Vladislav

That's damn unbelivable! On my side I can not tel it's better in my own country. And too probably will not be in the distant future. But I too wish you Americans to get things correct way soon. One thing I always sure - working people must not be a cow only milked to feed others.

Thanks for the explanations, guys. I remember we talked about that setup in the past. BTW pretty interesting style, nothing like that overhere to be seen.

Welcome on forum! Very impressive looking truck you have. Anyone might get blind of so much chrome on a sunny day Vlad

Enjoyed seeing the job done

Sad story about your friend's wife. Maybe someone else on here will put more info on the truck.

Congrats on the purchase. The truck sure needs love but I suppose they will cost like gold in some years. Great looking superdog!

At least the oil pan gasket is the same.

Might be not a hell of a job. On the other hand start from relating the width of the frames. CH has it different than RW. You will need the axles with equalizer levers and to-rail brackets, air bag suppor crosst tubes and also two rear frame crossmembers to put on your truck. Looking the crossmembers and equalizer brackets you might see spacer plates which compensate the difference between different frames. If you can not use the crossmembers in your frame or if the distance (width) between the lever brackets is less than on the CH the deal might get failed. Swapping just the pair of diffs seems much easier and too probably trouble-free about the job. Vlad

I like two big Mack trucks no less than the holstein. Wonder what did they have as a tail?

I would grab that one and put on my second R's chassis if it's closer or easier to ship. On the other hand it seems attractive as such a crasy deal to do. Easier to go - less fun

I have T2090 with 5.02's in my R688 with E6-350. You can cruise 60 mph (100kmh) with no trouble. The top speed I could achieve was 125 by speedo and 119 kmh by GPS at the same time. Unfortunately my tacho is dead so no ideas on the revs. I just noticed the engine didn't increase revs at some point so I supposed it was governed that way. Forgot to add, I rode 11R24.5's.

Paul mate, My 6 cylinder animal is called Econodyne!! And it can't boast of its total health. During multiple overhauls and modifications it lost some minor parts like for example a puff limiter. The turbo is of an unknown source either. Injectors should go on a bench and I suppose with the pump as a company. Describing its function I can state it smokes like a burning hell when you have your revs low. I hope I will go with just 5 speeds or maybe only 4 as I said in the post above. Not sure I will almost go off with T2090 9 speed. But currently I have neither good ones and the overdrive of 0.71 I would prefere faster. Can swap the rears though. The current 9 speed tranny would probably need a set of high range gear wheels and a set of sliding clutches to mate them. I doubt they are cheap new ones and doubt on easiness finding such parts used. I might trace a used box with some other issue locally to boil a can of soup of all the old iron. Let's see. It just looks attractive to me though to put another tranny in the truck to keep it running while tinkering with parts. Vlad

G'day Roland, My T2090 has 5 low range gears and 5 high ones. With 5th low (5th) and 1st high (6th) of the similar ratio. So Mack just doesn't count one of them calling the tranny 9 speed. When bobtailing I start on a flat ground I just use the lowest gear of the High range (Mack calls it 5th). Than switch further every step having them 5 at all. Looking the transmission chat that gear I use for a start has 2.79 ratio. It's fast a lil bit and I go low range when uphill or crowling in tight spots. If we look for Mack 5 speed T2050 tranny (and also 6,7,8 speed T2060,T2070, T2080 not considering their crowl gears) the 2nd speed is 3.05. So having one of those units I might drive it as a four speed box. Having the lower 1st gear (5.24) for narrow starts. The current box I have I can't drive as a hot rod no matter I really want it or not. The shift clutches seem so worn so you sometimes spend 5-10 seconds putting a next gear in. You loose the throttle, get a gear off, wait for a moment than start to put it in. It grinds so you wait a lil bit more. And if you didn't get it in it grinds again having engine revs now low. So you hit gas and try again. If not (again!) you can try to level the shaft speeds playing with gas and keeping your feel on the shift lever for a chance. As the previous owner said to me when showed that process, if you can't put it in better stop on a shoulder and start from the 1st. Just too many drivers went through the truck and the most trucks they drove before and after had synchro gearboxes. Interesting to see the movie you driving. Difficult to get a hard feeling but it seems my ride is much softer. At least when you go on pavement the cab doesn't do catches. I sure have way longer wheelbase. Have a good time, Vlad

Hmm.. The link even doesn't allw me to get to the site. Probably rumors spread really fast. When I was in that part of the country I visited Mystic seaport. Enjoyed it very much. Nice place to spend a weekend, lots of historical stuff and very good organized.

Yes, I heard about some submarine base in that part of New England. Just could not get myself there during that mission.

Randy, thanks for sharing a bit of your life activity. Where is that boat yard? Connecticut?

Is the reason of the sign the people dislike air brake exhaust? If so they would hear crash sounds sometimes. And probably syrenes.

