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I predict great reviews....-Brad

I get a kick out of reading most everything I find here. If I don't like it, I move on. I guess I find this issue a little odd..... You like the part of me that is a fan of Mack trucks, but you don't want to hear from the Catholic, Conservative, happily married, father of four, business owner, that just happens to think that he is blessed to live in the greatest country with the most opportunity on earth part of me? I am sorry but they all come wrapped together in the burrito that is me. -Brad P.S. I didn't realize there was a race problem here.

Sounds like you have the deep pan. Had one on my 85' Value liner. I hated it. -Brad

We all hope to get to that project some day. Just when will that day come? If you sell the truck, you sell the chance of one day getting to do it the way you had pictured in your head, or maybe it's like you are selling the memories connected to it. - Brad

You are preachin' to the choir Vision 386.

Call Jared over at our shop 815.378.1241. Pretty sure he has the manual. -Brad

Rob, I am pretty sure that i have a 13 inch can on the truck now. If you have a part# maybe it can lead me to the one I need, or I can man up to a bigger can if it is available. thanks, Brad

I am looking for a chrome R model air cleaner canister. I was told that they were available at one time. Need a part number to go further. I know your straps are available, because my brother recently priced them at our local dealer. -Brad

We have had problems with Firestones on steer axles. Bridgestone R260's are what we are sticking with right now, but we just put on a set of Toyo that look like 260's on. Gonna see what they do. We had an 01' doing what you said and did all kinds of stuff to that truck. After a bunch of stuff didn't work, we jacked up the rear end and ran the the truck through a couple gears. there was a tire back there that was messed up. Took it off, driver told us we were wasting our time cuz there is no way a tire on the back could shake the steering wheel that bad. needless to say, that was 2 years ago and we haven't heard a word. Had a similar complaint on a Vision. That one needed the rear susp. rebushed. Just because the front shakes, doesn't mean the front is what needs attention. -Brad

Yes it is. Check it out on Craigslist. -Brad

I also have this problem, in my 94' RD. After a bath or good rain i have water on the floor under the dash on the passenger side. Have not been able to find the problem in the 7 years I have owned it.

never posted a link before.... the above link is for an early seventies RS700 with Cat power. I found it on Craigslist madison. - Brad

My link Cat powered

I think that dump truck looks like a RS700. - Brad

We had a daycab Superliner painted like that. i think it was an 1980. Powered by a 3406A -Brad

I have really enjoyed reading this topic. I asked my Dad if he remembered seeing these trucks on the road "back in the day", and he does. He said that they pulled covered wagons and that that the maroon truck used to park off of Rt. 12 between Lake Zurich and Wauconda on the east side of the road. I thought that was pretty cool. I hope you guys get a chance to see the truck and I trust that Trent will give me a full report. -Brad

Travis, Truck looks great! I am glad I brought you too together. -Brad

I always thought they were ashamed to been seen in what ever it is they are driving. -Brad

truck has 570k miles on it, know the guy that drove it for the first 8 years of it life. very good maintence history

Found a real clean Peterbilt 378 that a customer has, it has a C-10in it rated at 350hp. Anybody know anything about these yella motors. It's a resale project for me, just want to know what I am getting into. Thanks, Brad

That was great. -Brad

There is a fella in Garden Prairie that also makes them. Aluminum or steel. Machol Metals.

If the truck is real nice, maybe think about a mechanical E-7. -Brad

All of this stuff is why I am keeping with my 94' RD. Just what would I replace it with? These new trucks with all of their mandated crap scale in heavier than my truck. I can overhaul, rebuild and retrofit alot of stuff on the Rd and be way under what a new Pete with a nap sack(36 inch sleeper)goes for, which is about $127,000.00 The only thing I am having trouble with is making the insdie of the cab quieter. -Brad

Not to say that it is right or wrong, I have a "friend" that has welded up a couple of our 95's. Those all have 850k-1 million miles on them. They have held up. -Brad