BOBWhite

We ran our MH for over 15 years on our farm and it's still running at my uncles. Sure we never had problems with it and the MH is still many favorite truck but by almost any standard it was a terrible and worn out truck. The cab suspension was "deleted" so it rode awful, the cab would fill with dust any time you took it on dirt roads (which was most of the time), No AC obviously, the engine had a horrible governor surge if it had no load on it, most of the aluminum cab part were rotted out, and lastly RATS EVERYWHERE. Lots of CH's still out there and similar prices to the MH's, I wouldn't necessarily be afraid of the later pre emissions etech motors either but best to learn how to work on em. Never seen an MH with an M11, didn't know they even came with electronic motors

I would look more into that 5.02 ratio because in my head there is no way! maybe with a 5 speed you need a ratio that low but man that sounds slow. Test driving the truck would be the best option but If not jack up and spin one of the wheels to find out for sure what the ratio is. The Ultraliners have airbag suspension for the cab so I really don't think the camelback would be all that bad. The guys on the forms most likely drove R models with the camelback suspension and they don't have any cab isolation. Lastly most of the cabovers left the country or were scrapped In the 90 or early 2000s. Seems like you'd see them daily but then they all vanished at once

Wish more manufactures were like Cummins and provided their manuals online for free, although quick serve is a bit of pain to use. I hope to someday find a stash of old Mack tech books to scan and put online. Definitely would keep more on the road!

I know some of the folks on this site like anything Scania since they had the connection with Mack, hope some of you will get a kick out of this story. Hopefully someone can help fill in the gaps as well since there isn't much information about the Case-Scania partnership on the web. During the mid 70s and early 80s Case (that's J.I. Case before the Case IH merger) needed a bigger motor for their new 90 and later 94 series 4 wheel drive tractors. Their own 504 motor was great when it was making 130hp but wasn't competitive when it was bumped up to over 260hp. Case decided used the DS-11 inline 6 engine in their 4890 and 4894 models while the big 4994 got the 16.2 (866ci) Scania DS-14 V8 engine. Unfortunately it was not a very big hit with farmers as they only sold 224 of them over 3 years of production (84-87). By the late 70s most farmers had a bad taste with V8 tractors, mostly due to the less then stellar V8 cummins used in many different makes and models. Parts are near impossible to find for these beasts and out of the few that are left some got a Cummins engine swap. I find it sad that not many know of the 4994, it was the most powerful tractor J.I. Case would make before the merger, and it took a few years into the merger before they would come up with a tractor crossed the 400hp mark. I'll post a few videos and advertisements so listen to that V8 roar! It's got the same spirit as an E9 alright!

Here I'll pull up a pic of Mitch McConnell: RINO

Lol yeah dodge would have been better off in developing that hurricane straight 6

Does the on highway (fast) stuff have planetary hubs too? I've only heard about them here on logging and mining trucks that top out at 35 or so.

On the topic of electrical wiring why did we get away from the 3 prong 220 plugs and outlets? All our 220 stuff still has the old style but our new generator has the 4 prong style. I get that the new 4 prog stuff had an interlock and is safer for idiots but its that the only reason?

Wish they'd bring them here to the U.S and style them like the old CL9000s

I don't like to share my age on forums for the reason that I don't wanna get lumped in with the dumb "young folks" Heck I'm even younger than Heinz. I can't say that there are more or less losers now than back in the day, but I can figure that most of losers of yesteryear are long gone by now. Met a kid who was younger than me at a show the other day who had a beautiful 72 KW, not his daddies either. Turns out he finished putting the transmission in it that night and drove 2 hours in the morning to get it there. What a guy! really knocks you down a peg when you come across a prodigy as young that! Hope there are plenty of guys around like that when I'm old

I don't get that hydraulic cylinder repair at all, what is burning oily rags underneath it supposed to do? And there at the end they realize it cannot be straightened and the video conveniently cuts away. While the head gasket and casting videos show some real skill I think most of these videos are just view farming to entertain kids with low attention spans.

In my mind it's for both redundancy and power. On airplanes you check right and left mag before you takeoff, you feel a big difference in power when you cut one set off and it drops about 50 rpm.

if only I didn't live too far from everything... That things nearing scrap price!

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