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  1. Freightrain
    Neat truck! Love the stainless box. Takes some finesse to get the hand throttle adjusted just right. Have to slide the little pin up a bit farther. When I fixed mine I had the same problem. Just moved it a bit more and now I can get wide open throttle! Here is mine, you can see the brass pin on the cable sticking through the hole on the throttle linkage: Mine has no turbo, so you can see it from the top. Most guys use Photobucket to post pictures here. You can save them to your gallery also.
  2. Freightrain
    Wow...now that is an adventure!! Thanks for sharing it. To go to those lengths for an old Mack is quite extreme.
  3. Freightrain
    What we have here is viscosity breakdown......
  4. Freightrain
    My B isn't quite so bad, but you can get it to huff if you swat the pedal. Granted, mine has two stacks so it kinda thins it out between the two. Think back a few years with all the 237 and 285 powered dumps were running. They would darken the road when they took off with a load. Many dumps had weedburner exhausts to boot. Pretty sure that is a big NO NO these days.
  5. Freightrain
    Interesting. Didn't know Mack moved the chassis from one plant to another? Wonder if it is a space issue with putting it all under one roof?
  6. Freightrain
    Both my main battery cables go directly to the starter. The small soleniod in the cab just fires the big soleniod on the starter. I would trace all battery wires to confirm
  7. Freightrain
    If they build them like KW, the truck gets built just like an overgrown model. Two blank frame rails, get holes drilled, then it gets built piece by piece down the line. Nothing is preassembled before(except driveline parts). KW even manufactures their own fuel tanks in house. All paint is done by hand(they were working on automating it about 10 yrs ago). They build the dash by hand for each truck for whatever option you want. It really was interesting to see and would love to get another tour someday.
  8. Freightrain
    Remove that negative cable from the terminal. Is the terminal isolated from the case? Or is it just a stud? If just a stud, then it IS negative ground. On my truck, both neg and pos go directly to the starter. I would install a good, heavy ground strap to the frame(if you don't find one). If not you might find you have issue later with lights and the such. Especially if you rely on some rusty little piece of 16ga wire that is currently in use somewhere on the truck. Better safe then sorry.
  9. Freightrain
    Nope. Should be a nice flat pad on the side if it is a Mack transmission. Did you see the Mack script on the side?
  10. Freightrain
    Should have MACK cast in the left side, plus "Hypoid gearing" or something of the such. Like mentioned, it should have a milled flat spot in the front case with "TRD72" or the like stamped into it with like 3/8" tall letters.
  11. Freightrain
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1964-Mack-B61-wrecker-project-or-parts-/301284531647?forcerrptr=true&hash=item4625f51dbf&item=301284531647&pt=Commercial_Trucks
  12. Freightrain
    http://www.ebay.com/itm/1976-Mack-F-700-Truck-/141381348481?forcerrptr=true&hash=item20eafc2c81&item=141381348481&pt=Commercial_Trucks Interesting for sure.
  13. Freightrain
    About a 4-5" square tube across the back, a hole in the bottom for the inlet. Pretty simple from the ones I've seen. Don't think any one I've seen was actually a muffler. It is a real simple way to put duals on a truck.
  14. Freightrain
    Wow...don't seem like a bad deal for the money?
  15. Freightrain
    Yup, the firewall is bad enough on a std B, I can imagine yours. Even with the smallest underdash, it will stick out about 6-7" past my dash. Livable since with the shifters there you can't do anything else with the space. I have a vintage revolving light on the roof so no room for that kind of unit(though I thought of them and considered it).
  16. Freightrain
    I know Vintage air has one, but I was given a link to a place in Texas that has one a bit cheaper. Not quite as flashy looking box, but I don't need flashy. Link is at home, I'll get it posted. The big issue I have to deal with is getting the compressor mounted. I need to move my original filter off the front right side of engine(likely move it to frame mounted bracket) and then fab something and drive it off the waterpump. Have to mount pulley to outside of stock waterpump pulley. Checked into DCpowersales. One of the rooftop units was 330w, which equates to 27.5 amps at 12v. Wow, that will put a load on an alternator.
  17. Freightrain
    Sounds interesting. Might have to google them up. I've got my eye on an underdash unit for mine someday.
  18. Freightrain
    Congrats!
  19. Freightrain
    Depends on the pump. I turned mine up years ago. It ran well but only got about 4 mpg. Once diesel got to $4/gal I dialed it back and get about 8mpg now. It is not as snappy off the light but gets me there. Just a light haze out the pipes under throttle. Never got fire, but never really tried. With no oil cooled pistons I'm sure you have to be careful. Don't have the money to put a motor in it so I keep it easy on it.
  20. Freightrain
    Last HCEA Nat I went to was at their place in Bowling Green, Ohio. Was about 10 yrs ago, had a good time.
  21. Freightrain
    Saw this at Syracuse '03 and still my one of my favorite B models. Just badazz. I still wish I could get the previous owner of my B to get me pics of his old trucks. He had a fleet of B's and some other BIG stuff(like Acars).
  22. Freightrain
    I tjhink it will struggle to keep up 75 mph with one car on. My GCVW is around 27K lbs and 65-70 is comfortable to run with 4.10 gears. Just runs outta power trying to keep up any faster speeds and it will not pull hills well. I can use my last OD and pass someone and run it up to 75 or so on level ground, but it just doesn't have the power to keep it there.
  23. Freightrain
    Would that be Marcels truck? http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?/topic/36563-selling-my-mh/
  24. Freightrain
    Welcome aboard. Nice truck, thanks for the pics.
  25. Freightrain
    A picture would help of your set up.

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