Maddog13407

Mack was positive ground way into the early 70's. id still make sure it runs before you wasted time and money on batteries and cable. someone obviously unhooked the series parallel switch for a reason.

wow someone went thru a lot of work to ruin a perfect R model cab and hood complete with worthless suicide doors

yup,good thinking Vinny! was thinkin about silicone caulk so it would be flexible but paint doesn't like to stick to it because of the oil in it

that B models still makes me wonder with the hot rivitted on L model style spring hangers

don't see too many L cab B models with sleepers, if any and that one looks integral at that. that truck has some serious frame length on it.

yup, seen a few of those top loaders myself but they are rare. I have seen one in a B model actually. have seen one someone put in a B also on air ride. think Harold Gardineer had it.

k thanks. send me a pm and let me know. others may fit, not sure when they changed the bolt pattern. ill take a picture of it tomorrow

looking for a new or good used power steering box for a 66 R model. I know they installed different brands Shephard and ross. I think im lookin for a Ross # HF642984. I don't want some worn out junk from a 3 million mile truck. thanks, Matt

sounds like someone doesn't know shit about trucks period. those switches are not Mack specific, they were on every truck around from the 40's to the 80's and most R models used the same brake light switch but it was plumbed into the treadle valve or behind the dash. the wiring looks fine to me. no need for a 1600 wiring harness. most B models are simple enough to trace the wires yourself and see what is original and what isn't. wires get broke and a new one added and disconnects, simple. a 1600 harness may fix the problem that's up to you.

You and I Vinny, You and I, not me and you haha

I have seen a flat homemade adapter plate bolted to the brake chamber bracket with one bolt from the chamber and the other t the bracket then use the offset slack. seems to work. someone on here has a picture of it.

i remember when I was younger you couldn't buy beer or alcohol before noon on Sunday. thank god that's been reverted!!

the woven cloth is nice but you have to melt the ends with a lighter or torch were you cut it or it will fray. also doesn't last too long if the truck is outside.

hmmmph. im only 32... have those same beliefs and always thought I was born 40 years too late....make me sick to my stomach all these worthless fucks that get free everything while I have to get up early every more, go out in the cold and start my truck and usually work outside in temps anywhere from 100 dregrees to 20 below and have to pay for my own health insurance and cell phone, my own gas and food and yet have people jealous of me because im younger and have paid for every truck, car, part, everything I have. somedays I think I should quit working and go on welfare, collect free money , drink beers and practice on making kids all day long like they do

there are more pictures of the cab on the other website. guy did an excellent job with it, can even see where he took the back window frame out of another cab and cut it in two and used it for the side windows. real nice work.

yup, agree. once the old quadboxes get worn a little its easy to lock it up between gears into the no shift zone in the auxiliary. 5th gear is too high. stick it in 3rd and prime it and give it a yank. if she pops off and runs, lether run, if it sounds good then invest in a starter, some new cable and two batteries.

the buzzer is under the dash, the switch for it is plumbed into the air line off the tractor protection valve behind the cab or on dump trucks its on the firewall usually by the junction block for air. that's why there is two wires going to one side of the buzzer. one or the other is dead dpending on weather it was plumbed for a tractor or not. least that's what I have seen in most of the B's I have worked on, but they do teach me something new everyday.

agree FDW entirely, my only thing is, Pa roads are in excellent shape compared to some of the roads in Upstate Ny yet in Ny they take almost half my paycheck for all the welfare scum who doesn't wanna work, and give them free healthcare and a cellphone, both of which I have to pay for theirs, and mine and Ny also seems to put a coat of paint, literally on the roads, 1/8 of blacktop and two new stripes and were are good to go. but this is only done on the roads that don't need it in the first place, they wont touch a road that needs to be ground up 2 feet and has frost heaves 6'' high that bounce the ass end of a single axle B model all over the road. lets repave the easy ones. AND Ny has the highest fuckin gas and diesel prices I know of and they give us a mind fucking every week by lowering the price 15 cents, then raising it 2 days later 30 cents. I total agree, drill our own wells, dig our own coal and keep it here, fuck the towelheads . let them rip off some other country with their overpriced oil. same with all the other bullshit. I can use my old school Acrylic enamels and paints in Ny, but in Ca Only it pollutes the air and gives people cancer. my soap dish ..

id put a 3/4 ratchet and socket on the front balancer bolt of the crankshaft first and make sure you can turn it all the way over without a clunk....... could have been parked cause it has a rod knocking also. I have also had old 673's not turn all the way over because there was a mouse nest on top of #5 piston...... . if it turns over, id prime it up and pull it around with a chain in about 3rd gear direct and see if you can get it to fire off before you go wasting money on batteries and a starter, make sure the engine runs.

they are an auction house and pretty much a tractor junkyard. he has hundreds of tractors, parts, anything you can imagine, crawers, case, oliver, ih, everything. they are also know for going to an auction for someones farm and having a lot of their own junk mixed in the auction under the radar and his own guys in the crowd with numbers raising the bids for him.

i think the broken one is the low pressure buzzer. mine and most tractors are on the tractor protection valve teed in, for obvious reasons. I have replaced mine 2-3 times, the buzzer works for a few months then quits again, oh well. the two wire one is the brake light switch. most I have seen mounted on the treadle valve or a line behind the cab coing off the treadle valve.

stopped in this am to look at it and take pictures. guy was pretty much an asshole. didn't even really wanna talk about it. the other guy told me to go look at it. its nice, had a 707 in it which they sold off and they have everything else. guy said he wants 4000 for it but doesn't really wanna part with it. they wanna put a big john deere diesel in it. was pretty short with me cause of course he is a professional and im some asshole truck collector that doesn't know anything. asked about the steering box which I need and the air cleaner. said he wasn't parting it out, he wanted to sell it whole. gave me the run around.he has the hood bumper and radiator and tranny still. frame is fish plated and started to rot. shame, has a little over 15000 miles on it. didn't even wanna stop cause I tried to buy a B62 dumptruck off him years ago at auction and he had his own guys in the crowd raisin the bids . real character.

so where is that R located? on 10 or 20 or on some back road? I know all the roads around there. we go o the Sharon Tavern often for dinner