Mcrafty1

Thanks, probably something funky going on with my PC.

I don't know that this is the correct place to ask this but....Is anyone else noticing the pictures in the posts on this site are not loading correctly? I have just started to notice issues within the past week or two. When they don't load right if I slide them up or down out of site and back they'll change but usually still not all loaded, Just wondering if it's the site or my PC. This is the only place I've noticed it happening.

I have one of these stands/tubes installed in my 86 R model double frame.....it is (as was explained to me) made as narrow as it is for the sole purpose of being able to install from under the truck as opposed to removing the body and/or everything in between the rails from the stand back and replacing with the original type stand. The only shimming required (in my case) was the pieces shown in this picture, The bolts are bigger than original and the existing holes in the frame need to be reamed so they'll fit. I have a dump on my truck and this made so much more sense to me than the other option of removing everything to replace the stand. It is also very stout and I've no doubt it will hold up equally as well as the factory stand and in the sense that no corrosives can accumulate in the stands they should never rot out again which is what happened to mine. I replaced the stand, both spring saddles and everything within, 4 gripes and all bushings /pads in all four spring buckets....and both u-joints in the jack shaft and a new gear on the tail of the transmission for my speedometer, for all parts and labor at my local Mack dealership for the total sum of $9200.00 and some change. The truck was down 3 days. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to lay it all out for you so you would have a clear picture as to why these stands are, IMO a viable option..

ok i'll bite, what's a who-hah?

Hey friend, I don't care how you reason it out in your mind....what ever works for ya. This is a blog of opinions, you have mine. I respect yours, but it don't change mine.

It still ceased to be a Mack 'Thoroughbred' the day Renault bailed the company out. The day the Mack corporation excepted Renault's buyout bid it sealed the deal.

In 98 it was a Mack/Renault.....I believe it was 1986 when Renault first invested in Mack and in (as you see in this article) bought out the entire corporation in July of 1990. Renault Seeks All of Mack Trucks By KEITH BRADSHER Published: July 7, 1990 Mack Trucks Inc., an ailing company that still bears the most famous name in American truck making, announced yesterday that it had received a $100 million takeover bid from Renault, the French state-owned maker of autos and trucks. Renault, which already owns 44.6 percent of Mack's stock and holds convertible bonds and warrants that could raise its stake to 61.1 percent, said the bid was necessary because of Mack's deteriorating finances. In a stagnant national market for trucks, Mack is stuck in the weakest segment and has high production costs. Mack said yesterday that it expected to report a $90 million loss for the first half of the year and did not expect to become profitable before 1992. Mack's financial condition will probably fall short of three of the standards set by its bank lenders, the company said. As a result of that, Mack said, its lenders could declare the bank loans and other company debts to be in default. Stock Posts a Gain The Renault bid is $6 a share. Mack's shares rose $1.25 yesterday, to $6.50, and were the second most active on the over-the-counter market's active list, fed by speculation of a possible higher offer. Elios Pascual, the executive vice president and general secretary of Renault's truck-making unit and a Mack board member, said Renault would pay for a rescue of Mack only if it owned the entire company. ''Restructuring completely, Mack is going to need a deep effort financially and operationally to cure these difficulties,'' he said in a telephone interview. ''We are not prepared to do that in the current shareholder position.'' The Mack stake is held by Renault Vehicules Industriels, the truck-making arm of Regie Nationale des Usines Renault. Renault does not plan to change Mack's top management, which it installed last year after putting money into Mack, Mr. Pascual said. Ralph E. Reins, the current chairman, president and chief executive of Mack, was promoted into those positions during last year's changes. Asked whether Renault planned to close one of Mack's three large truck-building plants, which are operating well below capacity, he replied: ''There are several ways to solve Mack's problems. One could be this, but there are others.'' The Mack board, which received the offer at a special meeting yesterday in Paris, named a special committee to consider it. Any competing bid for Mack would be difficult to carry out because of Renault's large stake, said Steven J. Colbert, a capital equipment analyst at Prudential-Bache Securities. The most likely alternative bidders are two truck builders, the Navistar International Corporation, which makes International trucks, and Paccar Inc., which makes Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks, he said. Both companies would probably like to have Mack's construction-truck and garbage-truck businesses, and Paccar will need additional capacity within a couple of years, Mr. Colbert said. Both companies, however, are affected at present by the weak market for new trucks, and an acquisition of Mack would dilute either company's earnings for several years, he said. Mr. Colbert put the odds of any higher bid emerging at ''50-50.'' Navistar declined to comment. Paccar said that it was not in negotiations with Mack or Renault. Trucking companies have encountered slow growth and strong price competition this year, forcing them to cut back on orders of new trucks, analysts said. Mack has been particularly hard hit because of an especially deep slump in its main market, which is selling construction and other off-road trucks to buyers east of the Mississippi River, said Gary F. McManus, a truck manufacturing analyst for Merrill Lynch Research. Slump in 18-Wheelers Mack has also encountered great difficulty in regaining its former strength in the market for long-haul trucks for highway use, the 18-wheelers with which the company's name was long synonymous. Mack recently spent $60 million and five years developing a new long-haul truck, the CH600. But the first trucks produced last spring had technical problems; the engines did not become available until September and proved expensive to produce. The company has also run into trouble persuading trucking companies to break long traditions of relying on other vendors, Mr. McManus said. ''Some of their competitors have tried to protect their own turf,'' he said. Mack lost $185.4 million on sales of $1.75 billion last year, in contrast to a profit of $31.8 million on sales of $2.1 billion in 1988. Eroding Market Share Mack has slowly lost market share and is now the fifth-largest company in the nation's $9 billion heavy-truck industry. Mack had 12.3 percent of the market in April, compared with 26 percent for Navistar; 20.3 percent for Paccar; 15.7 percent for the Freightliner Corporation, and 13.4 percent for a joint venture by Volvo and General Motors, Mr. Colbert said. In a statement yesterday, Mack forecast that it would lose $130 million this year and would seek a long-term extension of a $350 million revolving credit agreement. These difficulties and the probable failure to meet the lenders' financial standards mean that ''Mack is now in very deep trouble,'' Mr. Pascual said. Photos: Mack's new CH600 model heavy-duty truck, which took $60 million and five years to develop, had production difficulties and proved hard to sell to trucking companies that have long relied on other vendors. (Mack Trucks Inc.) (pg. 29); Ralph E. Reins is the chairman, president and chief executive of Mack Trucks Inc. (Jack Kausch) (pg. 31)

