with the Deere diesel. Last year for the Toroflow was 1974. In 1977 the Detroit 4-53 was back as an option in the GM medium duty trucks, and it was replaced by the Detroit 8.2L in 1980.

Same here, flat top trailers are just about finished since the advent of curtain sider type trailers I never realised why places like the U.S. loved pantec type trailers so much, but our flat top trailers and tarps would be pretty useless in the snow and freezing cold winters of the north America and Europe Would be impossible to fold frozen tarps and undo frozen ropes So much different than here and for very good reasons as well Paul

Over here in Europe the flat trailer or flat body truck is almost a thing of the past.Curtinsider trailers/bodywork rule.From doing most work Id say flats are doing 5% of the work now.Drivers who can rope and tarp a load are very thin on the ground..... Paul

Hmmmm, the reliance on straps in the U.S. is very different than out here I was given a old Australian book while in the U.S. that shows the way to secure loads of every conceivable type I have noticed the U.S. don't wrap a chain around the load of wood to choke it on the front so it can't slide forward I dunno that many people in Australia do that anymore either The harder it trys to slide forward the tighter it grips Hurdles (what we call your headache rack) on the front of the trailer are drop in and a sheet of form ply type of wood wood is leaned up against it and the stacked hard up against it All a bit different here though, different roads and weather conditions Loads like this I would expect a chain on each stack Paul

That's some impressive stacking

Doesn't cost anything a lot of Mack stuff.....

Is it just a 2 bedroom 1 bath, or does it have a second bath? I need a place to pee when the boss is fixin her face...

mine was well used and abused. hit 3 trees with my honda 175 before i realized the points cover seal was bad leaking oil into the points housing. i would lean to make a right turn from the fields to the woods and loose one cylinder, just as i would get it straightened out, the second cylinder would come back.. and since i was still full throttle trying t keep it in the almost sugar sand, it would pull the front wheel up rite into a giant oak tree. fixed the point seal to keep from oiling the points, and about a month later i came through the woods the opposite direction and a friend was coming out of the field rite in front of me. so i turned the bars, rite into the same damn tree about 25 mph. that was the end of the 175. about three years later i was on a harley sportster, and a pickup ran a stop sigh rite in front of me. swerved to avoid him, laid it down, and slid rite into a telephone pole. then the tumbling bike landed on top of me. i decided 5 trees was enough and have not rode a bike since 86 or so

There is an update on the lumber truck, they say a car did indeed pull in front of the truck and cause the accident. The driver put it in the ditch rather than hit the car. But- I always secured every load like I was expecting that to happen, not like "well, it could possibly happen but it probably won't".

So you dont have the old harness ?

😉 they last a long time like that when you don't put them through the paces (and that's a good thing) Back with the dirt bikes..... if you didn't have a Bel Moto 3, you weren't cool.

Guys In my younger days ............ way back when My ol man was saying wish we had some good gear to useto cart D9s etc so I wrote a letter to all the main truck & low boy makers requesting info a few replied and some sent b&w 10 x 8 photos this is how I had the GMC / Fruehauf dump body pics on single wheels & the B model Mack from trailer makers Thanks for tour interest cya

This is a little out of my experience, however I know someone who posts on a different board, He repairs "lightening strike" vehicles. One thing I picked up from him, that one bad module can pull the whole Canbus down giving the impression that everything is "dead". Once the one the one thing that is killing communication on the bus is disconnected the rest can come back to life. This requires locating where they are tied to the canbus wiring and removing one by one, until the bad one is found, re connecting one by one to make sure you don't have more than one. He also says to check the resistance between the hi and lo buss wires and look for a set resistance (150 ohm?) I'm not sure about the resistance I could check with him if you get that far. Higher is an open somewhere and lower is something on the buss is shorted.

Ok that a little different… other guys might chime in to recommend a perfect set up good luck I ran freight trucks all my life mostly single axles so I’m not familiar with what would work for you… good luck … bob

appreciate your perspective. I should say that this is not a truck that I'm going to be using everyday. Farm application (building roads, etc) and occasionally out to a job site but not my every day rig. o.

I agree that it could be wiring related, I spent some more time with the truck trying to figure out what’s going on. The engine ecm is definitely offline, it won’t communicate with the laptop. Power and ground leading up to it seem fine from what I could test with what tools I had available to me. As much as I hate to “parts cannon” a truck, I think I’m going to try replacing the engine harness. It still needs an ecm though from what I can tell. I already took the ecm off, I’ll have it tested and repaired tomorrow if all goes well. Could someone please get the the correct part number for the engine harness for the truck? 2012 GU713 MP7 VIN: 1M2AX04C5CM011802

Looking for new or good used engine harness P/N 41MR5864M or 25502503. What have you got?

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anything that old for sale is usually beat to hell,,and wind up on a hook half the time and nickel and dime you to death,,,if you insist on older low mileage i would start checking state sales,,,,most of thier stuff is low miles well kept up and reasonably priced,,,good luck,,bob

It’s not uncommon for bad wiring under the valve cover will shut down cylinders and werid stuff goes on! A place to look! just sayin

You know it was 54 years ago. I had a bad accident was nobody’s fault but my own I was speeding just got my learners permit car pulled out in front of me was not his fault. I tried to avoid the car. I ran into a three and got knocked out. Helmet was all scraped up when I came to completely ruined my 66 Honda 90 and I can still remember that car that turned in front of me don’t know how it was around a 71 Ford wagon light blue I don’t know how I remember that but I believe it was a bell since back then that’s what everybody was buying hell it was so long ago. I’m surprised I even thought of that since I’m getting older and senile.