ThaddeusW

Ah the old guys never get us young'ns lol. Nothing like the sound of a diesel but sometimes you need a change. Besides you can torture everyone around you with not only strait pipes while rolling but what ever god awful music your playing while stopped lol. Some of the stuff I listen to would clear out a foot ball stadium in 10 seconds flat. They would then come back with with torches, pitchfork and a preist to exorcise the cd player .

If it aint broke, dont fix it!

18.2 liters or 1099.65 CID. You can get the spec sheets from cat.com Those spec sheets are for industrial engines but should be the same as the ones they made for trucks.

Nice find! There should be a law against scrapping old macks!

Sounds like you got a real kickin system too My question is how much quieter is your B cab now then it was originally? I used to drive this POS isuzu NPR and man it was loud, talking to the passanger gave you a sore throat. Radio was useless at highway speeds.

Sweet! That setup must sound nice. Are the subs one of those bazooka tubes with the two subs on each side? And does the radio in a newer R cab have the older shaft style mount or can you put in a more modern DIN style radio? I would put in an mp3 cd radio.

LOL good one (Im Polish too). After I got my licence I had to do a delivery so I took the LIE (i495) out east. Well I figure that since I am in a van with passenger plates and with another passenger I thought I was golden to go in the HOV lane. Well I get pulled over by the nicest highway patrolman I have ever herd of. He told me that I needed another row of seats in the van to comply and other information. I get the ticket and find the violation number was wrong. Took it to court and it was thrown out. Lucky me.

Exactly where are the radios and speakers mounted in an R and B model? Interesting to hear if anyone has ever put in a system that can really crank in there rig . I like my music loud.

Yea it’s probably because invisionzone does not comply with W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standards. At first I though it might be a bug in Firefox. I then checked this site in IE, opera and firefox under windows and then konqueror and fire fox under Linux and got the same results. Works fine in IE though (Thanks Microsoft for making up non W3C extensions to compeat unfairly. ) As a side note: in opera you can see and click on the navigation links that fire fox hides under the site banner. Only they are on top of the banner.

Barry that is one sweet ride. I got a chance to test drive one at the International truck tour. With air ride everything and a really kicking stereo system with all the interior trimmings it was a real pleasure. I wouldn't mind one but parking it in NYC would be hell. I must admit I like the Internationals.

No problem. I am on truck paper just about every other day lol.

Your very welcome

Thanks for the info George (and everyone else too!). See the thing is I want a compact and 100% portable hookup. It has to mount to any tractor and every tractor has a 5th wheel. Some type of rear plate for a hitch seems too permanent and requires me to adapt it at the point of pickup. This thing if built right it would work with no problem.

Hmm I cant find the DM800 you are referring to but I found this one. 35 grand is alotta money though. There is a DM811sx with a 300 for 20 grand. I have been looking at this RD800SX. It is a winch tractor with 12.00x24's and man I love the 12.00x24's and its less then an hour from me. But 45 grand for a rusted up allison automatic cummins combo? I dont think so. This RD would be my pick but um yea little to big lol. OR did you mean RD800 like this one with the e9 450? Take the 450 out and put an e6 in. I am sure you could trade the e9 for an e6 or sell it.

Anyone know if they make an adapter that lets you hook a sort of towbar to the 5th wheel to allow a regular ballhitch to be used? I looked around and came up with nothing. I know a 5th wheel would allow the bar to swing around and pitch up and down but a sort of lock could rest of the frame and hold the bar strait. Here is a simple drawing of what I am trying to explain (notice the "leet paint skillz") The idea is if I find a running truck that I can drive to within reasonable distance I can rent a uhaul car carrier and hitch it to my tahoe and drive to the truck. Once at the truck I hook the tow bar adapter the to trucks 5th wheel, lock it to the frame using clamps, chains, straps whatever and hitch up the uhaul to the truck. I then put my tahoe on the trailer and drive home. That way I can easily retreive a truck and drive it home solo without having to own a trailer. If it aint made commercially then I could make it myself. Easy fabrication and I could even make it extendible in both axis to fit a varity of 5th wheel positions and heights. But does anyone know if its legal?