I didn't realize that...as guess they are just as much a mongrel as today's Macks then.

Quit lying to yourself...Mack stop building 'Macks' in 1986 (last year of the thoroughbred) and they've gone down hill till they reached their present day truck which is as far removed from a 'Mack' as they could get.They build mongrels and hang Mack emblems on their nose...it's as the saying goes.....'just because a cat has her kittens in the oven, it don't make 'em biscuits' This is just my humble opinion

Without seeing a price tag it's tough to make a call......but the truck looks like it belongs in the construction/ forest industry....could maybe be the next 'Mack truck'? since Mack no longer builds one. Sad day when Mack stopped being a Mack.

It's the one reason this practice may be allowed to stand....it will be a welcome improvement from that crap hole now.............and that aint sayin much.

Think nothing of it, I'm the same way..lol, When it's too tough for anyone else it's just right for you and I....and probably a few more on here. lol

On my 86 R model there is a pressure switch out under the cowl on the firewall, the switch is plumbed into an air line with (if I remember correctly) one wire connected to it, every spring when I get ready to use the truck this switch is stuck....I tap it a few times and it releases and works fine the rest of the summer, maybe this is where you could look for your problem. The switch could be stuck or failed..Hope this helps. I believe the switch requires air pressure to switch it off...I say this because I usually have to have the brake pedal compressed for my described 'fix' to work.

If I were those muslims I would just quit and go back to Somali! That's what I'd do, and I would scream from the roof tops that America is just too unfair to immigrate to...Yes sir, If I were they I'd tell all my brethren europe was the place to beeeeeee!

She's a beauty!

WHAT IS A TRUNION BAR SRES?

Nothing to do with enforcing the law....obama has zero respect for the laws of America......pure political posturing, it is only to try and convince the voters that the liberals are gonna be tough on illegal immigration. Any one biting? He's sending a few home so when they return they can bring back some extra voters.

If they are anywhere near as dependable and trouble free as my STOCK 07 6.0 ..........and I could afford one, I'd replace my 6.0 in a heartbeat with one....... after I put another 130,000 miles on it that is. I don't have any firsthand info on the 6.7 though...hell, I don't even have any forth or even any fifth hand info on that engine.

Jewish lightening strike?

Musta been on a single axle Mack truck....prorly a B61 ............

Chances are it wasn't frozen then, at the very least you should find an relief valve on one of your air tanks (mines on my wet tank) that won't let the system pressure build beyond a set point (Usually 20lbs. or so0 above the governor cut off) so you have multiple malfunctions....

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If it's below freezing ambient in your area I would find a quart of airline anti freeze and take the air intake line off that runs to the compressor and , with the engine running/compressor pumping slowly pour about half of a quart into the intake line, wait a minute and repeat with another half quart....this should open any frozen lines and let the system operate as designed. If this doesn't work, dig deeper, but for my money....I'd try this first.

"Make America Great Again'

You have a price you're looking to get? or are you waiting for offers? Where in upstate NY?