ajt3138

pretty hard to pick a "bad" spot out west. everywhere i have traveled out there is awesome.

that would fit in with the days when you dont know if you are coming or going!

thats why i always back in. then i know i'm good to leave.

hi mike i see you said in another post that you had been working on your glovebox. i posted a couple of pics for you and always wondered if you had finished your repair. aj

sure sounds like a good reason to get up just one more hour earlier.

shit, shower,and shave i would guess.

i'm probably just spoiled, but i'd say you took the wrong vehicle

i drove this mack as a delivery truck for our lumber yard. that was almost 30 years ago. it had a knuckle boom behind the cab for unloading materials. the truck was a diesel. it had a 5 speed with 2 speed rear end i believe. i remember how heavy the front end was with the motor and boom up to the front. it wasnt always ideal for winter travel from what i remember. it served us well for many years though. as a youngster i seemed to feel comfortable driving the different vehicles that we acquired. we had another mack at the same time--- its the B-61 that i talked dad into letting me keep and its presently under restoration.

mike - here is couple of pics of mine. aj

i bought an original brochure for a b61T off of ebay and it had the sales receipt and the salesmans business card still with it. here is copy of the sales receipt.

my dad started our construction company in 1961. our equipment grew in size enough to finally warrant buying our first semi tractor. i think we bought our 1961 B in the mid seventies. we acquired the truck in pennsylvania and drove it to our shop in northwest ohio. i was in my teens at the time. we bought it with a lowboy trailer so we could move our dozer which was a 850 case at that time. the trailer was not operable as detach anymore so we planked over the rear dovetail. we also purchased a dump trailer so we could haul gravel for our jobsites. around this time we purchased a building in our local town to use for setting up a retail hardware store. we had to do a lot of cleaning and junk hauling. there were also some old foundations we dug out that had to be hauled away. we were hauling most loads to the local landfill. i remember dumping that trailer for $19 a load. didnt matter if you had feathers or concrete on it. we loaded the dump trailer one afternoon late. it was too late to go to landfill. without thinking we let it set outside all night, and we received a rain shower that night. the next morning dad told me to take that load to the landfill and dump it. i got out to the landfill, backed in allright, and checked trailer for level. everything looked fine. so i started raising her up. it was going just fine. some material had just started falling out the back when all of a sudden, one side of the load stuck while the other side let go. and over she went. i remember walking up to the ticket office in a daze. i was shaking so bad i couldnt hardly dial the phone. the B and i were forever bonded.

what about adding video? i've had pretty good luck compacting my pictures so they would post allright, as i am not too smart on computer. but i didnt have any luck posting a 23 mb video. i have watched a few videos on here that seemed pretty long. mine is about one minute of video.

i have a little video. i'll try this again. says file is too big. i'll try to find out how to post it.

finally got the engine back in the frame. primed everything and she fired right up.

i took mine to my local glass shop that does a lot of commercial work for us. he laid the glass flat on workbench and he had a tool that looked like a flat chisel with a cutout on the edge that fit on the window channel without resting on the glass. then he carefully took a hammer and slowly tapped the channel and removed it for me. the rubber was still in good shape and he reapplied it to the new glass and stuck it back in the old channel for me.

paint stripper easily cleaned up the aluminum but it didnt clean up the weatherstrip on back of the shutters that closes them off when they shut. does your cleaner by chance work on the rubber weatherstrip? i figure i may have to paint the rubber strips if nothing else can be found as the old paint on them is quite stubborn.

if i remember right... i used "dad's" paint stripper. i can go to the barn and look tomorrow to see if thats it. i had 4 coats of paint on my shutter and it worked really well. it didnt take all the paint off the pivot rods on back of shutter but i am going to paint them. i just painted the outside shutter frame today (by chance) and will paint the rods this weekend probably. i took a pic of the new paint i did today but it is still loaded on camera in barn.

i have taken a lot of pictures. i hope enough to get the truck back together. i took pics before i took a piece off, thru the process, and after disassembly. things always look different later. and i am not that knowledgable anyways concerning restorations. i transported the frame to our shop this weekend and we should be able to get the motor back in the frame this week. i took a bunch of pics for ya. will post as soon as we get all the pieces back on the engine. aj

mike - i found the number on my front axle if it helps you to locate it. it showed up well after sandblasting and painting.

my project is a 1961 B-61. we painted the engine this week. hope to start putting parts back on it next week. should be ready to put back in the frame in a week or two. i'll post another pick when we get all the parts and new hoses back on.

my dad had a decathlon. thats a fabric covered stunt plane. we did stalls on purpose all day for fun!!!!!!!!!!

thanks for looking. we are getting ready to paint the engine, so we have taken off everything that is easy to remove. air pump,water pump,fuel filters,exhaust man...etc. we will replace all lines also. i matched a color from a little spot of paint left on the transmission breather. we should be ready to paint in a week or so. we painted rims last weekend. there is a pic of those in my garage, and i will post some of the engine as soon as we paint it. aj

sorry---- it just came to me. that is to clean. i was hoping to see a pic of what the cup nut looks like if anyone has one similar. thanks.

this is fuel filter off of a 1961 b-61. end673. i assume some part is missing off the top where the small bolt is. like a knob or something that would screw onto the 1/4" threads. the serevice manual says a cup nut which would be inverted and screwed back onto shaft to rotate windings to clean. does anybody have a pic with this all intact? i see on top it says "to lean" with an arrow. does this mean there is some type of adjustment or something? service manual says this unit is a manually operated self cleaning permanent element inside.