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Where is that KScarbel???? I've got a question for him...... Back in the early 90's at the Canadian truck show, Mack displayed a Renault Magnum Cabover for the heck of it.... I remember seeing a different Renault Magnum cabover with E-tech for power here at Mack Canada in the 99 or 2000. It was branded as a Mack with a CL emblem in the center of the grill. I'm trying to remember if it was badged as a "Prestige" I wished I got a picture of it then. Does Kscarbel know anything about its short existence? Was it a test truck or for show??? I think that Renault is starting to look like a Volvo FH cabover. Does this Renault have a flat floor like the Magnum inside?

I have had a couple of trucks that need the entire dash cluster as well. Bad circuit boards in both. One had the seat belt light come on which I didn't realize it had a seat belt light till it got stuck on due to a circuit board short. Cost about $500 Canadian for the cluster. One truck was a2005 CXN the other a CHN 2005 and 2006. Both of our brand new 2013 CXU's have had door adjustment and door seal issues constantly.

Have a good look at the Exhaust after treatment setup on the MRU's. The SCR system is huge and takes up about 3 feet of height as wide as the cab and almost 2 feet deep. I can imagine mounting that system or retro fitting a Pinnacle or Granite SCR set up frame mounted will be expensive. You may want to try to grab an early MRU (MP powered before SCR) that only has the a DPF exhaust filter.(those early ones had a lot of emission program problems I hear??) Would be a lot cheaper and easier to retrofit the DPF only ones. Don't mean to be a killjoy pointing out the after treatment B.S. Sounds like a neat project.

Ok.....I made a Boo Boo. The starting aides were no longer installed with introduction of the Midliner RVI "ACE" engines. The ACE series engines we had at the fleet I worked at had no starting aides. RVI engines in Midliners never had in cylinder or precombustion chamber glow plugs. The 1992 and up to 1996 Midliners used that glow plug in the intake setup. Get the codes checked first, go from there.

Great work Vin!

Keep an eye out for Tyson Brandt..The fellow Canuk with the famous "Super Dog" Would love to see him in the loaded B-train races and that snortin E9 of his. Have fun!

Don't screw around.....replace the entire clutch assembly with an Eaton rebuild (had very good luck with them approx. $500 plus core up here) and get the fly wheel resurfaced with a new pilot bearing.. Nothing worse then having to go in there twice. I have had 1 RB I put a clutch in have a balance issue at 1200rpm. Turned out to be a flywheel machining issue. I have heard of stories where other techs have had to unbolt the pressure plate and rotate the housing to the next set of bolt holes in the flywheel. If you are that worried about the balance issue mark the flywheel to where the pressure plate is bolted in and make sure the discs and intermediate plate are in phase. Best way to test after the new clutch is in, is when the trans is out and the engine flywheel housing is strongly supported (either blocks of wood or a jack stand), start the motor. Don't rev it up, just slowly increase the idle to check for an imbalance. You shouldn't have to do this, but if it helps you sleep at night I've given you some options. Good luck and make sure you have a good heavy trans jack and an alignment tool for the clutch assembly.

You may want to have Your midliner scaned for codes. If your check engine light is on, it was very common to have your timing event sensor fail. The sensor is located on the injection pump drive gear in the top of the timing cover infront of the driverside mounted injection pump if I remember correctly. Check out your codes first and work backwards from there. I believe that engine worked on V-Mac I or II supported pro-link readers. That series of motor is ACE which has a computer for certain sensors.

Follow the intake manifold on the driver side of the motor all the way to the front of the manifold (where the Manifold meets the hose that comes from the charge air cooler) The starting aid will have a clear plastic fuel line attached to what looks like an injector. right beside it will be a glow plug looking unit with an electrical connection on an eyelet connector. if your issue is only start up related as I do recall that series smoking bad on start up due to this starting aid. Its a fuel injector that injects fuel into the intake at the front of the manifold and its heated in the manifold by the glow plug (stuuuupid system) With that many miles you could have more wrong. Good luck.

Door adjustment and seal issues have appeared on both of my new Pinnacles upon delivery and my salesman says many others....

If your trucks tare weight is an issue keep an eye on the weight of going single frame VS double. I have seen where a double frame on a CH in 2001 was lighter then the heavy single frame. The RBM frame rail ratings between the single heavy and double were very close. I'm pretty sure the double was an 8" rail with a smaller insert and the single was 9.5" and thicker then the 8" rail.

Horton fans fail to lock on. Kysor fan systems free wheeled (unlocked) in older units.

