Lmackattack

did you see the steel hoods in the Hillside yard? you will spot a old B model in there as well... I was in there last week and saw all of them parked in there tight for the slow season.

I have never seen those headlight panel marker lights or that Mack name plate on a early R model. So it must have not lasted very long in production. Very cool and Yes the U was built before the R.

Outstanding!

I have a spare turbine and charge cooler just incase I need one. I have never heard people complain about them failing. And I never had to buy parts for it.

Just about Every other time I go into general iron I pick up a nail. It don't matter how hard you try to avoid it... Was there 3 weeks ago and scrap was under 100 a ton.

also cars and trucks of today have 3x more parts bolted to them. The older cars and trucks used alot of interchangeable stuff and were built with fewer less complicated parts.

i was never really a "parts guy" but I did work for 13 years for a race car parts company. We sold gearboxes, suspension , and other race car spare parts. The worst part about that was that about every few years the race cars would change from one mfg to an other and thus right when you started remembering most of the popular part numbers BAM...a new chassis was released and you had to learn a new car all over again. The other issue was that some of the old classic but still popular race car chassis, such as LOLA Cars U.K just had the old exploded view drawings to go off of. You had to look for the orginal part number then flip to the back of the book to find what model car it was equipped in as the same parts were used in other chassis. after you got all you basic info you had to look for any up dated revision part numbers associated with that number. Were talking old race cars made back in the 1960s thru the1980s. PITA but I will give that company credit as it was very rare we could not find a part number for a old LOLA chassis.

did you search Ebay? they come up on there and lots of junk yards still have Macks with those visors on them...

I went to the pete dealer the other day for some muffler parts and a speedo sensor. I was surprised how well the parts guys were there. Gave them a vin number and the guy rattled off the part number but doubled checked the computer just to make sure. I had not see a parts guy do that for years. turns out he has worked for Pete,IH and other heavy duty part companys for his whole life.

yep I had that happen as well . its annoying as hell!!! I had a IH with a stanless steel visor do the same thing depending how hot it was out. It even with the center brace installed. Made for some long trips out west in the summer time. And nothing made it stop besides if the temperature dropped. I put a bunge cord on it. stuffed tennis balls between the cab and visor. it just would warp when hot out and vibrate for miles.

I have driven trucks with and without them. I did notice the wind will make them flex if its real windy out and your on the high way.

I saw some pics of this truck on facebook.. Looks great. I remember seeing His fleet of R models pass by my neighborhood when I was a kid. I still live about 2 miles from his old yard in Lincolnshire.

The 5th wheel is a standard height Fontaine that I modified with a bar to pull frameless dump trailers. I never did get around to putting a high mount on so when I pull a Van trailer it is way too close for comfort and if I went thru some twists im sure it would make contact with the fender. If I recall a soda pop can is about the distance between fender and tire with no load on the truck. so yes a 4x4 block will fit between tire and fender. I think the springs squat down about 2" with a good load on it (stock 34K springs) On the truck is low pro 24.5 tires. the size is the same height as a 11R22.5. I never had interference with lowboy, flatbed or dump trailers. I only pulled a van trailer a few times and it was on road only mostly highway but they way I set the fenders up was to be high because the truck was being used for mostly On/off road use. At work im driving a Pete 387 and it has air ride. the fenders sit very close to the tires ....maybe 3.5" off the top of the tires and they dont rub but the axles dont move nearly as much as the Mack does. If I drop the air on the rears i can get 1 finger between the tires and the fender. all the R models I drove with springs were set up for real off road work. they all had fenders mounted higher than what was seen on air ride trucks.

here are a few more pics with trailers. The van trailer was empty you can see the pic with the low boy the front drives are up on the pavement and the rears are dropped down on the gravel.

same here . You will find that when doing this the fenders will sit higher off the top of the tires than say a truck with air ride. Also be careful with the clearance for the trailer bottom if you have a standard height 5th wheel. here is a pic of how high mine are mounted.(click on it to make it larger)

lots of cool pics in that album look at this one....is that Jimmy Hoffa?

found this on another forum... what is the wrecked 6 wheeler?

found this in the old picture vaults I have...

Fingers crossed...

Is this good news for Mack?

its in good hands!. Looking good Ray

I can't remember the last time I saw a u model tractor running around here. Plenty of DM roll offs though

Im currently driving a 378 Pete on air ride. When I pull the lowboy on air ride it's a smooth ride When I pull a 35' wrecking trailer on springs it bucks a little. When I pull a 24' end dump on springs it's like bob tailing on camelback. Air ride trailers make a huge difference in how smooth the tractor rides. The air ride simply takes the bucking out. I drove a r model that had the 3 leaf rear springs and a air ride end dump and it was a very smooth ride. No bucking at all.

Is Carry transit still around. About 10 years ago I think they were some how tied into or racing in the Champ car / Indy car series under the name sigma racing? I think they had a shop down on the south west side (bridgeview) that I would often bring race cars/ parts to. I remember going there and at that time they had a bunch of CH macks used for hauling tanker or bulk tanker...I think the early truck they used to haul the cars to the tracks was a CH mack as I recall it only had two 50 gallon fuel tanks. Not good for OTR trucking... they had to stop in just about every state for fuel.

Larry you have a 237... Glen will the water pump ,pullys etc...off his 673 swap over to the maxidyne ?