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Oil cooler rebuilt and hanging on the block. I won't torque it down until I get the water pump housing installed so I can line up the holes. Will get water pump cleaned up next and get housing put in block. The pile of parts is decreasing at a steady rate. Whew......

Surgery went well. We decided to take both the tumor and the kidney just to be on safe side. I spent 3 days in the hospital, and now I'm at my mother's condo recuperating. and I'll probably be here for about a week because there's no stairs here, just a wheelchair ramp to get in the unit and then flat 1 floor. overall I feel good pain is manageable and just have to wait now for the biopsy results but doctor feels everything went good and he's like 90% sure that it is not bad cancer.

Bought it in 1992, all original 289ci/spd OD. Turned into racecar in1995 and have run it ever since. Still a stick shift. 427 FE, 5 spd. Has gone 10.15@130 mph. This picture is the track I started at, Magnolia dragway. The name is a take off from a fellow years ago that ran an original 1964 R code galaxie called "Galactic Warrior". Liberty Equalizer 5 spd, same transmission they run in Pro stock today. The badasses you can buy. It's like jewelry on the inside!

Good evening, so I bought this beautiful R model off of hicrop10 last September. The truck was shipped to me and it was everything that he said it was. I’ve put some new parts on it, rear fenders, new roof lights and horns, new mirrors, new steps/toolbox, front bumper and grill guard, muffler and stack, rear plate for brake lights and backup lights, mudflaps, and a few more things to do. But the purpose of this post is to say that my dad drove truck, he LOVED Mack trucks. Tonight I was installing the grill guard, I finished and took a picture like we all do. After I took the picture I looked at it and realized that in the reflection, was a picture of my dad, nephew, and I, along with a Mack sign that is hanging on the side of the bathroom wall in the barn. It wasn’t planned, it just happened that way. My dad passed away in 2018. I know he was here tonight while I was working on the truck. Just a cool story I wanted to share. I’m sure many of you have similar stories, I’d love to hear them. Have a great night guys!

I cleaned up the water pump housing and got it bolted on. The lower water hole was previously rusted out and a helicoil was installed. It seems ok and torqued down to 55ft/lb ok. I was concerned about my water pump and wanted to look at putting bearings in it. It didn't leak but when spun it had a looseness to it and you could hear a faint rumble from old bearings. The Mack manual shows how to rebuild it but takes a special puller to get vanes off the shaft. I played around but figured it would be better just to replace it. I googled and found a 673 version. The 300 is about 1/2" shorter shaft and no keyway for pulley. I am going to call on the reman version and have a known good pump. I'm taking crank hub to shop Sat to press it apart and machine it. Assemble the heads and get them home so I can get them set on. I made a list of silicone hoses to replace all the old lines that hook stuff together. Water manifold, intake, oil cooler, turbo. $100 at Summit racing. I did the same for the 237. Things should really come together this coming week.

It has been 8 days now and all is going very well. Only pain now is when I sneeze or cough and that is more an annoyance then pain. I go on Wednesday the 25th for post op doctor visit. I no longer "run out of gas" moving around the house. I have not ventured outside yet as weather has been uncooperative, either Temps in the teens, snowing, or raining. The warden is fattening me up, I am up 4 pounds since Friday morning to 184 pounds

Cab is back on.

Took the heads to the shop this afternoon and washed them up. Knocked the valves out and got them a quick clean up grind. Intakes were still nice, exhausts had about a .010 wear ring in them. They look new now, picking up new valve stem seals tomorrow and will be assembling them Saturday. Dropped injectors off at diesel shop and should see them in a couple weeks. More baby steps.

Progress today .. Heads assembled, almost. I tried checking spring pressure but the outers are too tall for buddies checker without screwing with it and making him reset it for his daily work. I checked free height and they all were right about the same besides being a bit short of "spec". The inner spring I could check pressure and even being about .07 short it was within pressure. So I checked all heights and all but one outer was within same height. I left it apart and will being getting some spares from Mack buddy. I machined the crank hub. All is well. Only issue is one small spot where it is marked. A few pit marks and I am going to get a speedi sleeve for it. The rest is perfect condition so there is no need to leave a chance for seal to tear on those marks. I checked and marked my balancer for correct TDC. I'm using my old 673 and it has no factory marks. It has a timing mark on flywheel. I did TDC and up to 30* plus 120* each way. Taped it and used yellow highlighter. I will paint around them and then clear over timing marks. Far from perfect but will be nice when needed. The long stripe is TDC, the shorts are 5* increments. The keen eyes will see GOLD paint behind the balancer. I stopped and found another shade of gold and it looks good! So I will be getting more. Rust-Oleum metallic champagne gold.