The loads we would be pulling on the R-Dogs are light and on short trips back and forth across The City Of Toronto. I could see your application being hard on older equipment. Our 85' R did use to haul 120,000lbs gross on a 4 axle dump but after too many cracks popping up suspension wise (Neway), we retired her from that type of service. (too bad, that 350 pulled better then our 460) I'm lucky we have that kind of work to be able to use older Macks without beating the crap out of them.

The starting aid or glow plug system on the CS/MS trucks from the late 90's if I remember correctly have an injector and a heater element in the forward side of the intake manifold. It was one of the most useless starting aids I have ever come across. Look into disconnecting it if you get a chance if your problem is only on start up. The Midliner "ACE" (advanced combustion engines) had some silly stuff on them as Renaults first shot in North America at putting a computer on a mechanical RVI engine. Those engines don't have a glow plug in every cylinder like most medium duty Diesel engines of the 90's did. Sounds like a head gasket which we had a couple fail at around those miles.

Same here..1 of my senior drivers has been driving a 2008 Pinnacle for the last year or so and is now requesting a daycab R-model. I'm looking at a '74 and an '86 R-model. I may keep the '74 for me to play with.

I remember at one fleet I worked at we switched back to ordering 427 engines (E-Techs) from 460's. The 460XT (487hp) was no better either. The 427 did better on fuel and seemed to pull better. If you look up the specs, the 427 has a higher torque rise then the 460. You seem to get the 460horses on paper but with that poor 12L motor being punched out came at a cost in efficiency and performance. I also remember some of the E-tech460's we had were waste gated turbos. My 2003 CH E-tech460 (Non EGR, one of the last) has a waste gate. I know the 427's we had did not have waste gates. I'm trying to remember if my 1999CH with 460 E-tech has a waste gate (I have failed as an owner on this one) injectors, heads etc. are the same. a lot of it is programing.

Yes......I can see it now.....The sky is falling!!!!! I will leave the fear mongering to you. You seem to have time for that. Me and my Macks have money to make and memories to build. All while enjoying life in the Great White North.

Love the look of the Valueliner.. It looks like a Canadian bought truck, it has an Ontario Lic plate on it.

DM fuel tank on the driver side.....The Mutt is a Heinz 57 mix for sure. R-model square tanks have one step in them.

Does he even own A Mack ???? Or is this an armchair quarterback thing?

Welcome....Crazy fits in here just fine....

HEHEHE If I have learned one thing in life it's that I shouldn't attend every argument I'm invited to. But I feel someone needs a hug...... If an EX-employee of Mack feels Volvo has done him some wrong in life.....Well Sir, I'm sorry you feel that way and I hope Volvo makes it up to you some day. In the mean time, I can happily report my revenue numbers are up running my current "MAC-VO's" due to the fuel savings alone. With this regular increase in revenue, I can buy more parts for the old Macks I like to purchase and restore. Its a beautiful circle of life that my new Macks help restore the older ones. Please keep those interesting stories of Mack doing this and that from way back when coming.....I do enjoy them and all the details you provide. I for one will be out there driving, fixing and owning past and present day Macks. So one day someone can post a thread on B.M.T. about Mack Trucks (regardless of who owns it) still existing in 2013 many years from now. Like I said before quite simply, we can agree to disagree.

Simple really...... I am a fan of Mack, have owned and worked on both old and new. My Father retired from Mack after 30 years of service. My grandfather owned Macks. We have all been around other makes but something more then a product keeps us rooting for Mack. For My friends who still work at Mack here and for those I have had the opportunity to meet over the years working for Mack in The United States, I support them all. The ones who still have pride in who they work for. The ones who take the time to talk about the product and the good old Mack days before European rule. Volvo or not I still love my Macks. My fingers are crossed in the HOPE that the people at Mack that still care make more inroads to customers that have yet to see how much the product has improved in the last 6 years. NOT in the hopes of failure. I support Mack and the people that make Mack what it is. Volvo's ownership has effected my relationship with Mack in many ways, but not enough to need to turn my back on a product and people I have loved for so long. Your negativity towards Volvo's ownership of Mack is well documented. Enjoy living under your dark cloud sir. I would rather agree to disagree with you. In the mean time I will be outside in the sun polishing the iconic Bulldog on one of my Macks. Weather that Mack was built under the Volvo regime or before Volvo, that Bulldog gets the same amount of polish and admiration.

I wanted to go to the Clifford show but took the trip to Allentown the week before and had too many puppy repairs to catch up on when I got back. Looked like a great show again. Cool pictures, Thanks. Next year for sure!