rsb502

heres a pic of snow removal stuff, or something from Stuff Magazine.......i cant remember!

Probably going in the Freightliner in the background, that thing is probably gonna be a total p.o.s. with a big motor! lol!!

And all those trucks were given to the Moroccan Army and are rusting away in the desert, damn!

Wicked Witch

Sorry Im late with this one but I have had a heck of a day, so again go read I Got an Idear in Odds n Ends and lets try this out, in this thread just post pics on Wednesday of something wicked, you can comment any time any day but just post pics on the day. Wicked superliner

Get the R model back!

I love those pics, hate to sear somebody got hurt, but man the big haul trucks make good car compactors.

looks like somebody dumped some scrap metal in the valve cover, damn gremlins!

Ill start Tore Up Tuesday with a DR KCAM I cant get it upside down so I went with backwards!

OK so if you havent yet, please go read the post labelled I got an Idear! in Odds and Ends. I am going to open daily threads and want to see what the BMT crew can come up with but only post your pics to each thread the day of the thread, after midnight only comment until the next week and it starts all over, Be Creative in your searches and your definitions of the threads!

I got an idear here folks, well my buddy Justin came up with the beginning and I came up with a way to elaborate and I think we can have fun with it, I will be starting threads called......Mack Motor Monday, Tore Up Tuesday, Wicked Wednesday, Thirty year old Thursday, Fleet Friday, Super Trucker Saturday and Sleepy Sunday. So heres the catch if we all play by some simple rules I think itll be pretty sweet, once it is the day in question, so for tomorrow well say at 12:01 Wed morning anyone can post pics of something Wicked in the Wicked Wednesday thread, after 12:00 Wed night, no more posting pics to the thread. We can all comment on any thread at any time any day but if we only post pics on the day of it will be interesting to see what gets posted. Then everybody can search for something for the next week(gives lots of time for google to find something good) but remember only post pics on the day of the thread and then well see how much digging thru old picsa or the internet we can really do! Ok so im in, everybody think they can live with that and have some fun? Ill go ahead and open each thread the day before until they are all open and then after that we just keep em alive! Ryan B.

OK spo she lets you buy old trucks, hot rod your engines, have a nbig shop, forklift and an old dodge and she even plows the driveway while your out, geez man does she have a sister?

the p/n doesnt cross but that may just be the fittings I have never even stared at them wondering about that before.

Go get those front hub caps, somebody could use those, the rest of it is pretty much screwed.

We normally end up with ice here in TN but so far we have lucked out where Im at, everything has been above the I40 corridor. You could almost use I 40 as a line across TN and see where the snow and ice have been very little south of that line this year, just freakin bitter cold for this area, ive lived here my whole life and I cant remember a winter with as many below freezing days in a row as this year. It sucks, I am not a cold weather animal, I like it around 80, anything under 65 and I start looking for jackets and hoodies.

How dare you curse like that on this forum! Never!

I like the concept but it needs to be tailored to the work and to the conditions including roads traveled. As stated above some trucks with a rear tag or lift axle and the driven axle in the front will get stuck going over curbs, etc. In The US there are a lot of driveways that you have to drive over a sloped curb to enter and with a rear tag you would high center, losing traction on the drive axle in position two, with the axle in position three its negates the issue and having a true liftable axle that could be raised when a curb or other pobstacle was coming would also help out. I have read some on the traction control systems and weight management in the US 6x2 systems and they have to detect a wheel slip from the driven axle before they reduce pressure on the non driven axle. If you are already spinning its too late to compensate and I think thats why the tire wear is so bad, the tires are literally spinning before the system reacts and you can only dump air from suspension thru a 1/4" line so fast. There has to be a way to run maybe 5 psi less pressure in the non driven axle than the driven axle, or to use some sort of bias valve to run higher pressure on the driven axle. Herein lies the big issue in the US, we are legal for 20,000# per axle and 34,000# per tandem not to exceed 20,000#, the systems they are using are trying to distribute the load evenly across the tandem and they dont have to, set it up like it is 3 individual axles on a tractor having all axles allowed 20k, or factory spec whichever is less and I think it would work just fine. I set up the air ride on a tag axle for a friends tractor after he pulled his front drive and used a small bendix pressure regulator to drop the suspension pressure to the tag axle by 10psi from the leveling valve mounted on the rear axle and it worked fine. We mounted the lift switch outside in the side box per dot spec and he picked it up when he didnt need it and never got a ticket for being over on any one axle, the only thing he had a hard time with was the weight on his steer since the tag ran less pressure than the drive it put more on the steer. I thought the simple solution was to run a 14,600 or 16000# axle on the steer and make sure you had enough tire to hold it, then you were under your 20,000# per axle and had traction.

I have never filled the fuel tanks on the 85 but it weighed in at 18,800# before I stretched it, RW613,double frame, V8, Eaton trans Mack 44 rears,bout 1/4 tank. The 84 was an RWS722LST double frame, V8, 12spd, Mack 44 rears and it was 19200# as a daycab with a 226"wb. I think the 93 CH613 E7, Mack 9 spd, Mack rears on air, single frame was 18,000# full of fuel. Macks aint light, but theyre sturdy, I think the flat top Freightliner Classic i had at Howard Baer with a Series 60, Eaton 10 spd and about a 245" wb was around 16000#, but i would rather have a Mack.

4 things.... 1: a one of a kind U, I was under the impression mack built several, oh well ive been wrong before. 2: Bad Freakin Ass K Wopper there! 3: You never can tell just how large a 16" gun is until its within a hundred yards of a building, gives a nice sense of scale. 4: nicve pics, other than the damn birds, LOL!

Gort another story on this a little while ago, so the "drivers" said they waited for several minutes for someone to tell them where to put the rock b ut nobody came to them, it was cold and they werent gonna get out of the truck. Then they just decided to put it right there to teach the guys on that jobsite a lesson (for not coming to them?) because they were waiting. Ok so guess what, those guys get paid by the day, not by the load, they could have sat there all day and made the same money, and if you look at the pic, the remains of the pile of rock from before them is right at the top of that little rise by the mini ex, robert said the first truck pulled up and sat there and never got out and when the second truck got there they just baacked up and dumped on the expedition, oh and that pile of rock on top of the rise supposedly came from the second driver the day before. Id a killed em!

I measured a few years ago and I found out the frame rails out front were about 5 inches narrower on a CHN, not a Volvo chassis Pinnacle a pre 07 chassis. The big issue would be getting it to sit low enough to line up with the transmission and driveline.

Ok more info, the "drivers" said they waited for them to tell them where to dump but the crew kept on working( I bet they never got out of their trucks) so they just piled em up on their truck. These are not your good drivers but "drivers' or as i call them steering wheel holders, after the call to Rogers and the pictures came in they were kicked out of the crusher, the owner of the trucks was told he would have to pay for the damages and they were fired that afternoon. They were some of the undersirables around here that were on their tenth or twelveth driving job and probably couldnt pass a drug test if they had to so im glad to see em gone. Wonder where theyll pop up next since I was told one of them had been fired from every dump truck job in Middle TN.

I got nothin in any of my parts books for that number, sorry man. Ryan B.

1693's worked that way if they were adjusted right

No way to count the number of loads of #67's I've delivered over the last 18 years or so. I have pondered that many times but I couldn't do it, I've dumped in front of or behind someone but I have kept it off the vehicles. If you look at the first load the peak is about 6' wide so the truck was inches from the side of the expedition to do that. I'd have to hurt someone over that if it was my vehicle, and fire some people if it was my "drivers".