That's two of us Dave. Yup, long standing girlfriend is behind all my hobbies and offers to buy stuff all the time. I don't let her very often but sometimes she'll insist. She enjoys riding in all the hot rods. She likes the attention, smiles, thumbs up, waves, pictures. It's like a constant parade whenever we go somewhere. Oh, got the last injector out tonight. Jeezus what a PITA this has been. Now to take them and have them gone over....if I haven't destroyed them too much.

Guys In my younger days ............ way back when My ol man was saying wish we had some good gear to useto cart D9s etc so I wrote a letter to all the main truck & low boy makers requesting info a few replied and some sent b&w 10 x 8 photos this is how I had the GMC / Fruehauf dump body pics on single wheels & the B model Mack from trailer makers Thanks for tour interest cya

Yeah, as above I'm thinking a carton of Marlboro and the bottles of Yukon Jack might be the go Oh and a full size model to keep you warm Tofu ???

I kicked a little spot on the ground yesterday by the front tire on the yellow Zinamobile, just to use as a reference point. Then when I fixed the oil line and pulled it under the carport I knew the general area that I needed to look for the ferrule that I dropped. Even though I knew I'd never find it anyway in the gravel driveway, I'd know where to look. And I looked for a minute or two but didn't see it. I went out this morning for something and walked by and looked, you know, different lighting in the morning, so maybe I'd see the brass shining. Nope, didn't see anything. And a few minutes ago I went out to put this insurance payment in the mail box, and walked over and looked again and what do you know, there it was. Then I dropped it in the grass and lost it again, but I did find it- just kidding 😂 I put a little zip tie through it and put it in the tool box in the shed.

Pics from the shop today. Couldn't do anything with them so will update next week.

A bit late to the party here But I have done some pretty tough years farming over years, lost more in some years than a lot of people see at one time in their life I kinda think that life is pretty short and if we can afford to have a bit of fun doing silly things along the way that bring us joy, then why not, we may not be here tomorrow and then what was the point in working hard Oh yeah, for particular reason, a load of hay I delivered last night in the bucket of bolts Looks quite fancey in sun Paul

I am up to FIVE injectors out. One more to fight with tonight. Then I can get the heads down to the machine shop for a clean up and going over. The injectors will go to local shop for checking out. I started to file the bodies up to remove all the damage from the air hammer. They look as bad as I hit them. The rear seal I installed was wrong. Spent some time at dealership yesterday and I think it was the owner that came over and got deep into what was wrong and I think I should be good to go. Seems I installed a stock seal and not a seal for a wear ring. Thus the crank was really, really hard to turn. I pulled the seal last night and sudden it spins easy again. Ugh. They did take back the other wrong seal that I left in the packaging, $167 back in my pocket! Kevin gave me the truck serial number for the power steering box so I can investigate getting a reman and get it installed. I will use his as a core. Slowly making headway.

Yep. Here in central N.C. i did get behind a few drivers doing almost 10 MPH. on tire wiped roads. My wife who is from here told me to shut up, they were just being safe.... I guess I am supposed to supress my winter driving skills because I AM a Yankee... 🤔anyway,, no one was hurt in the making of this post...

SMore cya

Paul, With the exception of the 4 lane interstate highways the top sped for plowing is in the 35-40MPH range. Most of the rural roads your are working mostly about up to 30 MPH. Here is a picture of a real plow truck I had handy. Sorry not one of the Mack's but the biggest were set up the same way.

Progress.... I put the "newer" valve spring on #5 intake, set head on and just snugged the bolts. Will torque after front head is installed. I received my reman 673 water pump and got it bolted on, along with torquing the oil filter housing once everything was lined up. I got the fan hub slipped on and nut tightened down. You can tell this is "new" as the bearings and seal make it snug to turn. Unlike my original one from who knows when?? My injectors are ready to pick up. They had to dig into their cores for a few parts to get them up to spec. I get them Thursday night. About $650 total. I still am working on getting copper seals out of front head. My round file isn't large enough to grab the copper. Will continue to tinker with that situation. I do need to come up with a plug for the puff limiter in the front of the pump. Limiter was broken off when I got motor. A question I will ask at pump shop. I did start to get the gold paint put on. Just quick coating over most of bottom end. Will need a couple more cans to actually finish it but first coat will be set. I need to determine what that hose is sticking out of top of water pump housing. My 673 didn't have that. Not sure if that heater connection? Mine has nipple that I put into new pump down by oil cooler neck. I can always swap it back for the plug that was in that hole. I think that pipe just had a cut off black hose and assume it might be heater. I know this 300 motor had water shut off on rear water manifold just like my 673/237. The 300 pump didn't have a hole down there by oil cooler like 673 pump. I did order new lock tabs for exhaust bolts. No sense in using old rusty ones. Speedi sleeve should be here Thursday for crank hub.

