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Fuck, ecm damn auto correct crap I know what I'm typing my phone is an idiot

Those ac460's run pretty good and do decent on fuel too, their biggest issue was the Turbo but with550k id guess you already got the updated Turbo. To use that engine in a different v-mac version truck you need everything engine,harness,eclipse and guage cluster.

I could use that trans and gear ratio in the Superliner.

is it mack rears or eatons?

My CH was the limited edition Black and silver 1993 had the wood dash and wood cabinets in the sleeper, chrome valve covers with the gold dogs, even had dogs embroidered on the seats.

looks like an R with rooftop air next to it how bout pics of that rig?

I am not a fan of my union but the way our contract is written I cant do shit about it and had no sy in which union I went into, there are 3 that cover employees in my craft and the AIM iss the main one and the one that negotiates our contract thats where I wanted to be but I got fucked and dumped into the SMWIA sheet metal workers and my job title is machinist,WTF? oh and my dues are $20 a month higher than the IAM and my union doesnt even negotiate the contract I work under, the best part the one that really freakin kills me inside every time my dues get deducted is I live in Bell Buckle TN and my union local is in Selkirk NY, WTF!!!!!!!

Im gonna try to go get some pics tomorrow, I know its gray and it has a cummins other than that I dont know much about it I know its a round headlight so its pre84 ill try to get better info I was thinking of getting it just to keep it from getting scrapped, I think I can get it for about $6000

I see the toolbox is on there already and it looks like the exhaust is missing from the back of the sleeper, you have been busy, hows the fuel mileage on the ol 400 mine got about 6.8 avg.

Hey if times get tough and I find out dog cooks like turkey or chicken I might be short some pets, it would have to be really tough though I do love my puppies, they keep the neighbors away.

there is actually a Mack video on this its Perkins Specialized hauling and they bought new Mack Titans to do the job Im sure they are making enough on this haulto pay for the trucks and the trailers and much more, yes i said trailers the radioactivity from the old Generators is very low rad but it is enough to irradiate the trailer superstructure next to the load so they had to build enough trailers to have a new one for each load. Supposedly they were unsure if the trailers could ever be used again once the steel was irradiated so they were leaving them at the disposal site until they could be assessed and de contaminated if possible. Oh yeah this haul paid MILLIONS, MILLIONS in taxpayer and so cal edison customer funds.

would you trade for a Superliner with a Cummins that needs some work? its a small sleeper duual exhaust wet kit truck was used with a dump trailer. (not my blue truck)

well how long has it been parked and what trans and rears are in it?

See now why is it America cant do that anymore, the largest Dozer is made by Komatsu, the largest haul trucks are Leibherr(cat for mechanical drive Leibherr is diesel electric), we built the largest and most pwerful everything for years and now nobody even knows how to use a lathe or a milling machine, I bet anyone they cant find more than 2 young people that want to work in a machine shop or welding shop. I think it sucks we as a country complain about everything but we wont to shit about anything, but when haiti get hit by an earthquake we send millions if not billions in aid and thousands of people and billions of dollars af equipment to help, just curious but is Haiti going to load up their Cargo planes and send their experts here to help us, how bout those billions of dollars, you think well ever see that again? I can say this if we dont take care of ourselves first we are screwed because nobody is going to send us aid when our country collapses they will just sit back and laugh.

Im always glad to see another old Mack back on the road instead of sitting in the weeds.

Cat has made the 24 series for a while I have a die cast 24g i think, they are used almost exclusively in large open pit mines to work the roads for the large 200+ ton haul trucks I have seen them up close they are freakin huge for a grader.

Yeah from what I see here superdog buys another truck every week!

I hear ya, the continentals do pretty good, the best drives I ever had on a road truck were M726EL's from Bridgestone the best on a dump were General MS520's, I try to run right at max otr maybe 5 under if Im light more than not, but doing what he does and dump trucking here tires take a beating in the summer and 10 psi (cold) seems to keep the max pressure in the heat of the day down, I checked em one day after I ran a couple loads i the summer the tires were hot to the touch and the pressure was up to 146 I remember it well it scared the crap out of me the max inflation on those was 110. tahts when I started really playing with tire pressures and it helps on heavy haul, not as much otr.

Superdog or 84 Superdog? ha who cares it works so its good, I gotta get to Superdog's place and see this Mecca of Macks I keep hearing about and pick his brain, Im bound to learn something(and maybe talk him out of a truck)!

and if its not an air clutch go get a new thermostatic clutch and swap it out, but I dont think they ran them after 2000 or 2001 I cant remember.

I use equal tire balancer in mine and it works pretty good, the last 425's I bought were Michelin XZY-3's they were pretty smooth rollin tires and I think we put the 10oz packs in them, I dont know what kind of tires you have but that has a lot to do with it. I dont know if you have the ability to jack your truck up but if you do jack up one side at a time to get the tire off the ground and put something(hammer,rock,board whatever) on the ground as a reference and get it spinning and watch your reference point to see if its out of round, many are and you cant get all the bounce out of them. If its out of round you can have them trued but that rarely solves the issue and it cuts your rubber away so they wear out faster, I dont know if adding more balancer will solve it for you or not but you should be able to use less internal balancer since it goes directly to the out of round, or low area in the tire. As for tire pressure I always run 5 psi under the max inflation pressure as it reads on the sidewall on a steer axle, If your running a front loader you should run at least 5 psi under if not at max inflation pressure I would guess your front axle loading is close to 16-18000 on the road (with a full load) and the 425's should be rated somewhere near 21000 for the pair at max inflation, figure 2500lb drop in capacity per 5 psi of pressure till you get to about 80 then 5-7000lb loss per 5 psi. I hope that helps I tried to get the most out of my tires so I messed with balance and inflation a lot and I seem to have about half ass figured it out after nearly two decades of trying(yeah I started trucking at 16). In my dump trucks I ran 5psi under in my steers unless it the temp was over 90 outside then i dropped 10 psi from max, my drives I run 5-10psi under depending on how they react at each for a week or two then I drop them 10-15 under if its over 90 I found this keeps tire wear even and blowouts to a minimum when your running over 70,000lbs on a tri axle sometimes over 80,000, oops did I say that!

I don't know if ill ever eat cake again seeing that, I think I can do better!

another happy convert! Nice truck I like those long hood r models they have a style all their own and a v8 just makes it perfect.

Welcome to the site, I'm all for superliners coming back to life, I have passed you and waved a few times in a black and silver ch with a dump trailer in Columbia. I am trying to talk Staxx into a roadtrip that way to see if gobble has anything I can use if we come ill bring my 85 superliner and we can get picks of two of em together.

I kinda figured a complete run might be kind of expensive but if we got a pre order up it might lower the cost substantially and we could talk with the people at the Mack museum and with Barry at Watts to see about the trademark liscensing. And you never know Mack might make another run on their own if there was enough interest it is a company that loves its heritage, were not talking about sterling here Mack already sells retro merchandise thru the Mack shop and I doubt that is the old run from the 80's they are selling now. Oh and Barry I still want those 5 color mudflaps! or just the old style you guys have been out of stock on for the last few months online.