Bullheaded

I'm very surprised by the E6 4 valve rated so low! I spent years running for a fleet pulling 140,000 pounds in the hills in R Models with 350 4V E6's. They were bulletproof and pulled good. All those trucks had the odometers rolled back past 0 two the three times in their life. I only saw one fail because they had the power cranked up so high it broke the block in half, one overheated and one or two where that bolt that holds the fuel or oil filter housing (I can't remember which now)....but it was a bolt that goes into the block and they were known for backing out and then it would pump all the oil out of the engine.

I agree here. Have never heard of or saw an E6 400, but ran an E7 400 mechanical. And had friends that swapped their E6350's for E7 400's. Both the E6 and E7 mechanicals were awesome reliable motors. I ran every year of Mack back then and I never had issues until 2000 and up.

There was a yellow B Model I used to see at the truck show in St. Ignace every year that had a Peterbilt flat top bunk on it and it looked really good. The width matched perfect with the side stacks and the rounded corners of the Pete bunk match the shape of the B quite well.

Marketing Department. Just like the auto makers they think they need to change everything every couple years. Me, I'd still be happy in a 1988 R Model today if I could still buy them.

Here's a party trick for y'all to try. As you know I got my two vaccines (Moderna) against my will, forced by employer that pays me stupid amounts of money. Someone told me about this today, so I tried it. Take an ordinary dime and hold it to your arm where you got the needles. That dime sticks to me like a magnet only in that spot. Ya, that outta be healthy stuff to have in you.

I have a Mack full line brochure from around 1980 and it shows the V8 Detroits available in the DM800. My friend had a DM800 winch tractor with a V8 Detroit. Detroit's were very popular here where I am back in the day. Was a few 2-stroke Superliners pulling logs too.

Know what's as scary as PETA? Canada just made the ex head of Green Peace (a guy with a criminal record) our new Minister of Environment. By by fuel, internal combustion engines, factories, agriculture, mining, etc.

I never had a 300 six Ford, because being young at the time it wasn't as impressive as saying you had a V8......but I had friends and relatives with them and the damn things were bullertproof.

You're first post in this one sounds just like me Other Dog. When I owned my big trucks, I couldn't afford a new pickup. All my money went into the business. So I see this 2007 F550 4x4 for sale. A truck I knew, and my dream truck.....aluminum wheels, diesel, 12 foot flatbed, V-Mac underhood air compressor, 10 foot Boss vee plow. So I buy it and fix a few things and have 20 grand into it. Then I get out of trucking and get an awesome job in a gold mine. Think to myself "this F550 is the perfect truck for running 50 miles of gravel washboard bush road every week into the mine." Well, it beat the crap out of me on that rough road and broke down to the tune of a $1100 injection pressure regulator on the way home first trip. Ended up having to GIVE it away for 14 grand and went and bought a brand new F150 with warranty when employee pricing sale was on, LOL

I often look but never reply.....but you're AWSOME Otherdog!!!!! Hard to have a bad day when you read your posts, LOL

Sorry, I misread. You were talking about your hydraulic pump. But back in the day I remember all the old ready mix trucks used to be able to drive from the controls at the rear. What kind of system did they have for that?

Nice truck. Up until just recently, those OWNED the ready mix market here where I am. Tandem tandem, just like that with 72 inch spread. But they tell me it is getting hard to find front drive and transfer case parts for them now?? I always wondered how that drive system worked. Back in the 70's and 80's when all the ready mix trucks were just DM tandems here, I remember they all used to be able to move with nobody in them, but I have not seen that in any of the current ready mix trucks here any more.

Remember when Hertz Rental had special edition Shelby GT350's. Now they are getting Tesla's. Enough said.

They are already saying on Canadian Communist radio (CBC) that that politician I posted is a right wing extremists and people shouldn't listen to him. They suck Trudeaus bag so hard it's sickening. Anyway, I don't care about covid, because if "climate change" and cow farts don't kill me.....soon we won't be able to afford fuel or heat anyway, LOL What a future to look forward to eh? Driving our electric fagmobiles, eating fake meat veggie burgers hiding from our own shadows, LOL

Been reading all the comments and I have relatives that work in the hospital and the same thing is going on here in Ontario, Canada. Every death whether it is cancer and stroke is reported as covid. And all I can say is ever since I got my two Moderna vaccines (against my will but forced to by employer) I am still not right after a few months. And I haven't even had a cold since 2008. I had asthma and ever since the shots I've been having trouble breathing and my inhalers no longer seem to be effective. And I'm tired all the time and I keep getting bouts of racing heart. Now they are talking about booster shots. No F'N way. I'll lose my job this time, and be a prisoner in my own yard. No way any more of that crap is going in me. Anyway, a friend sent me this. An MPP in my province is starting a law suit.

Very nice! Those were strong tractors. Nice to see it still working. I have it's little brother....the CA.

Got two places up here like that. One was a full yard of B Models, the other has probably a bunch of R's, Superliners, MH's and even a bunch of spare E9's. They wouldn't part with anything. Now it's all scrap rotted away to nothing because they had big dreams and no money.

I agree. Same problem up here in Soviet Canukistan. Went to town and see street beggars on every corner with their little signs "No job, no money, need food." I'd like to end every one of their lives.

Wow! A whole 15 years! What a veteran. LOL

I like the grill of the Anthem. I just wish they would have kept the tasteful looking air intakes of the Pinnacle instead of those hideous screen doors they stole off someone's house that are on the Anthem hoods.

And ruined them all. LOL

Odd to see an FWD that doesn't have front drive axle.

You're almost Australian now Mowerman!! LOL Now we just gotta get you 6 or 700 hundred horsepower for that Pete, LOL

They look pretty similar to the Freightliner Tuff Trac. And as I just commented in another thread, I ran a Sterling and a Coronado 122SD with Tuff Trac. It rode almost as good as our air ride trucks and had better traction than air ride. Can't comment on the Volvo/Mack version, but the only Tuff Trac's I ever saw fail (and almost every dump truck around here was a Sterling with Tuff Trac) were a couple that were being grossly over loaded and pounded off road.