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I love those. I saw that company that is making brand new ones on Jay Leno, so I looked them up. They are almost $200,000!!! Guess I'll never have one.

That's why! Wasn't the cab I was looking at, LOL. If it's anything like the jobs I work, that sleeper would come in handy. Thus my bench seat. LOL. Well first day of work today. hauled gravel and pulled a load of cement lego blocks on the three axle tag float. I don't know why Detroit still makes the DD15. This DD13, now that it has 1850 torque, will walk all over my old DD15 . I like it so far. And it's easier on fuel. So now they only offer the DD15 with 1750 torque. But the DD13 is 505/1850. They may as well just have the DD13 and the DD16 600. And as far as engine braking, it is almost the same, but you have to wind it up to higher RPM's to get the same power.

Thanks. You guys are good! LOL. I know guys that ran those V6 engines and they said they were very strong for their day.

What model Mack is that water truck Rob? That cab corner looks odd to me for a Mack cab?

That was quick! Thanks Rob! I was guessing 67/68 but |I wasn't sure. I don't know much about the old GMC's, other than the Brig's and the 5 Star General's.

Maybe I'll lose some weight now. While I like the bench seat, I can no longer mount my 12V fridge between the seats like my 2013. It has to go on passenger side floor, so I can't reach it now. LOL. Made my floor easier to clean now.

Ya, they changed it in Ontario Canada. It is called SPIF. It stands for Safe(NOT) Productive and Infrastructure Friendly. Ya, you gotta be a government employee to come up with crap like that. Anyway, we can no longer have control. It has to go down automatically when you load and it has to self equalize, which is why air ride is the way to go. It can be done on spring and rubber block, but then you have to have load cells which so far are proving unreliable. You can lift it by cycling the 4 way flashers on for 4 seconds, then off for 4 seconds, then back and leave on. It will then stay up until you hit 60 KPH. Now try doing that in an accident avoidance situation. Because despite the government saying they steer in the winter, they DO NOT. That is why my old truck had an over-ride switch installed in the cab. And this one has the newly approved Canada/USA over-ride. But still no regulator in cab. I would have to move it myself. They took it out of the cab when they did the install by law. I know when I have my full legal load on (80,000 pounds) the lift and my rear suspension are at 70 PSI.

Well, since I've adopted all of you as my source of old truck knowledge, can anyone tell me what year and model this GMC is? My friend wants to know. It was a local-to-him township truck back in the day. Thanks.

Yep, I used to haul bigger loads on a tandem than my new tri-axle is legal for, and the old tandems had no front brakes. I never killed anyone. People knew how to drive back then, LOL.

If that's not something like wood chips, I'm gunna say he is way over loaded, LOL. Like I always say "load it like a rail car, drive it like a race car" LOL

Oh, Okay. Now I see why you want one. Sorry I can't recommend a specific brand, like I say I'm not currently using one, but I've had a few different brands in dump trailers and they all worked.

Both trucks are 46,000 Meritor's on 46,000 Air Liner. I like it. Never had an issue with it.

Thanks everyone. Rob, the lift is 141 inches back from the steer and 100 inches ahead of the first drive (hub center to center). The main thing is the 100 inch ahead of the rears. The spacings will effect your allowable gross quite a bit here. But this is the optimal dimensions here. It gives me what they call SPIF Schedule 23 which gives me the max allowable for my rear axle spread. Only way to legal more if if I had 72 inch spread. This SPIF law we have here in Ontario requires these axles to go down automatically once you put a certain amount of weight in the box, they steer and they also have to self equalize with the rear axles. I do have an override though to work it manually. They just amended that law, that we can now have a Canada/USA switch in them...but still illegal to use manual here. You pretty much have to load these trucks nose heavy to get my 19841.6 pounds on each axle. Back in the White days, Star was hand built one at a time, built to order in BC Canada. Then along came Daimler, moved them to Portland, OR and turned them into an expensive Freightliner, LOL. The benefit of Star is they are the only one that still used basic wiring in these models (not the 4700 or 5700 though) Not full of modules. And they have a good frame and big strong crossmembers, and cab and powertrain mounts.

