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Good evening, so I bought this beautiful R model off of hicrop10 last September. The truck was shipped to me and it was everything that he said it was. I’ve put some new parts on it, rear fenders, new roof lights and horns, new mirrors, new steps/toolbox, front bumper and grill guard, muffler and stack, rear plate for brake lights and backup lights, mudflaps, and a few more things to do. But the purpose of this post is to say that my dad drove truck, he LOVED Mack trucks. Tonight I was installing the grill guard, I finished and took a picture like we all do. After I took the picture I looked at it and realized that in the reflection, was a picture of my dad, nephew, and I, along with a Mack sign that is hanging on the side of the bathroom wall in the barn. It wasn’t planned, it just happened that way. My dad passed away in 2018. I know he was here tonight while I was working on the truck. Just a cool story I wanted to share. I’m sure many of you have similar stories, I’d love to hear them. Have a great night guys!

Progress.... I put the "newer" valve spring on #5 intake, set head on and just snugged the bolts. Will torque after front head is installed. I received my reman 673 water pump and got it bolted on, along with torquing the oil filter housing once everything was lined up. I got the fan hub slipped on and nut tightened down. You can tell this is "new" as the bearings and seal make it snug to turn. Unlike my original one from who knows when?? My injectors are ready to pick up. They had to dig into their cores for a few parts to get them up to spec. I get them Thursday night. About $650 total. I still am working on getting copper seals out of front head. My round file isn't large enough to grab the copper. Will continue to tinker with that situation. I do need to come up with a plug for the puff limiter in the front of the pump. Limiter was broken off when I got motor. A question I will ask at pump shop. I did start to get the gold paint put on. Just quick coating over most of bottom end. Will need a couple more cans to actually finish it but first coat will be set. I need to determine what that hose is sticking out of top of water pump housing. My 673 didn't have that. Not sure if that heater connection? Mine has nipple that I put into new pump down by oil cooler neck. I can always swap it back for the plug that was in that hole. I think that pipe just had a cut off black hose and assume it might be heater. I know this 300 motor had water shut off on rear water manifold just like my 673/237. The 300 pump didn't have a hole down there by oil cooler like 673 pump. I did order new lock tabs for exhaust bolts. No sense in using old rusty ones. Speedi sleeve should be here Thursday for crank hub.

SUCCESS! 3/4" hole drill, turned 1/4 turn at a time by hand with vise grips got them to pop loose. No damage to head as it didn't have to cut through. You could feel it POP loose and spin with no resistance after awhile. Now onto putting heads on. I washed up the intercooler housing this morning at the shop so it is ready to put in once I torque the heads. Then exhaust manifold once I get studs reinstalled into heads.

I cleaned up the water pump housing and got it bolted on. The lower water hole was previously rusted out and a helicoil was installed. It seems ok and torqued down to 55ft/lb ok. I was concerned about my water pump and wanted to look at putting bearings in it. It didn't leak but when spun it had a looseness to it and you could hear a faint rumble from old bearings. The Mack manual shows how to rebuild it but takes a special puller to get vanes off the shaft. I played around but figured it would be better just to replace it. I googled and found a 673 version. The 300 is about 1/2" shorter shaft and no keyway for pulley. I am going to call on the reman version and have a known good pump. I'm taking crank hub to shop Sat to press it apart and machine it. Assemble the heads and get them home so I can get them set on. I made a list of silicone hoses to replace all the old lines that hook stuff together. Water manifold, intake, oil cooler, turbo. $100 at Summit racing. I did the same for the 237. Things should really come together this coming week.

I couldn't take it....I had to light it off tonight. Primed it up with fuel and it took right off. Now to get radiator hooked up so it can run with water.

