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A quad with a heavy single would be ok, most of your newer Granite's are going to have the heavy single unless ordered otherwise. A quad with an 18-19' body, 18-20k front and 44-46k Mack rears on camelback suspension with a 4.42 rear(Eaton trans), 4.64 rear (mack trans)or 5.02 rear (Allison trans) will all be nearly the same rpm/road speed, roughly 1800rpm @ 66-70mph depending on tires. That should be a pretty nice spec for a quad I had my 04 was an 18k multileaf front, 18k tag, 44k Mack rears, 4.64 gears with a 427 aset and T310M trans, it did s great job after I got Mack to turn it up.

65,000 rears? Why? If you were hauling 20 tn you should have been grossing about 65-70k that's a whole lot of overkill on axles. Around here all the trucks run 18-20k steers and 44-46k rears an we gross 74k on a triaxle. What's your Max gross? Double frame or the newer heavy single is plenty also, I've run many dump trucks over 80k on a double frame or heavy single. Is it c-t or c-e, most have a cab to end measurement and a cab to axle measurement, a body installer can walk you thru that stuff, if you want to ho back with the same set up just measure yours and hand off the measurements to the dealer.

You cant tell on the road I see more Macks every day, they are putting Pinnacle Set Back's on the road as fast as they can letter them around here, of course there may be the issue of Macks last longer and as such dont need to be replaced as fast, or that Mack customers are tired of the Volvo influence and going elsewhere.

Yeah ti looks pretty crappy, I mean who would want to drive a truck that shiny, just means you have to try to keep it that way, gee what a waste! LOL! looks good so far.

Ive heard everything from 8% to 28% for driveline loss and I cant ever figure it out so I just guesstimate unless I can get someone to tell me what they think they are making. I would guess it was closer to 500 than 560 flywheel but it was a bad dude for sure. I gotta get STAXX going on putting my 85 on the rollers to see some before and after turbo and injector numbers, if my clutch holds out.

You would still have to spread the roof 4 ways I measured one already, I was hoping the sides were straight enough but theyre not, it would still look awesome with a 4" chop on an RW, that long wide flat hood with a chopped roof would look like an aircraft carrier deck.

HMMM Prevost, expensive, and ride oh so much better than an MCI.

Easy there Ray, lets get it home and drive it around a litle bit vefore you buy injectors and a turbo aight. LOL! I know there was an Old E6 4valve 350hp powered RW TriAxle Dump around here several years ago with different injectors,turbo and some pump work that had the rwhp dyno sheet in the truck he would show you after he passed you with a load on, it was 467hp if I remember right, and I think that makes around 560hp flywheel, of course nobody can tell you what driveline hp loss % actually is without going thru the gear reduction numbers, etc.

Hmm I dont even think I had a camera phone then, let me look in the ol girly picture stash and see if I can find one, seems like I took some pics of her "bikini" at one point. I think it was like 2001-2002? I cant remember, I remember I was working for Opryland Hotel Transportation driving tour buses at the time, she worke in admissions at the hotel, messed around with a cute little blonde german that wsa in housekeeping there too! That place was great for my portfolio, work a few hours then go over to the Scoreboard Bar and Grille and get a little buzzed and go back over to the hotel and find an empty room or go mess around in some of the convention space, had a hell of a ride in the Delta once! wasnt on one of the boats though!

The Mack Big SIx used E9 heads and pistons but not cylinder kits it was a long stroke engine not the short stroke of the 90 degree V8, Bill at Winrock Truck Parts had told me once the few testing engines were sold off to scrap and he had ended up with two but that they were not running and Makc had no parts to repair them so after a couple years one went to a Mack collector and the other to scrap and the only remaining complete Big Six is in the museum. The engine in the RW up top is an E7 look at the intake manifold and valve covers, Mack E7 engines were built for Marine and Industrial use in high horsepower variants and a big HP E7 could be made using those parts if you had the cash, same for an E9, there are E7 and E9 Marine engines over 750hp still in use today. The french army still has several E9 530/550HP rating engines in old APC's however I have been told they are no longer in use and are set to meet the scrapper so everyone needs to start makling cals and emails to get em back to the U.S. if we can. I have a Magazine somewhere with an AD for Mack Marine engines with pics and specs for both E7 and E9 engines Ill try to find it later.

Ha, you had fun huh? Sounds like my road trips.

Have you ever seen Russian women? Particularly Ukrainian women? Just damn, I dated a blonde from the Ukraine a few years back, hot as he!! And kinkier than you could believe.

Don't do the nitrogen, its just not worth it, you can't top off your pressures once you get back on the road.

I know they are supposed to pay for a replacement truck so that would include tax, title is on you. If the bed and rear axles, tag axles are good id buy it back from the insurance company. Then if you get enough of a check after your buy back go price a new Granite chassis and put your old bed and axles on it. You may end up with a bed and axles and $30-40000 down on a new truck, can't hate that. Just think a granite set forward Rawhide edition with an 18 spd and am MP8 505hp.

