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I'm pushing 28 and have been around trucks since I was baby. I was three years old the first time I rode in a truck. My dad got called out for a breakdown in the late evening and I went with him. I can still remember him getting in the "new" '88 MR, that he had just got through putting on the 10yrd mixer, to tow the stranded DM mixer back to the shop. After a quick fix to the DM back at the shop I rode along with the driver to the back of the plant to "wash out" the DM mixer. Yep just wash out the leftover concrete and pour it in the field. This was before any type of reclaimer for separating left over concrete and aggregate. Then it was back to the shop. Boy I was grinning ear to ear for days. As a kid I was always going with my dad chasing parts or hanging around the shop checking out the most recent Brockway,Autocar, or Mack my dad just rebuilt. He'd rebuild one or two mixers every winter.... Flash forward to age 19 I got my CDL and have been driving,repairing,rebuilding, and painting this beauties for work and play ever since. Now I have my B-61 done we're (my dad and I) are working on stretching the single axle Cruiseliner I bought him for his birthday a few years ago into a full screw on neway air ride. It's always been a family affair as far as Macks and trucking have gone. Now with our (my better half and I) newborn baby girl were not gonna change that one bit. We took pictures of her sitting in my B at just a couple months old. It's in our blood and it's what we know.

Funny story and urban legend about that construction on rt.65 across from the island. That use to be Dixmont state mental hospital until Walmart bought the property to build a super center about 8-9 years ago. They stripped the entire hillside and started moving a lot of earth, that was until some heavy rains caused a huge landslide to fall on rt.65 and closed it and the NS mainline for a couple days. The talk about the hospital was it was haunted. There were ghost hunting tv shows up there from time to time. Anyways the talk was the "spirits" had a part in the landslide haha Needless to say Walmart cancel the development. Triad has some clean looking Kenworths.

That's a nice looking heavy haul tractor. I like the lift axle and headache rack along with the drive tread on the steers. . Yeah you can tell it was a dump at some point with the rear of the frame and It looks like the hoist tank is still in front of the lift axle on the passanger side.

The midliners weren't bad,especially for city driving, but their downfall were the air over hydrualic brakes on the the 200 and 250. The cost to replace for parts alone make it better to replace the truck. The 300's had normal s-cam air brakes.

Murphys oil soap has been the go to for leaks

You can "update" and make stuff look nice or "throw parts together" and make it look like a real POS. I was just trying to say it politely.

HAHA a "pumpkin patch"

I seen somewhere a while back Schneider stock piled a Freightliner Centuries with the Series 60 DD. I think their theory was to stock up and wait a few years until the kinks were worked out of the emission systems on the new trucks. I remember seeing a picture of fields of orange Frieghtliners.

We have three 04-06 6.0L in box vans at work that are nothing but junk. The one had all new injectors around 80k miles and the other two had both new turbo and injectors around 130k miles. Either way they are gutless pigs stock. I've heard if you delete the EGR garbage they'll run better. I've had two Duramax LLY diesels in 3/4 ton and 1 ton trucks with some luck. The second one I just got with 130k miles blew a head gasket two days after I signed the papers. I had to pull the motor to do the head gaskets on it because of the lack of room. The dealers just remove the cab to do a HG job. I ended up welding shut the EGR cooler.and rerouting the PCV valve to bypass the emissions crap. So far so good...

That looks thrown together. To each his own though.

WOW, may he rest in peace! He seemed to be a throwback to the good ole days!

Isn't that what were doing here?

Again the problem is it's two hours away from the guy so numbers at this point doesn't matter. Likewise the identification is great when the numbers are there and aren't scratched or grinded off. I had to order a few set of head gaskets for the 673c in my B61 before I got the correct ones. The numbers on the front housing were ground off. The pump number was 673t the turbo number was the same as a 237. That engine has 3 hairline cracked pistons which the numbers can't be out. Numbers are great when they are there but when they are not out comes the old TS442 and B-model manuals. The oil fill neck from a ENDT675 I parted out will not fit the supposed 673c currently in my B61. The bolt pattern was different. I converted to spin on filters (water and oil) by changing the oil cooler, the water pump, and cross drilled the block for oil flow. Then added the water filter manifold. My point is over 40 years a lot can change or be converted on a truck.

That's where I was kinda leaning.

I've seen that turbo used on 673T ON 711's and 237's. A B61sx I had for parts had a 711 with a turbo kit on it had the same one likewise a 237 I pulled from a CF600 had the same looking turbo too. I don't know the part number but I remember what they look like.

That works 90% unless he numbers were grinded off like on my B model or his situation where the truck is 2 hours away

At a local car show last year there was a gentleman walking around taking pictures of various cars and trucks. I didn't have any vehicles there but I noticed this guy because we were walking and looking pretty much at the same pace as he was shooting pictures. I didn't pay much attention after that. Flash forward to the last "big car show" of the season last fall, the same guy had a tent with pictures, t-shirts, and other memorabilia with various classic cars and truck on them. Some of the stuff had the same cars and trucks that I seen him photographing last spring....Now I know for a fact he didn't ask for premission to shoot unless it was after the fact? The worst part was when someone (who's vehicle he shot) asked for a copy of his merchandise he was selling he said sure for a PRICE!!! that's not right! Hell I'd be honored to have a picture of my truck(s) on a shirt or calender or something but atleast give me a copy of it free of charge!

Its looks like a maxidyne 237 because of the spin on oil filters and oil cooler but the water neck throws me. The 237 has a spin on water filter where this does not. This engine has a maxidyne oil filler neck where as a thermodyne does not.

Wasn't a cummins KTA offered in those Freightliner Powerliners?

This is fitting, Animal House court room scene...

2. That's the worst part. Two neighbors (grown men now)but once kids did the same things ie stealing, drugs, and alcohol abuse started out when they about 15 years old. Now they're in there 50's with 95% of their life locked up. They are a career criminals. Sad to say some never learn a lesson but a lesson has to be taught especially with it being your own blood. Sorry for the events the silver lining is the police did their job....well with the pressure you put on them and you recovered some stuff....just my .02

I think 16k http://www.oldmacksrus.com//Adobe_Pdf's/B%20%20Model%20%20Front%20%20Axle%20%20Capacities.pdf

puffer valve unhooked will make it smoke.

Exactly! couldn't have said it better myself

A guy my dad was good friends with, babe mcdonald, bought a kenworth then put 44k camelback and mack rears under it because as he put it "they can hold up to anything"