Brocky

Yes I would start with the engine. Pull the plugs, Put a bar on the front and see if it is free. Do you already have the pan off?? If you do not have a cylinder scope to go thru the plug holes, make sure you can get a rebuild gasket set, and pull the head and pan to see if it is rebuildable??? If not you may have to consider a repower??? At he same time set the cab on a pallet and inspect it close.. That will tell you what is involved in the body work necessary. Do you have the fire apparatus body??? If so do a good inspection of it. Then take a good appraisal of your body work skills. A lot of your decisions will be how much of the work you can do yourself versus your checkbook!!!

Steve, either Tom Millard or Stan Augustine had mentioned them on the old Brockway site several years ago. James, either of the two mentioned above can help you with Continental engines. If you need their email addresses please email / PM me thru here.

If the libtard citizens (???) of the sanctuary states and cities want their governments to continue be sanctuary they definitely should take the illegals into their own homes and feed them..

Steve, Is that the outfit up by Chicago??? Wasn't there also a place in Utica NY which overhauled Continentals???

When I plowed with 2 wheel drive trucks our top speed was about 30 MPH, But when we fired up the old Walters we were down to about a top speed of about 15 MPH.

Dean, Thank you for continuing to post pictures of the devastation.. Our prayers are with your whole community to be able to rebuild.

Sorta off topic🤔.. Saturday I was talking with a man who is a lineman supervisor for Laurens Electric Coop here locally and he said this was the worst storm that he has seen in the 45 years he has worked for them. And we did not get it anywhere as bad as Dean's area did. Customer outage was 98% and it took the first 3-4 days to even get power back to the substations and those breakers replaced before they could go to work on the distribution lines.

Tom, Thanks for starting this topic... I too have run Calif a few times, but 52 west of Barstow to Bakersfield and 395 down from Reno to LA are about the only "back" roads. I heard the song about the Feather River Canyon on the radio the other day and told the wife that was one I never ran.

Larry Think Positive!!!!!! It is going to be a tough battle, but if Trump can get a congress he can work with, he will get us started in the right direction and hopefully Vance will be able to fill his shoes and continue for another 8 years.

If the spring is broken or the cups wore out you can source them from places like McMaster-Carr, and other specialty houses. The pieces and contours should be standard so all you have to do is get the right diameter.

Contact Gary Mahan at the Mahan foundation in Basking Ridge NJ. He and his people probably have the most information on AC Macks in the country. At least they can tell you where to look for more numbers. Once you have a serial number, then contact the Mack Museum in Allentown PA and they can likely send you more information about who originally bought it.

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No Ideas on the gizmo!!!!! Does your air compressor feed from the intake manifold???? It looks like you could use either???

Maybe McDonald's is hiring?????

The Roo Bar just paid for its self!!!!!!!!!

Is this part of the railroad washouts somebody posted about a while ago?????

First try to find all the data plates you can.. Including both the chassis and whoever made the pump and body.. As FWD said with the serial number the Mack can provide a lot of info.. They are GREAT!!!! With the apparatus manufacturer and their data plates there are many sources for info and parts.

AMERICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I doubt if it is done yet!!!!!!

Our ex chapter president has a similar Mack that he hauls his 5th wheel toy hauler (fits a Smart car in) camper with.. I do not have an interior picture, But he replaced the mattress in the bunk with a bench seat complete with belts for his grand kids car seat.

Welcome to BMT.. This truck should last you a lifetime with the plans you have for it..

But!! Their roots like to grow into sewer lines and break expensive things.

Is this a business expansion???? Trailer as well as 10 wheeler???

When we started at Wrangler Blue Jeans, some of the old timers told us that the only reason that Wrangler had a plant on the Interstate was because the Interstate came thru later!!!!! The worst was the container port in Panama City FLA. The roughly 200 miles from Columbus GA to the port had 72 red lights!!!

Paul, DO NOT knock the highway system in Australia!!! You may not have the Interstate system we have, except around the major cities, But your Main 4 lane and 2 lane highways are equal to our older US and Major State highways with stop lights, driveway access, villages and small cities..... The no shoulder thing also applies here except for the northern 1/3 of the country where they need a place to push the snow.. We do not have the dirt roads in rural areas like you do in the Outback, but I presume as more traffic grows you are extending the paved (Bitumen) roads. On our 2013 trip to Alaska I ran about 150 miles of dirt road from Tok AL to Dawson YK, 10 miles of rough grade construction, But the rest was smooth enough to run 40 to 50 MPH.