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Today was my last day at the dealership, very bittersweet. I saved my list of old truck VINs, which hit 81 before the end, last of which was a 1991 Superliner II with a mechanical E7. Customer wanted rear hood bushings. I'll still be around here for as long as I can operate a computer! Long live Mack trucks.

Some progress today: And then.... Tadaaaa. I picked up a 5 gal pail of 50w gear oil for the transmission. I need to plug off the cooler fittings before filling as I don't know if that won't just puke everything back out. I am going to just loop the two lines for current operation. I don't think I need a cooler. Maybe I will look into a small alum cooler and mount on the frame down in the air just for the shitzandgiggles of it. I received the steering column yoke and.....it was packaged wrong and is not correct. The eBay seller promptly refunded my money. I got lucky and found one in a truck parts warehouse in Tn and should see it early next week. Once that fits, I can get box mounted and work towards getting it connected to the column. I am feeling good today.

I couldn't take it....I had to light it off tonight. Primed it up with fuel and it took right off. Now to get radiator hooked up so it can run with water.

Hello forum members, I have been doing some exhaust work on the B-20P. I thought I would share some pictures of the work. I know the B-20's had a muffler on the bottom but that did not do it for me. So, I made a mast and put on a 4" exhaust pipe, it was a tight fit but I made it work. The box goes up and down nicely with no interference. All clamped up and it sounds great! Best Regards.....Frank

In the more money than brains dept.

while this may be true, all he has to do is change his name to Karen and declare himself president of the HOA. then he can do whatever he wants. 👍

Back to square one. Was able to fit in my small mill at home. Drill/tap insert thread insert. I also took a quick pass across the mounting surface with a face mill. Got rid of the rust and rough pitting. It's all back together and running. Question to the guys in the know: Does the valve train not get much oil? Valve tips are not getting much. A few more then others. The rockers are getting oil at the shaft as you can see it drip out but the rocker tip not so much. These are the rockers from the 237 and they didn't oil much. I did clean them and used air pressure to make sure the rocker passages are clear. Moving rocker up/down you can feel air spurt out at the tip. It didn't seem to have issues on the 237 with wear or anything. Is this normal? The studs I got were just a smidge short on thread length so I had to stack up a couple washers to make sure the nut didn't bottom out before tightening.

Truck update: Power steering installed. I cut the original tube and steering shaft. I then made a bearing ring to weld onto the bottom of the cut tube. This supports the bottom of the shaft/column Mock up Steering shaft conversion. 3/4" key stock cut round to slip into shaft. Then welded and pinned. The bearing is a tight press fit but I also got two clamps for added support. I lined the square into the joint and drilled for 5/16" pin diameter(3/8"-16 bolt turned down on the end). The yoke has 3/8"-16 thread so I used a bolt with lock washer. Installed. Seems very solid. I may need to put an additional support clamp on the column if it seems to wiggly when driving. Time will tell The column is just barely aimed upward more then before but my hand doesn't contract the windshield. I can put a 1/4" spacer under the clamp to shim the column downward slightly if need be. Just glad it is basically done. Waiting on R model drag link to cut and paste with my B drag link to attach to spindle. Then once motor is in I can work on lines to pump. Hope to get motor installed next week. Fingers crossed.

Thank you, Vietnam Veterans and Vietnam Era Veterans from 1955 to 1975, Thank you for your service. Fred & Nessa

I couldn't take the green paint on the transmission so it is now black. Much better! I checked clutch brake adjustment and clutch height was setting really close already. To help with building the linkage I used a bar on the clutch fork arm and measured 23* of travel from freeplay to clutch brake application. I can use that information to work on the new linkage and make sure I have enough travel in everything. I received my cooler block off plate and have it installed. I also re clocked the air starter. The inlet was on the bottom because it was on lower passenger side on 237. Now it is flipped on the drivers side. I didn't like the exhaust on the top so I pulled it off the engine and rotated the body 180*. Now if it drools it won't make a mess. Also, WTF, you have to remove the rear oil filter to get a starter changed out on these engine. PITA. I liked my passenger side starter. Yesterday I took 1/2 day vacation so I could go buy some material at steel supplier to make up the lifting cradle. I will be working on that this weekend so I can make plans to get motor set in the truck. I finally got the correct steering knuckle parts, so I welded the old holes shut, painted and installed the steering box. I was playing hell trying to hold this heavy bastard and start the bolts. I gave up and turned the front bolt into a stud. Now I could slip it in the hole and start the nut and then stand on the out of frame and wiggle the other bolts in the holes. The joint comes up right about the same spot as the original column did in the floor. I started measuring the old input shaft on the old box to see where I need to cut and start to fab up everything. Should go relatively smooth. 😆

