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Deffinatly . i would buy it if the price was right but shipping to Penna. would probaly be prohibitive.

It didn't seem right to me either (12s being cheaper) but all of the prices i saw online were at least 700 for 11.00r24. Thanks for the inforamation about the fenders. thats how mine look with the elevens (about an inch away). Would anyone have some photos of a b61 with twelve hundred tires on the would care to share?

i havent called the local guy i use yet.but just doing a google search i came up with anywhere from $770 for bridgestone m840 to $375 for china tires. The sailun s917 looked interesting at $525. Even though they are china tires i have used sailun tires on trailers ( 10.00r15and 215/75r17.5) before and had sucess with them. Anyway i would probally get new bridgestone or goodyears up front and put used tires on the drives. if they will fit without much hassle.

Is this a good idea? the tires seam to be much more available and cheaper. would i need different rims? It looks like they might have an interfeerance with the front fender( i don't have any 12.00 laying around to check).

Yes , they do the same here. For example, even though you can register a three axle truck for 58400 pracitally the limit is 56000 (18+18+20) unless the spread on your tandems is greater than six feet. That is what makes this permit so applealing to me with it the drive axle limit is 26K per axle. But, i don't know anyone who has actually gotten one of these permits and i would hate to get a truck set up for this kind weight and then find out the permits are impossible to actually get.

According to the information in the wiki on this site the gvw of a b61sx is either 55 or 60k. This seams low to me or does the chart not count the steer axle? The numbers for the b81sx are another example. how can a truck with 65k rears and 20k front axle only have a gvw of 65k. The reason i'am asking (besides general knowlage) is because i'am looking into what it takes to get a PA annual construction overwieght permit. From my reading of the statute these are given to construction trucks registered before 1980. the permit allows 68k gross on a tandem truck instead of the 58,400 you can normally regsiter for. If you don't exceed your trucks gvwr. Has anyone here actually gotten one of these permits? I would like to hear about it. I know my b61sx is titled for 65k but i also know title weights are often wrong. Furthermore none of the door tags on my older macks have the wieght rating stamped on them. Is this common? and why bother to have the box on the tag if they don't stamp it? Thanks for help Richard

It looks to me like it was used for a lowboy tractor it has 44s on brass. it also has really heavy steel plate half fenders over the rears. another strange thing ( at least on the east coast) it has 11r22s on budd wheels. i'll try and get some pictures next time i go down to where it is stored.

I bought a u795st at an auction. I 'am by no means a mack expert but it looks pretty unsual to me. It has a v8 with a turbo and what looks like a six speed ( says x107) on the case. that about all i know about it if anyone has info on these trucks i would like to know more about them. the full vin is u795st1010. Thanks

Thanks for your replies. I didn't realize i would need so many new parts . i guess it will stay (for now). Because this is not the original cab someone hacked through a cab crossmember to make clearance for the shifters. I will definitely need to brace the cab floor some other way.

My guess was mixer drive but i don't know. Just another reason this truck is so heavy. i wonder how much of a pain this is to remove