Vladislav

Your point about using as much parts off a shelf makes sence.

On my mind it was the best offer on a AC I ever heard. It had the most or all of the original paint.

Mike, is that tandem or a single axle? I'm close to promise to myself to not drool over purchasing any more trucks until I end up with at least one completely restored but sometimes it's difficult to withstand.

Harrybarbon, thanks again for the detailed answer. With that lot of info and advices to use the Lizard Skin crue should send you a bonus set of their product to cover the advertizement work Sure just kidding. I will try to get and test it. Just difficult to imagine the fry pan effect. Our world is full of frustrations but from what you said it must be a great stuff.

That's cool you continue to track down the progress in the same tread. Congrats on the purchase! Nice looking truck. On my mind it might be kept in dark blue (or darker than now) to keep its originalyty and match the fleet with a little exception. And welcome to the forum! Vlad

Did you brows the Bart's book recently? Forgot to let you know. My Dutch friend has very sharp memory along that book. He pointed me out to one interesting fact. If you check out the page 138, at the top right you can see the picture of Mack NR with a crane in Canada dated 1988. That's exactly the one of those 3 trucks wich Mike Yarnall showed out as "3 for Vlad" a couple weeks back. NR1 is a cool looking truck. Along my research I came to conclusion NR's had the same front axle as pre-war B-series Macks. Probably many other components off there either. That very early one with the old style cab doesn't have anything in common with L-model. At least from its look. I've never heard about any one survived.

I didn't have time enough to walk all over that threasure planet. If I saw that thing I might hang up there for some long while and not shure I'd go off without the deal done. Seems too rough though.

Drool! I wish I could afford it. Western Mack with V8 and a freshened up one seems to me damn attractive for the cost. Suppose it's about the worth spent to get it look like it now does.

As I remember there was a very good DUNN AC offered for sale on here for 10 grand. I might be wrong, it was some while back, maybe 3 years. As for H65 and H69 I would say you well Mack-qualified folks kept a lot of silence - I have newer heard anything on this matter being on here for whole 5 years. And what is more strange, keeping my very attention to anything H-model related. And I may add, I don't smoke and so on...

Paul, I though you're trained well getting alotta bright sunny days... I mean getting no heart attack watching such high polished top point beauty

One thing is for sure - if someone don't want to do a dirty or just "dusty" job it means he can avoid it and be lucky at the same time. So it means he has some clean job or has income enough with no job at all. Observing that fact we get the conclusion the world became different and no need of a hard labour nowadays. Hope it will change further to force those lazy assholes to move their points they use to be sitting on. Plenty of them overhere either and more and more every year.

And happy New Year!

Ufff... Intersting was EN464 Thermodyne? Hope it was too late for a flat head gasser. And what such a misterious ENDL673 could be? A lightweight version with lots of aluminium components for the West coast?? And how can you determine H65 looking the picture???

Aren't they PAI ones the longer ones for a R-model?

I have almost never heard about Mack Junior COE! Need a bit of explanation either - what's H65? Can't imagine anything between H63 and H67 Thank you for sharing these great truck pictures. And for the one from Mahan's collection also.

That's pretty interesting, thanks alot for sharing the experience. I put Lizard Skin on my "to look for" list, will try to get a set of. What amount of the product you spent for whole B-model cab?

WORTHFULL. Sorry for the stupid misstype.

A man should know his limitations. Especially a man with 21.5 tons "in the trunk". Sorry for the loss of the historical artifact.

Maybe heavier oil could make a difference?

I think they are for $29 at Finditparts. Thank you for sharing the part#, beeing wanting a couple of.

I was waiting to hear "If I have that trailer I'd have no need to work at all since it's self-operating"

That trailer looks like a true piece of mechanical art.

I like those snowy roads. It's cool when the sun is shining and you drive with no much hurry. Beautiful scenaries. Not too easy to drive though when it's snowing and so on. By the word it's currently some degrees above the freezing point and the snow is almost gone overhere. Hope to get it back before the New Year.

Harry, thank you for the detailed explanations. It just seems difficult to me to order a set from overseas and I'm not sure both local mail and custom service would be eager to pass a pack of liquid stuff. On the other hand I can just go to a nearest automotive shop and buy some cans/spray cans of toluine-based poliurethane resin wich makes a rubber-like skin on a surface, a kind like modern cars have on their bodies and wheel arches. I used that material many times and it works perfect for corrosion protection. Limits sounds and heat income in theory and as how it is described by the producent. Usually I apply made-in-Germany or Eastern Europe stuff. I sure would like to test Lizard Skin since folks on here tell it's good. Alot of worthless worthfull advices on here. Going to put my hands on the R-model cab in the future. It's actually far from to be silent, difficult to talk with a cell phone when down the road. Currently I do the sleeper, put the local made bithum matts wich were similar to Dyna mat. Hope to start on the cab in some months.

Twin steer H's seem very rare. At least I don't remember any talks about them nor pictures. Too like pre-war B's and C's.