Well there aren't any E9 parts on that truck, that's an E7 mechanical engine. I have seen the Mack Big Six its a 14 liter six cylinder and there was only one "left" after early tests so says David McKenna Mack power train VP. That truck has a billet badge on the side of the hood made by Nuss Truck Group supposedly they built that truck and cranked it up then made the badges to go on the hood.

JD is right, they had two fixes, one was a short piece of frame added to make it double frame past the engine if it wasn't cracked, the other wasto replace the whole pass side outside frame rail with an updated part if it was cracked. Remember double frames are not all the way to the front most go from the front axles rear spring hanger back.

Just cruised Truck Paper and found an average cost of around $40,000 for a Quad dump, thats not perfect but its close it doesnt matter what you had it insured at if the replacement cost doesnt match the insurance companies will only pay average replacement cost, so get your pencil sharp and add up what it would cost you to replace and go from there. I have seen this happen several times, an insurance company lets you insure a truck for whatever you deem it to be worth then if your insurance company has to pay out they low ball you and you can settle for the high end of average retail replacement cost, if your insurance fights another at fault party they go for your insured value and settle for the average of replacement cost and insured value so it doenst really pay to set your value to far off from the acual replacement cost.

Nothing a little wax and polish wont fix there! if your with progressive hold on to your ass theyll try to rape you good, call atkinson, or J&J truck sales in VA they are the dump truck gurus, try to see if they have a truck like you have and get their retail cost to buy it(not their best price) along with ads you can find and print off from TruckPaper turn that in with a sheet covering the average costs of the trucks and tell em thats what it will cost to replace, as far as buy back goes Id say $7000 aint bad I bought one a friend wrecked a few years back it was a tractor and it cost me $4500 but the engine, trans and rears were good so I sold it to Fitzgerald truck parts to make a glider.

Go get em trued and use Coun ter Act wheel/tire balancer in the tire then you dont have to have them re balanced as they wear, I started using Equal tire balancer a few years ago and it was great till I started using Counter Act, it doesnt have the same issues with moisture as Equal and it lasts as long as the tire does balancing the whole wheel,tire and hub together as you drive. I didnt trust it till i used it now I use it in everything even my pickup the best thing I have come across since tire truing.

Quick get him some pinicillin, that Red Oval Fever is contagious, and all you get out of it is a HUGE Ego! lol!

Ya know thers a Superliner pics thread, now an MH pic thread, why not start an area on BMT with the room to creat the Superliner pic, MH pic, Titan pic, Granite pic, Mack fire apparatus pic threads? Im just saying I know we have a gallery and all but this would make searching for pics of specific types for refernce much easier and keep other areas of the site clear for things other than pics. Barry, its literally your world! whatta ya think?

Yep, I dont leave trucks running much but when I do I always bump the idle up to about 900-1000rpm to keep the cylinders cleaned out and the air moving over the cooling stack, I have never had a truck try to overheat running in the wind but I have had em heat up sitting still. I have actually never been in an older Mack with good A/C my r series cabs suck and so did my 93 CH, now my 04 Granite had great A/C but as far as truck A/C systems go Mack was the worst for years and years I drove a many a Freightshaker and KW with better A/C than any Mack till I got my 04. I think a lot of the Mack interior comfot issue is cab insulation or lack thereof, I have installed Dynamat on the floor and firewall of several trucks to have an instant 10-15 deegree drop in cab temp the next time out, just keeping the radiant engine, trans and exhaust heat out of the cab makes a huge difference. I know when I got my 84 the A/C was out so I made the swap to 134A and re[placed the dryer, expansion valve and cleaned the whole system and it was ok but running wide open it just didnt do much in the dead of summer, i tore out the interior and went in with two layers of dynomat and two days later back on the road my thermometer on the dash showed 15 degrees difference inside. When its 90 out that makes a huge difference, I was able to turn the fan down for the first time ever in a Mack to that point.

Is that a cowl hood on a CL?

I have Good Years on my CSX truck thats what they want because of our national account, but all the tires I have gotten on all of the trucks they have given me in the last three years had to be trued to get em to stop bouncing. I had two new G177 I think on my last truck that they balanced on the truck and they still had to go back and true em to get em to smooth out, maybe we get different Good Years in TN, I have a set on my pickup that it had from the factory I have about 20k on em and they need to be balanced again and this will be the fifth time, Michelin LTX M/S on my last few trucks ran SMOOOOTH!

TURNED DOWN! I dont think I know anybody that has ever turned an engine down, thats like a sin or something isnt it? geez Ill lose sleep over that for you! Im sitting here wanting more power, more dammit more, I think Ill be happy with about 700-800rwhp, my 84 was close to 600rwhp and I gotta out do that.