Joseph Cummings

You need ratios considerably lower than that. Is it a 5 speed truck? A set out of a truck with a big overdrive like a Mack 2050 trans or a 2090. Probably where you want to be is around something in the 5s or more

,Yeah the frame on your truck really looked good especially. considering its age. Joe Capecci had some triple frame B Models behind his place on Church St near Sepviva. One had the L cab on it and he was still running it in about 1990. There were some without anything on the back because Liberty Concrete actually owned all the barrels and Joe owned the trucks. I'm not sure where they ended up when he sold the property. I'm no youngster either. I was climbing down off of a machine and my foot caught the base of a pump that was mounted to the floor. I felt a pop, and it felt like I stepped on a spike or something but there was nothing in my boot. I tried to walk up a staircase to get to the other side of the machine and I couldn't do it. Turns out I completely tore my Achilles tendon so now I hobble like an old man. So mechanical projects are tough on me too. Be nice if I could hare a decent kid lol

Are you going to ever use it on the highway? Here in the anthracite region if it wasn't going to see the road it would just get welded up and even the fishplates welded on 😄. Burn it in with 6011, and cap it with some 7018 passes. I'm guessing you have 3.87 ratios. What do you expect to do with this truck. How fast does it have to run. you can find some really low ratios out of something with an overdrive trans, and end up with a truck that tops out at like 35mph but will pull anything

I remember MACK Transportation in Philly. Near the Port Richmond area but to the west of I-95. They had a big illuminated sign you could see from 95. A little off topic, but I think JC McHugh still has this Mack locomotive, I forget the story about them, I kind of remember Mack Truck bought them and repowered them and refurbished them at Allentown. I might be remembering wrong though

Yeah, well I go back just shy of 50 years doing this full time and I remember getting them out and saving them or at least most of them, but older trucks that are run here in the northeast, and especially double frame trucks can be really stuck. But shop labor worth a lot of money anymore, so I just figure on buying new bolts if I have to do one. I'm up in Hazleton Pa and when you remove a mack trunnion in a double frame truck, bolts are usually the least of your worries, the damn rust jacking is your big worry.

Those are all "body bound bolts" They have a shank that is larger than the threads. When you install them you ream the hole to tightly fit the shank of the bolt. That way the bolt also acts like a dowl pin. They don't come out easy. You are not going to spin the bolts. You have to spin the nuts off and then drive them out. Most times they get damaged while being driven out. When you get new bolts the shank diameter and shank length are important. There are larger diameter shanks available because if you are swapping parts around you will need to ream the holes oversized and instal the larger OD bolts. Being you are using the same parts on the same frame rails, you won't have to ream the holes unless something gets damaged. I swear I met you. Did you stop around Eugene Evans shop with Tom Zacny? Or maybe with Thackray or Joe Capecci?

Nice truck. Where is it located? The barn on 611 & Street Rd?