It was pretty nice yesterday so we drove the yellow Zinamobile around the loop. We found a guy right here in Appomattox who said he could put power steering on it and I'm going to take it by his shop this week so he can take a look and see what he needs. These car guys- most are just great people. I had asked a couple of people long before Christmas about doing it and they both said they would get back to me after the first of the year. I called one of them back a couple of weeks ago and he said he was still really busy, but "I'll get back to you in a few days". Next thing you know, it's the middle of February and nobody has gotten back to me about anything. So I messaged a local person who goes to a lot of car shows locally and is big into the cars and coffee thing and asked her if she knew of anybody. And she absolutely did. So I called the guy she recommended, the only one she lets work on her Mustang or her parent's '69 Camaro. Turns out he was too busy too, but he called me back about it- the same day. And he told me about this other guy, and said if he couldn't do it to call him back, and he'd find somebody that could. I think she could drive it anyway, it drives great on the road but when you get in a tight spot or try to turn around it's a little hard to turn. I'm sure she'll enjoy it more with power steering anyway. Lots of melting going on here this week. The igloo went from a 3 bedroom split level to a 1 bedroom, one bathroom apartment. I predicted that it would be here on the first of March, but I don't know now, it's not looking too good for it. 🤣

Been logged off for a few Months and lost all my login crap .......... Had to reregister a few pix of what is go n down First time catn this beast .. wasn't sure if it would fit length wise so we ran the dolly (jo dog 2 U lot) incase there was no clearance behind cab Me steerin the KW T659 (big Spec) dragn the expando Low Loader (lo boy 2 U lot) that we bilt a few years ago Jnr in Mack Titan carting the boring mob Jnr cartn Material handler just a little of what the Swish and crew have been upto cya

Thing I don't understand is why people worry about paying for tariffs, but when billions goes missing in fraud there's not even half the concern.

Speaking of finding things, way back in the early 80's I had delivered somewhere in North Carolina and called headquarters. They didn't have anything for me to pick up so the boss man said to come on to the shop. Then he said "if you don't mind, and I know it's a long shot, but a driver stopped at the little BP station on 29 north of Greensboro yesterday and he thinks he might have dropped his keys, he can't find them anywhere. Maybe somebody found them and turned them in to the fuel desk or something". That little BP station was exactly where the Sheetz is now, at the time there was just a tiny little dirt parking lot and a spot around back to park, so you could park maybe 4 trucks in there total. So I stopped, thinking I'd never find any keys, but I could get a drink and a honey bun and head on to the house. I pulled in and parked, got out of the truck and didn't take 2 steps and there they were, laying on the ground.

Ya, Took a couple weeks and a lot of soaking and pounding. Mack dealer didn't have the right stem seals so I will get them next week. I also should have the right rear seal coming also. Darn near ready to close this up for good next week!

I went sledding in sunny Florida one time.

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When I was in 9'th grade the school that I attended pushed for collage and people like me were thought of as loser's by not wishing to go to college I decided to attend the local tech school and it was the one reason I did graduate plus I learned some life skills that I have been using for 53 years. Before I was out of school, I lined up a job as a Honda motorcycle mechanic for the day after I graduated and, in the fall, I took a job as a heavy equipment mechanic

Well, 3 injectors out, 3 to go. The last three do wiggle so they are trying to come out. Will keep trying.....

Speaking of kangaroos, this was in Nelson county, just up the road and across the river from here.

Yeah, yeah, but what about this-

lol Paul I’m pretty open minded.. most times. But I don’t like ink on chicks either… I saw one in a truck stop a few years ago.. was covered head to toe wearing a shirt dress.. even face eye lids .. I was almost gagging I had to turn away.. and she was really pretty… my god what a waste… uuuuurrr.. bob

It looks like a pair of tits from windfall

I greatly admire Geoff and Joey in this tread as it fits right in with one of my late dads greatest sayings..... I disagree with what you say but I will defend to my death your right to say it Iv lived by that statement since my dad thought me it.... Paul