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haha we took my Silverado along to Otherdog as the firetruck doesnt run and needed to be towed on the trailer.i also brought extra antifreeze, oil, blockin, chains, binders and a jack for the ride. good thing as we had to jack the front end of firetruck up and put on blocks to get the front bumper over the gooseneck. i wanted the rear tires off the rear tires of the trailer. all in all an uneventful trip which was good except for a few slooooooooooow hills. the old thermodyne doesnt like those 10 mile hills in Pa with no turbo. also cants exactly hotrod down one hill and up another in Pa cause there is always a 6'' bump at the bottom you have to slow down for and lose your momentum. only got tailgated by a Pa state trooper once and his only concern was gettin the hell around me at 430 pm. must have been shift change haha. workin on gettin it runnin this week. had to order two new sets of points and condensor as they were junk along with the 3 sets in the glovebox. gotta work on the spark plug wires as they are generic and totally junk but hopefully enough to get it running. wanna see how good it runs before i put too much money into it as the Hemi spark plug wire sets are outrageously priced. if its a pos engine i can always put the 413 in it that came from my B613 with a baby quad haha. never know, 2 sticks in a B Mack firetruck?

weld it up and run it. looks clean which is rare up north in the rust belt. if there isnt much rust in the frame, weld it up and run it. probably be alot of interest in a steel nose R mode,. all the wrong kind, the exporters will love it and we kinda frown upon them. im kinda collector of sorts, if i found a 676 i might want it for myself haha but i might be up for a trade if i found one for your 237. after runnin my 711 and triplex 15+ hours to Pa and back to retrieve a firetruck i would have really loved a turbo engine. god the hill suck the life right out of a natural aspirated engine, no pick up power that a turbo gives you.

B475CF1031 i believe, got the paperwork from the mack museum with it and the numbers of most of the hemi powered B models but they only know there whereabout of where some of them went.

yea, i know the misses says absolutely NOT. but im sure old Fetterly wouldnt have a problem with that at all.

thought most eary 237's were belt driven. the one on the back of the air compressore was around in the B model days to. i have one that was on my truck with a Vickers pump.

yup, first fire truck i have done, not first B model. hopefully wont be too challenging although every piece of fire equipment has been stripped off of it except the light.

yea, i tried to buy it for about 3 years, wouldnt part with it. him and his brother build some weird 4 wheel steering yellow jeep and firetruck and are attention hogs at the truck show. bunch of assholes, both of them. wouldnt sell the truck, was gonna fix it up then sold it out of the blue.

that truck would bring 5-7 grand up here in Ny all day. rare breed over here on the east coast

what fenders?? haha yea the trip cost me BOTH stainless fenders, the left worse than the right, guess the trailer is NOT means for those fenders to clear the gooseneck. got them both hung up when i was playin Supertrucker haha

yup go figure, think i offered him close to 800 for it ALL together. truck came from Utica Steam Engine and Boiler Company, Utica Ny originally. they are still in business if anyone had heard of Utica Boilers.

pictures do it justice let me tell ya haha. worked on it for hours to get the taillights workin before headin out at 10 at night.he overuses it i think. needs some tlc. id like to find one of my own eventually or even a tandem axle trailer, preferably a Fruehauf but the scrappers seem to have gobbled them up lately.ona side note when i was in Georgia and Fla and south carolina a few years ago, those old short sincle axle trailers seem to be all over the place just sittin. take a lot of money to get them back to Ny tho. a true rebel trip in a historic vehicle across state lines with a low GVW haha.

its a friends 1953 Lacrosse. think it had the ball buster 4 tires across the back originally. the ones you had to change from the inside? and someone changed the rear axle to just have outward wheels.

yup, factory Chrysler Industrial 354 Hemi and Dodge front axle and rear end. has a spicer 5 speed. must be the Navy was runnin Dodges back then and wanted parts that were universal? also appears to have been ordered with tubeless radials on the front axle and bias ply on the rear... the guy gave me the two original front rims with radials mounted on them.

a Navy B model with a Hemi or a B model firetruck period??

wow is that sweet. too bad theyre arent any trucks like thta in the rustbelt north. looks like it has a 220 cummins with a quadbox with a 3 speed auxillary. wow, is that alot of gears to choose from..

nope, your collection Mike? haha

well saved another one. my fiance', brother and a friend took off at 10 pm sat night headed for Somerset Pa with my B613 and trailer. 7 and half hour trip one way to save the Mopar Mack as Vinny calls it. missed a deer or two and got there at about 6 am. loaded truck up and chained it down and had breakfast. only damn place around was Mcdonalds, yuck. but we ate and took off. was a long slow side home. aveaged about 35mph up some of the -hills and 55-65 on the flats on the way home. got back around 6 pm after a few stops to check the chains. i will say this, i was never SO happy to get out of the cab of a B model. everything went smooth except for a Pa state trooper followin me up the steep hill on 220 headed twards Waverly Ny. took 88 to 17 in Ny, then 220 south to rt 414 to 14 to rt 15 then 22 to 219 into Somerset. pressure washed her and dragged her around the yard and the old Hemi turns over. gonna try to get it runnin this weekend.

the box would most likely be correct, not really a way of knowin unless u drive it. someone could have changed the tag in the cab or busted the front case and used another one or totally changed the cab. we used a case for my B613 from a quadbox and put duplex gears in it. regardless of a 10 speed direct or 9 speed overgear the front gears i believe are the same. the are only different in a double over quad or triplex where 4th and 5th are different. if you drive it and you cant split 5th gear with the high or low or 5th low your going the same speed as 4th high, then its a 9 speed overgear TRD720. if you can split 5th gear with the high and low lever then its a 10 speed direct. they also made a 10 speed overgear just to confuse you. the old guys call these ''mudsticks'' and were generally in 10 wheel dumptrucks. the newer 10 speed directs (around the mid to late 60's) the number was changed and it went to TRD722 and i believe had different ratios. also i believe it would be low or under and high which would be direct.

yup, tried and tried to buy an A54 a few years ago and the guy refused to sell it, was gonna restore it. then he took it all apart, lost interest and sold it to someone halfway across the country for scrap price, always liked those truck. id get it runnin and offer it for sale to one of us if your just gonna out the sheet metal on a 1 ton frame. pretty rare truck to be using for parts and find another doner cab. i wouldnt have a problem boning a gas job A model but one with a Lanova id kill for to have.

i am from upstate Ny and have a really good spot for that 237 if you plan to get rid of it haha. would give you a fair price for it.

still available? ill take two R686ST's and one Rw612 and maybe one RD800SX. put my order in.

yup high price of fuel. took a roadtrip 800+ miles in my B model this weekend, filled both tanks, a 50 and 40 twice or t least a few times in PA where fuel is at least 50 cents cheaper than price gouging Ny state. ouch. on a side note we run a rental yard for equipment and have an R600 ex Ryder truck that someone converted the driver tank to the wet tank for a trailer. everyone has been stealin fuel here lately and came in one morning to see the cap off the tank. must have suprised them to try to suck that hydraulic oil thru a hose haha.

yea he is or was a member here when the build was going on. he put a DT466 and automatic from a school bus along with the front and rear axles and bumper from the bus in it also.

i kinda like the first one the B733. kinda rare and im partial to B models with round tanks on them either fuel or air starter tanks.

ok second time, fix the damn fifth wheel!!