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Thanks for all the pics everyone, I'll have to make it to that show sometime in the coming years.. To far to bring a truck with me though ...

The joke's on me .....

They are going to get us in a bind that we will not be able to get out of... All these living for free, and when these programs stop , well here comes the crime rate... This better turn around soon , although it may already be to late, it is pretty scary.

Just one county next to where I live, they are wanting to start horizontal drilling for oil.. Said with the land they had lined up they could bring 171 million to this county alone. What does Illinois do.... That's right , come up with a tax.... Yes 12 percent tax, after these guys have already spent millions here researching ... Now on the radio there talking about all these companies packing their shit and getting out of this shithole ... Way to go Illinois ...way to go Ps if your passing through Illinois make sure you get your smokes before ya get here, they just signed a bill to tax each pack of smokes another dollar.... Missouri tax on one pack 19 cents ... Illinois tax on one pack 1.97 eh nice ... Also this is to help pay for Medicaid ...... Great

Sounds like vulva is doing a good job of destroying Mack .....or maybe it's our government

No cracks or welds...

Heres one I missed....not sure how to word it . It was a pre trip question.....Any who Name two things that cannot be on or in the wheels

Vary true hat ..... I wonder what all that bs was about , I didn't open any of it ..... Odd

I'm not surprised David , cheap price for some nice bumpers , maybe someday I'll have some luck .... Thanks for letting me know

Congrats !

Thought it was interesting .. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1935-Antique-Brockway-Wooden-Cab-Dump-Truck-Model-160X12-Rare-Classic-/251080996668?pt=Motors_Trailers&hash=item3a7597f73c#ht_748wt_948

Im always a day late and a dollar short Lucerne... Id sure like to have at least one of those bumpers, not scared to pay the freight either... Hopefully someone could pick them up... I found one around here but still in need of another.. Have a good one

Found two rd take off bumpers with the grille guards on them that were taken off to mount plow frames, They are on craigslist .. Id love to have them both but have no way of getting them here.. Im in illinois. Here's the link http://york.craigsli...3035377872.html I guess they are in dallastown, pa , after a second look

Thats one bad ass truck....

Nice find... Hope you get the call

slpwlker, i seem to like you more and more every comment i see,, just a simple man like me , ... I know mack doesn't make a truck you can run heavy hauls with nowadays , and respect you being on the road making your living , im starting to think that is my dream job.... although its a long way from reality.....Hope your having fun across america ... god bless Evan M

Not sure sounds like you know what your doing, our trucks do not have engine brakes

Took the words right out of my mouth , if it was loose it probably isn,t in the right spot to open the throttle all the way .. Have someone hold the pedal down, and then see if you can open it any further on the pump, if it moves a little farther adjust it again , it's night and day power difference

Don't sweat it... I took my air brake and combo test 2 times and the dmv lady said i need to go home and study the book a little more. I told her i was ready to take it again and she replied id have to wait 30 days or whatever it is if i failed again... Took it the third time and passed... Alot of the questions are worded to mess you up, just think them through , you'll be fine.

Do you have any more info on that show superdog? Id love to see some ole macks, autocar's or brock's ..... Seems there is more and more ole mack's showing up around southern illinois all the time... I guess people are starting to find out what a truck is ..

Hey Rob, is there any certain place you get these bushings ... never looked into it , but seems like it might be a good idea . . Always trying to improve these heavy gals

Great point david... now that i remember when i drove the 98 rd that was a mechanical engine, we had two times that i remember the truck slowly getting less and less power... each time it was the linkage on the throttle where it pinches the shaft on the pump, had gotten loose... If that makes sense ... the truck would only run around 54 mph and wouldn't get out of its own way before we found it the first time, and once fixed/tightened it would pull much harder and run right around 68-70 mph loaded ... Its worth a shot and an easy fix

It is a mechanical engine. The first computerized engines that we have are 99 and up e7's .. I don't know why it doesn't run good we have two 95 mechanical rd's with e7's in them and they will pull just as well as the computerized dogs, if not better. I prefer a mechanical engine.. Either way these are great engine's ... The trucks we run are mixers and dumps that gross anywhere from 50,000 to 63,000 .

Wish i was close enough to bring my mack to a show, The ole dm laughs at every other tandem it see's around here .....

Id put a dump bed on that blue beast and rock some more lease roads of illinois.... My chiropractor would be proud...