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Welcome and I hope we can help you deal with what I know is a difficult decision for you to deal with. It's tough to have to deal with all of the things that bring back so many memories after a loved one passes. Post the items in the for sale section. Likie many of us I assume you do not want the trucks to go to an exporter and you would really like to see them restored as a tribute to your Dad. I have gone through this and basically I "interviewed" each prospective buyer to try to ensure they would do what I wanted with the truck after they bought it. Not fool proof, and as my wife kept telling me "Once they own it, they can do whatever they like with it; it's theirs." I would ask prospective purchasers if they are members of ATHS, SPAAMFAA, or ATCA. Chances are if they pay dues they are interested in the trucks for historical reasons, not profit. Good luck and I'm sure it will work out for you.

Great! Let us know how it runs.

I don't see the bumper strips on the delivery picture??? The hose bed lights may have been shipped loose, or not ordered so it would fit into the fire house. Same for the red light.

The ISO provides a rating to every FD and municipality that determines your cost of fire insurance. No matter the condition the department loses points if the apparatus is too old. That's one reason why you see very nice low mileage rigs for sale.

Good luck putting it back together. If you need some help finding the equipment you are looking for send me a PM. Stay away from EBay to buy the items; they are generally much more expensive than you can find them elsewhere. Your best bet is to go to one of the flea markets such as the Spring Melt held in April in Allentown, PA. Mack used very specific brackets and mounts that are unique to Mack. If you want to keep the original look and not drill new holes you will need to locate those items. If you are unfamiliar with the correct mounts try to check out a complete rig such as FireMack's Radnor B Model. Most fire truck restorers try to keep the tools and extinguishers period correct. For example the soda-acid extinguishers you used to find in a building were never used on apparatus.

Have you checked for out of round tires or wheels yet? It would be pretty easy to set up a gauge to run against the tire while you spin it by hand. Have you run the truck with a load on it? I wonder if weight on the fifth wheel would change the dynamics?

Good luck. Is this the first fire truck you have done? I'm pretty sure this is the truck that was used at Lorton Reformatory, DC's former prison. The inmates and guards staffed the truck as a first aid device. The station where I was a driver was first due at the prison and I vaguely remember the truck being there in the early seventies. If you are ever on I-95 through VA the prison is a couple of miles off of the interstate. I'm pretty sure the old station where the piece was housed was preserved at the work house site.

Right church; wrong pew. The coil is designed to keep the engine cool when pumping for long times because of a lack of air flow through the radiator. I think you will find that there is pump (raw) water in the coil, not anti-freeze. Make sure it is drained in freezing weather.

Not in Mass., but Automotive Manufacturers in Richmond, VA will do an excellent job for a reasonable price. You can ship it to them. Great place to have work done. I have had all of the Mack's brakes re-lined there and they re-buiilt a friend's clutch out of his 1926 fire truck. 2400 N Lombardy St, Richmond, VA 23220 (804) 321-6861 Don't bother to look for a web site; they still operate with a spiral notebook as their record keeping device.

If you ever need to prime it again oil based WD-40 sprayed in the intake will make it run until the fuel primes. Doesn't cause the potential harm that ether can. Just don't use the water based version!

Love the FDNY rig. I remember the Rosenfeld rig from my youth. He also ran chain drive Sterlings well into the late sixties. And the HU rigs from LA are well known in fire collection circles.

Get over it. For once put the welfare of the country ahead of your views. It's time to work together and get our problems solved, not spend our time moaning about who won or lost. Stop perpetuating myths and lies; we are not going to be a socialist country and we will still be a great country. Nuff' said.

It is ALWAYS cheaper to find one in good condition than it is to try to turn chicken shit into chicken salad. Keep looking; that truck is as far from rare as you can get. One absolute I have learned over the years is that there is always another one out there to find if you look.

Tim, Have you contacted the IAFC about pictures of the 1972 show? Carl

I sent you an e-mail with the pictures of what I'm looking for. Thanks. Carl

Charlie, I am looking for the small crank that turns the tank to pump valve. Carl

It is not terribly hard to take the switch apart. Usually there are four brass tabs that close the switch up; carefully pry them up and pull the phenolic plate off. Be careful there is probably a small spring in there. From there you can either replace the contacts with a board from a new switch or just clean the old contacts.

Try posting a picture of the filter and check the build sheet from the museum to see what filters the truck was equipped with at the factory.

IMO the buy on this list is the R in Philly. Pretty fair price and the truck can be used to rebuild all of your other projects while still being a cool show truck.

Here is a couple of pictures of the sweetest RS700L I have seen in along time. Shown at the Trucktoberfest and owned by Brian Misterka of Amherst, MA.

Almost right. When you put the pump into the hole you should have to hold pressure up and in while you start the bolts. In essence you are pressing the pump arm and it's spring against the pump lobe. I had a 66 Ford that wiped out the fuel pump lobe. I used an electric pump to keep it running.

Great show! Mack has gone all out for all of us. Lunch and dinner yesterday; breakfast and lunch today. Nice banquet last night with Mack's VP of Sales giving a quick spiel on the state of Mack. Lots of trucks with a few attendees that I haven't seen at other shows. A very pretty open cab B model and Bedford NY's closed cab B model are both rigs I had not seen before. Get here if you can! I'll post pictures tonight.

Rolled in on Thursday night. The weather doesn't look all that promising, especialy since the predictions had been for super weather all week end, but I'm sure we'll have a good time.

That is why I use a battery disconnect aka Cole-Hersee switch as well. That way all of the wiring is cold when the truck is not being used. We once burned up a fire station and most of it's apparatus when a battery cable shorted out on a rescue squad (An R Model Mack) while sitting in quarters. In this case the batteries were mounted under the back step and the cable ran all the way to the cab before it went to the disconnect switch. The cable rubbed on the frame rail and shorted out without any overload circuit protection until it caught fire.

Try contacting Seashore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport, Maine. They have an extensive collection of buses including several Macks. http://www.trolleymuseum.org/museum/index.php