Little update. I found a wrench to get oil filter housing off 237 without any fuss. Happen to have an offset box end wrench that just fit. I got twin filter mounted and painted with motor. I have turbo feed line 1/2 installed but will wait to cut other end to length until after I get valve covers fitted and make sure line is correct length. My package showed up from Kevin with my offset plate for tip turbine along with dog leg rubber feed hose. I did find that these valve covers don't clear the mounting bolts for rockers(on top of Jake's). I think my 237s don't have this reinforcement plate under mounting holes. Or maybe it is just because I don't have gaskets in place yet? It's close, so maybe those will shim covers up enough. Will check into that. EDIT: with two gaskets it looks like it just clears. Likely just like the 237 was. I didn't got out and look at 237 covers. I am painting pieces and mocking up. Very close to getting intake pieces in for good. Kevin sent me a template to mark frame for R power steering box. Something else to get working on. Hoping to maybe prime this up by next weekend. I have filters and oil for it. Once I get turbo feed line on, it is ready.

This didn’t begin Friday. Carter started it. He watched the Islamic Republic take power, watched American diplomats get seized and paraded on television for 444 days, spent the rest of his presidency negotiating with people who had already told us exactly what they were. Reagan facilitated it. October 23rd, 1983. A Hezbollah truck bomb funded and directed by Iran killed 241 United States Marines in Beirut while they slept. The deadliest single day for the Marine Corps since Iwo Jima. Reagan’s response? Tehran was heard clearly and never forgotten kill enough Americans at once and America will leave. That lesson became the operational blueprint for every Iran-backed proxy attack for the next forty years. Clinton ignored it. 1995 — a car bomb in Riyadh kills five Americans. 1996 — Khobar Towers. A massive truck bomb kills 19 United States Air Force personnel in Saudi Arabia. Nothing. 1998 — Embassy bombings in Africa. 2000 — USS Cole. Seventeen sailors killed. Clinton launched missiles at an empty training camp and an aspirin factory. Eight years. Hundreds of Americans dead or wounded. Zero consequences for Tehran. Bush handed them the keys. He called them the Axis of Evil correctly. Then invaded two countries simultaneously and handed Iran the greatest strategic gift in its history. Iranian Quds Force operatives flooded across the border funding, training, and arming the militias killing our soldiers. And the response was to continue the war while avoiding direct confrontation with the country killing our people. By the time Bush left office Iran had deeper influence in Iraq than we did. Obama funded it. This is where failure becomes unforgivable. The Green Revolution of 2009 where millions of Iranians in the streets begging for American support ignored. The protesters were crushed. The regime survived. Then came the $150 billion in sanctions relief, sunset clauses that expired within a decade, zero restrictions on ballistic missiles, and zero restrictions on funding proxy terror networks. Then came the cash. $1.7 billion. On pallets. On an unmarked plane. In the middle of the night. Delivered simultaneously with American hostages. The regime used the imagery as propaganda for years and used the money to fund Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthi expansion in Yemen, and the proxy militia networks in Iraq and Syria that spent the next decade killing Americans. Obama literally funded the apparatus that put the drone into Tower 22. Biden surrendered to it. 160-plus attacks on American forces from October 2023 forward. American soldiers killed in Jordan. Two Navy SEALs lost at sea intercepting Iranian weapons shipments to the Houthis. Houthi missiles disrupting global shipping lanes. Iranian proxies running operations across five countries. Three Georgia soldiers died in their beds. Then came Trump. He looked at forty-five years of this record and did something no president had done since the hostages came home. He said no. Maximum pressure. IRGC designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Sanctions reimposed. The JCPOA abandoned. Soleimani the architect of Iranian proxy violence across the entire Middle East, personally responsible for hundreds of American deaths killed in a precision strike in January 2020. The regime paralyzed. The proxies recalibrated. The nuclear program set back. For the first time in four decades the regime faced a president it genuinely could not predict. Then Trump left office. Biden came in. The pressure evaporated. The appeasement resumed. And the regime, patient as it has always been, went back to work. And now we’re here. So the next time someone tells you this is Trump’s war tell them they are brainless twats. This isn’t Trump’s war. This is forty-five years of American presidents refusing to finish it and one president finally deciding that the bill comes due. If you are not capable of comprehending that move to Iran and defend the regime personally. Insurrection Barbie

