Maddog13407

i don't know what you guys are complaining about. i see 6500 all day long....

if it ran, floor and back of cab and fenders were solid, 5-7 all day long. not running now a days pretty much means you have to screw with a froze up pump so its nothing your probably gonna throw batteries in ad drive out of there so 2-3 grand

we need more info.need to know the gear ratio of the rear definitely an upgrade but don't plan on turning anything higher than a 5 something gear ratio with a flathead 401 and a quadbox. we stuck a 4.62 in out B42 single axle out of a B61 jus to go to shows so it would have some highway gears and not be screaming but i wouldn't ever wanna hook onto a load with it as it originally had 6.42 gears . most tandem B42's had 7.49 gear ratios or 8.10 's and would do 52 miles an hour

as long as we are placing orders, pencil me in for 2 pallets of B model vent windows and 2 pallets of Chrome Radiator shells and a pallet of Thermodyne Emblems and a couple pallets of B model style battery boxes......

i guess the ATHS doesn't like the Northeast? kinda a shame since i thought Syracuse and Springfield mass along with York were decent shows. Springfield did leave a little to be desired but it seems like they don't plan on returning to the Northeast anytime soon.

got a 4.00 in mine out of a U model with a 711 and triplex and its fun to drive but put some weight on her and your shifting your ass off

will be there thrus or early Friday morning, the wife and i are up for the Fogelsville hotel Friday night if that's the night we all go. have not gotten a room yet, cough cough but i know there are a ton of places to stay. have not decided if we are staying satuday night yet

the old Beech Nut plant yes. the tight 4 way intersection that has about 100 signs sayin truck, no turns!

we'll be there Friday. maybe we can meet at the Fogelsville hotel like old days????

youd be surprised the number of profressional drivers using gps we pulled out of seasonal road, farm trails and SNOWMOBILE trails this past winter from their gps tellin them that was the way to go. in the towing business, stupid pays...... my personal favorite is out small town right off the thruway, with a tight four way intersection with an alternate truck route with many signs sayin TRUCKS NO TURNS and even Jersey barriers on the corners. they still do it. just last week they caught a guy after he got on the thruway at exit 29 and headed west with a jersey barrier stuck under the trailer..... and he still claimed he didn't make the sharp turn in town and get it stuck. ..

trucks with fa517 and fa505 axles had different steering boxes also. i don't remember the number off the top of my head but sg42 and sg43 or something of the like, i don't know the exact numbers i know mine came with a 505 and i put a 522 in and you can tell something is off but it drives straight. something is definitely different inside the boxes and they look identical from the outside.

good luck with that 673 ''drop in place'' idea. you better have a B61 parts truck handy.

don't really care for it but i do know some of the last Diamond Reo's circa 1968 69 with fiberglass hood might have had the gold comet but were some of the worse pieces of junk on the road. wouldn't hold up worth a shit in the construction industry

cant you put a camper on the back and tell them its a flop house and put a madam in it?? you know that way you can be up to snuff with their law in writing and claim that '' services are being performed''???

swapping doors eh? ha i think Sears oil out of Rome Ny use to do that to. i know up until recently a few companies were doing that with EZ passes and switching plates on the Ny thruway. right to the point a company truck would travel from Buffalo and another from Albany area and stop in a tandem lot and switch plates and EZ passes and go their own way. the state caught up to this a few years ago and actually closed a few tandem lots like Herkimer

and ill ask yet again, where the hell is everyone getting those vintage Diamond tread goodyear steer tires? those are def 10.00 20's

that truck is flawless, looked it over Many times at Gerharts and Macungie.

i have only EVER seen the Econodyne badge on the drive side of the hood, don't ask me why

lookin for a pair of backin plates and s cams and axle brackets to put modern brake shoes on the rear of a 69 R600. i changed my B over and put modern shoes on it and would like to do the same to the R

Dayton wobblers were a signature of the B53 and B57 trucks with the floatation tires on the straight beam Rockwell axle . be hard in my opinion to change them out when they looked great from the factory. B57 was basically an early version of a DM. same frame, same axles

Matt Pfahl bought the last remaining B model parts in Tidewaters inventory i believe. i remember there being a big family dispute and Bob Doub wanting to keep the restoration parts business and he was shut down by family after they sold the business??

agree, and illl take 400 Thermodyne emblems and 4 pallets of vent windows, that would be 4 pallets each of lefts and right, might as well throw in a few pallets of floor mats and if you need me all be retiring in the year 2010 in my beach house somewhere in the south.....

yea, ok, good luck. maybe Tidewater Mack circa 1993

call Lancaster county upholstery in pa, they have the best bang for the buck on an overpriced B model headliner it

Shell Oil truck??