2stacksuperdog

Someone with A LOT of money needs to take the risk and expense to buy Mack from Volvo and rebuild it into the great truck it was at one time. We went out get parts for trucks that are in the late 80s the other day and the guy told us that ever since Volvo acquired Mack they have been trying to get rid of the trucks. They don't want to produce parts so they can sell new trucks. Mack don't even rebuild their own stuff he said if its older then a granite. The dealers themselves have to have private companies to do it. In my opinion Volvo has ruined the once great Mack name. I guess that might be one reason the newest truck we run is a '01 and the rest are in the '80s and anything we buy has a mechanical in it that you don't need a computer to fix.

Mack uses different designed front axles then everybody else does so your better off finding a Mack one

Those tires look too small nothing like the good old 12.00R24

You stay in the truck and don't touch anything until they cut the power. If you touch the ground you ground yourself and then your fried. and as above if burning jump without completing circuit

By the way that's an RB in the picture not a RD

I just thought of that it sounds like a bad ground. To check it take a pair of jumper cables and attach them to the cab and attach the other end to the frame and then try it and see what happens. If this is the problem, run a ground wire from the frame to the cab.

Check the connection to the solenoid and the starter

Buy it if its a exporter!

We have the regular old style Mack one on ours since new and it looks and works good

Looks similar to the ones Yaworski has

I think a lot of it in CT also has to do with our dealer here since a lot of people go to Mass to get there parts. Aslo, Gateway never really had a lot of Macks but mostly Peterbuilts they only had a R700, DM800 and they still run a R-model to pull their lowboy

Sell the big horsepower trucks and tell the drivers drive the good old ones or leave

i know ill never buy a brand new electronic truck if i don't have to. I already clean and help take care of my dads trucks now and ill keep tehm going as long as possible.

Do you know about Russo's R-model? Capello use to haul out of a prestress plant in town we use to see the trucks all the time. I see he went out and bought a bunch of Kenworths instead now, the kid must have not liked macks

I saw both those trucks for sale at Global and then the superliner at Arron's, what ever happend to it?

no

Didn't want to get the Superdog dirty so...

Did they just paint them or are they steel?

Last i knew Suzio only had the 2 R-models with the really short fruehaufs but I see in the picture above a newer one? Beards old one is still sitting in Milford so idk

i like that trailer mixer combo

Beard/Suzio Milford, CT

Branford, CT

Here is an article about Tippin and his Macks http://myblueangel.tripod.com/articles/1997/athsorg/athsorg.html

Troiano had one of their old DMs which was a tri-drive cab and chassis which some of the parts where used on our Dm

The F-model is on Shipping Wars right now for anyone who did not see it