More progress this afternoon: Heads torqued, valve train sitting on there waiting to be torqued. I loosened all the adjusters about a turn just so nothing would happen to touch when I start to roll it around. It shouldn't be too far out but remember : Safety THIRD! 😂 Exhaust manifold snugged on Tomorrow will be torquing things and adjusting valves. I found some HPC reinforced silicone plugs for the two water fittings. Same basic stuff I am using for other couplings. I tried to get dual filter housing off 237. The intake is in the freaking way! I need to fabri-cobble a socket/wrench to get the center bolt out so I don't have to remove manifold. Even 1/4" drive is too tall. Box wrench won't fit in the recess. F-me. In all, glad to see this coming together this far. I can see in another week, I could fire it up. I have my old extra radiator like I used when I ran it last summer in the driveway for about 45 minutes. Since it is on metal legs I feel a bit more secure then when it was just sitting on wood blocks wobbling around.

Progress today .. Heads assembled, almost. I tried checking spring pressure but the outers are too tall for buddies checker without screwing with it and making him reset it for his daily work. I checked free height and they all were right about the same besides being a bit short of "spec". The inner spring I could check pressure and even being about .07 short it was within pressure. So I checked all heights and all but one outer was within same height. I left it apart and will being getting some spares from Mack buddy. I machined the crank hub. All is well. Only issue is one small spot where it is marked. A few pit marks and I am going to get a speedi sleeve for it. The rest is perfect condition so there is no need to leave a chance for seal to tear on those marks. I checked and marked my balancer for correct TDC. I'm using my old 673 and it has no factory marks. It has a timing mark on flywheel. I did TDC and up to 30* plus 120* each way. Taped it and used yellow highlighter. I will paint around them and then clear over timing marks. Far from perfect but will be nice when needed. The long stripe is TDC, the shorts are 5* increments. The keen eyes will see GOLD paint behind the balancer. I stopped and found another shade of gold and it looks good! So I will be getting more. Rust-Oleum metallic champagne gold.

Back to square one. Was able to fit in my small mill at home. Drill/tap insert thread insert. I also took a quick pass across the mounting surface with a face mill. Got rid of the rust and rough pitting. It's all back together and running. Question to the guys in the know: Does the valve train not get much oil? Valve tips are not getting much. A few more then others. The rockers are getting oil at the shaft as you can see it drip out but the rocker tip not so much. These are the rockers from the 237 and they didn't oil much. I did clean them and used air pressure to make sure the rocker passages are clear. Moving rocker up/down you can feel air spurt out at the tip. It didn't seem to have issues on the 237 with wear or anything. Is this normal? The studs I got were just a smidge short on thread length so I had to stack up a couple washers to make sure the nut didn't bottom out before tightening.

Well, I posted a video on FB last night of it building oil pressure. I am getting closer to making noise. Need to paint second valve cover and get them bolted down. Intake tube from turbo needs painted. Make up fuel line and get some diesel out of the truck. I want to get my other radiator out of the basement again and hooked up so I can run it for a longer time like last summer.

much much betterrer. i was 170 pounds leaving the hospital, the 3 weeks of stress and worry really did a number on me. i also realized i had warning signs before the "stay" that i did not see... lack of appitite and a weight loss of 15 pounds being the two largest during january. i am back up to 190 pounds this am. and my appitite has returned, though my taste buds seem to be off kilter. foods and drinks i used to love now taste like crap. the bright side though is i am eating much healthier. i am still weak, but every day brings slight improvements. i am now walking close to 3/4 mile weather permitting before getting sore.. three weeks ago i was lucky to get 30 feet before "running out of gas". i am being extra cautious though, as i am still concidered a fall risk as my balance is off a bit. the dumb mutt no longer avoides me either. i guess she smelled i was sick and wanted nothing to do with me.

It amazes me that everyone forgets what these people have been up to the last 40 plus years. Then again, seems no one can remember what they were doing almost 25 years ago either. From FDNY and Never Forget to mondomi (or whatever his name is. That's not even scratch'n the surface of Minnesota.

Yeah, as above I'm thinking a carton of Marlboro and the bottles of Yukon Jack might be the go Oh and a full size model to keep you warm Tofu ???

In the more money than brains dept.

