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We have pretty much the same balancing equipment and I have found that if you spin up too fast you can miss the spot where a wheel is out of balance. I usually try to spin the wheel up a little slower so I can get a "feel" for a vibration and not have to spin the tire up several times. I like fixit's suggestion. I've run into trucks that had out of round drums that caused really bad vibrations at certain speeds and was only able to track the vibration down by temporarily disabling the brakes on the suspect wheel.

2-6 is the rear rear axle temperature sensor. I think Hatcity's right on the money.

It's probably leaking at one of the lower exhaust manifold studs. The threaded hole in the cylinder head intersects the pushrod bores.

How do I give Jeff a rep point for that one liner?

From my email This column by MaryBeth Hicks, a New York Times columnist........ Call it an occupational hazard, but I can’t look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters (or any of the other "Occupy" morons around the globe....) without thinking, “Who parented these people?” As a culture columnist, I’ve commented on the social and political ramifications of the “movement” - now known as “OWS” - whose fairyland agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: “Everything for everybody.” Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it’s clear there are people with serious designs on “transformational” change in America and Canada who are using the protesters like bed springs in a brothel. Yet it’s not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting question, but rather the fact that I’m the mother of four teens and young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters’ moms clearly have not passed along. Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters’ mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn’t, so I will: 1/ Life isn’t fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which our nations were founded. But justice and economic equality are not the same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, “You can’t always get what you want.” 2/ No matter how you try to “level the playing field,” some people have better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them, others play the modest hand they’re dealt and make up the difference in hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question. 3/ Nothing is “free.” Protesting with signs that seek “free” college degrees and “free” health care make you look like idiots, because colleges and hospitals don’t operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers and “slow paths” to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans or Canadians owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical. While I’m pointing out this obvious fact, here are a few other things that are not free: overtime for police officers and municipal workers, trash hauling, repairs to fixtures and property, condoms, Band-Aids and the food that inexplicably appears on the tables in your makeshift protest kitchens. Real people with real dollars are underwriting your civic temper tantrum. 4/ Your word is your bond. When you demonstrate to eliminate student loan debt, you are advocating precisely the lack of integrity you decry in others. Loans are made based on solemn promises to repay them. No one forces you to borrow money; you are free to choose educational pursuits that don’t require loans, or to seek technical or vocational training that allows you to support yourself and your ongoing educational goals. Also, for the record, being a college student is not a state of victimization. It’s a privilege that billions of young people around the globe would die for - literally. 5/ A protest is not a party. On Saturday in New York, while making a mad dash from my cab to the door of my hotel to avoid you, I saw what isn’t evident in the newsreel footage of your demonstrations: Most of you are doing this only for attention and fun. Serious people in a sober pursuit of social and political change don’t dance jigs down Sixth Avenue like attendees of a Renaissance festival. You look foolish, you smell gross, you are clearly high and you don’t seem to realize that all around you are people who deem you irrelevant. There are reasons you haven’t found jobs. The truth? Your tattooed necks, gauged ears, facial piercings and dirty dreadlocks are off-putting. Nonconformity for the sake of nonconformity isn’t a virtue. Occupy reality: Only 4 percent of college graduates are out of work. If you are among that 4 percent, find a mirror and face the problem. It’s not them. It’s you.

Jeff must not have left all the tags from different repairs attached to the keys.

And don't forget all them levers and shifters, might need Spots assistance.

I don;t know, kinda looks like it parked itself last time it ran.

10-30 psi at idle and somewhere between 30 and about 65 at governed speed. These pressures are taken with engine oil at operating temperature.

Probably confused the B73 for meaning it was built in 1973?

'ats what I thought too. Nice looking truck.

That's mack4ever's video (day glow paint gave it away).

Change the file format from bmp to jpeg.

I don't think the Gatorade bottle was original equipment, looks good anyway.

Here's a link to the Mack Shop ecatalog. http://viewer.epaperflip.com/Viewer.aspx?docid=8e7c2138-1f2f-47a5-bd49-9f7f0108fe22#?page=38

I see they even have harnesses made for several Mack specific applications. Good find!

Are you going to install the multi layer steel exhaust manifold gaskets with the spacers over the studs?

Had been wondering myself. I'll second that.

I'd buy it.

Watch out for junk ordinances.

Fram made the Mack branded filters for years, I think they still make the "legacy" filters, not sure who is making the filters for the MP series engines. Haven't heard of any problems. Thanks for the heads up.

Grounds should be located as follows 1. Dash Panel a. Right hand ground can be viewed by removing the Electrical Equipment Panel cover. The ground point will be to the left of the Accessory Relay. b. Left hand can be viewed by removing the ABC gauge panel. The ground point will be in the lower left comer, bolted to the dash stamping. 2. Ground circuit breaker, mounted on the driver's side of the .firewall, next to the starter relay. 3. Left side engine grounds a. Left hand engine block ground located below the starter b. Left hand frame ground located inside the frame rail near the starter 4. Right side engine at oil filler tube mounting bolt Also at battery, starter, and alternator connections

Over changing the coolant filter is bad for the cooling system too. The additive packages end up causing sludge to build up. You need to check the coolant with test strips that will indicate how much additive you have in the coolant. Personally, I think I would have stuck with the same coolant you were running, as long as you haven't had any problems that could be tied to it.

Looks like the truck driving version of "The Wild Ones". Glad you guys got together and had a good time.

Welded to the pipe that fits between the brackets attached to the frame.