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Be sure to take Joey's advice with a grain of salt! Remember, he is still heavily self-medicated! Sorry, Jo-Jo! Could not resist pokin' the bear just a little bit! Hope you're up and back at it soon. Take care.

I'll try to find you guys. They setting up a tent with the chapter banner on it?

Holy Mother McFork! Take care of yourself, man.

Sorry to hear that. Hope everything turns out okay.

Headed down to Brad's show tomorrow with the grandsons. Hope to get a few decent pictures. I figure Brocky will be there. Hoping for a few others. Maybe Jo-Jo? Maybe Dean?

Ya' know, I can't help but notice how close our Matt is to that "other" Matt (Pfahl). Less than an hour away? And such similar, professional work? Maybe there's something in the water up there in Connecticut! Or, maybe I'm missing something?

Gotta echo what Glenn said. Springs don't get stuck. The plunger that the spring is attached to is what is stuck.

Cool. I knew the "C" came out right around the end of the B's run. Was not sure if any made it into the B. I think the earliest one I personally saw was in a '66 or '67 R. May have been some in the earlier U models, but I don't know. That configuration on yours is different that I ever saw. Can't be too many like yours. A rare jewel to be sure. I don't think they made all that many B's in '66 (last year). Thanks for the info!

The "C" was pretty common in later R, DM, U, and F models. Don't think they were ever original in a B model. Here is a .PDF of some info on that engine. The graph has the traditional signature of Mack engineer Win Pelizzoni on it. endt673c.pdf

Since finding pictures online is not easy, it may have been one of the more obscure models. Attached is the production list. Search the web for images of all the listed models. It had to be one of them! Mack Production.pdf

That's the way the Euclid dump trucks I used to drive worked! Most of these newer automatics use combinations of clutches and brakes to get different ratios through the planetary sets. Lots of weird goings-on in there.

Welcome. Love your handle! Pictures of the truck and any numbers you can find on it will really help identify it. There are guys on here who can really get into the details of the different models, if you can give them a little info to start with.

"EN" is for engine. "D" is for diesel. "L" is for the lightweight aluminum bell housing, I believe. "T" is for turbocharged. "C" is the particular revision. This is, I think, the last version of this particular Thermodyne. This is a 250HP, 700 ft-lb, turbocharged 672 cu. in. Thermodyne. A very good engine.

I think the "vision" is an important thing that some people lack. It really helps if you can see where you want to wind up in your mind before you start. I'll sometimes do an unfamiliar task in my head several times before I do it for real, and then it isn't technically the "first time"! It's already been done in my head! Or, as an acquaintance of mine put it, "Those who don't know where they are going often end up somewhere else." You definitely knew where you were going...and you're damn-near there! All the accolades that have been piled on your work in this thread are genuine...and well-deserved. Thanks for taking us along on the ride with you.

I think on mine the cables were swapped at the starter.

I think the dogs on the flaps are correct. And, here is why. Mack's policy was that any dog viewed from the side should appear to be moving forward. So, on angled things, like mirrors, the dogs appear to be facing forward when viewed from the side if they are facing inward. But, since the mudflaps are angled the opposite way from the mirrors, the dogs appear to be facing forward as they are now. So, I believe they are following Mack's guidance. Somebody posted that paper on here once. Can't remember who. Rob, maybe?

It's not that hard to convert most of it to negative ground. The amp meter (if it is a single post like mine was) will have to be changed out to a dual post so you can reverse the needle.

Seems like we've covered this on here before, don't it Larry?!

Can't wait to see what this turns into...

Most of the time, we only used 7 or 8 gears...even loaded.

Here is some numerical info on the 14-speed gear ratios. hey really are not that different from the 18-speed. It's probably called a 14-speed because, if loaded really heavy, you would usually start in Lo-Lo 1st, then go to Lo-Split 1st, then pick up the "normal" sequence. On occasion, I tried using the Lo-Lo 2nd, then going to Lo-Split 1st, but the road speed was really too low to make that work well. So, the 18-speeds we had were really "14-speeds", too. Ignore the "18" on the shift plate. I didn't have a good picture of a 14-speed plate!

That is a double-overdrive trans. Shifting is pretty much the same as an 18-speed version. Even in the 18, 14 speeds were really about all you could use, anyway. The 20-speed is a single overdrive, and the sequence is different in high gear. Somewhere, I have the ratios for that box. I will try to find them. The Quadruplex is my all-time favorite Mack transmission.

Let us know how it works out. Like the man said, "I learn from the mistakes of people who took my advice."

Could not get the fuel gage to work. Not sure if that was due to the polarity or not. like I mentioned earlier, the cables were swapped at the starter. Otherwise the starter would turn the wrong way. All the lights were fine. Used the internal regulator in the alternator, and left the old regulator unhooked. It was really not much of a big deal.

Hopefully, it doesn't change any more!