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Thanks all for the stories. Here is some Saturday updates. Carrier bearing bracket: 1/2" plate welded to fit. I don't have any fab shop available since buddy retired and business was bought by new company. Due to slight misinformation the shop put the bolt pattern on centerline of my bracket, instead of a couple inches behind so I had to zig zag a bit. No worries, it will work. Just had to cut and paste it a couple times. Took a few tries to get it tacked in proper orientation before welding solid. I can't reach truck with welder, so had to use digital protractor and guesstimate, then tack, reinstall and see how each piece fit. Couple times and it was dead on. Now to drill for the four holes to attach to existing cross member. I have driveshaft angles all worked out using online calculator. I will need to roll pinion down from 5* to about 1*. This frame was from a short single axle and the driveshaft was short and aimed up. Now I have to go 120" and it has too much angle to get there. When I had the third box in, it wasn't an issue because it had a short driveshaft. There are a couple shims to pull but not sure if that will get me down. I may have to cut torque arm and shorten a touch. Time will tell, that is for another day. I got the cruise control cable all remade and hooked up. Should function as well as before. With the Z bar reverser I had to extend the cable to get to the block side and around to pull. It used to have a bracket on head of compressor and pulled on pump arm. This pump works back asswards and so has to reconfigure it. Luckily a std throttle cable fits it. Exhaust downpipe: After picking up the correct clamp, a short piece and a SS 90* pipe I was able to fabricobble it into one piece and it aims right down to my existing pipe that runs down under the truck. I just need to weld a 1/4" npt bung for my pyrometer. Will do that at work Monday as I need to use SS and TIG it. I only have mild steel Mig at home. Don't zoom in on the welds. They aren't pretty (my buddy would have made it look like jewelry but I wanted to do it myself). Thus I put some black paint on it. Ya, polished SS, it was what they had. Driveshaft sorta hanging in place. It will get wiped down after carrier bearing hanger is installed and then put some paint on it. Damn that thing is HEAVY! Even in two pieces. I put it up one piece at a time. I purchased steel Friday for the clutch linkage contraption. New revised sketch. It won't criss cross now. I am using the longer arm from the old Mack 5 spd(fits perfectly) and gets me down and away from transmission better to allow linkage clearance. It is the larger circle, the smaller is the arm I am building for clutch pedal. The item to lower right is the Z bar and it lays out the motion and travel I need. It is a plus to be an "engineer". 😆. I am nothing of the sort, but can draw shit. I will work on cutting pieces out for some machine work this coming week. Progress.......baby steps all around.

They make this florescent dye stuff that turns a certain color if it detects combustion gasses in the cooling system, I would start with that to see if you have a seeping gasket somewhere.

2015 Pinnacle CXU613 with the MP8, I’m getting this black like sludge built up in the coolant reservoir, drained the coolant, put a new coolant filter in, & installed a new reservoir. Go to crank it up and the same build up is already happening in the reservoir. Suggestions on what it could be, what to look for/where to look. Thanks.

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Got the front shutters installed,generator rebuilt and installed.

I have replaced the transmission the other day and was thinking maybe the RPM sensor on the flywheel housing maybe?

I still I have power to the cab, the a/c and lights are operational but the RPM gauge goes straight to zero.

If it is a total electric cut out. I would look at wiring issues, or even hot relays. They are in the panel on the right in the cab fuse panel.. I should have mentioned the ground connections...

Hello, my 2002 CH613 is cutting out and dies while i am driving. I can cycle the key and it will start back up but not an ideal situation in traffic.

They called Mack .....Gabrelli and said to send somebody down we want to buy tri-axle's.....wouldn't come ......But CWPM still buy's Mack's have no option Garbage truck's

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Bob, how did they look in Allied Van lines colors those days? Bright orange all over? I like the look of them H's.

H-65 - a non-sleeper cab? Or am I wrong?

Also, I was wondering what year tow drivers started removing the driveshaft

Forgot to mention, they were all painted Allied van lines, colors, and all in really good shape like they had been restored

I don’t even recall ever seeing one on the road when I was a kid I’m sure I did, but when I moved to California and used to go to the Bay Area quite a bit I believe it was Allied. Van lines had a bunch of them running around the bay area all cleaned up middle 80s. I don’t know what was up with that and I don’t know how many they actually had, but I used to see at least one of them all the time around Oakland. Still working… Aaaaahhhhh good old days.

hope it wasn't because of a calendar LOL. speaking of which I did a visit recently to one of my yrs back customers. a guy who threw nothing away; some items were Mack calendars back to the '70's and up . I quickly looked for the controversial HI/Ho == O&G picture; not found. 1- I don't recall the year= had to be mid late '70's -early 80's. 2- some calendars were brittle , didn't want to ruin. will keep searching the pile one day. he's not getting any younger ; kids will call in a dumpster 😨

wasn't Manafort tied in with Arute some how ??? there were a few fleets back then having the black/white striped "safty" front bumper paint scheme.

one thing I can tell you about the H;; if your in one on a cold winter day ;it don't start so you are being towed by a diamond T wrecker having a pull plate of 2 in steel in the upright position::: MAKE SURE THE DUPLEX TWIN STICK IS IN BOTH MAIN AND AUX.!! with no air built up and a hand brake which is frozen not much to do when the wrecker stops for traffic and the H model doesn't stop till the crash of the wrecker pull plate modifies the bubble nose of the H. this all takes place while the service manager and 3 prospective buyers watch. main was in gear aux wasn't. new rules took place after that.. pull plate down to bumper height/ air will be built up in towed unit . LOL

H-65 were made '55- -'58 total number produced =====63.also produced WERE::: H- 60 /62/ 64/ 65/68/69/613 -only 3/628 -'55 only 2/633/653/673/693/81/813/6-8WC in'56 only 10 .... interesting... H-61 '52-57==484 made ///H63 '54-58 ==4091 made (hot seller)///H-67 '57-'62==5954 made (real go getter).

My pictures posted out of order. look at the tes numbers to follow the steps correctly..

Here is what is in the V-MAC III Book

lol beats me I don’t know anything about them. I’m sure somebody else will chime in