Maddog13407

theres no real way to tell a 20 from and 18 speed quad just by lookin at them unless you took them apart and actually counted teeth.. if you have driven one for a few years you can tell right away which one is double over tho and which one isnt. i had a 10 speed duplex in my B613 before i took it out and out a triplex back in like it had original. the duplex box was cracked and brazed bad so we took all the gears out and out them in a double over quadbox case that had bad bearings. so if anyone looked at it they would be puzzled haha. lots of guys did this back in the day and switched cases or back boxes. sometimes it worked, sometimes it didnt. sometimes it was just to get the truck runnin again. i know a 9 speed duplex and an 18 speed front box might be the same cause they are both overdrive but i dont think you could interchange a direct duplex with an overdrive back box as 5th gear is different.

yup, Nitro Stan is old school and lacquer. we use to use it over primer all the time to take out the scratches.if you use it under any of the newer paints like Acrylic enamel or Urethane enamel it will dry and crack or 'Check' after time. Icing you can put right over paint after scuffin it up or over bare metal, pretty much anything un like Bondo where you pretty much need to pput it over bare scuffed up metal to make it stick. yup Icing comes in a tube and is mixed with regular Bondo hardener. they make Thin Ice to but it think its harder sanding.

agree myself. got my 354 Hemi runnin over the winter in my B475 and I can tell you a few trips around the yard sucks a 5 gallon can of gas dry. I still think if you found an old school bus with an 8.2 liter Detroit in it it would be a good engine for that. it would fit right in, they are fuel sippers, most had juice brakes and you could probably find one with a 5 speed and use the transmission and rear end.

yup the real Super Duty. didn't GM market the big block Trans Am as a ' Super Duty' back in the day?

sweet, good sounding truck. always wanted one with dual round tanks. fenders and doors and shes ready to rock. might need a little stronger throttle spring to unless its the wind that makes it sound a lil funky haha

i put two coats of epoxy prime on mine and whatever other primer cause it sat in the garage for months and everytime i painted something and had primer left i kept coating the frame, the heavy spots i used ''Icing'' that comes in the tube. its like really thinned out bondo and easy to work with and sands nice. mix it the same as bondo just not as much hardener cause it dries about 3 times as fast haha. i welded up holes where my frame had helper spring bracket to and icing those as well. then of course it had 2 coats of seaer, 3 coats of red and 3 coats of clear . i recently even spread icing on my fifth wheel plate and repainted it to get it ready for Macungie.

always use no touch just on my BF Goodriches on my truck just cause i cant wipe the white letters. everything else i use Tire Wet with one of those sponges, think Black Magic i use most of the time

that truck use to be really really nice about 8-10 years ago. guy use to bring it to macungie along with a perfect B81 or B87. been for sale for a while now. was on ebay a while back

think it needs Mike's flared fenders on it

his engine WAS a Hemi, Not the 413. his was a 354.but was probably still sold off cause it was highly sought after. and im thinkin when i saw his truck about a year ago on the military site for sale it still had the engine and the guy wrote he would not sell just the engine, guess someone gave him a good offer. i have a brand new 413 sittin on a stand in my garage with a 100 miles on it, noone seems to be bustin down my doors for it and id get rid of it complete carb to muffler for less than a grand. also a 237 would be way too heavy for a B475 unless you changed the springs and front axle and you still have to address the fact that is has juice brakes. i am thinkin maybe even a 8.2 liter driptroit would slide right in that firetrucka dn you could keep the original rear. have read good and bad on the 8.2 and they were found in a lot of trucks GM and Fords even busses thru the 90's

agree a B models is kinda small but I am here to say yup its possible. my grandfathers talks about a lot of times a few of his drivers getting a little lovin in a WC22 Whites and you guys think a B model is small!!!never really found much in any of my old trucks except for some mouse poo and usually an old Genessee beer can or two.

don't recall seein that gray LJ at Springfield but I kinda like the colors

they only made R models for 40+ years. might be nice to actually know the year you need as they changed them all the time and the old ones had springs similar to a B model and the newer ones had 3 leafs

pictures please! i to have a 56 B475CF but luckily its still intact. recently bought it and got it running

i used IH harvester red on the frame of my B61 just cause i liked the darker color than MACK red. i used single stage PPG Concept. took a gallon and half to paint it all and its around $65-$75 a pint. Jacksb61X what code did you use for your B61 for the old Mack red? i have an old Centari Acrylic enamel number somewhere but cannot find it

nice trucks, 44 rears in the one, im betting its a 438 and not a 464. they didn't put 464's in B422's. nice sheetmetal to make one truck out of.

theres a couple Mack reds. the old color is a nice color then I think in the late 80's or 90's they made ''New Mack Red'' which is a horrible marroonish color in my eyes.

came from Wyoming and really dont wanna sell it. its not all hacked up but someone put a 360 in it which i wnana yank and put the original Y block back in it. would like to restore it someday. its really solid. had some tire kicker wanna offer me 5 grand for it the other day. i can still put up pictures if you want. i know where theres another about 10 miles from my house, might even be a 6 cyl .

yup, we bought an old B61 once and it would turn over but not all the way, then we finally pulled the heads, found a mouse nest on top of #5 piston that they got in thru a hole in the exhaust pipe and an open valve. they engine would not go over far enough to push the nest out haha. i have hear of the old folks using Coca Cola to unseize an old motor before to. never tried it. if its a diesel it may not be seized. usually they are too oily to seize up, not sayin it cant happen

trade the truck in . you hate the springs, the transmission, the lights...

i have a 56 ford pickup with the same door handle except i think mine has a 30 yr old pair of real vise grips and not the china junk haha, use to be a few agway trucks up my way til some farmer screwed them over and they were bought out. they had a really nice Superdog with a stainless wing on the roof and one on the hood with dual stacks to pull a fertilizer van trailer.

id kill for that front axle out of that green one and that red one has a funky sharp spoked wheel like ive never seen before and what looks like a really nice hood

Mack still sells them. least they did and they are 18 inches wide, not 24 so they are not wide enough for a rear tandem. they are made for a front fender flap

nope, i put took the oil bath air cleaner off and put the junky new style on with the two inlets BUT i do have a hood scoop. just have to figure out how to make up some mounts for it under the hood as it was not meant to mount to an old style radiator

300+ in that sweet ass R model i see. wonder where it is now....