I was just looking around and saw a post about an air throttle. I am guessing the accelerator is a pressure regulator that sends an air signal to a piston with a spring. The harder you press the more air pressure the further the piston extends against the spring moving the throttle lever on the pump . What engines used them and are they hard to fix/replace? And if anyone has a picture of the setup that would be great.

Your B pictures are 1.5mb each. We each get 6MB total space on this board. Your going to need to resize them and reduce the quality a little to make em fit.

Trent, To easily resize an image in windows, you can use paint. It’s under programs>accessories and then click on paint. Open your image in paint and click the image menu and then select stretch/skew option. Then in the two stretch boxes you will see 100 in each box. To make the image one half the original size put 50 in each box. You can put any number in that you need but make sure both numbers are the same. Then either save it or use save as to create a smaller separate picture from the original. If you or anyone needs a photo manipulation program like Photoshop try the GIMP (funny name but it stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program). You can get it here but you need to download both the GIMP and GTK+. And make sure you get the right GTK+ installer; one is for windows 98, me and NT4 the other is for windows 2000 and XP. It takes some getting used to but it works great and is 100% free.

See now thats why I looked into it. Who wants to mess around with the air system to try and safely get the truck down the road. Hook, air lines, brake lights and your good to go. Hey Trent, no truck is perfect, even our beloved Macks. Making the towmans life easy is a big plus. Besides you get home faster that way.

where exactly in long island are you going? Only expressway out there is the Long island expressway (495). There are numerous other major roads like sunrise highway (rt27) or northern boulevard. My advice is to make sure you dont get on any parkways here in NY, no trucks/trailers allowed on them, period (some have VERY low bridges, 9-10 feet and see truckers stuck on em all the time). No weigh stations in NYC or LI BUT I have seen portable weigh stations setup once in a rare while. Dont have any signs of overloading or broken lights etc., cops here in NYC, Nassau & Suffolk are rabbid and will pull you over of they see anything. Take the outer crossing bridge from NJ and take 440 north till you get to the Staten Island expressway(I278). Take SI expressway East and over the Verazanno Bridge. And take the BQE East (Keep off the Belt Parkway!) Then keep an eye on the signs because after the Kosciusko the BQE forks, right & middle lane goes to the LIE which is what you want. Take LIE east to where ever you need to go (keep out of the HOV lane and left lanes on all highways!). Id try to stay on the major highways because your less likely to run into one of those portable weigh stations. There are other routes but it helps when I know where your going.

A forum troll.

You want to make a 5 speed transmission an auxiliary transmission? Are you trying to make more low gears or trying to mimic a 2 stick 10/15/20 speed? Try a 2 or 4 speed aux box instead, they were made for such jobs. A 2 speed aux can give you 9 or 10 speeds from a 5 speed. 20 from a 4 speed but beware your going to have to make sure the ratios are going to give you smooth progression. Some setups might give you a few gears that go down in ratio as you shift up. I was thinking you could put a 2 speed aux behind a mack 6 speed to mimic the old air shift 12. TTC Automotive makes 2 and 4 speed aux boxes. You can view the gear ratios and specs etc. Eaton/fuller makes aux trannys as well as mack I think, but I can not find any info on them.

Dont wanna sound dumb, but, what does the front of the hood look like with the scoop?

Whats funny is I have seen a number of 70's Mack R's with Scania engines in them (said Scania right on the engine plate). This led me to believe the E9 was possibly a Scania design (Scania had the V8 for a long time). I think Scania is the only truck company with a 16L V8 at present.

I just got a reply from Bendix with a very nice PDF attachment. It shows you a nice diagram, notes, part descriptions, and part numbers! The hookup lets you treat the entire towed vheicle like a trailer including releasing the brakes from the tow truck.