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I was watching the "Worlds Deadliest Job Interview" last night and one of the interviewees was trying out for a $190,000 a year company driver job in Texas. Didn't have anything like that to move.

I thought I might get into Heavy Haul for that kind of money. They are even looking for drivers!

http://greentreetruck.com/index.html

I agree with Paul and Glens comments on losing prime. If you pumped it up and it started that means you are losing fuel back to the tank. I would check the lift or transfer pump first and fix the leaks as allowing air in the system only makes it worse.

Had an R had the same problem if it sat for more than a day, unfortunately for me I did not have primer until I changed out the transfer pump and was a PIA to get started. It had a seal that was bad and allowed air in the system and allowed the fuel to siphon back to the tank on the inlet side and would pull the fuel out of the filters back to the tank.

You could add two cheap shut offs and see which side is bleeding back and figure out from where. I would almost bet it is at the lift/transfer pump that is allowing it to drain back.

I bought and sold a couple houses during that time. First house September 2007 was sitting empty for about a 6 months and made offer to the builder at $140K, after I retired from the Army sold it for $298K in July 2009 and moved to Kansas City Area. We bought a house in July 2009 that a property company got at a foreclosure auction in 2008. We paid exactly what they paid for it at the foreclosure auction. $232K, according to Zillow it is worth $337,595 a 45% gain since 2009 and Zillow foretasted in the next year a 3.2% gain in value to be $348,499.

Point being I am not a real estate expert but all of those people who walked away should have stuck it out as with everything eventually the market will correct. You also have to have a place to live. I read a lot about the real estate market at that time and most people walked away from the houses and started paying rent at nearly the same dollar amount. With the vast majority only saving the home ownership maintenance costs. We have a home warranty we kept up with and although it costs about $500 a year it has replaced our A/C and fixed the furnace and a few other things.

I was looking for some pictures of the house I bought in 2007.

Then when we got ready to sell in 2009.

Thanks for posting

I think it looks awesome, keep at it and post more pictures.

What is the history of the truck and how long have you been working on it?

Looks good. I now see the floor panels.

Have you been hauling any dirt?

I have noticed that I no longer get the email notices to threads that I follow been a few weeks figured it was a setting went and deleted them all saved it and re configured the settings and still no luck. I was nice getting the emails and notification of a pm in the email inbox.

So the cams in the 300s were soft? First I ever heard of those engines having cam issues. Have not seen anything really posted on here about that.

Any experts on why and the fix?

Did you get it? Great deal for $710,do a go fund me page for towing!

Hope you get it. Looks pretty crusty but if it stays low would be well worth it.

i knew a guy years ago that used to buy mack trucks out of canada that were speced very light so he could carry 23-24 ton in a tandem.

single frame, light rears and front axle. his reasoning was he only did on road work delivering stock from quarries to asphalt plants, never ever drove off road so he did not need heavy rears.

and he would replace the truck every 5 years before he had frame problems.

the last one he bought was a 89 superliner that only weighed 24,000 lbs full of fuel..

I looked up and called the original owner (power of the internet and sticker residue) he said they were ordered as dumps to haul asphalt on road and seen very little off road use. So as TJC said, apparently a lot of people had the same idea. In his case he said he kept the the two trucks until last fall when they were sold to a truck wholesaler who sold them to another guy that has a used truck lot.

They guy was really nice and said they never had any problem with them until last fall and one developed a miss, they thought it was an injector turned out to be the cam and that was when the decision to part with them was made.

Can you get it rebuilt and lined locally?

I think if you go with bubble mirrors got to get the Mack logo but I think another option would be flat back stainless.

Have you thought about getting a powder coat kit from HF inexpensive option for small stuff. Eastwood's is also on sale

If you read the reviews the HF one seems to be the same. Hit the thrift store and pick up a toaster oven or old kitchen stove and your in business. Probably less money than sending out for paint or powder coating.

http://www.harborfreight.com/10-30-psi-powder-coating-system-94244.html

http://www.eastwood.com/original-hotcoat-powdercoating-gun.html

Looks like they cleaned up pretty good.

I was surfing the inter-web and came across a 1989 Mack RD688S vin#2M2P141C1KC007994 for sale. It is a dump truck and I was surprised it was so light spec'd according to the right up.

Front Axle Weight 12,000 lb
Rear Axle Weight 38,000 lb

Most of the RDs I see posted are a lot heaver with double frames 44K or 46K rears , 14K to 20K fronts 8LL trans or 10 speeds.

So I suppose the bigger question would be what is the difference between this RD and a R? As this one seems to have similar specs to my old 1980 R road tractor.

Check the u bolts and spring pads, more than likely they are loose. There is a reason that the axle cracked, check around the spring pad for cracks.

Looks like the floor been replaced or am I imagining it? Sure is in better shape than I would have thought plowing snow all thoses years.

Man you all have some real nice weather, we are lucky to get into the 50's

How about some fresh porn!

congrats on getting it out, now take a hot bath and warm up!

I think it depends on year and engines my 78 mounts on the frame like yours and connects to the front of the radiator but it has a cummins and a different radiator than a Mack or Cat motor.

Nice looking truck and colors.

Why does the stripping go at an angle on the door are they paving contractors so it looks like a road?

Check out RanchHopper he had some and could ship them for cheaper that you could probably get them mounted for.

I've got the 1990 superliner going up for sale soon, heavy everything and it runs.

pictures????