Popular Post Enck762 Posted February 9, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted February 9, 2013 I have been mostly lurking on here. I recently picked up this b-81 cab and chassis. It has a 673 non-turbo with a quadbox. I collect mostly Brockways but recently went and took the Yarnall tour(got the mack adrenaline going) and when i got home went and made this deal which has been on the back-burner. They are rare around my area of Oneonta,NY. Fired it right up yesterday with little smoke after 5-10 minutes. Was a dump and i am going to make a heavy hauler tractor out of it. Need a few 11r 24 tires in good shape if anyone has? OK, i am a newbie but i have to ask, where the hell do you check the antifreeze?under the flip bulldog there is only a small tube, when i lift the hood there is a pipe plug with square head 1-1/2" dia +/- in side of radiator up high?.. Pics are courtesy of me so do whatever you like with them.........Thanks,Brian Enck 10 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 There ya go Brian!!! That things sweet. Bring her up north a little ways so I can see her. You gotta get a YouTube video of it runnin. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 I can't help you with you're question but someone will be on here in no time with your answer. I'm a lurker on the Brockway site, nice collection you have. Best of luck with the B-81. Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Looks GREAT!ALL this time I've been telling you to buy a Mack(esp. this one).I hope you like that feeling of sitting in the B cab looking out at that BULLDOG... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163228 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Looks GREAT!ALL this time I've been telling you to buy a Mack(esp. this one).I hope you like that feeling of sitting in the B cab looking out at that BULLDOG... As the saying goes-one asshole looking at anotherLooks great. Best of luck 1 Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enck762 Posted February 9, 2013 Author Share Posted February 9, 2013 As the saying goes-one asshole looking at anotherThat's what My ole lady is sure to think! Vinny come on down and drive it home for me, shouldn't you be at the whiteout? truck is a 58 and came from Mass..........Brian 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163234 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Welcome!The level may be low so you can't see it?Should be able to flip the cap and look in and see the top of the tubes of the radiator core. May have a baffle but still should be able to see. The small tube is the overflow.Jim Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163236 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 I really can't believe the Mack guys who buy/sell trucks in NYS didn't scoop this thing up for that price,you got one hell of a deal considering what these trucks go for these days! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163237 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enck762 Posted February 9, 2013 Author Share Posted February 9, 2013 Thanks Jim- curiosity has me now, maybe my brain was frozen. Cab does need some work and i don't have the cost of trucking! double frame is very good, little bit of spreading in the very back. Truck was not for sale and i stumbled on it. Owner liked the fact it was staying local and I will offer him a test drive when it is on the road. Has power steering as well. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163238 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 I believe it's from Lakeville MA,and was a dump truck. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163240 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 That's what My ole lady is sure to think! Vinny come on down and drive it home for me, shouldn't you be at the whiteout? truck is a 58 and came from Mass..........BrianI should be there. When is it again? I'll be with Papa at the flea market. No races. I might be going on a vintage ride up here in Lowville to Montague on my Citation in a few weeks. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gmerrill0516 Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Like that a lot. I like that it has a B model air cleaner rather than an R like so many do these days. I hope to track down a correct one some day. Mine needs work on the fenders inner and outer and about anything other than the hood which is solid but bent down from standing on it. Enjoy.Greg 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 I just learned the Whiteout was today. Guess I'm not going. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163252 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 9, 2013 Share Posted February 9, 2013 Love that plow frame/piston as well,looks so TOUGH! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vision386 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Welcome aboard! great looking truck,don't think there was ever a tougher looking truck then the B-81 !..........................................Mark 2 Quote Mack Truck literate. Computer illiterate. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Stumbled upon it? lol i looked at the truck a few years ago.sat in downtown Oneonta right around the corner from the old chevy dealer right? use to be a B68 there also but i think he scrapped it. cab was rough on one of them. my fiance' hates to go ridin around sometimes. she says i can smell them old Macks out in the middle of no where haha. ever check out that old L model Brian that sits by the abandoned train off rt 7 leavin oneonta (past the BBQ place) headin twards cobleskill? had budd wheels all around and sprockets in between the budds to power the back axle. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
umodelnut Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Stumbled upon it? lol i looked at the truck a few years ago.sat in downtown Oneonta right around the corner from the old chevy dealer right? use to be a B68 there also but i think he scrapped it. cab was rough on one of them. my fiance' hates to go ridin around sometimes. she says i can smell them old Macks out in the middle of no where haha. ever check out that old L model Brian that sits by the abandoned train off rt 7 leavin oneonta (past the BBQ place) headin twards cobleskill? had budd wheels all around and sprockets in between the budds to power the back axle.I'm pretty sure I can smell them too. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HK Trucking Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 If it's a 58 then somebody put a later model radiator top tank on it somewhere along the line. It has the high tank that was used from 63 on. Quote "If You Can't Shift It Smoothly, You Shouldn't Be Driving It" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163280 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 If it's a 58 then somebody put a later model radiator top tank on it somewhere along the line. It has the high tank that was used from 63 on.My "63 was built in Dec."62 and has the low radiator.When did they change? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enck762 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) Maddog-I can't make it sound like it was easy, it was in west end by napa, behind a gas station. My father noticed it about 3-4 years ago. He did have another that was already gone. I can sniff out brockways but the macks i am still working on. The L is a crane ? if that's the one i think that used to be a guy named Claude Cook(think name is still on it) who had it in Unadilla. it is now owned by the Leatherstocking railroad in Milford. They have a little excursion train they run to Cooperstown. All I know is the title says 58,With what I know about these that is all i can go by. I appreciate all the info..........BrianSo might the higher radiator have a different radiator cap setup? or is it because i burned to many brain cells in my 20's and 30"s that i couldn't figure it out? Edited February 10, 2013 by Enck762 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 yup, west end across the street from Napa. out behind a resturant. the L model is early, in the 40's . stopped and looked at it a about 3-4 years ago when i sniffed out those B models. the L is something. never seen a tandem drive driving thru chains and sprockets between the budd wheels. must have taken forever to have to change an inner tire and have to take those chains and sprockets off. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Would love to see pics of that L! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enck762 Posted February 10, 2013 Author Share Posted February 10, 2013 (edited) I'll get some pics of the L for you guys. Claude Cook had an old reo? s/a dump that if i remember right was chain drive. The 2 trucks sat for years on rt.7 in wellsbridge between otego and unadilla.p.s. HK trucking, i pm'd you a while back. saw a post you drove a H762 Brockway back in the day. I have one and am interested in more info on yours etc....Brian Edited February 10, 2013 by Enck762 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdogtrucker Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Nice thing is the isolated rust areas aren't all patched up,much easier to fix that way! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163373 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 im actually headed out that way. if we go by ill stop and get some pictures to Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/29867-new-addition-b-81/#findComment-163375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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