Work done so far on my new R Model

[thomastractorsvc]

Just thought I would post some of the TLC work I have done so far

Throttle Spring also put on a new hand throttle link cable stop

Exhuast work

Clutch Linkage

Mud flaps

Batterty Box Bottoms both sides I painted just the bottoms and when I pressure washing the enigine and transmission they got sprayed with debris and mud, looks like they have been on there forever. I also added new cable ends on both sides as they were broken.

[thomastractorsvc]

Here is a video of the engine running

[jakebrake86]

Looking good!

[Green Dash]

Good to see another R model getting the care it deserves.

Be sure to keep an extra throttle spring or 2 in the cab. They tend to call it quits when you least expect it.

[umodelnut]

Sweet, I did some sanding on my U model hood today, until I got rained on...

[bbigrig]

Sounds good....Nice R-Dog.

[Rich Reinhart]

I want that as my ring tone..

[thomastractorsvc]

Been doing some interior work re-did the headliner cleaned up the floor and dash took it all apart and scrubbed it out, painted the inside back of the cab and redid the lower portion, I made a pattern so if any one is interested.

Pictures on the way>>>>

I am waiting on a fuel transfer pump and tachometer drive to come in. The original one on the truck has a fuel transfer pump/tach drive, they must have worked good because it is no longer available. (meaning never broke) mine is leaking out the top of the tach drive allowing the fuel to drain back to the tank.

[thomastractorsvc]

Pics as promised

Back of cab

Headliner

Dash clean up some before and after

[Superdog]

looks nice

[thomastractorsvc]

Thanks, did you see all the bungy straps hooked to everything on this old girl.

The headliner is the fiberglass panel, so when I removed it I had to be careful of it as it was brittle on the edges, I used some headliner material I had gotten for my B that I had it sitting around because I could not figure out a pattern that looked right and stayed up in the B so I am still pondering what I am going to do with that.

Anyway, so I was cleaned it up and used new material to cover it and the theme colors is the brown and black. My mom-in-law help with making the boot for around the roof vent,I might put a couple more screws in it not sure yet. The dash panels need to be redone, at one time the gage panels were redone with some brown vinyl so I took that all a part and redid with black the same material used for the boot.

The back of the cab panel was tattered and parts missing with some big square holes from speakers, I started working on that this afternoon after giving it some thought and came up with a pattern and cut it out. I kept the pattern if some one is looking to do the same thing.

I was messing with the B this morning, repainted the doors, hopefully in a couple days get the doors back on her.

[39 Baby Mack]

Looks good!

Keep up the good work!

Ron

[umodelnut]

Sweet.

[mowerman]

excellant,,thanks for sharing...have a ball...bob

[thomastractorsvc]

Went into the inner city of KC and bought a peice of rubber matting, it is a pebble texture 4ft x 6ft, it ran $48 even. Yesterday while I was trying to track down the mat I found a place that sold the foam underlayment and bought a 6ft x 8ft left over for $25. So for just under $75 I have a new floor mat just like the orginal except no Mack embossing.

New Floor Mat and seats back in, the dust foot prints are from my boys helping

[umodelnut]

That looks good. Probably gonna do something like that with the U model because the original one was junk.

[keg1]

Looking good

[57 bcr]

Went into the inner city of KC and bought a peice of rubber matting, it is a pebble texture 4ft x 6ft, it ran $48 even. Yesterday while I was trying to track down the mat I found a place that sold the foam underlayment and bought a 6ft x 8ft left over for $25. So for just under $75 I have a new floor mat just like the orginal except no Mack embossing.

New Floor Mat and seats back in, the dust foot prints are from my boys helping

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Sometimes we have to improvise! Looks good,nicely done Besides,you can always get the floormats from Watts,if you desire!

[RFCDrum]

Looks good I had one of those back plastic pockets for my R model but it was too far gone. I still have the original headliner though in her.

Cheers, Rob

[thomastractorsvc]

That looks good. Probably gonna do something like that with the U model because the original one was junk.

Vinny,

I have not seen any pictures of the U in awhile why dont you post some.

[umodelnut]

Vinny,

I have not seen any pictures of the U in awhile why dont you post some.

I will later.

[mackniac]

nice work you did there !

[Vladislav]

Good to see you moving on.

The interior work looks very clean.

I hope to start on my R's cab one day so will keep attention to your post.

[thomastractorsvc]

Thanks all for the support.

Hopefully maybe today I can get to changing out the slack adjusters, the locks are sticking in the down

I have acouple of diffrent things going on today but with some time managment I can get something done.

Have to pull out the camper and set up to start prepping for next weekend

Have to paint 4 tubless dayton rims for the rear of the b

Try and get the doors together for the b and hung on the truck

Sand and paint a dresser for my mom in-law

Then work on the R