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Vladislav

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  1. From what I see the black Mack COE has good solid cab. The chassis looks like from another truck. Nice restored Autocar you catched up the picture of. Thanks for sharing.
  2. Mike, nice to see life in your neighbourhood.
  3. Very reasonable conclusion. Alot of people try to do complicate trades hoping to get some extra's on every step or just spend time in hopes to fix a truck they have by themself (some day). The results of that kind are well-known to the most of us. Sometimes it worth to forget about some expences or loss of potential incomes we would (??) get along long and braided deals to just get things done instead.
  4. I'm not ready to tell you is the hood hinge setup the same (too maybe not) but at least left top corner of a RD cab has different shape to accomodate newer hood.
  5. Currently I have 9.02's so 7.00 would work. I hope to get something like 6.50 though but you can imagine that finding out insn't a pretty easy deal being at my place.
  6. You sure need if you're going to check out the face side..
  7. I was about falling in love with that thing having not seen such ones before. Thank you for sharing.
  8. If that H model Mack still do its normal work it seems very impressive to me.
  9. Have you picked up those carriers?
  10. Wonder the number of paint cans they used to re-fresh the look of that animal. And if you have another one in your collection it could be easily put on that bed to go to a show !
  11. Looks like those Hollywood folks make high quality product. I would suppose to see just cardboard replicas of such vintage signs and so on.
  12. If you make some pictures and post them on here some answers show up very quick.
  13. Kevin, these facts are pretty interesting, as usual. Although they initiate a new question from my side. You stated that the hood supplier was changed in 1990 and pre-date hoods were gray. That doesn't corellate with at least two R-model hoods I have. Both trucks were built in 1988 and both hoods show black (dark gray) gel coat under primer. They sure could be swapped later. Any other reason?
  14. I suppose it's better to have some holes just because they are unplugged than from ice cracks. Warm garage is sure nice to use but sometimes we might just "forget about something". For instance that some temp at some time dropped down for more 3-5 degree than we used to keep in mind. Cool truck you have
  15. So did all the short hoods (non-CMCAC) have the rib on fenders? Working on my (later) R-model hood I found out it was glued together of different fiberglass parts. The outer skin seems as the main structure and the inner surface formed up on the different matrix. Then they put together. It seems either there were more parts used in one hood. You just difficult to figure out how many looking a solid one. So too probably those horizontal lines on early hood fenders are just split areas between them.
  16. Sounds like a good event! Definitely fun to operate your equipment the way it should operate. Hope you will drain all the rest water from the pump before cold days.
  17. That's difficult to guess wrong. From what was shared by our other superstar Superdog the number of existing W-71's you can count with your two hand's fingers.
  18. Ken, sorry to see the picture. By the way I removed both air tanks from my MH being worry they could get holly some day and sandblasted them. After that the left one went to the paint shop but the right one didn't. I welded up 5-6 rusty spots I got condensed water leaks from after blasting but not sure it will live long. Just want you to know any options on getting new tanks you've found to the moment. And did anyone reskinned air tanks the way people do it to fuel ones?
  19. Build up the pressure than drive the truck into water with all air components under surface and than watch for bubbles ??
  20. I suppose to the moment the something was barking
  21. Thank you for sharing. Middle's of nowhere use to be neat places. Probably because of no one have spread his breath owerthere. Wonder how many beers you need to forget a dog??
  22. Leon, don't worry much. At least the color ot the truck is nice! As for the headlights they utilize almost the same bodies as military Macks do with the only exception of presence of top-mounted park lights. I tryed to find a pair of such ones at Macungie flea market in 2013 and had almost no luck. There is high quality modern replica you can buy new. Not 100% reproduction of the Mack light but close to. http://www.earlyfordstore.com/headlights.php
  23. Brocky, No, that's my current hunt object. 4000 km from my location, real Siberia this time I will post the story if the deal work out.
  24. What is the rear diff's ratio? I might be interested in the pair of carriers.
  25. Wonder what was that huge bath White truck hauled? Nice peaches!
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