I have boost and pyro. Tonight's fabri-cobble. Jake brackets. Since finding real ones would be hens teeth I just took a few hours to come up with this. Looks like it will work fine. Had to fab up 237 also but this pump works backwards compared to 237 so I had to reverse it. Now I can wire it up and test it. New clutch. Was going with organic but for a "few dollars more" I can add 300 ft lb of capabilities. Why? Just because. It was what was in it when I took it apart. I was able to find yokes for steering column(I hope they are right). Will get them in a few days and I can start on steering column. I will bring Miller 211 mig home from work so I can fill in extra holes in frame where I removed original steering box. I have a big Miller but can't fit it in front of truck in my little stall so the 120/240 machine at work will be easy to work with.

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I finally received my chain I ordered. Took 6 days and it was only about 30 miles away. Shipping was cheap or I would have just drove up last Monday and just picked it up. I welded my cross bars on the spreader pipe. I am not a certified welder but it AIN'T coming loose! I contacted my friend with crane to see what he has going on this week. I have to make two hook plates to weld on top of bar to chain to hook to. I can use the plasma cutter at work to make short order of putting holes in the plates. I did fill the transmission with the 50w oil I bought. It is ready for installation!!

Geez, you're never satisfied, you're always looking for more power! You should just get a race car and be- oh, wait...never mind... 🤣

Not my photos or story, flogged from Facelessbook Bulldozer and prime mover in the river at Berri ferry. It took 3 days to retrieve! Not sure what year I guess it's one way to detail your truck and crawler tractor Paul

Jiggs McDonald, NHL Hall of Fame broadcaster, speaking in Ontario, says: "I am truly perplexed that so many of my friends are against another mosque being built in Toronto . I think it should be the goal of every Canadian to be tolerant regardless of their religious beliefs. Thus the mosque should be allowed, in an effort to promote tolerance." "That is why I also propose that two nightclubs be opened next door to the mosque; thereby promoting tolerance from within the mosque. We could call one of the clubs, which would be gay, The Turban Cowboy, and the other, a topless bar, would be called "You Mecca Me Hot." "Next door should be a butcher shop that specializes in pork, and adjacent to that an open-pit barbecue pork restaurant, called " Iraq of Ribs." "Across the street there could be a lingerie store called Victoria Keeps Nothing Secret, with sexy mannequins in the window modeling the goods, and on the other side a liquor store called Morehammered." "All of this would encourage Muslims to demonstrate the tolerance they demand of us." Yes we should promote tolerance, and you can do your part by passing this on. And if you are not laughing or smiling at this point, it is either past your bedtime, or it's midnight at the oasis and time to put your camel to bed..

Paul,, Its in my living room next to my Toy Box,,, I mean Curio Cabinet... You can see that I have a few toy's in the Box, I mean Curio... 🍻

So I am on A big restoratrion project.. Here's a few Pics...

First time out this year, had to go get inspection stickers

Hippy, The guy who stabbed that girl in charlotte is a repeat criminal, that Democrat judges let out of jail 14 times before he killed her. And now they are going to split hairs about his metal condition... Bull Sh!t !! He needs a dose of leadacilin.. I am so sick of liberal judges ....

I've read numerous reports that the 2nd airman has been safely rescued from Iran. I think I can speak for most of us, that is a huge sigh of relief.

We're rollin now! Good enough to roll it out into the driveway so it can be lifted by friends crane. The plates sticking forward will hold chains going up to spreader bar and will get the chains ahead of the firewall. The front will have chains hooked to the front motor mount trunion using eyelets. Yea, it will be in the way of setting it down in the truck but will deal with jacking it up slightly and removing nuts and eyelets at that point. It's hard coming up with a way to hook onto anything up front. Besides using a strap around the crank/pulleys. I can't fudge it too much as it has to be able to be used the day the crane is here. Can't find out afterwards that I don't have a way to pick it up. I didn't want to have to remove anything off the motor like I did with pulling the 237.

Well, you have the prescription on how to make a million in trucking down... Start with 2 million!

I have had my B87 tractor painted.The frame I had a local tow company do it an they did a great job,but I had sandblast it first.Then the cab and fenders and so worth I had Mickey Delia from Frenchtown NJ do that and again fabulous job.I had sandblasted the cab my self.All in I’m going to say without including my time I have $25,000 in it.Hersome pictures of it.

