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  2. They can "be removed quickly" now. I guess that means however quickly the coroner can get there to remove their carcasses. That's a good governor right there.
  3. The German Liebherr 995 crane and the company behind it. https://www.donjon.com/ches1000.htm But major crane operator McLean (Maryland-based) is in this too.
  4. didnt he drive big rigs over that bridge to get to England ?
  5. 4 low ▶️ 5 low ▶️ 4 hi ▶️ 5i, last shift quick to keep the revs up, brings back lots of memories when I learned to drive the GM powered R190 gearbox, no syncro - double clutch/rev and slide the cogs in Great buy, congratulations. 2 exhaust pipes out the side to let the V8 be heard.
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  7. First, (1st) of all thanks to everyone for their input, help and guidance. Second, (2nd) I wound passing on the Mack. My little voice inside just said NO. They say first impressions are everything. There was just something about the truck and the hard sell tactic the seller was pushing. One of the first flaws I noticed on the truck was the hole in the intake tube. That would have been the first thing I would have fixed. How obvious of an easy fix would it have been for the seller to just temporarily fix the problem with duct tape. I have no idea how long the truck was run that way. It is an issue I didn't ignore while looking at the truck. I don't want to talk bad about the seller but there were a lot other issues that turned me away from buying it. Third, (3rd) perhaps the worse part is I bought a GMC - Combination with an Equipment Trailer. I was looking for a (not for hire) truck and trailer to haul around my Skid Steer and Mini Excavator. Found the GMC for sale with a trailer for slightly more then the Mack alone. Sorry, to the faithful. Maybe I shouldn't even mention GMC? Well at least It isn't a FORD! When I started out looking for a dump truck I would have preferred a Mack but I was willing to settle on a JIMMY. Definitely wasn't interested in a FORD of any kind. If there is any consolation? I had he Jimmy Hauled home on a lowboy trailer drawn by a Mack Tractor.
  8. No reason you can't run low rear in O/D front. The rear doesn't care, a worn driveshaft might as you are pushing it at its fastest speed, something not always done in high. It would be like saying you can't run any rear fast. It isn't the rear but the driveshaft that has limits. Run a rear real fast and you'll have heat issues, but unless it already has a problem, it will not make one. Without knowing the trans ratio it is hard to say what is "progressive" and what is not. My K-7's go 4-lo, 5-lo, 4 hi 5 hi (working 5 speed) but I find the steps too close together to be of much use, with a big step between 3hi and 4 lo. I ran my Marmon with a .73 od in top (15 O/D) in low but had to be careful not to push the driveshaft speed above critical speed. When I would feel it I would upshift the rear and down the main. Really pulling hard in 15th low, was close to 14th (direct) in high, but there was a slight difference, nothing the 3406B couldn't deal with.
  9. Most times they say don’t run 5th with the axle in low is because it’s not a progressive shift from 4th over. With 5th being overdrive and depending on the two ratios in the rear it actually makes 5th under slightly lower than 4th over. At least that’s the way it was on ford and Chevy medium duty trucks with Eaton two speed rears. If 5th was direct then 5th under was a progressive shift from 4th over.
  10. Do some checking.. I have heard that in 5th AND you run the 2 speed rear on the low side it tears things up????? 4th over to 5th over and back..
  11. Wow, that’s pretty much what I was going to do …. Similar for temporary spraying… bob
  12. yup, pedo joe went over that bridge many times in a train....
  13. https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/30224-your-mack-off-highway-truck-line/
  14. Zina wants to paint it to "make it our own". She really likes these colors, and so do I. Not something you see every day, which is what she wants. But then I showed her this picture and she liked this color too, and the wood body.
  15. I had told him when I picked it up I wanted him to tell me everything I needed to know about it. And he said today the best way to do that was face to face, and I agreed. So he said he would deliver the truck here and when he backed it off the trailer in our driveway he would be as happy as we were. I doubt that, but anyway, he seems to be a class act.
  16. So, Stevie called me today, like he said he would, to talk about picking this truck up. He had already told me that he would be out of town this weekend. He had to fly- in an airplane, he can't really fly himself- to Iowa and drive a firetruck back to Maryland. I could not go to Maryland next weekend because we had plans that we made months ago. And he called today and said he had gotten the check and as far as he was concerned it was my truck. So he offered to bring that truck here on a trailer with his pickup for expense money. I had a good friend, also a BMT member, tell me the truck load rate would be $1250, but he would do it for $500 and a Hamm's. He also said he was pretty well covered up now and it would probably be about 3 weeks before he could do it. Then Stevie called and it was almost like he was reading my mind. He had already figured the mileage, his approximate gas mileage, and expenses and said he would deliver that truck next week for $790 as soon as he got back from Iowa. So I told him to bring it.
  17. Can't say as I've ever seen a tachograph that only registered to 35 mph. 🙂
  18. Yesterday
  19. Not sure what dents this cab has, I can't see any. If you know a good body guy that could moonlight a couple hours for you filling them in/sanding them down after work then you'd be well on your way to paint. *Dewaxing should happen right before primer and paint! Then don't touch it, the oils from your hands will transfer and cause fisheyes.
  20. A 1933 Mack BG fire truck ready to be finished. The engine does run and we have a video. Everything is there with the exception of onebucket seat. Only serious inquiries. $8000
  21. A 1933 Mack BG fire truck ready to be finished. The engine does run and we have a video. Everything is there with the exception of one bucket seat. Only serious inquiries. $8000
  22. You can UTECH epoxy primer that thing and stick it outside in the rain for 10 years and you want have a spot of rust on it so long as you dewaxed everything so you dont have any fisheyes in the primer, and you managed to get every bit of metal covered.
  23. The UTECH primer can be followed up shortly with paint, but if you wait more than I think a week it gets too hard for the paint to bond, so you'd have to scuff the primer down to give the paint something to stick to.
  24. Build a paint booth out of poly plastic around that thing and get a painter in there and get some primer on that cab! Needs to be wiped down with a wax/degreaser removing solvent before priming. I use 2 coats of UTECH epoxy primer, and follow it up an hour later with UTECH single stage paint. Here's the booth I made in February in my shop to prep/paint a cab for a truck that rolled over in November. There's a cardboard filter box attached to a ventilator fan, blowing air through poly stapled to a 2x4. I put more filters at the discharge end of poly tube, and that caught some paint. No idea how much paint made it into the atmosphere, I was busy inside the booth while the filters were working! The old cab is on the left, it caught a tree on its way into the ditch.
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