220cummins

I really like the colors! Nice job that's the same color I used on my frame except it was the ppg aue polyurethane.

When he had the hold open I was really scratching my head! I'd never seen anything like that. It was a strange looking twin turbo and individual head motor. Finally made out the ID tag on top of the motor that said Duetz

We missed the photo at noon too busy looking at trucks. We ended up purchasing the Cruiseliner cab off Matt Pfahl and have to pick it up later this week. I want to put out a big thanks to Watts Mack for helping out with the "paperwork" and to a few of members of BMT (Barry,Farmer52(Ken),Mack MHe9(Ray),sm54(Steve), and Doug Maney) who helped sort out or arrange shipping and storage of the cab. We drove out in our GMC Terrian and left our truck and trailer back in Pittsburgh not thinking we were going to be purchasing a cab or truck. I can't say enough good things about Doug Maney, his wife, and daughter for arranging storage off-site until we get out back out to Macgunie next week! They were instrumental! It goes show there are still good people out there and most of them like old trucks. It was great running into sm54 Steve and shooting the breeze, gimme a holler if you're in the Pittsburgh area in your trips running the superliner and being a truck driver instead of mechanic! looking forward to getting the Cruiseliner project rolling again. I'll keep YINZ updated with some pics along the way.

Chestnut Ridge is on rt40 in uniontown and Cresson mountain on rt22 is pretty long and steep.. I can't remember the grade or which one is steeper!

Serial number says it's a B53! Good job identifying the truck. Found out it was originally a mixer and had a 7 yard drum on it.

I'll look at the serial number and talk to my dad he knows the history of the truck.. Now you got me thinking..

There was a lot of work done to this truck about 15-20 years ago. I believe that was the original axle. My dad used to work and drive this truck 30 years ago for the concrete company he worked for. Then it was sold to the current owner who got a new dump body on it and had it rebuilt. Yeah its a local company, he had 3-4 valueliners and R-models hauling dry-bulk cement before he Down sized and sold off the other trucks. I had them post for sale on here they were nice trucks as well....350 e6 12 speeds Mack air ride and 300+ 12 speed nd neway air ride.... I almost bought one but I had just bought my cruiseliner that same summer.

hahaha you got that right. sadly this isn't an additional unit for me. It's in repair.

Picked this up on friday from my buddy. He backed into it with is Fiat-Allis highlift. How he missed the bumper is beyond me. So it's in for that repair and some ther small repairs. It has a 237 with a 9 speed roadranger on 44k camelback rears. This truck drives, rides, and runs like a dream. My 11 month old daughter loved riding on her mummy's lap and grabbed the gear shift as soon as I got out. I guess its in her blood too lol

Yeah I'm in the normal version on my iPhone not the mobile but it wont let me select pics like normal because it says adobe is not supported by my device

There is a couple things that are making the companies "re-shore" here in the states. From what I read it's mainly do to rising fuel cost, problems with logistics, supply chain bottlenecks, lead times,quality issues, and the rising labor rates in china. They claim with all the rising problems that it's cheaper or equal to produce back here in the states. I try to look on everything I buy on the country of origin and go with USA made stuff. It's sometimes hard but it is suprising on what is made here again. Ive found also the quality seems much better with domestic stuff or maybe I just had more luck with it. Anyways, "Be American, Buy American"

I have a couple pics I'd like to post that I took with my iPhone. I normally just email the pics from my iPhone to myself and open on my desktop then post. I would like to skip that step and see if I can post directly from my iPhone? Any suggestions?

My dad says the same thing. The old whites were notorious for cracking manifolds. The company he worked for that had white gas jobs would stock manifolds. They eventually would convert to headers instead of manifolds.

That is what I've seen before on the internet approx. 700lbs. thanks for the added info. It seems to me from my own experience of egr motors that they are garbage and only last about 1/3 or 1/2 as long as a non-egr. I've blocked a couple egr coolerson smaller Duramax and Powerstroke 6.0l with good results. On another note I seen their is a company making conversion kits for older 2-stroke detriots that change the cam and timing of the engine to make it compliant with Tier-II EPA regs on gen sets and industrial motors. If only this could be on the EPA2007 commerical use diesels....

I surprised how lighter weight the valve train is say compared to a cummins or a Mack. My machinist told me that he thinks they designed that so if something would fail it would be up top like that not to mention it being an overhead cam.

Thanks for the added info. Ive told and read about the liner height being so touchy. Yep 38 head bolts, I'm gonna get the few paint pens to mark them up thanks!

Ok thanks for the info. I'll have to look into getting a new nut or go with the remanned bullgear. 84superdog, do you mean the threads on the hub or the nut itself. Thanks again!

Getting back into this Series 60. The block,head,crank,and cam came back from the machine shop so I'm finally getting back into this. Here are a couple of pics of the progress. The first pic is the front of the engine with the various timing gears and Bull Gear (big center one) during teardown. The second pic is the polished crank installed and torqued up with new bearings in a newly line-bored block. The third pic is the liner puller I fabbed up to remove the liners from the block. It worked really well and beat spending $600 on a new one. The last pic is the Bullgear that is in good shape but is getting the roller bearings replaced. That is my question. Does anyone know the torque of the 3-1/4" retaining nut that holds this assembly together? I read somewhere online saying 700 ft/lbs. Typically no one re-bearings these Bullgears. Even my buddy that works at Penn-Detriot/Allison wasn't sure of the torque spec because they usually just replace the entire assembly, which I would normally would, but this Bullgear's teeth still look good as well as the rest of the assembly. I'd rather replace the bearing for $130 and be safe then to just throw it back in there or spend $650 for a remanned one

that big horn looks fairly recent , meaning within the last 20 years judging by the condition of the cars its hauling.

Really clean!

You're not kidding. I've made up brackets to hold them on the forks of a fork lift. They are way easier to torque "upside down" then to torque under the truck even with a 4:1 multiplier.

Well said. Out of sight and out of mind. Society would rather pay 2.99 for a t-shirt that's made in a hazardous sweat shop in Bangladesh then pay 6.99 for the same shirt that's produced down the road and and support their local neighbor who works at the plant. "They love our milk an' honey, but they preach about some other way of livin'."-Merle haggard

According to Bob Dole, even Reagan wouldn't be allowed in the GOP today. Tea Party=Corporate Greed aka Koch Brothers. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2013/0526/Bob-Dole-says-Reagan-couldn-t-make-it-in-today-s-GOP.-Is-he-right

lightly scuff with a grey scotch-brite and re-coat with base color then apply your clear.

Rustuloeum actually has a polyurethane line of paints that are really good. Rustoleum high performance industrial line of paints. My dad used it for quite a few years when he would rebuild concrete mixers for his employer. He'd use it for the cab, chassis, water tanks, barrels, and chutes. It held up really well and was resistant against the concrete and acid used to clean off the concrete. The trucks were fully sandblasted primed and painted. They would last an average of five years to eight years or more with daily use and abuse. In fact the last truck he did before he retired in 2002 is still looking good and delivering concrete.