Vladislav

I would even consider purchasing a chassis with no rear bogie and engine/tranny. Depending on the rails condition. Seems easier than stretching out MH I bought for the project. It's doubtly an easy deal for me at the moment though having no possibility to show up in person.

I'm in strong interest on the front cab mounting brackets (off the chassis) and the central "two legged" bracket the hood brace attaches to (at the very 1st chassis crossmember). Maybe a few other things depending on complicity of remove and shipping to NJ. Unfortunately I'm no longer Facebook achievable so checking out the parts and getting contact info of the seller are very appreciated. Thanks for the post.

Best B-day wishes Joey! Have a great day and don't miss the evening! Seems like April goes on

As Bob said above. Not every step brings you closer to successfull result but only well done ones.

Interesting story and interesting truck. Pretty sure a short nose (600 series) R with a V8 is a rare beast. Even haven't kept in my mind such ones were ever produced. Congratulations on the successfull repurchase Vlad

No, no! No talks about funerals! Only positive points in this thread! Have a great B-day Bob! Many more to come! Remember you always have options to choose between make a big run or tinker with the DM a little bit.

Mike is no longer with us but he's on our minds. One of the longest time members on here I belive (did it much longer than I do) and had Birthday in April. My memory tells it's on the 6th of and the date the thread was started tells the same. To my understanding just a few persons in the world have so huge amount of Mack trucks collected together as he had. I mean a collection or a kind of it, not a commertially operating fleet. As many others I kept a plan or idea to go to Iowa and visit him some day. "Could" do that in 2019 if had more time and deeper pockets. But the things were different and later on became different with no way to get back. Rest In Peace Mike and Happy Birthday!

Wow, guys! Many thanks for all the wishes! April seems good for birthdays indeed. I even feel ashamed I didn't make any pics along the time to share as Tommy did. He's a professional though and I'm not competitive enough Had my parents visited me for barbequeing and observing the "state of disaster" of my truck collection. Than had a nice time in a restaurant in the evening accomanied by a nice and pleasant person of oppisite sex I should probably say sorry for replying on the next day only since the evening turned out getting toooo looong into the night

Happy belated B-day Tom! Best wishes! And yes, glad to see you spent the time really nice.

Did Superliners ever have gold dogs from the factory?? I think Maxidyne feature was long gone to the moment the 1st leaved the assembly line.

Thanks for clarifications. I didn't happen watching Western chassis components much. RS/RL chassis were shared on the forum from time to time but FS/FL seem as rare animals. Maybe it's just an East coast thing IDK. I think you're right about Australian chassis style. As we see Paul put a like to your post. I guess he'd put a dislike if you were wrong

I guess much larger displacement. The firetruck you mentioned had both rear and front hood extensions.

Joey, thank you for the offer. I have one interesting idea on how to modify T2090 on the ratios to better suit my needs. There seem some difficulties though. I need to play with shafts and gears a bit but that's not a deal of the day. I will make a post about that when able to get to the project.

I saw one on ebay a few days back. The condition wasn't perfect though. Not sure it was described as a F-model part. I might just requesting "Mack emblem".

...or send request to Mack Historical Museum for the VIN record.

Joey, I'm out of likes for today but would like to give my respect to you for that extensive sharing of info and tips on the transmission tools and repair. I have a general T200 overhaul manual but gladly saved the pics you posted on my 'puter. And now I can understand the way people fit the compound with a tranny on a truck. I was told by one of former drivers of my SGT R-models that they removed and put back the compound housing a few times. And had plenty of headaches especially for the first time. Two things I know for sure. They had the job done and they didn't have any special installation tools definitely

I belive one off a CF firetruck would work. But I doubt it would be notably easier to locate, sorry.

I don't have that code handy. But the matter was discussed on here many times. I'm sure the answer can be found in Exterior, Cab and Accessories forum on this site.

Too sorry to hear. Glenn always shared top skill advices. He definitely was invaluable when someone needed help resolving issue with an old Mack engine. Rest In Peace.

You would barely remove a few ten thousands of an inch polishing camshaft even with sand paper. I had experience "correcting" shape of journals of Mack shaft after "imperfect" grinding. It's a long story to tell right now. The matter is I needed to remove nearly 0.01mm at two opposit sides of a journal. Could not do anything notable with 220 (or so) grid paper. Had to use a diamond file and worked one journal for nearly 30 minutes one side. Than another than smoothing the scratches down with multiple papers lowering the grid. Ended with 800 or 1000 and the surface was a mirror. Sure all the job was well inspected by microgage. I could easily see 0.005mm (0,0002 inch). Those journals are damn hard, heat treated.

I like that diamond plate flooring. The truck is going to be as tough as a locomotive!

Sorry to hear about the negative experience with the crank polishing. Unfortunately no one is guaranteed 100% from getting in a such situation. And those are lucky who have will and power enough to pass through and continue reaching the target. When we deal with a hobby it's an adventure by its origin. Or a game. Much worse when similar things concern job or business and especially health. I once had bad experience with a shop boring new sleeves for Lanova engine block. I also had to go to another place. Than a few months later I found out I made a good thing I didn't close the door too loud leaving them. The matter was they didn't complete (atually didn't do at all) the job explaining my custom-cast liners were too hard for their cutting tools. At the same time they asked me to pay nearly 1/4 of the full job cost. I said I wasn't lucky doing that but paid. And later on when I had to look for a place to provide stitching repair for a stress crack in a cylinder head I found out the only place which could do the job was those folks. So I had to come back, they well recognized me and did the repair with full respect and quality. P.S. The weld seams are a cat's meau as one of our members used to say

At least on the pictures all looks fine. And my guess when the truck is seen in real nobody would note any imperfections in the windshield rubber shapes. Especially taking to account there's none of them BTW it's possible to smooth down uneven edges or surfaces of a rubber part just with a piece of sandpaper of grinding wheel.

It's still a mistery for me how a building could be jacked up without deformations and cracks in the walls etc. Even that steel sub-frame has certain grade of flexibility. Or is that way suitable for some designs of homes only? I mean you can move a wooden frame building but that's impossible for bricks, right? Anyway I'm under impression every time I see a pic with such a scenary. Have never seen that for real. Only one house somewhere in Virginia which was prepped for move (jacked up) but still in its place.

Looks like there are no radiators in the place where they should be (and definitely were). The ad mentions of restoration in the past. Probably some mods were put into the truck along it. Anyway it was interesting to see. Thanks for sharing. Vlad