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never had that shaft out of a R cab but I know you can access the back of them thru the glove box or speedo/tach panel. I would be suprised if it was press fit I would think that it has a sleve that the shaft rotates in and the shaft uses the splined nuts back side to keep the shaft from moving in and out of the sleve. ???

Southbound. thats what I like to call a "Rocketman" saw a guy at the dump about 5 years ago with his trailer talgate sitting flat on the ground trailer nose pointed to the sky. tractors tandems up in the air, what a site to see!

I thought the dog is to face inward?

I have made the treck to and from Mexico City - Chiago about 6 times, In a Semi truck. seen alot of the Dina models and Kenmex even a few Remirez. not to many macks tho. did see 2 superliners tho. you would laugh at some of the old Iron they drive. you can see that the truck Mfg like to use diffrent mfg cabs such as IH, auto car, pete, kw, etc... Its changing tho. most of the trucks seen on my last 2 trips (4 years ago) were pretty much new units. Lots of local junk left but the OTR stuff was mostly 10 years or newer.

great news Ernie. If you need a free storage place in the north Chicago berbs or if they guy needs some help while passing thri just let me know. And make sure to get us pics of this bad boy when you get it home!!!!

LOOKS LIKE THEY ARE TESTING OUT A MACK TO SEE THE PRO AND CONS OF THE TRUCK?

Did you buy it Ernie? thats cool that he has 2 of the 3 made. Looks like a newer cab on the V8 truck? .. very intresting!

that 72 looks like a newer cab and wondering if it was also a v12 truck at one time as it has cowl extensions also. From what I recall the v8s fit under the RS700 hoods just fine.

What did you say Mark?

Thanks for that tip Mark. I Would love to get some pics of that truck. very intresting. I see that the front bumper is a little diffrent than some of the other v12 macks I have seen. Bullhusk. you pay the plane ticket out and I will drive it back to Chicago for ya!sure we could find someone to get it to the east coast from there

about 5 years ago there was a Report on what car had the least carbon footprint. It was a Jeep product. they took into account for the people that built it, part sources, mfg plant, transportation of parts, spare parts etc.... the worst carbon footprint went to a electric car because of all its Hi tec gadgets,all the odd parts coming from around the world, and the batterys that were junked every 5 years. But hey at least you will feel like you saved a tree driving one.

I have a friend asking me about some of the Mack RS/RL 700L with the Detroit V12. He pointed out a few things that I have never noticed. First was the side filler panels behind the air cleaners the other was the lack of the cowl vent. Anyone have pics of these thigns up close? hood open to see how they got them in. He is a model builder and is looking for some specific details to reproduce.

Send Stork mack a PM I think His brother made one or had one made for his R model

Most of the state cops seam to Know to move off to the side of the road when doing the ticket writing. What I see is its the local PD who think writing a ticket should merit shutting down a lane or worse parking 1/2 over the white line. I live around 55mph back roads and I dont know how many times I have come up over a hill or around a corner to see a parked squad car dead in the middle of the lane just writing some punk kid a ticket. Those are the ones that are just asking they get hit. IMHO They need pick a safe spot to lite them up. It not only indangers them but the car they stopped. why indanger yourself? I dont move over for those clowns. Id rather take their door off and teach them a quick lesson of rules of the road. However..... it does gripe me when I see there is need to shut down a lane for a crash,spill, tow truck etc... and people are flying past them giving no space at all for them to work. I deal with it when chaing up machines on the low boy. My rule is if they have the common sence to just pull it over the white line I move over a lane. if they are playing macho games taking up 1/4 of the lane. I stay in the lane and just hug left. respect earns respect in my book. And FYI I have plenty of cops friends that see it this way all day long its not just a me vs them issue.every job seams to have clowns running around. even us truckers! Regardless Its always a shame to hear any of these stories.

good to know we still have honest people in the world.

as they say, always something... I have never had to mess with diffrent pitmarms or splines. I must have gotten lucky on my swap! I forgot that you have the V8 is that mount diffrent than the inline engines?

dont know hwere he has been. a few years ago he had all the stories!

I saw two things this week that made me laugh.. first was a truck that was making a right. 30mph, about 300' before his turn He put his right signal on. As he got close to his turn he moved over a little to the left so he could make his swing. Car behind him was going to Gun it past on his right but he swung right and the car slammed into his trailer tire/ICC bar. trucker did not even see it happen and kept going on his way. No damage to the trailer but the car had a F*&ed up bumper and hood from the ICC bar. the other was last night. Driving down a 55mph 2 lane road last night when I see a firetruck heading my way with all 350+ of his bright LED lights flashing. I slow down and move right. pick up truck that was following about 1/8 mile behind me never slowed for the fire truck so after the fire truck passed me I just pulled back out infront of him (doing about 15 mph coming off the side of the road) That guys had some real good brakes and his horn was really loud almost as loud at that fire truck! I was going to ask him where he bought them but he seemed a little mad for some reason?

Rob not sure if this will help but When I removed the manual box and installed my power steering box I just used my trucks stock draglink/pitman arm. the output splines of the new power steering box were the same for the stock pitman arm. After installed it was pointing to about "6 o'clock" when the wheels were pointed straight. I did not need to source diffrent parts for the swap. Basicly you need to check if the draglink from the Valueliner is the same length as the one on your RL? the only thing I can think that would make it diffrent is that you may have a diffrent front engine support and rad support and the new box may be located a few inches +/- of where it normaly bolt to. on my RS I had to drill 2 or 4 new holes (cant recall)in the rail and add 1/2" washers to 2 of those holes because of where my engine/rad mount was at. Luckly my mount had indents in them to note where to drill holes for a power steering box. I can get pics if it helps Trent

give it a chance... one of "our very own" is trying to get this show off the ground. I think it will do good if they can keep the public intrested. I do think the guy hosting is a little hyper but he at least has the ability to communicate "our" intrests to the genral public. Personaly I would like to see more specific details such as a in cab ride of what its like to back into a hard spot in traffic. or what its like to get cought at a red light when you just got cut off by a car. Something that shows how hard it really is to drive a truck. If you can get these shots in a movie truck it just shows what real truckers have to deal with. I did like the comments about how the EPA is killing everthing and how much it has hurt trucking. just my .02 hope it will continue.

They guy that gave me my first trucking job recently bought one of the LTL9000 and uses it for his tractor trailer end dump. always like the look of them!

Welcome to the site john Regarding your truck let me try R Rmodel W Western S Steel frame 7 2 (these numbers noted weight and engine family) 1 L lightweight componets ST six wheel tractor or semi tractor (IIRC the notes changed around a little)

well thats good news. lets cross our fingers

my first and only convention was back in 05' at Auburn IN (north east part of the state) when I came around the corner and saw over a thousand trucks I started acting like I had just seen my first set of boobs! you know the feeling...dumb stare, drool running out your mouth, almost driving over people. The east and midwest draws a big crowd of mixed trucks. West coast is all Paccar for the most part.

Was hoping to go with the RS700 but we will see what work has planned for me....