Ok Roland, Let us pull this old thread back from... No, not from a grave. Ok, from... Hell, not from deep down under either. Ok, from a dusty past. The way you see the truck here is how it looked a couple of weeks after purchase. All I got to do with it to that moment was only a pair of new bulldog mirrors. Today it feels much better. Polished Alcoa wheels were installed with new tall tyres (as it had from the factory), one tank polished and another completey redone (to be polished). Air filter is totally restored to the way I'd like to get it done. I got a pair of good cab doors which were blasted, painted and assembled with most new weatherstripping e.t.c. They're on the cab now. Almost new sleeper bunk was made by me and my guys of stainless steel. It's currently prepaired for paint work. The same with the hood which was excessively fixed about all cracks and damages and is getting love at my friend's paint shop. A kind of long story though as it used to be with paintwork. As of ride smothness it's difficult for me to relate it to other trucks since I'm not a truck driver. It goes very good on a smooth pavement (as I suppose should be for NOT a car). But shakes as hell passing wash board or a dirt road. Sometimes I had to go nearly 5 km/h for some km's because of the hood starting jump and hit the firewall. Probably it's a normal thing for some roads we have here. I felt big improvement when first I put 11R24.5's in place of old and worn 285/75R22.5's, than following our discussion this past spring I dropped tyre pressure in the rears from 4 to 2.5 Bar (35pci). At least I got full contact of the rear wheel thread areas to the pavement. Due to many reasons I unfortunately didn't drive the truck much this summer so haven't got new experience. Of its specifications the truck is a Canadian built one and seems it was specified mostly for highway use. I haven't notice US produced R's of the similar kind. Usually they are for heavy work. The one I have (I have them two BTW) has relatively long wheelbase (the size is unknown to me) with 60" Canadian spread in the rears. The frame is a single channel 1/4 thich standart R600 frame. The engine is in-line 6 Mack E6-350 4V with chassis-mount air-to-air aftercooler. Gearbox is Mack T2090 aluminium housing 9 speed with 0.71 overdrive. Drive axles are also Mack, coupled with Neway airride suspension. Ratio is 5.02. Two big round aluminium fuel tanks (400++ liters each, don't remember the figure) and a single bed Canadian-made sleeper of unknown producent (but serial, not a single-made custom one). Talking about it I would argue you statement on coldness of that appartment. Probably being originally designed for cold temps it has 2" (5 cm) glass wool insulation. Once I was doing the trip described above I stayed overnight in it when it was nearly +5 outside. I used my sleeping bag but felt like I woked up at my home room in the morning. Actually a bit nicer since there was nice environment around and little rainy. For the road speeds I looked over my speedo on the top gear and saw 125 km/h when the engine ran up to its limit revs and didn't accelerate anymore. Actually I didn't know the revs because of the tacho not working. Haven't heard anything wrong from the engine doing it though. GPS showed 119 km/h at the same time. Sure I didn't run it that way for a while. Doing 100km/h (60MPH) it sounds nicer and doesn't worry me. A bit of more road speed would be good (nobody would argue). For that reason I found a set of carriers with 4.17. And than later I got T2070 7 speed tranny with 0.60. Swapping them both would be madness. Actually my 9 speed is too worn out (always grind no matter how gentle you are) so swap or rebuild is nesessary. T2070 is more like a 5 speed with two low gears as the addition. It has longer steps than T2090 to drive just 5 speed. Don't know how good it would be for E6 since it's not Maxidyne. Might work for a hobby truck having 350 horses to just bobtail. I'm going to put it in the next summer for a try. Vlad

G'day Roland, No I haven't got to it before. Spent a pleasant while reading right now. Thanks the great for taking that much of your time posting it. Too interesting to learn details and both take myself to your part oof the world. Sure a bit different than at me. We have just 35 cm of snow all over right now. I f I were you I keep all the story you posted somwhere on you hard disk too. Nobody knows the future but you might be enjoyed to wright some life stories of yours. I either had a nice trip with my old R when I purchased it. Not such a long one as you did but it was good enough for me making 1500 km all over for my almost first truck drive. You can put your eye on it either if have a bit of interest. It was typed 4 years back for now and I hope I spell British better now. So don't put much shame on me when reading. http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/27906-double-sleeper-run/#comment-142396 Have a good time, Vlad

I like the item, not sure I'm ready to state I like the cost though.

Take care of the truck and be proud of your dad. He must be sure that "his" truck is in good hands. Great looking B BTW.

I made both things this time. Made a bit more of the second procedure though than I used to. Turned out good HNY BMT!

Love the T-short fashioned on! How heavy was that big coil you put in the middle of the trailer. It seems to me to get it transported safer if put right close to the deck drop area. This might be a stupid question since I'm not a trucker but I'd like to lean more of such matters. Thanks for the first 2017 pics issue!

Can't wait to see the cab and hood painted. Whonder which color. Superdogs are damn attractive and many colors absolutely take them apart from other rigs.

That's not that difficult if you have a bit of key info. In a matter of helping your friend as you mentioned above you better remove big side covers on the carriers you have and count actual teeth. They are seem well from there. Then relate your counts to the figures I posted above and Bob's your uncle, as Britishes would say