mowerman

I was going to say that I also ran the 6 speed 2 stick 237. I hated that thing and yes the biggest problem they are flat ground trucks. Are perfect for City work.

This is the worst one. I don’t think it would make it very far but I did drive a truck home 35 miles when I first bought it the tires were a little better shape.

Yes, one of the fellas out here turned me onto double coins. They’re about the cheapest around. I’m finding them online for under $100. I know the Michelin tires we use at work are around $500 apiece just for a recreational vehicle. No I’m not gonna spend that much. I railer look around for used which is still very rare in this area size.1000-20 tube type but they still use them on container chassis

I got real lucky when I first moved to Reno. There was a wrecking yard really close and it had 3F model Mack’s from UPS I was able to get two perfect doors and one fuel tank but now that wrecking yard has since closed

But yes, it sounds like you have the same problem as I do around here thank God I got just about everything I need now and collecting parts for this thing for the past 30 years all I really need is 10 new tires, and a bunch of hoses and lines

My wife was belly aching. You have been playing with your phone since I got up so I put it down for a while. She’s gone to work now free game ha ha

I think I have the same exact suspension in my DM. Also, I ran that 300 4 valve I wasn’t impressed with the sound or the power. Had 179,000. It sounded like a Cummings and I didn’t think it pulled very well At all but then. I did get out of a 350 Thermadyne it was a E 6 now that thing was a pulling SOB

I had a four valve 300 in a 87 U model years ago. Is it the one you’re talking about?

The problem is Mack parts. In this part of the country are pretty much extinct and rather than drive all the way down there and try to buy the same one which is probably still there. I’m so far into this one now I might as well continue besides, I like the challenge.

yeah, that transmission is junk at jumps out of fourth direct. I had to be the luckiest guy alive I find one. Rebuilt 50 miles from here 350 bucks. It’s the same thing as I have in there. It’s a tri Plex. Came out of a restored B model that got stuck in a garage fire. The guy was parting it out. if I were you, I would PM double clutch weasel. He has all kinds of spec sheets. He said he’s really busy right now that’s why he has not been on here but I’m sure if you sent him a message he will Respond

I brought up the fact before I had a shot at a glass nose on old trans conU model it was around 350 miles from here went down and looked at it funny thing I’ve been passing this thing around 15 years at night and it sat in the same spot. Finally went down with my pick up truck to look at it and the daylight… after I talk to the place on the phone wrecking yard only wanted 150 bucks for it. They had a big bite out of the passenger side fender cracked both sides over the hood hinges I didn’t think it was much better than this one but the more I dig into it the more I find now I’m sorry I didn’t just scoop that one up it would’ve been a lot easier to fix

Looks like I should have decent weather through half of Thursday. Should be able to get a lot accomplished because probably my yard gets really sloppy when it rains or snows so I don’t like to move it over to the cement slab or I like to send because the tires stink right down And leave big tire tracks I prefer sand there because we have little dogs and I want to make sure to sweep up all that poisonous material falling down so my little guys don’t get sick you know how they are. They eat everything they see and Mecho I bought a tank up at old UPS F model years ago I’m going to put that on the right side it’s a little long so I’ll have to reroute the exhaust around it and I can’t do anything with that because my transmission has to be changed because this old Trans I’m changing that is junk h as a PTO unit right in the way where I want to put that little muffler and yes, I think we were stepping all over his tread , but he did start it as far as model numbers. The only thing I could tell you is the S means twin axle. I don’t know what’s up with that. Mine also says S and it has twin Drive.bob

I am on my vacation this week so I was gonna do more beating on that nose but I have a few things I gotta get accomplished this week but yes, I will definitely be working on it a little bit later and thanks for are interest have to renew my license medical card and background check just for a few more months of driving but I got all week to do all this. Hopefully I could post photos with significant forward progress damn thing is driving me up a wall. It’s too much of the same shit. Right now it doesn’t look like I’m getting anywhere except deeper in debt. I’ll be anxious to start some of the repairs. … but then the nose is the worst part of the whole truck and I wanted to get the hardest part done first.bob

Sorry I can’t somebody else probably double clutching weasel posted a bunch of spec sheets few months ago on here not sure where they are … bob

lol excellent thanks

I can’t believe everybody was OK and on board with this new send more money caper Well, everyone involved, that is …non of usWell, everyone involved, that is …non of us

Hell, it was so long ago there was a diner somewhere around there. I stopped at and I was telling some guys I had lost my windshield wipers. That’s when they told me about coles.

Cole’s Express hell I forgot all about them what I remember best lost my windshield wipers one night somewhere around Salisbury Massachusetts. When I was with nissens Somebody told me they will fix your truck in there if you ask him and they did they put a new wiper motor on it. They had one in stock I was on my way and didn’t charge, anything they probably sent them a bill later Next trip through I dropped off a whole basket of goodies for the mechanics. Thanks for the video that was very interesting…. Bob

I do remember my pop telling me one of them got killed in World War II. The other one got killed in a truck accident there was six altogether. All of them gone now.

Oh these guys were all long gone now I even met them. They were my dad‘s older brothers and my dad would be 107 if he was still here I think these guys are already gone from when I was very young cause I never even met any of them except for two brothers, the rest of them I think we’re already passed on.

Definitely not too hard to look at

This was all I could come up with from them …bob

Yes, as you mentioned out here I can’t even remember the last time . I saw a 9000 or a road boss ,,,, closest I came was a restored auto car owned by King County truck lines at the alamo truck stop here in Reno about 20 years ago it had a fiberglass nose on it and it looked like a road boss but it said auto car on it

That was very interesting. When my uncles started, they were telling me they didn’t even have any heaters, just side curtains, solid, rubber, and chain drives Used to have to drain radiators before coolant kerosene headlights

My father-in-law told me along time ago he played for the san Diego padres way back in the 30s when they were minor team back then because we were asking why his name was on some of the bridges down there