That is sweet! I live in an area that used to have a lot of Diamond Reo's back in their day.

I'm not currently. But I have used them in dump trailers. Most name brands are good, but you have to make sure you get an asphalt liner if you haul asphalt, otherwise the heat will warp and melt a regular one. The ones I have used have holes in them and they weld washers over them to hold the lined. The washers are flush nothing sticks out. Same with live bottom (belt) trailers. Not all belts are compatible with asphalt. I don't really see the need for one unless you have an aluminum box and haul rock or big abrasive chunks.

It's really too bad. Because if that mass EGR would have worked, they would have been hero's. So many people bought Maxxforce's to avoid DEF fluid, especially up in the cold climates. This was a hard fail for International to swallow. Their new trucks, like the HX are awesome and well built. Yet MANY will never consider one because they associate International with Maxxforce.

Thanks. Yes, have a tri-axle pony and a tri-axle tag float also. This is the unit this one replaced. Truck is legal for 80,000 pounds gross here and 140,000 with pony.

My new ride. My old 2013 4900 had me hating life. But going to give them another try. So far this truck has far fewer flaws and I see western Star and Detroit have made some changes and improvements. Hopefully it is a good truck this time because I really like it. Went with a smaller engine this time, in hopes it will be better for the DPF. It has a DD13 505 h.p. with 1850 torque at 975 RPM. 18 speed manual, 20,000 front and steering lift axle, 46,000 full locking rears with 4.10 ratio. Even tried a passenger bench seat this time so I can lay down when I'm sitting on site. It came with stainless panels to put on the passenger side of the dash, but not going to put those on. I get sun-blinded enough from the steering wheel. LOL. First pic is beside my buddy's twin steer tri-drive logger. The rest are from today after having the drop visor and tool box installed.

Nice shape. When I was hauling wood chips the company I hauled for had all Case wheel loaders to load the chips and hog fuel. We all used to load ourselves. I found they were slow, but they had a LOT of pushing power. They would push straight up those hog fuel piles. Then I got working for a company many years ago where I ran 988 and 992 Cat's. Then some days I would have to jump into a big Hough that articulated like your Case. That would throw you right off for a while until you got used to it, LOL.

Panels are still available? I would not have thought that considering Mack doesn't stock any motor parts any more. I saw my old R model a couple weeks ago. Pretty sad sight. cab is rotten, motor has been replaced and is shot, they even put mufflers on it!!!

That's a cool story. Nice to see it work out like that.

You got that right. I notice that all the time with Today's trucking and their Jim Park test drive articles and videos. For a while the new Mack's were all the rage. They were praised in those, they were sponsoring the Ice Road Seatcovers and now Highway Through Hell.

Do you do a lot of farming Paul? What do you have for crops? I don't farm, just always been interested in it. I live about an hour away from a lot of farm land. Hay and dairy is big here. When i was a kid I grew up beside a Massey Ferguson dealer. My main crop is snow, LOL. I'll have to go do some reading up on Chamberlain tractors.

Think so? Only bad thing is the guy I bought it from rebuilt thew engine so it got a rattle can paint job. So it looks different than the rest of the tractor. I do have to get new power spinout rear rims though. They are rotten around the valve stems. Probably just get new ones made. Every time I have found used ones for sale they look almost as bad. And I got all new gauges, decal kit and other odds and ends to just to get it fit. I like all the old brands of farm tractors. They all have a lot of interesting history and innovation behind them.

When it comes to tractors I'm not prejudice, I like them all. The old IH's are great tractors. I almost ended up with one. My Detroit mechanic restored a bunch of them and he was going to sell me one, but then he just can't part with them LOL. So I found this local and jumped on it. I have heard of a Chamberlain, but I don't know anything about them.