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yeah a 300 in this day and age is not going to cut it. the e7 engines are great . tough reliable engines . you might want to look into turning it up to 370 or 400 hp. but if you live in florida a 300 might be ok

i love the superliner but it must be awesome to hear the v8 thundering away under your feet while driving down the highway

i had the ultraliner magnum poster in my room as a kid for a while, my mom hated it because it showed a guy smoking a cigarette standing next to it

wow thats pure mack truck porn right... american icon legendary epic trucks. awesome

they are heavy but every new truck is heavy with all the emission crap on them. tod ay i weighed out empty at finch paper and there was a new western startruck and pup next to me on the other scale. he has 7 total axles and a 4 foot loog body set up to slash wood into 4 foot lengths so he has double the stakes that i have but he weighed out empty at 53k lbs with my CL i weighed out at 42.5k lbs. a new granite is as heavy or heavier than a CL. i think its stupid that the states or feds havent gave us truckers extra weight on our permits to offset the extra weight of the new trucks. in vermont the maximum weight limit is 99k lbs . we used to try and set up our trucks to be around 40 to 42k empty. thats why we had macks because you could get a heavy duty rugged truck and combine it with the E7 engine that would pull 100k lb load pretty good and still be lite weight. its not possible to do that anymore.

it cant weigh 44k empty. our titan weighs 45k empty with a serco 7500 log crane mounted on the truck and 4 bolser log body made of t1 steel and a steel headboard and watsin chalin steerable lift axle and a home meade pup trailer with 4 steel bunks , my CL weighs 42k set up the same way so the titan is about 3k lbs heavier. most of the weight is the engine and dpf and def tank.

a local town my cousin works for just ordered there first mack . a GU713 single axle mp7 355hp 13 spd . not sure on the rear end specs . theyve had to many problems with the newer internationals so we hooked them up with the mack salesman

the granites are the way to go for dump trucks . for some reason up here i dont see many gu granites i see tons of cv granites and rd models but the new granites havent caught on up here. theres a few around but not many

all of the e7 engine series were tough as hell . we had a 97 CL with the e7 454 that had 30k hrs when my dad decided to rear it down and rebuild it. when they got it apart they said it was like new inside . we had a 93 superliner with a e7 400 electronic engine that had over 32k hrs on it when we sold it .the etechs werent as tough but still as good or better than other engines . the two 460xt engines we have had both needed rebuilds around 25k hrs they had loose pistons and mine had some wear in the bottom end

maybe they did get them straightened out. im just not a cummins fan. in my area no one wants to work on them. i guess the software to to work on them costs tons of money and you have to work on all cummins diesels even dodge trucks and equipment with cummins if you become a certified cummins dealer, atleast thats what i was told. i saw a mack CL with a cumminsisx 565 hp drop a valve with like 10k hrs on the engine it cost the guy 20k to fix it, new head and injectors and one new piston is all he could afford .

i bet it pulls pretty good ?

my dad was talking to a guy that had a 2012 pete 389 with a 600 cummins . he said the truck was great and drove nice but the engine sucked. he was getting 2.8 mpg and broke down all the time so he sold it.

well i hope its good for you. i just have heard of so many newer cummins 2008 thru 2012 that are having issues with sensors and dpf clogging and injector issues i wouldnt buy one id go witha freightliner with detroit if i was going away from mack.

we had a 91 ch set back axle with a e7 400 non computer and a 13 speed mack and 44k mack rears with a 4.42 gear ratio that thing would pull awesome . we used to pass 475 cats with it all day long. nothing better than seeing the look on a petercars driver face when we passed them with that ugly old mack

yeah i think they will do it, when i watched ultimate factories last yr mack said they would do any paint job the customer asked for so we will see when the time comes.

should be a good truck for what your doing. the e7 400 mechanical should have pleny of power and the 13 speed should work well with it. the e7 engines are reliable almost bullet proof if taken care of even semi well. its a 23 yr old truck so it will probably have a few minor issues atleast

i have been looking at the lines of the titan we have now and i think i could design a really nice paint scheme to fit the lines of the truck. the hood of the titans have similiar lines if a superliner on top of the hood. my dads truck has charcoal grey stripe runnung down the center of the top of the hood with siler stripe coming up over the hood from the sides of the truck and charcoal stripes as well on the side so this is my plan. when the time comes i get to order a new truck im going to give the salesman a picture of the superliner and see what mack will do to adapt it that paint scheme to a titan.

thanks 3p . my brother will be excited to get it. maybe next yr or the year after ill get mine . im thinking about colors now . i want a custom paint job on mine possibly 3 tone marroon charcoal and silver like my dads superliner.

how could they not cover it its warranty ? but goodluck with the pete if its cummins powered its junk

ive heard the 370s and 400 ai with the 10 speed is not a good setup, of coarse rearend gear ratio is everything. ive found macks with 4.42 and 4.35 and 4.30 gears will over achieve while the 4.56 4.64 and 4.73 are pigs

i have a midwest diesel "power box " in my 2000 mack 460 etech. it works pretty good but high performance injectors work better. maybe with a lower horsepower rating like yours the electronic box would work better, my dad has a blixxton box in his vmac 2 427 and it works better than my box does. i think with the higher horsepewer ratings theres only so much power available maybe a 380/410 would respond better to a tuning box than a 487hp ??

the original paint job i mean now the one you have is differant

that paint job on your model is the same as my dads truck . look at my avatar

i think the camelback is the best spring suspension ever made. thatbeing said it has its weaknesses like the small 44k lb frog leg trunions are weak and it seems like when they get old the rubber boxes on the springs wear out quick. we always ran the 50k lb camelback they were bullet proof for atleast the first 8 or 10 yrs of service. i personally would order a new truck with the camelback 52k lb rating if i was the one ordering the trucks but my dad likes the meritor rears better than mack rears.

mack has been offering the t ride / m ride for a few years now only now you can get it with the mack rear ends instead of just vendor axles. t ride is a good suspension. i like camekback but it is pretty outdated and expensive to maintain when it gets old. we went with hedrickson haulmax on the new titan.