So I am on A big restoratrion project.. Here's a few Pics...

That's PRESIDENT asshole to you! He's the Commander in Chief of the US Military and wore a white USA hat, not a "baseball cap". He represented no baseball team. He represented the United States. And, as military regulations require, he saluted when appropriate, just like the other military officers who attended.

A few of the pictures wont upload, but you get the idea...

offal ???? sounds like it's awful here too

I bet they do.... Who doesnt love a sandwhich or breakfast hash made with lips and butt holes... Deeee.... licious..

Thing I don't understand is why people worry about paying for tariffs, but when billions goes missing in fraud there's not even half the concern.

Speaking of finding things, way back in the early 80's I had delivered somewhere in North Carolina and called headquarters. They didn't have anything for me to pick up so the boss man said to come on to the shop. Then he said "if you don't mind, and I know it's a long shot, but a driver stopped at the little BP station on 29 north of Greensboro yesterday and he thinks he might have dropped his keys, he can't find them anywhere. Maybe somebody found them and turned them in to the fuel desk or something". That little BP station was exactly where the Sheetz is now, at the time there was just a tiny little dirt parking lot and a spot around back to park, so you could park maybe 4 trucks in there total. So I stopped, thinking I'd never find any keys, but I could get a drink and a honey bun and head on to the house. I pulled in and parked, got out of the truck and didn't take 2 steps and there they were, laying on the ground.

I moved the big Mack truck over to where I used to park the GMC yesterday. That frees up some parking space when I want to wash something. I'll be glad when Joey picks up this big green International that runs now, that will free up space in the carport for my car. And today I decided that I should wash the big Mack truck. I moved it back over where it was so the hose would reach and discovered that birds had built a nest at the back of the hood. I looked in the doorway with a flashlight and there was no eggs in it so I removed it. If there had been eggs in it I would have put the truck back where it was and left it alone until bird's nest egg hatching season was over- because I'm just that kind of guy. So I gave it a wash job and parked it back over where the GMC was. It's facing east now, it was facing west when it was beside the carport. Maybe it'll get a little more protection from the sun there, it's hard on the paint sitting out in the sun.

I have had my B87 tractor painted.The frame I had a local tow company do it an they did a great job,but I had sandblast it first.Then the cab and fenders and so worth I had Mickey Delia from Frenchtown NJ do that and again fabulous job.I had sandblasted the cab my self.All in I’m going to say without including my time I have $25,000 in it.Hersome pictures of it.

Like he or I care what you believe. His "uniform", by established protocol, is a business suit. No mention is made about a hat, neither for nor against. The ONLY people who seem to have an issue with it are you clowns on the left, who have an issue with anything and everything he does.

Nothing like chowing down on a good sausage ????

This could also be said for the USofA.

Well...I guess I will too then.

I was looking on Facebook marketplace place and saw a lady had posted something about 10 Tucky on Facebook through a Walking Horse page,, I thought what the heck, I posted a picture of the LTH on there and a brief description of how i got it. I’ve had over 600 responses and 110 comments, talked to 2 people who drove it in around 1975 . Evidently Mr John Miller was very well respected in the Walking Horse community back then, and many comments by people who worked for him in the construction industry. One fellow said Miller told him that he had the truck restored in Idaho in about 1974 on its way down from Alaska to Tennessee and he spent $50,000 on it ! A lot of money in 1974 ,, but it had more chrome than anything I ever saw back in the day. I’m still hoping a picture will surface from that era. Some one sent me a picture of 10 Tuckys B Model. , a 10Tucky poster, and the picture I posted.

Just finished shoveling the last storm off the tent garage to make room for the 2 plus feet of global warming coming tomorrow. Trying to ward off a collapse.

Bringing manufacturing back to the U.S.A. is bad when Mr. TRUMP travels the world to make big bussiness deals... Laundering millions through fake Somali bussiness' is just fine... My very basic statement is enough to prove that the left is buying votes... Its about Power!!! Not the good of the country and its CITIZENS... Too bad we cant just have a smooth system of swearing in New U.S. Citizens, instead of buying them for votes...