That reminds me of a St. Patrick's Day story. Actually it was the day after St. Patrick's Day. Back in the 80's several of us had to layover in Elizabeth, N.J. I think we had to load copper in the Bronx the next day. There was myself, Easy Pickings, Gravedigger, and seems to me somebody else, but I don't remember now. Me and Gravedigger both drove big F model Mack trucks, and that has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but gearhead grrrrrrl used to like to keep everything truck related. So Gravedigger dropped his trailer and everybody got in his truck to go find a bar. He didn't drink, so he got to be the designated driver, and designated drivers hadn't even been invented then. We went to this bar and they had draft beer for $.25 a glass. It was green because they had dyed it green for St. Patrick's Day and they were just trying to use it up, and we helped them all we could. It didn't taste green, at $.25 a glass it tasted great!😃

Can't belive! Sounds very drammatic. What I can say... Diesel is about 80-70 American Cents per litre here in Russia. Slowly creeped up from 50 or so Cents a year ago. And with no affect from the Middle East events. Sanctions work two ways. The 2nd is limitation of oil products leaving the country's inside market. But honestly I would better like the both events to not take place.

I guess Michigan guy is going to buy the truck. He gave me the no. for his bank in Michigan so I could call and verify that he was good for the money, and he already called Underdog about hauling it to Michigan.

Paul, Diesel up here has gone up about a dollar and a half a gallon since this started. Gas also but not as much. I can understand with the Straight closed the import of crude is down and this will affect FUTURE prices. BUT BUT why has the price of the already refined product jumped overnight??????? I think the oil companys are ripping us off!!!!!!!!

If I didnt have this tool, I couldnt do it.

Aussie Paul, Thank you for taking the time to post all of these excellent pictures. As Irish Paul stated: I wish I could have been there. Thank you for the pictures of Ed Edminston's 761 Brockway. I worked for Dick Crispell, who built that truck, in the summer of 1963 and last saw it in 1989 when I had dropped my trailer at his shop to go to my fathers memorial service. Here is a picture of it in front of his shop that day when it still had the 12V71 in it. He was just back from a show and the blue 1949 Brockway 100 series on the trailer was his wrecker when I worked for him.

Well, I got it together, I made a couple scratches. So I sprayed some of the yellow Krylon paint in the cap to do touch-ups with a brush. This paint is so crappy. I sprayed 6 coats and it ran like water. Sure enough the paint was so watered down, when I dipped the brush it just dripped off and did not even stick to the brush..

I took a load of treated lumber up to a Carter Lumber store in Uhrichsville, Oh. One time. While I was waiting to unload a guy came in in a fairly new Dodge pickup. He was loading some long boards in it and he ran one end through the sliding back glass and actually rested the ends of the boards on the dashboard of the truck. He had them right up against the windshield, sloping back to follow the slope in the windshield. The tail gate was shut and the other ends of the boards were sitting on top of it. Then he took one rubber bungee and put it across the top of them and hooked it in the bed. I looked and said "I hope you don't have to hit the brakes anywhere". And he said "I'm only going a few miles". And I said "I hope you don't have to hit the brakes anywhere".

Rained half the day today, so off to Echuca for a Mag drill and other supplies Stuck about in the wet and sticky clay this afternoon My grand achievement for the day Got my new to me after loosing (missplacing so safely I can't remember were) 4" - 5" reducer for the exhaust 4 inch turbo outlet and putting a 5" exhaust on So we, my son Jack'0' and I had our virgin run on a bead roller and made a 1/4" step roller, roll a 60° flange on each end, this bolts to the new to me exhaust brake Then grabbed from the selection 90° mandrel bent 5" elbows my first victim I soon realised that there just wasn't going to be room to fit the elbow in between the fire wall and exhaust brake Oh and I'm fitting a exhaust brake as well because as good as the Dynatard on a Mack isn't, we can always do with a little extra stopping power So I promptly chopped the new flanges off the reducer as short as I dare go, minus a little bit more Then re rolled flanges on the new "how short can you go reducer" and refitted the exhaust brake and reducer I then looked at the elbow/victim and after much discussion with Jack'0' I ignored all of his advice and protests and cut away with the grinder Would you believe it, it wasn't right So next victim in site and more guidance from Jack'0' ignored, I sliced away merrily This result was much better and not as diabolical a egg shape as doom and gloom Jack'0' suggested So thinking this might work okay we rolled a bead or ten and flattened these out to form flange It almost didn't fit, but if we made the flange sharper on the bottom and less on top we could adjust the down pipe slightly so it fitted fine So after a afternoons work and lots of discussion we have a exhaust brake fitted and engine down pipe, Jack and I were certainly pretty impressed with our results We have a 5 inch down pipe were it shouldn't fit and a Jacobs exhaust fitted to possibly assist the not so impressive Dynatard engine brake I know it doesn't look much but struth, it was a lot of work for a couple of rookies using the wrong gear Paul