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Hi, thanks for the help, yes room is tite, my tanks are longer than that to. I will take some pics tomorrow. I have an air start tank that sits under the truck, its a great tank, and gets it off the side of the truck, now I have room problems for exhaust, and also how to get it to come out to the Y section to go into 2, plus do I mount the exhaust on or off the cab? regards Grant

Hello Guys, what route does the exhaust take on R model when there is 4 fuel tanks and a air start tank under nieth? how much clearance should i give the exhaust? I am running them up either side next to back of cab, between cab and sleeper, but how does one get it to this place? I was considering, out of engine, over chassis, then go under chassis and pop back in next to gearbox on right side then go directly above drive shaft and over chassis to the stacks, but room is tite, how much room would you allow as minimum clearance? regars Grant

Hello, here is another pic. there from a book from 1977 but it will give you an idea of how the parts are laid out.

Hello, give Matthew Hendry a ring, he is at a Mack dealer on the Gold coast, they will ship no probs through TNT his number is 07 5596 3972 he is on the ball with the old stuff. pic attached of cab

Hi, I am in WA, Jeff will have all that info Im sure. your welcom to this cab, but shipping be atleast 500 I think? where in SA are you? theres a guy in Grafton SA, I think thats where he said??? has some bits, he was on ebay a bit. new panels can be bought thru mack, there is a pic of a front side section in my pics, that was 450.00 the lower sill is around 220.00, roof is 1000,00, gutter parts range from 200 to 800.00 an doors non gen out of the USA for about 300 each. another cab will be easier regards Grant

Hi, where is it rusty? the flintstone cab in the pics is not getting used, Jeff, Hi Jeff! got all the dash out of that cab, so the cab is just sitting there waiting for a home. I am using the later cab on my flintstone. regards Grant

Hello, there about 4inches longer, thats about the only difference I think? the steel dash cab was shorter with small hand rails and the plastic dash cab was longer with long hand rails, all rust repair sections are available for plastic dash cabs. regards Grant

Hi, same here in oz, the 1973 cab was longer to, and had a long grab handle to climb up to door, i would imagine it would be a time consumeing exercise to convert back to a steel dash. Grant

Hello, no worries, thankyou. will leave it right hand drive, dont want to put the steering wheel on the wrong side I have a ford coupe in storage there all ready, will be looking for somewhere in Dupage county for now, am also bringing a Ford ute over aswell. Grant

Hello, i have used a similar coating to this on some extractors I made for the Tumbler Bat car I built, I found the coating to work well and keep them cooler, also use the redline water wetter in cooling system to pull the temp down as much as possible. Grant

Hello, slowly starting to pack here to move there. am looking for some where to put the mack until we find a decent place as its coming over to. we may have a place before it arrives but just in case. it would probly be the only triple roadtrain rated ttrick over there Grant

Hi, interesting, will have to see how much room is under cab, i have lifted it up a bit now and just working out where to run the pipes. hey Rob how much room you got at your place? Grant

hi, that must have been loud. i dont think i will go that big, i was tossing up between 4 an 5 inch, i am unsure what way to rout it as well. do they like some back pressure or do they like straight thru, whats best on these engines for there performance? Grant

Hi all, what size exhaust would be best for power on an 866?it will come out of turbo and be single to under cab where it will split into 2 then go up cab either side. regards Grant

Hello, no the rack is not stuck, the throttle is on idle and hard back with return spring, the only thing I can come up with is the fuel lines were draped over near the turbo and the return line dumped the fuel and it was sucked straight in to the turbo! I am pretty sure of this as the turbo inlet was wet. it could have been worse! its sitting there with left front wheel missing and could have been in gear Grant

Hello all, just added more pics of the slow progress, have fitted drive shafts and the under chassis air start tank! it now has the air start line on, and um well, firstly the engine has been turned over once in 18mths so the should be no fuel left in system and the fuel lines are draped over the motor! now I put start line on to tank, pressureize my new tank and thought I will give it a crank to just turn it over! great idea.... not! the dam thing started and brang itself up on revs to who knows what before I thumbled around looking for enginge stop under a blue tarp cover. it must have ran for 20seconds at most then the question was ok it must have had fuel left in the lines, well fine but why did it rev? because the return line was right next to the turbo air pick up that I had just uncovered because the tape was breaking up that I had it sealed with, so what did this grumpy 866 do? it sucked the unwanted fuel straight in! the truck has no radiator, no water, lucky enough i left the oil in it, so I hope it picked that up! dam thing. Grant

Hi, I am fitting air con to an r model, am using the vintage air gen 2 mini system, its a nice kit and small and fits behind the dash. http://www.vintageair.com/ regards Grant

. Hi. your off there to! a few from Perth are going to that. good luck with it. regards Grant